NewObject, USphereComponent & Overlap Events - Where does it go wrong?

EniGmaa · December 5, 2016, 5:38pm

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Thanks for the input, but nope, no luck.
I have the below by now (for visibility) and still nothing shows (either ‘as is’ or when i run the ‘show Collision’ console cmd)
Grabber_USphereComponent->bVisualizeComponent = true;
Grabber_USphereComponent->ToggleVisibility(true);
Grabber_USphereComponent->bHiddenInGame = false;
Grabber_USphereComponent->SetHiddenInGame(false);
Im really stumped here, the 3 thoughts i mention in the first post are pretty much exhausted at this point;

I’ve tried to call any and all functions that seem even remotely related to ‘create the shape’, no progress.

I’ve made some effort to make extra sure that the USphereComponent’s location is what it should be, and it is.

I’ve looked at the overlap event problem in any way i can imagine, the events should just fire for all i can tell, but they dont…

Starting to think what im trying (create USphereComponent on runtime and having that trigger overlap events) simply isnt possible, or used to be possible but is broken in 4.14

hello a few weeks ago i was trying to do some things similar to what you are trying to achieve here. with the help of some nice forumers i ended up making both a c++ function and a blueprint function to do exactly this . if you want i can share the code and you can take what you need.

here is the bp node in action

and the result

its pretty versatile you can make multiple components of the same type or even a mixture of different ones.

for example here im creating a loop to spawn 5 sphere components

and result

http://image.prntscr.com/image/cd72da8ad26a4432ae58a7f90be88214.png

the c++ version is a bit more powerful as it can actually be used in editor as well as runtime to spawn objects before you even press play. im still working on a way to get my blueprint node to be safe to use during construction script without causing an endless loop and crashing .

if this is what you meant then let me know and ill upload the c++ code

thanks

BIG THANKYOU to forumer smartyMARTY who helped me get this far :-p