UEFN Verse must be updated to allow Instantiation of devices during runtime

General Feedback & Requests
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A huge problem I’m noticing with Verse is that fact that you still heavily rely on preconfiguring devices in the workspace prior to runtime. It baffles me that this is strictly necessary to do basic things, like determine if a player is holding a certain item. Currently, you would have to make a conditional_button, and preconfigure it ahead of time to be able to use the IsHoldingItem function to determine whether a player is holding a certain item or not in Verse code. This is not ideal.

I suggest implementing a way to directly instantiate devices during runtime, and then throw it away. This way, we’d be able to write stuff in code directly without having to bring a bunch of random devices in and tie them together.

For example, the IsHoldingItem function is directly tied to conditional-buttons. Instead of having to make a conditional-button and have it floating somewhere in my game preconfigured, I should be able to make a new one in the code directly. And I don’t mean manually. I mean it should automatically happen if IsHoldingItem is called directly on the player. The engine should know it needs to make a conditional_button to check this, and do it itself with my given Params. Then the device should be nuked after the code block is done running.

This would make programming games in UEFN and Verse alot more intuitive.

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@SGSensei Thank you for your feedback. While I cannot guarantee a response, I can confirm that this has been forwarded to the appropriate team.

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100%. I’m just starting out with verse and was a little disappointed to see that this doesn’t exist. It makes for some pretty messy projects.

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Currently this is still not possible, correct? It would do me really well do be able to instantiate VFX creators, damage volumes, etc. at runtime because I don’t know how many I need except that I will need as many as 10. I would much rather dynamically create them than set up 10 extra of each device that may never be used in game. If there is any way to create devices at runtime please let me know :slight_smile: otherwise I definitely second this request, if possible!

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Currently there is not, sadly

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Just so you know there are some devices that you can “spawn” at runtime, specifically VFX - SpawnParticleSystem function | Unreal Editor for Fortnite Documentation | Epic Developer Community (epicgames.com)

You can also spawn creative_props with devices inside of them, it’s a weird little work around thing but I suggest you read - Spawn devices dynamically using Verse! (And a bit of cursed tricks) | Epic Developer Community (epicgames.com)

Hope that helps till we can get more flexibility. Oh and Scene Graph supports verse code inside your assets that no longer relies on devices so something to look into. I’ll be posting a tutorial on Scene Graph hopefully this week.

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This is actually so cool thanks for pointing it out I will definitely give it a try.