Not sure what to really call this idea - but I am looking for ideas on how to get it done
I want to create an actor that has material options - now I have a datatable of materials that’s around 800 materials and growing - they are separated by a material type flag (like Cloth, Metal, etc) and I want to be able to offer up those flags to my blueprint for the level designer - so he can - for instance - drop in an actor, set it to “Mailbox” and choose “Metal” from the main material option and then be presented with all of the “Metal” materials I have in the datatable… now it’s actually more complicated than that, this is just my example to try and explain
now I know I can create an Enum of my material types and put that in a drop down, I also know I can grab the row names (which are my material names as well) from the datatable and sort them by that choice
what I don’t know how to do is now present the result as a drop down list for my level designer
what I’d like to avoid is having to create an Enum of ALL my materials in the datatable mainly because it’s 800+ long and also it’s still growing so that’d be another list I’d have to maintain adding things
Thanks for any ideas!