Widget Components on Characters Break Cooked Builds

Development Programming & Scripting UI
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I have tested this in 4.16.3 and 4.17.2

Steps to reproduce are as follows:

  • Create a c++ third person template project
  • Cook the project for windows
  • Launch the cooked build to verify it works
  • Go back to the editor, and Edit the Third Person Character
  • Add a Widget Component (It doesn’t matter if there is a widget class applied or not)
  • Cook the project again
  • Launch the cooked build, and nothing will appear
  • Open Task Manager to verify the process is running.
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I would also like to add that this doesn’t have any issues with PIE.
The goal is floating health bars, but when I narrowed it down to what was causing the cooked build to linger as a background process it looks like its simply adding a widget component to the character

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Hello Hitsugen,

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Thanks!

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Cool thanks for looking into it