How to handle the Begin Play events for actors added in the editor?

[Stormrage256]

@TK-Master;289536

You are right to think that it’s not safe practice but…

I believe that the execution order is based on the order that the object was placed (or spawned) into the editor (or world) so you should be able to control the order based on that fact, which means you should be fairly safe as long as you are aware of this.

Don’t take my word for it though… do some tests first to make sure this is always the case (in PIE and standalone).

If it’s not… well… you might have to do this on tick instead, maybe add a tick prerequisite (if that works the way I think it does :p).

Thanks, I had not thought about the relation of the order of placement in editor to the spawning of the actor in game. I will do some tests on that.

I’m also thinking of spawning the actors using blueprints rather than placing them in the editor. I’m not sure if the actors placed directly in the editor viewport, will spawn in the same order every time in all devices.