Hello,
I am creating a BP with different shapes that i can choose from a dropdown menu in details panel.
However all my variables are public and i want them to be visible only when a curtain shape has been picked from the dropdown menu.
How can I achieve this
Hello, in blueprints it’s rather not possible. But in C++ you can use Property Metadata specifiers, EditCondition one could be useful in your case (I think it will not hide, but at least disable the ones that you don’t need).
Full doc about specifiers: Property Specifiers | Unreal Engine Documentation
Thank you for the replay, unfortunately I am not familiar with C++.
I though that there must be some kind of option that gives you a new set of variables once you pick them from the dropdown menu.
A follow up question, could I maybe create additional variables and have them turned off when a different object is picked from the dropdown menu?
Yes, but unfortunately only in C++. Blueprints are not very “adjustable” they have what they have and everything else is in C++. Everything that you can do with a variable is in DetailsPanel when you select this variable.
This is generally a little bit related to what a variable is. An enum is not a dropdown menu, of course you can choose it’s default value from dropdown menu, but it’s just a container for a value of enum type. Variables are rather containers for data that a class (blueprint) needs. They are rather not settings for the class structure itself.
Hopefully you can get the sense of what I wanted to say 
Blueprints are just a visualisation of C++ classes, so still you need to have some knowledge of how C++ works, it will help to understand Blueprints better.
