Hello! I am experiencing problems when trying to create a inventory system with UMG.
I’m trying to put the widget as a component in my player character blueprint. The reason why I don’t just add it to viewport is because I want it to be in 3D space, to work with the stereoscopic view of the Oculus Rift.
Somehow when I drag of the widget component pin in my event graph and search for the variables in the widget class, I can’t find then… It does however work when I use a create widget node in my graph editor instead of the widget component. From that one I can reference variables. I tried everything I know of and I can’t seem to get it to work…
Just came across this question and wanted to tell you that to do this, you need to call ‘GetUserWidgetObject’ on your widget component reference first. That will give you a reference to the actual widget (which you need to further cast to your Widget class) and you can then access variables/functions there,
I’ll add, I just had this issue. It doesn’t work in the construction script, but you can put it after “Begin Play”. Apparently GetUserWidgetObject is marked unsafe for construction scripts.