Python: Plans for reintroducing actor spawning?

Development Pipeline & Plugins Editor Scripting
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Hi all,
I’m writing a scene loader in python, which requires spawning actors using begin_spawning_actor_from_class().

However, the C++ implementation of BeginSpawningActorFromClass is deprecated, and the python one appears to be dead too (no documentation found).

There is no python binding of BeginDeferredActorSpawnFromClass available to my knowledge.

Are there plans to re-introduce actor spawning methods into the API?
This functionality is essential for python scripting.

Thanks,

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Replacement method found:
unreal.EditorAssetLibrary.load_blueprint_class

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this method can call class constructors twice. Is there an alternative method similar to BeginSpawningActorFromClass?

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don’t know if you are still looking at this but this worked for me in my simple test case:

unreal.EditorLevelLibrary.spawn_actor_from_class()

Not sure if it’s correct for your needs.

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Hi POTWD,
Thanks, but that is what I’m currently using, from the link in my comment. What I was looking for was a method that allowed for performing actions on an actor while it is spawning, as shown in that video.
I have not tested it, but hopefully the calling of actor constructors twice may have been fixed now at least…