Store Variable inside Static mesh?

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I have an actor that contains multiple static meshes. Each SM is unique, and needs to have its properties set manually. When the cursor/player interacts with a static mesh, the actor needs to some how get a variable associated with the static mesh.

What is an efficient way to achieve this? I thought of creating an actor for each static mesh and storing the variable that way, but my impression as a novice is that that method is inefficient.

Any suggestions/advice would be welcome

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It depends on what you need to do, but what works in most cases is a map.
Have the key be a static mesh component with the value being whatever data you want. Alternatively you can make the value a custom struct if you need more than one type of data.

Here’s a quick video that explains maps: