Modifying Base Engine Classes

[DrVonTischler]

@eXi;434543

Well, you could download the source and add a variable to the Actor Class, so every Childs Class of actor (which are a lot) would have this variable.

The question is, is this variable worth changing the Engine Source? Wouldn’t it be possible to just create a child class of Actor and give that all your variables
and new actors that need this variable will just be childs of that new class instead of the normal Actor.

This is what I was thinking. Essentially I want to keep all the functionality that the in-built classes provide, but I’d like to add a <User Widget> class variable to use for a contextual menu system. Then I can derive my own blueprints that maintain the parent’s in-built functionality, but also contain the contextual menu class reference as a base property of Actor.