Efficient Ways of Referencing Game Instance/Mode/State Classes

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hello,

While developing in Blueprints, I find myself constantly casting to set references to the game mode, instance, and especially the state. I do this on BeginPlay for actors, widgets, and other classes.

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Is there a better way to access these classes than casting for them every time? I’m worried this is very inefficient.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers.

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Casting can get expensive, so doing it once and creating a reference var is a good route to take. I take the same approach everywhere I can.

3

How? There is nothing expensive about a Cast it is just a simple function call. You can make a function in a FunctionLibrary that do the Casting for you then you don’t have to Cast, save and manage variables everywhere.