Create component of subclass

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hi guys,

I want my player character to have a function that takes a TSubclassOf variable.
This function should create a component of the exact class the TSubclassOf variable is, but I cant figure out a way to do this.
My question is:
Is it possible to create a component based on the class of a TSubclassOf variable and if yes how?

Thanks

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You mean UClass* (TSubclassOf is just UClass* template that limits class selection in editor to specific relation)

UClass* MyClass = UMyAwesomeComponent::StaticClass();
UActorComponent* NewComp = NewObject<UActorComponent>(this, MyClass);
NewComp->RegisterComponent();

RegisterComponent takes outer Actor that you specified in NewObject in first argument, so if we inside Actor we simply use “this”

3

Oh man it’s so simple, I should have come up with this earlier.
But thanks that’s exactly what I needed.

4

yup awesome just what i needed as well.