Hi there, I’m very new to Unreal so I’m struggling to do something that is probably quite basic. Apologies if I use the wrong terms to describe things! Still learning.
Basically, I have a small AI-directed cube pawn, which spawns at the start of the game and follows the player around every 0.5s. Its material is an emissive white colour. I then have a sphere mesh at the other side of the room, with a large sphere collider. I have a blueprint for this sphere mesh which I want to say “on overlap with the sphere collider, change the material of the cube pawn to blue emissive”.
I already prepared all the material instances so they’re there in the drop-down list.
I tried debugging by just changing the material/colour of the sphere mesh itself, which works. But my problem is when I try to change the material of another object which isn’t paired to the sphere mesh (by this I mean, it’s not a child actor). In case the problem is that the cube pawn is not a child actor of the sphere, I tried adding it as a child component - however not only does this still not change the colour, but it wouldn’t be the initial cube pawn that follows the player around at the beginning - it would be a new instance of this cube pawn.
The above is what I’ve tried - this is a BP on the sphere mesh, and I referenced the mini cube pawn by dragging the mini cube BP into the graph editor (it’s not already in the scene as it’s spawned at the start of the game by the BP).
Any suggestions would be gratefully received - as I said, I’m very new to Unreal so it might be something obvious that I’m not seeing.
