Decal spawn bug

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I was trying to use spawn decal at location and ran into a problem were the decal wont spawn. I reproduce this issue in a new project. Steps I did to reproduce:

  1. Created new project
  2. created new actor BP
  3. created new Decal Material
  4. Added spawn decal location on actor begin play
  5. and no decal appears

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Thanks

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I’ve seen this bug too. Presumably some reference has not been set by the time begin play is called so the decal does not spawn either. I solved it by adding a tiny delay after begin play but I’d like to know why spawning one immediately doesn’t work.