Change actor name?

[eobet]

I was in need of this today (preferrably outside of Editor Scripting, but I’ll take what I can get) and only found this old thread:

Change Actor display name/label from Blueprint

Hi guys, I thought this would be pretty straightforward but so far, the only way that I found to do that is in c++. I need to change the Actor’s label (the name you see in the World Outliner) when I change something in the Blueprint. Is there any way to do that with Blueprints? Thanks!

[UE_FlavienP]

Hello,
what do you mean by out of the Editor Scripting?

There is a “Set Actor Label” function but you need to be in editor: use a Editor Utility Widget Blueprint for example.

[eobet]

@UE_FlavienP

you need to be in editor: use a Editor Utility Widget Blueprint

Ah, silly me, I was searching for it in a regular Blueprint, thanks.

@UE_FlavienP

what do you mean by out of the Editor Scripting?

I linked that thread because in my case, the items I want to rename don’t exist until I hit play (I monitor them visually while debugging in the outliner, so it would save me time to have them named after a property of my chosing).

[MultiUp-Game]

Thanks bro​:sweat_smile: