Hi,
I have an actor which has a couple of Child Actors, and I would like to destroy this Parent Actor but not the Child Actors, i.e. keep the Child Actors alive as individual Actors.
I thought that maybe I have to detach the Child Actors with the “DetachFromActor” function, but this doesn’t seem to work (or I am applying the function wrong), because
the children still get destroyed when I destroy the parent actor.
Any hints, please?
Hi there,
Child Actors are specifically for that, to be managed by the parent actor (created / destroyed).
You probably want non child actors if you need them to persist if parent is destroyed, just attach them manually yourself.
Ok, I had a misconception of Child Actors then, this cleared it up, thank you very much.
Thanks for the suggestion. The problem is that I need to destroy the parent, because there are continuously spawned new instances of it.
And the attached Actors (former Child Actors) just have a different lifecycle independently of each other and the parent, but at first share the parents transform for some time.
I tried to execute neo’s solution, and the first part of attaching the Actors to the parent works, but if I then destroy the parent the Actors still get destroyed.
I attach them with “AttachToActor” and try to detach them with “DetachFromActor” before the parent gets destroyed. My current suspicion is that I use the “DetachFromActor” incorrectly.
Alright it seems to work now, strangely enough only when I DON’T detach the actors.
At first I thought the problem was attaching them in the construction script of the parent, passing them as array, so the reference could be trouble. I changed that doing the attaching from outside the parent, but only after removing the detaching logic they stayed alive…
Anyways, thanks again for all your input.