Multiple scene components within an actor (+10.000)

[Venom89]

Hello guys!

I want to have an Actor that holds more than 10.000 “dummy” components which are “organizational”. Each of these components are aimed to have a shape just as a visual representation of it in the Editor and properties such as location and transform. Based on forums and documentation, I found that the equivalent to a dummy object in UE4 would be the USceneComponent. However, after checking deeper, I read that it is not recommended to use the USceneComponent as an organizational elements; explicitly it states:

It is important not to overuse Scene Components as organizational tools, since each one will add to the time and memory it takes to spawn the Actors that own them. (Source)

Despite of this, I felt stubborn-ish and created my own actor class (MyActorClass) with +10.000 scene components. The performance of the Editor (as expected) was hit once I tried to add the actor of type MyActorClass to the scene. I wonder:

• Is there any type of UActorComponent that is “more light” so the actor can stand having such amount of components?
• If not, is it possible to follow a different approach with these scene component so that I can support a lot of them?
• Or am I even following the right approach, considering I want to have an Actor that when modified, it modifies it’s multiple children (+10.000)

Thanks

Any help will be very much appreciated