Callback / event when actor is deleted

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hi,

I’m trying to detect when one of my blueprint actors is deleted in the editor, is there any way to do that?

I’ve been using BeginDestroy when writing C++ actors, but I can’t seem to find an equivalent in blueprints.

Any help or points in the right direction is appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave

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your question is a bit confusing but are you looking for [Destroy Actor] node?

I’ve never had any issues using destroy actor but I guess you could use an [Is Valid] node to check if it still exists after it’s destruction.

hope that helps.

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Apologies if it’s confusing.

I’ve no problem deleting an actor.
I want to find out when one of my actors is being deleted by the user. So in C++ the BeginDestroy function is called when an actor is being deleted. But there doesn’t appear to be a function or callback in blueprints that lets you know when an actor is being deleted.

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You have two Events for (about being) destroyed Actors:
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Thanks Raildex_ appreciate the post. Event end play is the best so far, but it never gets fired when an actor is deleted in the editor, know of any others?

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For anyone in future; from looking at the C++ code, there’s no call out to blueprints to let it know that it’s being deleted.

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Nope, I faced the same thing while developing my C++ plugin. I only found a way to bind a custom function to an event called “OnLevelActorDeleted”.

That event is not available in BPs and needs C++. No idea if it’s a good idea to bind that in the Actor that is actually getting destroyed.
Haven’t reworked it yet, so I can’t tell you a better way.

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Thanks a lot. Exactly what i was looking for.

My player Hud reference in the player character was not destroyed by my gamemode (which destroyed my player character).

Now it is, and i can respawn another character without having a huge fps loss everytime.

Much love.