Get reference to an actor placed in a level?

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How do i reference an actor placed in the level (of type empty actor) so i can assign it as the owner of something else?

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You can use “get actors of class”. If you have just one, you can just take the array from it, use get node. If you have multiple, you can assign a tag to that specific actor and then use “get actors with tag” (not sure if this one is called like that). Or use loop with “has tag”.

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Get all actors of class also works for multiple actors, but you have to connect it to a for each loop instead of a get node.

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I had to share since this alternative works for me. If you’re trying to access one actor from another placed in the level. Basically you can add a variable in the blueprint of the first actor that is a public reference to an actor. Then you can use the eyedropper to select the second actor. This is good for chaining actions in your level.

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MY SOLUTION - For anyone finding this later, I needed to automate the “Get all actor by class” but couldn’t reference class/actor by anything but class. So I added a tag to the actor and used “Get All Actors with Tag”, get array ref, 0 index, prosper!

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In blueprint, if you want add reference node to object in level, just select the object in level, then you blueprint, right click to add the node.

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But if I want to add reference node in widget blueprint. How can I do?

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Just in case anyone was trying to do something similar to what I was…

I have an enum for my NPC that determines its type (Normal, Super, Ultra etc.) which is something I change when placing the NPC in the level. I was trying to code a system so that if something goes wrong during navigation (ie the NPC gets stuck) it will try to reposition the NPC 3 times, and if every attempt to reposition is unsuccessful, then it would spawn a replacement NPC and match its NPC type. The issue I was having is that I couldn’t just get the Enum because it would default to the one at the top of the list, not the one from the NPC placed in the world. Then I realized I could use BeginPlay to get the Enum value and promote this to a variable and this gets me the correct adjusted spawned value and not just the default value.