How to create an emitter at location where actor is destroyed?

[PhrygianSkittles]

I’m following along with Smart Poly’s beginner guide, and I’m at the portion where he creates a soccer ball that is destroyed after hitting the goal so it can respawn and reset the game.
I wanted to branch out a little from what he’s done and add a particle effect to the ball when it disappears. The only thing I can manage is to add the emitter at the respawn location instead of the “overlap goal” location.
I would appreciate any help!

[ClockworkOcean]

You must have a reference to the ball, otherwise you couldn’t destroy it?

[PhrygianSkittles]

So I tried that and it didn’t work. Here’s what it currently is because of the tutorial where the particle emits at the goalpost

Here are two alternatives I tried that make the particle spawn at the original location

[ClockworkOcean]

There it is, pull from here and ‘get actor location’

[PhrygianSkittles]

It’s still spawning the emitter at the ball’s starting location.

[ClockworkOcean]

An… you must be just moving the static mesh, and not the ball actor ( wild guess ).

In which case you need to do something like

[PhrygianSkittles]

Yes, this is under the ‘goal BP.’ I think it’s getting the location of the ball from where it’s placed in the level instead of where it despawns. I’m using the cast to bp ball, so I thought I was using the actor. un not sure how to get the “target - ball mesh” node to try to set it up like that. it just goes to root component

[PhrygianSkittles]

This is consistently what I’m getting.

[ClockworkOcean]

Can you show me the components inside the ball BP?

It’s probably something like this

[PhrygianSkittles]

I had discarded all changes I made last night so I could start fresh. I tried adding a sphere collision to it previously, but it didn’t change anything, so for most of the attempts it was just using the simple mesh’s basic collision without a sphere collision component.
But I’m trying it again with a sphere collision to see if there were any collision settings I could change.
Only the goal BP has nodes, the event graph for the ball is empty.
Sorry for the late reply, it was like 5am and I needed to go to bed haha.

[PhrygianSkittles]

I changed it back to about where it should have been last night, and added the sphere collision with the details changed to how I had it before.

[PhrygianSkittles]

It seems to be working now

So I tried messing with it for a bit (ie adding sphere collision, messing with those settings, adding nodes to bp ball)
The only other thing I did was delete the default scene root. I didn’t know that would affect spawn locations or anything. I thought it was just there to mark where 0,0,0 was. I guess it was causing the emitter to spawn at those locations though.

Thank you for your time in helping me troubleshoot! Sorry it was something so brainless