I am looking to create a in-world progress bar on a door in my game that only shows after a certain point. As a result, I don’t want the widget component present at begin play but would rather add it in when that point is reached. I am able to create a widget component when needed, however, it seems like it is not possible to set the widget class of this component through blueprints (which I think it needed to display it in-world). It would work asynchronously load and spawn an actor that already has the desired widget class as a component but that seems like adding unnecessary steps.
You’d need to:
Ensure the Targetpin on the Add Widget Component node gets an actor reference - presumably the door.
Alternatively:
- create some custom widget component classes (as many types as needed):
- assign desired widget classes to each component:
- you can then:
And pipe in the widget component class as needed. This method allows you to configure each widget component class upfront.
That’s perfect, thank you!
Or just hide widget on begin play and put an overlap trigger on door to show widget on begin overlap and hide again on end overlap.