No member named GetActorLabel in AActor when packaging for android

anonymous_user_446cc3d0 · March 28, 2017, 2:43pm

I am trying to package for Android ETC2. The message log shows an error saying
there is no member named GetActorLabel in AActor.

How can I fix this?

anonymous_user_446cc3d0 · March 28, 2017, 2:54pm

I don’t know a solution for this, this might be intended to be so.

But I have a different approach to exactly find out which actor I am working with, with the help of tags.

anonymous_user_2b03d27c · March 29, 2017, 2:56pm

Hey yeed44-

Can you provide the full log for reference? Are you using GetActorLabel anywhere in your project? If you’re able to reproduce the message in a new project, can you provide the setup steps to help me reproduce the issue locally?

anonymous_user_446cc3d0 · March 29, 2017, 8:46pm

Hey !

Yes, I was using GetActorLabel inside of an Actor. I was raycasting and trying to find out via FHitResult with GetActor()->GetActorLabel() which Actor got hit by the ray. That actually works the way I thought it would, but when trying to package for Android ETC2 the cross compiler for Android would complain about GetActorLabel() not being a member of AActor.

I have worked around this by simply not using GetActorLabel() anymore, but instead giving the relevant objects inside my scene a tag and checking for that tag with ActorHasTag(Fname).

anonymous_user_2b03d27c · March 30, 2017, 1:19pm

Hey yeed44-

This is indeed intended. Looking at the Actor.h source code, the GetActorLable() is inside an #if WITH_EDITOR preprocessor directive. This means that the function will only work while working in the editor and will be excluded when packaged. This is why the package fails.

Cheers

anonymous_user_aa5e796b · June 28, 2018, 5:09pm

You may have just saved my bacon. What a great function, its a pity they have it under the WITH EDITOR directive. I don’t understand the motivation of making it an Editor Only. Hrmmm