Hey guys,
I have a CharacterBP that I am using as a master for all my camera logic and camera settings. It is just a character BP with an empty mesh and spring arms with scene components attached to them. In the BP, I am spawning in camera actors and attaching them to the scene components on “BeginPlay”
From there I have several other BP that are childs of this “MasterCamera_BP” that follow through with character meshes ect, while inheriting my camera logic and settings from my “MasterCamera_BP”.
However, all these childs are made by right clicking on the “MasterCamera_BP” and clicking “Create Child Class”. If I try to take a separate character BP and reparent its Parent BP from “Character” to my “MasterCamera_BP”, the subsequent BPs wont seem to recognize or see the camera actors I spawned in.
I was doing a test, and from the child I can get world location data on the scene component that is attached to my spring arm in my “MasterCamera_BP” and the data seems correct, but I can’t do the same with the camera actor because it doesn’t exist for some reason. I tried spawning in the camera actor again in the child, and while it seems to get spawned in world, I can’t set my view target to the camera, I just get a broken view at local 0,0,0.
This all said, this works fine if I right click on “MasterCamera_BP” and “Create Child BP”, but not if I reparent an existing CharacterBP. Hopefully this all makes sense. I attached an image of my “MasterCamera_BP” where I am spawning in the camera actor and attaching it to the scene component. Let me know if you need anything else to try and repro assuming this is a legit issue.
EDIT: I I found some more details, the reparented child doesn’t seem to fire off the “BeginPlay” in its parent “MasterCamera_BP” that spawns the camera actors, while the child created by right clicking and selecting “Create Child BP” does.
