How to reference an actor that spawns another actor?

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Hey @Nortksi!

So it depends on WHY you need to know what spawned the new actor, but you can use “Get Owner” and “Get Instigator” to get the actor that is passed into the SpawnActor node immediately upon spawn.

Owner just returns the actor and takes any actor as the owner.

Instigator has to be a pawn or a child of pawn (so character etc works). This will be a player or AI almost always.

So if it were a gun spawning a bullet, “Owner” would be the gun actor and “Instigator” would be the cowboy.

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Hope this helps! :slight_smile:

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