Possible to have Spawned Actors become a "permanent" part of level (in editor)?

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Hi,

I’ve been asking around in the few circles I have, but haven’t come up with a solution:

I’m trying to procedurally generate levels, but since I’m working on VR-content…being able to bake the lighting (in the editor) is necessary for performance reasons.

I have a pretty decent level generator coded and working that, once Play-in-Editor is activated, it generates a room structure of prefabbed Blueprint Actors. Since these are generated at runtime, however, they don’t persist once Play-in-Editor is stopped – so I can’t then go back into the Editor and Bake the Lighting (all the generated rooms are then gone).

A solution that has been presented is to use a Save Game, but that basically re-populates the level when activated – so it still wouldn’t allow the freedom to bake the lighting and make further adjustments.

Is what I am asking not possible? :frowning:

TL;DR - Trying to procedurally populate a level with prefabbed Actor chunks, but then have them PERSIST in the level when back in the Editor (to bake the lighting, etc).

Thank you!

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Have you tried using your generators while editing? Editor Utility Widgets is handy for this.

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Oh gosh, that is EXACTLY what I needed LOL – thank you SO MUCH!
I had thought I was SOL, and yet it was a simple tool that I didn’t even know was there.
Thank you again; you are a Saint! :wink: