Hey mates.
I am trying to spawn an actor by reading it’s filepath from a Data Table file . How to approach this ?
Basically if player drops an item from character inventory it will be spawned in front of the character and what item to be spawned will be read from Item Data Table file. ( This is done in Game Instance)
I got the spawning part alright with SpawnActor<>. But how do I get a reference/filepath from a Data Table and use it to set as spawn template ?
So far here is a bit of code and screenshots to better explain matter. Code gives no errors.
APickUpBase is just a class I derived from AActor. It does not do anytihng. Just a visual represantation of item to be picked up in the game world.
Thanks.
SPR7GameInstance.h
// Trying o use this to spawn dropped item
UPROPERTY(VisibleAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite)
TSubclassOf<AActor> ThingToSpawn;
SPR7GameInstance.cpp
void USPR7GameInstance::DropItem(int32 IndexToDrop)
{
//Getting the reference/filepath as a FString
FInventoryItem DroppingItem = Inventory[IndexToDrop];
FString ItemAdress = DroppingItem.PickUpBaseFilePath;
// Get player location and rotation, SpawnInfo
FRotator Rotation = GetWorld()->GetFirstPlayerController()->GetPawn()->GetActorRotation();
FVector const Location = GetWorld()->GetFirstPlayerController()->GetPawn()->GetActorLocation() + GetWorld()->GetFirstPlayerController()->GetPawn()->GetActorForwardVector() * 100;
FActorSpawnParameters SpawnInfo;
// Now how to make ThingToSpawn read the filepath so it can be used below ?
APickUpBase* DroppedItem = GetWorld()->SpawnActor<APickUpBase>( ThingToSpawn, Location, Rotation, SpawnInfo);
//Finally remove it from inventory
RemoveItemFromInventory(IndexToDrop);
}
Data Table for Items