Where does this custom inventory data "live" at runtime?

[anonymous_user_741503d3]

well, i dont think it is wasteful, because there are times when you want to spawn items in the world dont you?
So without an actor as baseclass how is that supposed to be done?

I never saw someone spawns a struct in the world, so the “real” item should be a class in the end.

However using a struct for an inventory isnt a bad idea, since you could have a struct holding AItem* and f.e. the amount of those items inside an
Array of a character. And when you drop something out of your inventory you would use the item inside the struct and spawn it into the world.

thats my opinion^^

Sure, items you spawn in the world are ‘pickups’. And for that you’d definetely want to use an Actor class. But I was referring to items you ‘store’ on the character, like after you’ve interacted with some pickup. You don’t want this whole pickup anymore, you only want its class and runtime properties, like quantity and etc. So for that you’re better off having a struct with several fields to hold just the information you might need in the future (when you decide to drop it or save to some persistent storage in a database).