Soft variable references… What are they? How are they used? WHY would I use them? Can someone give me a good example use? Simple terms please!!! Thanks in advance!

it seems to have to do with garbage collection and memory usage. its explained pretty well in the stackexchange post linked below. [driekken] What's the difference between SoftReference and WeakReference in Java? java, reference, weak-references, soft-references aske…

They are made to keep refrences to objects or assets that may not exist and referencing assets without loading them. Soft object variables also wont create hard references to blueprint. While normally object references would throw you errors, if you would delete asset and dont fix refrences that co…

Can someone give me a good example use? I’ve been using soft references recently when building an inventory crafting system of sorts. I want to show an image of an item in the inventory without spawning the actual item. The user will browse a lot of items and I do not want to spawn anything un…

Can someone give me a good example use? Soft References are one of the way to reference objects in sublevels from the persistent level. Hard references don’t work, as you can’t be sure whether or not the sublevel is loaded.

There’s no quick answer to this but… If reading is your preferred learning approach: [image] Object references in Blueprints Object references are one of the building bricks of every project. However, when you try to manage them in blueprints, there are many… Reading time: 15 m…

Thanks alot for sharing the links, I’ve already watched the stream but the article is far more interesting and clear :wink:

Hey Wanna share my example of using the soft reference. I spawn on my level one of the 20 big houses (it’s random) and I found out that all 20 houses are in memory of the level (in sizemap of the level). It takes more time to load the level because of that. So I created the array of the soft refe…

I use interfaces, sooooo much easier. [Tutorial - Unreal Engine Blueprint Interface]

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Can someone explain soft variable references?

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ThompsonN13 (ThompsonN13) March 3, 2019, 5:04pm 2

it seems to have to do with garbage collection and memory usage. its explained pretty well in the stackexchange post linked below.