I’m getting really frustrated by this thing and I can’t seem to find a solution: Scene components are randomly placed in the actor hierarchy, they don’t seem to follow any rule… [image] If I duplicate one of these, the new ones are added in the middle or in some random position: [image] They …

Hi, I tried giving using the same name for components having different numbers, but it didn’t work, sometimes values are swapped (In an apparently random way, another user told me it could be caused by multithreading when creating the CDOs) ▶ .h file ▶ .cpp file [image] The only workaround I found …

Thanks for the detailed reply, my experience is even in C++, the order is not defined if you add components The drag drop for scene components doesn’t work for components with children. It just orders them in a random order when moving them around

Shorter version: Just add the actor to the array directly when you create it (It will drastically reduce the number of lines and improve readability and scalability): NewRoot = CreateDefaultSubobject<USkeletalMeshComponent>("NewRoot"); NewRoot->SetupAttachment(GetRootComponent()); OrderedCompo…

[image] imtrobin2: even in C++, the order is not defined if you add components That’s strange, I tried with different types of components and different names and it works: [image] Are you attaching them to a new component after you create them? [image] imtrobin2: The drag drop for scen…

I see. I was doing a bit differently. I was previously actor component, and the ordering didn’t work (in C++), I switched them to scene component. Then I was organizing it into scene nodes (with children). Moving them around screws up. I was thinking of a editor tool to clone the components , …

[image] imtrobin2: I was thinking of a editor tool to clone the components , remove , sort them by name and add them back. If you manage to do it, I’d be very happy to use it! (even if I think that this is a huge engine issue and Epic should fix it…) [image] imtrobin2: I was previously a…

Are you sure C++ actorcomponents work? I tried before (as a test) insert new components in middle, the order is random.

You probably missed my answers because of the wall of text: [image] Ares9323: If you mean UChildActorComponent it works fine for me [image] Ares9323: If you mean any subclass of UActorComponent, bad luck (I tried adding an UActorComponent to my previous code and everything gets messed…

oh wow, I didn’t even realize there is ChildActorComponent. I can’t seem to pick them as parent class from blueprint (that’s why I never knew about them). It seems to be a child of scenecomponent, so probably behaves like scene component.

its a mess even in 5.2, there are a lot of features missing in in the BP editor, symbols for decals for example etc., its a very very simple editor

How to sort scene components alphabetically or at least reorder them?

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I DID IT!