I’m trying to spawn a local actor on the client that doesn’t replicate. I’m using GetWorld()->SpawnActor, but it crashes in PostSpawnInitialize at check(Role == ROLE_Authority) with this error: Assertion failed: Role == ROLE_Authority.

Looking into the code within PostSpawnInitialize it appears that the check is making sure that the local machine has the proper flags set to have authority over the spawned actor. If you’re spawning an actor locally on a machine then you need to set its Role to ROLE_Authority to signify that it can…

Spawning an actor in C++ on a client causes crash

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anonymous_user_074925b2 (anonymous_user_074925b2) April 9, 2018, 4:30pm 2

I manually set the role to ROLE_Authority and it works now. Thanks!