Question about UClass

[Mattiwatti]

@Au-heppa;501832

But doesn’t UObject refer to something physical that exists in the game world? I come from Source Engine programming and I would almost understand UObject as an Entity. Source had limited amount of Entities and I wouldn’t want to make your container class an Entity for no reason. The container class or the PersonInfo class should have no physical representation either, it should be just a “cheap” class containing some info and have some functions to help organize the info.

I think you’re confusing UObjects and Actors. Actors exist in the game world, UObjects do not necessarily. All actors are UObjects, but not all UObjects are actors. (The inheritance chain for actors is UObject -> AActor -> MyActor.)
An example UObject is a sound wave. You can’t place a sound wave in the world (instead you need e.g. a sound cue that uses it), but you can view it in the asset browser. This is possible due to being a UObject based asset that is automatically serialized on load and save. So actually UObject does sound like what you need.

@Au-heppa;501832

I can create a struct with USTRUCT() but I am having so much trouble figuring out how I can create a class that has UCLASS(). I tried looking up some examples of classes that use UClass as base class in the solution, but only found these two examples:

UCLASS()
class ENGINE_API UBlueprintGeneratedClass : public UClass
{
	GENERATED_UCLASS_BODY()

public:

	...
};

(…snip…)

I tried mimicking their class structure, but neither resulted in a successful compile. One time I got it to compile with another class the Unreal editor crashed and would keep crashing until I would remove the Uclass stuff from it.

The first one is close to what you want, but not quite. You want to inherit from UObject instead of UClass (and leave out the ENGINE_API as well as that may be causing problems too, it’s not intended or needed for gameplay code).