This one should be a slam dunk for 99% of you, but is a little mysterious for a new fella like myself: Via Blueprint, how do I activate/deactivate an object in the scene? In Unity, the equivalent is GameObject.SetActive(bool), but I can’t quite seem to find an equivalent in Unreal. I thought Hidden would do it, but it doesn’t seem to.
Thanks!
What do you mean by ‘deactivate’? make it invisible, deactive collision and prevent him from running any blueprints?
If yes, your answer can be found here:
What I want to do is have an object prepared and ready in the scene. I then want to hide it until I issue the command to show it. It should just be “Off” until I turn it “On”- No collisions, no rendering, no nada.
I looked at that answer before, but it didn’t include any BP specific instructions- I’ve been using the “Set Actor Hidden in game” node, but providing it with a calue of “False” doesn’t un-hide an actor that was hidden in the editor.
And maybe a better question is this: How do I hide an object in editor? Do I just click the eyeball in editor or is there some other checkbox?
Is there a good primer on actor activation/deactivation visibility/non-vis anywhere? It seems like there are a few layers of it and none of them make sense to me.
NOt really. Set active is a thing. I am trying to verify this myself. I assume you use the Set Active node…feed it a target…check ‘new active’ to change its status. I cannot specifically find how to toggle it as active or inactive though (which is odd).