Reference a specific static mesh actor from the scene in a blueprint

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Hi all,

I have a noob question for blueprint actor to static mesh actor interaction.
Let’s say I have lots of cubes in my scene, including two special ones (cube_1 and cube_2) and a single blueprint actor with a trigger box. All cubes are moving around, but I want the Overlap Event begin only when cube_1 overlaps with the trigger box. What I want to happen when this overlap event takes place is that that another cube (cube_2) changes color.

Is there a way to reference these two cubes in my trigger box blueprint without making them BP actors or using tags? Is there another way to do that? I tried to drag them from the project outliner to my trigger box BP event graph or make variables, but it does not seem to work.

I tried to use variables, but I can’t seem to be able to reference specific cubes in my scene.

I know it is a very noob question, and any tips will be very much appreciated!!!

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It’s much easier if they’re blueprints. Otherwise you’ll need to check every overlap against either an actor reference, or display name.

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yeah, I gave up and made them blueprints.

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It’s not defeat :slight_smile:

Blueprints is the way, otherwise you have to write a spaghetti load of code to keep track of dumb static meshes.