Proper way to hide a Mesh Component?

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I have a character that can equip or unequip a weapon. My instinct is to create the mesh at startup and just hide/show it depending on whether it should be equipped or not.

My question is how is best done? It dosn’t seem as simple as only SetHiddenInGame()

Thanks

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SetHidden is used for entire Actor. For components use “Visible” boolean under Rendering.

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Does that still “Tick” the component? I would like it to be completely disabled until I reveal it again

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Yes, still ticks. Use SetTickEnabled to disable. Also look up on how to disable actors in google cause usually it’s a number of things you need to do like disabling the collision so that noone bumps into this hidden nonticking actor.