CreateDefaultSubobject and pointers

[anonymous_user_a037b5a31 (anonymous_user_a037b5a3)]

@the_batch

Yes. You can think of it that way, though I think it’s more common and perhaps more descriptive to say that it returns a pointer.

Thanks that’s really helpful. I jumped from learning c++ to EU4 really quickly so stuff like that sometimes elude me.

I saw that there were a lot of pointers used in Unreal engine but there’s barely any new/delete used, is it because of the garbage collector? Should i worry about not understanding what it does or as long as i don’t use new then the engine will take care of every pointer? Some of the stuff i read in books about pointers said they were to be used carefully but they’re really everywhere in unreal so it got me really wondering.

@AnotherZach

Note that CreateDefaultSubobject should only be used in the constructor, and GetWorld()->SpawnActor(MyClass::UStaticClass(), Location, Rotation) should be used elsewhere.

Thanks i’ll keep that in mind, it’ll probably save me a lot of trouble because i would have used it outside the constructor for sure.