Is this OK performance-wise?

[ExZed644]

Hi
Although I have a boolean variable, the event tick is running and checking every frame if the value of the variable is changed…
So is it in this regard or any other regard OK?

[ExZed644]

I’m basically trying to make a widget appear and look at me when I am in a certain radius ( using collision sphere).

[Everynone]

If you do this in a single actor, it’s more than OK, especially that you gated it with a boolean. If you used a widget component in Screen Space mode, you would not need to do it at all - but Screen Space may be undesired for gameplay / user experience reasons, ofc.

Note that you can simply enable / disable Tick itself instead of using an additional variable and a Branch. If we can’t see the widget - stop ticking.

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Another good question here is - what are we really doing? It seems, at a glance, that you want to have an interact widget in every object. Would it make more sense to have 1 widget only in the player instead and show / hide that instead?

The same goes for the sphere overlap, rather than having 500 objects, each with a sphere overlap, have only 1 sphere overlap in the player. It’s the player who is the instigator of most in-game actions after all.

Consider whether the above is feasible in your case.

[ExZed644]

Disabling tick, right.
and about the guidance, yeah you are absolutely right! thank you so much!