Is there any node that will see if an actor is present in the scene?

NoticeableScout · October 21, 2020, 6:06am

I’m in the level blueprint and inside I want to trigger an event when an actor/static mesh isn’t in the scene anymore (destroyed). Is there any node or does anyone know how to do this?

Everynone · October 21, 2020, 10:20am

When Destroyed is called on the actor present in the level, the event at the bottom will fire:

For a component being destroyed within the owning actor, you will need to script a custom dispatcher.

NoticeableScout · October 21, 2020, 7:29pm

This is what I came up with but still doesn’t work.

What’s happening is I have a BP for an inventory item in the scene (BP_PickupActor6) and when that actor is empty it is destroyed, which I want to trigger the simulate physics event on a skeletal mesh.

Everynone · October 21, 2020, 7:34pm

Do you ever fire that Trigger? You must register that event for this to work.

Is there a reason why you’re not doing it on Begin Play as suggested? This will not trigger the event, just register it so it can trigger when a condition is met - the actor gets destroyed.

NoticeableScout · October 21, 2020, 10:29pm

I have no idea why I used a custom event instead of begin play, it works now lol. Thanks!