Accessing properties of a TSubclassOf without having to instantiate an Object

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Hi guys,

i made an Inventory System in my C++ project where I have a class “Item”. My actual items are then blueprint classes derived from my C++ class “Item”, such that I can modify the name and other factors manually in the respective blueprint. If I gain an item ingme, then this item is added to my inventory, which is a TArray of TSubclassOf of Item. In my inventory widget I now display some random image on the corresponding inventory slot, whenever this slot is occupied by said item.

I then added a UTexture2D* image to my “Item” class, such that each item has its own display image in the inventory. But since my inventory contains only TSubclassOf objects, I have not instantiated anything, so I am not able to access the item images from my inventory.

Am I somehow able to still access the variables from the blueprints I made? I could of course, whenever I gain an item, instantiate it and add it to the inventory (if I change the inventory type to simply a TArray of Item*). This would all work fine I tried it. But then I completely unnecessarily have multiple invisible Actors flying around in my scene and have the exact same properties (for example if I cut multiple logs or mine multiple ore etc.). If I later want an option to drop an item, then I want it to be spawned with an actual mesh and position. But right now I only care about their “inner values” and how to access them.

If any of you guys have a solution for this or think my way of doing things is completely retarded, please let me know. Thank you for your help.

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You talking about class defaults, they are helt in Class Default Object (CDO) and you can access it via UClass:

Note that TSubclassOf<> is just template for UClass* that limits it to contain specific subclass, in reality you interacting with UClass* and you can access that function from it too

Sicne above object use template to you need to use this way as in this example:

USomeclass::StaticClass()->GetDefaultObject<USomeclass>();
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Hi ,

thank you for your answer. I tried a bit around with that and I was only partially able to get what I wanted. But anyways I found a (in my opinion) smoother solution. I made a UStruct FItemData and every time I get an item ingame, the item FItemData(“ItemName”, itemTexture) is added to the inventory. This way I can easly access everything I need in the widget inventory.