Construction script not working

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hello,

Here is a screenshot of the construction script.

This construction script basically counts the total number of blue and pink pickups in a level and sets them in the ‘Total Blue pickups’ and ‘Total Pink pickups’ variables respectively based on an editable enumeration. I created this while following a Digital Tutors tutorial about blueprints and wanted to try my own technique of calculating the number of pickups.

However, the construction script is not executing while I am making changes in the viewport. Also, in the event graph, I used a ‘Event Begin Play’ node to print the values of the ‘Total Blue pickups’ and ‘Total Pink pickups’ and when I run the game, the counts are always 0.

But again, when I cut and paste the entire script from the construction script and into the Event Graph, everything works just fine.

There are a few questions :

  1. Am i doing anything wrong? If so, how can I fix it?
  2. Are any of the nodes that i have used in the image not meant to be used in the Construction Script?
  3. Is this a bug? (I have read a few other posts about this sort of Construction script error in the earlier versions of UE4 and there, this behavior is classified as a bug.)

Thank you

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Just ran into this using the same tutorial. Looking for a solution too.

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Found the answer here.

I also had to delete the “Get All Actors of Class”, delete the LENGTH node, do it correctly then it worked correctly in stand alone mode.

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THANK YOU. I’m also following the same digital tutors tutorial and became baffled as it worked for the tutor but not for me. This solved my problem. I wonder what changed between versions. Well, thanks again.