Let's Make Child Actors Great Again!

General Feedback & Requests
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I mean seriously… we have tons of issues still with Child Actors and NO Epic Support on these AnswerHub bug reports:

https://answers.unrealengine.com/que…aceholder.html

https://answers.unrealengine.com/que…-template.html

https://answers.unrealengine.com/que…packaging.html

I mean, I know it’s not UDN, so the Priority is low… but throw us a bone please.

But there are at least some issues (unrelated to above) have been resolved in 4.18:

  • Bug Fix: Compiling a Blueprint containing a child actor component will no longer mark the Blueprint of child actor’s class dirty.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed crash when adding component to child actor class after a component of the same name was removed from the parent.
  • Bug Fix: Child Actors created by transient child actor components are now correctly created as transient. Note that this will not remove existing Actors that had been saved in to maps inadvertently.
  • Bug Fix: Overriden Child Actor Class property will no longer reset to default when a new instance is created through copy/paste.
2

But were they ever great to begin with? I’ve had nothing but problems. But yes, lets make the great!

3

Aye, it’s been hit or miss depending on the engine version. It seems like they are bouncing between good and poop status every engine update.