So I am trying to spawn an actor in my battle game mode, depending on whether or not he was in my previous level before the transition. I am using a GameInstance that contains a bool which gets set to true when the actor is spawned in the previous level, however this does not seem to be working for me. I can’t just spawn the actor in without checking if it was spawned previously as I am going to be implementing Stats for each individual fighter. I am totally stuck here as I can’t really think of another way to do this. The BP below is in my battle scene level BP.
I’m setting it inside the actor BP (in this case it’s the ThirdPersonCharacterBP) and the issue is in my level that I want the actor to spawn, it isn’t spawning at all. for testing I have just set the bool to always on, so I’m assuming it’s not being read correctly?
Where are you setting this boolean? Screen shot that too please. Also what exactly is the issue? It doesn’t spawn? The boolean never gets set? The boolean isn’t read properly?
Seems simple enough, so must be a small error somewhere. Unfortunately that means more screen shots. Need to see the entire chain of logic from start to finish. So, how this actor is spawned initially, how this function is called etc. Need the whole flow. Everything seems good from here but is this function actually called? Do you load a new level and spawn again? What exactly is all the back end of this.
Ok this is more complex than you made it out to be initially. Are you loading this from a save game? Because if so there is a whole other area for error right there. Also, gameinstance persists between levels so unless you truly need to “save” like power off the computer and come back to the same spot this is not necessary, game instance will handle persistence between levels. If you are using this bool from a save game then I would need screen shots of how the game is saved and loaded up. That is most likely the error, I see that issue all the time due to improper saving of data.
No I’m not using a save game, I just have the function in the same chain as my savegame function because I needed to use the BeginPlay event, is this bad practice? I don’t think it is what is causing the issue though as for now I have just set the bool I am using to true (Which is stored inside a GameInstance and is set to editable)
Okay so it turns out that I am a complete idiot haha, I didn’t realise I had to set the the game instance that I made in the project settings, sorry for troubling you and thanks for your help
No worries, that’s what I figured when game instance doesn’t cast really only 1 reason that happens… not using the right game instance haha anyway glad you figured it out
