Spawn Actor Deferred Variable Overwritten In Construction

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So maybe I’m misunderstanding the purpose of Spawn Actor Deferred, but when I set class member variables prior to the constructor, they are all reinitialized to zero in the constructor. Does anyone know why this is?

This is my header

UCLASS()
class MYPROJECT2_API ACProjectile : public AActor
{
	GENERATED_BODY()
	
public:	
	// Sets default values for this actor's properties
	
    void Init(float,float,float);
    UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere)
    float radius;
    UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere)
    float upDir;
    UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere)
    float sideDir;
    ACProjectile();

}`

The following definition IS called before the header and successfully sets the member functions, HOWEVER:

void ACProjectile::Init(float rPass,float nupDir, float nsideDir)
{
    ACProjectile::radius=(rPass+2)*100;
    ACProjectile::upDir=(nupDir*400)/radius;
    ACProjectile::sideDir=(nsideDir*400)/radius;
    GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-1, 5.0f, FColor::Yellow, FString::SanitizeFloat(radius));
}

As soon as the constructor is called immediately afterward, the variables are reset to 0.

ACProjectile::ACProjectile()
{
	PrimaryActorTick.bCanEverTick = true;

    GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-1, 5.0f, FColor::Yellow, FString::SanitizeFloat(ACProjectile::radius));
}

I don’t understand what would cause this behavior. If anyone could help me I would be eternally grateful.

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So I just realized that the constructor is in fact being called before my init function…Not really sure why.