StaticLoadClass and paths

Development Programming & Scripting C++
, ,
1

Hi, i want to use The StaticLoadClass function to keep the class in a variable for later use. The problem is, i have no idea how the paths work in unreal engine. This is what i have written, and it throws the error

CharacterClass = StaticLoadClass(UObject::StaticClass(), nullptr, TEXT("/Game/Attrition/Character/AttritionCharacter.AttritionCharacter_C"));

	if(!CharacterClass) UE_LOG(LogTemp, Error, TEXT("%s() Failed to find CharacterClass - if it was moved, please update the reference location in C++"), *FString(__FUNCTION__));

The project’s name is attrition and this is the folder where te character class is located:

Attrition\Source\Attrition\Character\AttritionCharacter.cpp

Thanks for any input

2

StaticLoadClass is for loading assets (ie blueprints), not C++ classes. If you’ve got a C++ class you want to reference that way you just need to do AAttritionCharacter::StaticClass( ).

It’s also worth mentioning that doing this sort of thing to load assets is generally bad practice since those hard-coded strings are difficult to keep updated if/when they’re moved around (hence the text of that log message).

It’s usually better to have a TSubclassOf or TSoftClassPtr that you assign in a blueprint or someplace else in the editor.

3

thanks, needed to know something about this