4.9.2 Dragging spotlight to Class BP turns into regular light

Unreal Engine Rendering
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#1

Steps are as follow,

Create a new Class Blueprint
with both windows open, the main UE4 level editor and class blueprint side by side.
Drag a lights\spotlight from the main UE4 editor to your class blueprint components window.

Instead of having a spotlight, a regular point light will be created instead.

Easy work around is add the spotlight component from the BP window.

Thanks,

#2

Hello Nossgrr,

The reason that this doesn’t work is because you’re trying to move a Spot Light actor into the blueprint when you drag it from the main editor. Adding the spot light in the blueprint itself adds a spot light component, which is why it works as intended when you add it that way. Hope that helps.