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BeginPlay event in UBlueprintFunctionLibrary

Development Discussion C++ Gameplay Programming
#1

I’m having trouble figuring this one out.

I have a class derived from UBlueprintFunctionLibrary and I’d like to use a begin play event in it. I see AActor supports this, but UBlueprintFunctionLibrary doesn’t seem to.

How would I go about getting a begin play event to fire in my plugin?

#2

You don’t have access to to BeginPlay in UBlueprintFunctionLibrary, as it doesn’t really exist on world, it’s just class for containing static functions exposed to blueprints.

#3

How would I go about initiating something when the play button is pressed? This is from the context of a plugin that doesn’t have any in-world assets, but does something during PIE. I know this is more of a design question, so I’d be happy with a design answer. :slight_smile:

#4

I don’t know what you’re actually trying to do but there are delegates that get invoked when PIE starts/stops:



FEditorDelegates::PreBeginPIE
FEditorDelegates::BeginPIE
FEditorDelegates::EndPIE