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@Hyperloop;215955

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One idea for super handy node would be to write a UFUNCTION to expose the ability to add and search for data in a TMap via blueprint. TMap’s can’t be exposed directly to blueprints as a UPROPERTY, but it would be very very hand to have the ability to store stuff in a container that can be searched quickly via blueprint. It’s one of the major shortcomings of using arrays in blueprint beyond a certain point because to search on them begins to take a long compared to a dictionary/hash map

That’s a great idea!

I could make an Actor that you spawn that could store tmaps

The one is how to define the types of the tmap

I might have to just go with some stock variants like

FString,FString,
FString,int32
FString,Vector

buuut, is rather limiting

The types have to be defined for the TMap at compile though…

sooooo

How about you tell me what Tmap combination you need, and other people can do the same, and I’ll just keep making tmaps on one actor, the TMapActor, and whichever one you need is the one you use.

Obviously not a perfect solution but I have no idea how to allow you to pick the tmap types via BP, maybe the reason they are not BP exposed in first place.

But what I’ve described as a solution could work , as one extra actor is a lot less troublesome that having really slow lookups of large amounts of data, constantly, during game.