UI widget always spawns at World Location 0,0 and not at the desired position.

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Add to viewport first, only then Set Position. I’ve updated the image to avoid confusion, my bad.

Also, ensure the widget has no canvas, as this could offset any hierarchy.

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You’re making something similar to:

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Or use a widget: [spawnWidget.png] The widget is quite plain. You can add colours, crit sfx, alter font size, add outlines and so on. [widget.png] On Construct you position it in the viewport via an exposed variable and you set a target location for it to move towards to. The fading animating starts playing immediately. Event Tick will update its position. The animation changes text’s opacity from 1 to 0 over 1s and once it’s over, the widget gets removed from the viewport and garbage coll…

Right?