PCG Spline mesh assign tags

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Hi !

It is possible to add extra component tags on PCG generated ISM component using the “AdditionalCommaSeparatedTags”. It is super handy to filter out generated data by other systems.

We have tools which heavily use a mix of spline meshes and ISM, it would be very useful to have the same feature for spline meshes as well.

(Or it’s already possible but I didn’t find the option ?)

Thanks,

Guillaume

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Hi Guillaume!

It’s not something that will make it in 5.7, but I’ll keep a note so we can address this in some way in the future.

In the meantime, I would suggest you gather the output (IIRC, you can get a reference to the components on the output data) + have a custom BP node to do this.

Let me know how that works out,

Cheers,

Julien

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Thanks a lot for your quick reply Julien !

I managed to workaround it using the post generate function and parse the generated output data, but not direclty in the PCG graph, the spawn staticmesh / spline mesh nodes don’t seem to have a ComponentReference output option ? Unlike the generic Add Component node.

But it does the trick for now (a bit “Heavy”, I’d say, but it works :slight_smile: )

And about adressing it in the future, it’s fine for us, if it’s not too heavy code change, we could even cherry pick a CL later on.

Cheers,

Guillaume

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Alright, will still create a jira for this, but good to know you’re ok with your work-around.

Cheers,

Julien