How to have a constant variable just inside a custom event and not add it as variable of blueprint

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@Valentinvis

I can’t use a function, as I need to have a delay in the execution.

@Valentinvis

That was an exaggerated example to show that maybe you can’t have a variable, and not only that, there are situations if you do use a variable inside the blueprint it may get overridden by a different event by the time it is needed again, and so you need alternatives.

This sounds like “A Variable, But Not A Variable”.

This all sounds like a combination of several bad patterns, all jammed together.

Timed delays are usually a bad thing (you usually want things to be event driven, not time driven), overwriting intermediate results from one call, inside another call is a bad thing, and the designs that allow for that to happen are usually bad things, having tons of custom events, etc.

@Valentinvis

One real situation that I had is that in one spot I have multiple triggers, but I want only one of them to get triggered at random. I have them all in a list, and I’m getting from that one of them at random and activate it, but after I want to disable it again, as they can be triggered multiple times, and not only once, if that was the case, I could have simply destroyed the actor, hence I need the same value I used the first time for the get. That is why i needed a way to have a random number, but to be constant later as well.

It would be helpful probably to explain this in a little more detail, and find an approach that doesn’t put you into using a pattern like this.

The way I’m understanding this, is that you have multiple Actors in a single location, that are triggers, but you only want a single one of them to trigger, selected when they first fire, and then that same one will trigger any other time, and the others will be disabled?

so, you have one space that the player can enter (or shoot at, or whatever), and it will fire one of a random selection of effects, reset, and then all future times it is triggered, it will fire the same effect?

am i understanding that correctly?