Link Pawn to Sprite

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Hey,

Anyone know if there is a way to link a Pawn to a Sprite?

I want to add A.I to my game, to my knowledge the only way to do this is through an A.I Controller and the controller needs to be attached to a Pawn. Which is fine if your game is 3D. However I am trying to make a 2D game where my sprites have A.I to drive their actions. However there is a disconnect between the sprite and the Pawn that I am having difficulty with.

So if I have say 4 sprites on screen I have 4 Pawns. Now when the sprite is hit, it takes damage, but the pawn is totally unaware…so the A.I that says “heal damage” will never trigger. I have 4 pawns so getting all the actors of a class is not going to work either because I don’t want them all to heal or all to be damaged.

So am I missing something really dumb? Is there a way for the Pawn to handle all the functionality of the character, health, A.I and so on but have that linked to a sprite in UMG? Or is there a way for a widget to be driven by an A.I controller and have A.I?

Thanks

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Hi there! Just check out UWidgetComponent, UBillboardComponent or UPaperSpriteComponent. Add one of them to Blueprint around some base class like ACharacter or APawn and that’s it…

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Thanks for the reply.

In order to use those I assume you would need to be using a C++ project?

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No. You can add them in BP Editor also…

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Thanks!

I looked in to them, I haven’t worked out how to solve my issue with them, but they certainly are very interesting and could very well be the answer if I can work them out enough.

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If Anyone wants any more information on Sprite and components this is a good starting video: