Pointer to Actor object becomes null for unknown reason

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@HorusWM

Technically yes. There may also be a reason for the fact that the generator pointer refers to the object that was BEFORE the level was saved. So you can see that ABattleField instance exists in memory, except that the generator link is not saved to this instance. But this is just my guess. Anyway, it seems to me that it is safer to just grab the link for BattleField in the generator via Cast <ABattleField>(GetParentActor()).

Understood, that would be my fallback plan if this approach doesn’t work.

Another reason I wanted to do things this way is that the function GenerateBattleField() will perform a similar action. When I execute GenerateBattleField() at editor time, this function will create and place multiple static mesh objects into the level, then ABattleField will have a TArray of pointers tracking these objects.

If UE4 wipes pointer references created at editor time by design, then I’m going to de-reference a lot of null pointers at play time. I would like to avoid the act of scanning the whole level in *BeginPlay() *for those static mesh objects and try to reconstruct the TArray in the order I needed those objects to be in.