If I Spawn an Actor and create a hard ref to it, am I storing it twice? I’ve started using the “Size Map” and can see any hard refs within a BP are the same size as the Actor.
Hope that makes sense! 
If you spawn an actor, you can make your reference of type actor, then you don’t have this problem.
But… a reference is just basically a pointer and consumes no space, unless you have the variable ( which has a certain type ), but never actually spawn that type. Then, you still use the same amount of memory anyway.
If you know you will use this type of object in a certain level, there’s no harm in having a hard reference. It won’t make any difference in that case.
So even if I set the type to “Actor” and have another ref in another BP to the same Actor it would not take up any more mem?
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Actor is a default engine type, so it basically uses no memory ( or very little ).
Of course, you can’t cast either, because that’s also a hard ref.
Then you need to use interfaces.
Thank u so much, will give this a try. I’m glad u know what I mean.
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