Spawning Player after the Game Starts

[oshirostudios]

Hi all,

I have created a procedural level generation system utilizing C++ backend and a blueprint spawning system for the objects in the world. In 4.18, I could call SetActorTransform on my GetPlayerPawn(0) and it would move the character to the offset I have set in the level generation system successfully. This was great until 4.18 decided it would break my blueprint to C++ linkage each time I restarted the editor - this was apparently fixed in 4.20 and I can now spawn my level with no issues anymore and restarting doesn’t break the backend.

Instead, my current player pawn continues to fall in a random location (its not even spawning at the PlayerStart pin I have dropped in my level) and calling the same blueprint functions above have no affect on the player.

I try to spawn the player character class manually in that location and it fails to spawn at all.

What am I missing? I can post more detail if required.

[oshirostudios]

And it looks like it was nothing to do with my section of code, but another developers code in our team which moved the character to the random location - apparently part of the save system which is inside the actual character controller.

I’ve spent the entire day trying to work this out and it finally clicked when I found that the player spawned in a different place on the test level than usual. Just a wasted day… sigh.