Custom plugin asset that spawns actors into editor world

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Hey! Trying to create a plugin that contains asset which can spawn a set of actors into a editor world (viewport). So far I’ve found that I have to use a base class UActorFactory and implement similar behavior like UActorFactoryStaticMesh. OK. I can subclass UActorFactory and override methods. But It is much more left to implement. Is there maybe a good tutorial on this topic? OR maybe I have wrong idea on how to implement such behavior?

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Hello! This can help https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/1000550/dynamically-spawning-actors-in-the-editor.html

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@Kehel18 thanks!

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OR maybe I have wrong idea on how to
implement such behavior?

Yes I did have wrong idea on how to make it right.

What I need was:

  1. Derive from AActor
  2. Implement spawning logic inside derived AClass
  3. Tune details panel by creating custom module
  4. Subclass IDetailCustomization
  5. Register AClass in my custom module
  6. Wrap all this stuff with custom plugin