As I understand, as long as something isn’t referenced with hard reference it is not loaded into the memory. Let’s say we have an actor class with replication property set on. Game mode (which exists only on server) references class of this actor with soft class reference. Game mode loads up this c…

Let’s say we have Equipment class and three children descending from it: RangedWeapon, MeleeWeapon, SpecialGear. Server spawns MeleeWeapon, and replication system picks it up for clients. Surely clients will have loaded Equipment and MeleeWeapon classes. But will clients have loaded classes of Mele…

Its a replicated actor, therefore the replication system sends you a command to spawn it using the servers configuration of it. If it’s spawned it is referenced in memory. Typically when speaking of soft/hard references we are talking about when a class references another. Like character referencin…

So do I get it right that the moment replication system finds an object that wants to be replicated, replication system immediately establishes hard reference to this object and thus loads this object’s class into the memory? And I guess I needed to mention this at the beginning, the reason I am as…

Anything that is spawned is loaded into memory. Anything that is used is loaded into memory. Equipment added to your character that the other players need to know about needs to be replicated. Thus loaded into memory. If others do not need to know about it, then sim proxies of you do not need to…

Sorry for going in circles, I think this is the question I actually wanted to ask. Let’s say we have Equipment class and three children descending from it: RangedWeapon, MeleeWeapon, SpecialGear. Server spawns MeleeWeapon, and replication system picks it up for clients. Surely clients will have loa…

Check this thread for more details and insights [image] Should i have WeaponBase Actor Blueprint My personal preference is a single parent weapon class. Have all the firing, reload, recoil etc logic in this one class. Then create a child class for Pistol and one for Rifle…

Soft references and replication.

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