Blueprints: Deriving objects as classes for data and then using them in other blueprints

[CondorDrake]

@Scarlet012

So you have different tiles that derive off of a base tile class. Then you have a tile factory that spawns them via code. Is it possible to spawn a derived actor without code? In case I’d like to build star systems via the UE editor?

Yes, you just drag them into the viewport.

@Scarlet012

So at this point I can create all the separate space stations. But now if I want to instantiate different space stations of Type A with new variables (such as Faction and specific Station name), how would I go about that? These variables wouldn’t be per station type, but they would rather be per instance of a station.

Like you can have a station owned by Faction A, but that same station type would be in a different location owned by Faction B?

I couldn’t just derive a new child from the Type A object, because this new “idea” has different variables.

Then you call the factory with the same StationType twice (or multiple times, once for each instance). In my example above, I also only have one FloorTile child class but many more than one instance of it in the scene. If you want to do it without code, you drag your child class into the viewport more than once (each time you create a new instance).

My Factory creates one INSTANCE of the child class type every time it is called. The x,y I pass in just tells the tileMap where to place that instance in the world. You could easily just use a vector3 parameter and spawn it anywhere in your world, but my tileMap is 2D, so I just need x and y.