How do I play a Niagara effect from c++?

Development Programming & Scripting
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I was wondering if there was a way to spawn a niagara system from C++ before I try to do it in blueprints (I prefer to do it in C++).

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I’m having the same problem with this. I asked around about a month ago and you have to add Niagara to the .build file. However my IDE (VS) is looking for the plugin within my project files rather than the engine files. I can no longer find that thread however.

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Please look at NiagaraFunctionLibrary.h.
Does this solve it?

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Thanks GoobGuntz and kamitani_08 for helping me figure this out! NiagaraFunctionLirary.h allowed me to spawn Niagara effects, and you have to put “Niagara” in the build.cs file. I was able to spawn a system like this:

UNiagaraFunctionLibrary::SpawnSystemAtLocation(GetWorld(), SpawnEffect, MeshComp->GetComponentLocation(), MeshComp->GetComponentRotation());
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