Trouble Returning Classes

Development Programming & Scripting
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Unfortunately you’re essentially storing UClass* when using TSubclassOf.

You could potentially use the CDO of the class type, but I have no idea if this would work well, or be at all safe:

const AProjectItem* UDB::GetItem(FString ItemName)
{
	for(auto& ItemClass : ItemClasses)
	{
		const AProjectItem* const DefaultInstance = ItemClass.GetDefaultObject();
		if (DefaultInstance->ItemName == ItemName)
		{
			return DefaultInstance;
		}
	}

	return nullptr;
}

But I’d question why your inventory information needs to be an actor, rather than a simpler UObject or USTRUCT type? You could probably get away with just store an array of meta-data about the items, and only spawn the actors if you knew for sure you’d need them?