Unreal must call this something different than what Unity does, because the only thing I found was this, which seems really old:
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Add_in…r_Custom_Actor
So, in 2019, how do I add a custom icon (like what spotlight, reflection probes, fog, etc has) that’s displayed on my Blueprint actor in the main 3D Viewport of the Editor?
Add a billboard and set a sprite texture (in your Blueprint)
EDIT: I was wrong. This is the correct answer! It does stay visible even if you switch to wireframe mode, and it does disappear when you hit G!
Hi. I reboot this topic because I had the same answer.
I am on Unreal Engine 5.2, and I’d like to know if it is possible to change this default gismo to a custom one.
I’ve been searching for hours, and even adding a billboard component to the actor is not changing anything.
(See here)
In blueprint, you can add a billboard into your actor, and set a custom texture
In CPP, you can follow this tutorial:
Add in Editor Icon to your Custom Actor | Unreal Engine Community Wiki (unrealcommunity.wiki)
As you can see, that’s what I did however the default icon stays and it’s in front of the custom one.
So you should change the Editor Billboard Scale in your actor, for example 0.01 (100 times smaller) and set the scale of your custom billboard to 100. Like this that I did:
Thanks for the answer. Sadly, it does not work very well: I try to tweak many settings afterwise but the custom billboard keeps being very tiny.
I have tried to turn those two booleans down here off and on, I tweaked and all, but it changed nothing.
Is there no good solution?
It worked for me very well, you don’t need to change the sprite setting of the billboard, you should change the scale only
I found another method - for change default Icon set “Billboard component”(or another component with icon) as root.
Thank you very much ! This worked ! I was fearing that billboard would not work as root and not handle elements under it, but it’s working perfectly, thank you !
