Override the Default Player Start with a custom one

[ClockworkOcean]

@TorQueMoD

the point is I’m being a nerd. lol Rather than using auto possess or spawning the character in blueprint, I was hoping to use my own custom actor as a player start and not use any player start actors in the world, but still be able to hit Play using the “play from default player start location” option. And be able to do all this without having to write my own spawn code. There’s really not much benefit to doing it this way, I just thought the player start might be something you could override but it looks like it’s hard coded to use it.

My workaround is I spawn in with the default player start located in a box outside them map and then immediately spawn and possess my character.

I wondered if you meant this, it’s always hard to tell which level to answer a question on.

Problem is the engine is looking for a player start, so the only thing you can do is copy it and change it. Using it as a parent wont work of course.

It sounds a bit like you’re using level streaming there?

For that, I put the player start in the map, stream the level and loop until I can see the player start, the make the level visible and spawn the player.