The documentation for Unreal 5 is missing the updated of basic features like spawning an actor in C++

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The unreal 4 doc for spawning an actor is not working in unreal 5 and the documentation for UNreal 5 is not updated. Any solutions ?

Doc Unreal 5 Spawning an actor

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2 solutions I can think of, one is look for a tutorial on Youtube or some blog, the second solution is open one of the templates like the first person template and it should have an example of spawning a projectile.

In your header add this, you can change AActor with a specific class, in your derived BP class indicate the class you want to use for spawning.

UPROPERTY(EditDefaultsOnly, Category=Projectile)
TSubclassOf<class AActor> ActorToSpawn;

In your C++

if(ActorToSpawn)
	{
		FActorSpawnParameters ActorSpawnParams;
		ActorSpawnParams.SpawnCollisionHandlingOverride = ESpawnActorCollisionHandlingMethod::AdjustIfPossibleButDontSpawnIfColliding;
		FVector SpawnLocation; //indicate valid location
		FRotator SpawnRotation(0.f);
		AActor* SpawnedActor = GetWorld()->SpawnActor<AActor>(ActorToSpawn, SpawnLocation, SpawnRotation, ActorSpawnParams);
	}
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you were right . there is also a good video tutorials serie on youtube : Procedural Generation

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