What is good practice for making something actor, pawn, character etc.?

[Etyuhibosecyu]

Hello @Mind-Brain!

@Mind-Brain

Does it move? If no, it’s an actor.

So, projectiles should be pawns?

@Mind-Brain

The Character movement component is there to save you days of work, and it only works on a Character or a child of character.

I agree, but it would be nice if I could add Character Movement to an actor or a pawn, or create a character without the skeletal mesh, but both aren’t allowed.

@Mind-Brain

Your performance issues are likely not related to this. I’ve spawned 1000 characters to test out movement of a crowd, all animated, and lost one frame of FPS.

In my game I need 70k moving actors. 1000 is not serious.

@Mind-Brain

It could be related to the textures you’re using or something like that.

I have changed type of those constructions from character to actor and got MUCH more performance. Texture remained the same.

@Mind-Brain

If you need lots of an enemy, and they are basic, use Pawn, I’d say.

Unfortunately, I cannot change the parent class of the enemy separately from the player.