Possible make a list to hold all the overlap actors?

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Hi!

I am been working, trying out and figure out how to make and create a script within my player model on how to pick up and drop items. And with the testings that I have done, it have now worked. Even made so the animation works as well when grabbing and holding the items.

But as I now started to wanna experiment and try out, is it possible that(for example: ) When I press E, depends on which item I am looking at to press E on, will be picked up. But because there will be(another example) 60 different models/objects that I want to be able to pick up. I want so that each object(which will have their own animation connected to it) will work.

On the picture that I will show, I have been using a Knife model to just work and understand the idea how the script for picking items up works:

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Also some context, I have made so when I press E on the knife, a script on the knife will start. By deleting the actor from the level. So it will then appear in my hand. And I use a Enumeration for it(which is also connected to the animation).

And when I press Q(to just see how it works when wanna drop the item) I spawn the item back in.

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There’s a function you can use called Sphere Overlap Actors.
You could build a list of those, and then use “Find Nearest Actor” to determine which one is closest to your point of origin (That being your player, your mouse-cast-to-world, a motion controller, or whatever else.)

Here’s an example, used for finding grabbable objects in a VR project.

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One of the benefits of this approach is that you can dictate a world-position to reference from, and you can play around with the range by altering the Sphere Radius value.

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Oooo? Then would you recommend, if we would use the picture from what I am showing for the pick up part, do I add the “Sphere Overlap Actors” to change it out against the “For Each Loop With Break” component? Or do I just connect the “Sphere Overlap Actors” to the “For Each Loop” component?