How to change material color in actor details?

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I’m placing some simple shapes and I want to be able to change their color in the actor’s details panel on the level. I know I can set MaterialInstances but how can I make a parameter of the MI that would be set in the actor’s details panel?
I don’t want this to be a BP node as I want this to work with static meshes and on any actors in general.
I’ve made a Color parameter in the Material, I can set it in the MI but I don’t know how to ‘pass’ it up to actor’s properties.
I know I can make MIs with different colors but I want to avoid duplicating them just to set a few numbers.

So I’d like to have the color picker somewhere here:
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Can’t be done :slight_smile:

If you want the parameter to appear there, it needs to be a blueprint.

Otherwise, you need to just edit the material instance in the normal way ( or you can just change the material ).

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Custom Primitive Data might be useful here. Almost every mesh type has it in the details panel and you can use it to customize parameters in a material.