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

[anonymous_user_741503d3]

I have read and seen Unreal Engine is capable of handling a LOT of Actors

True, though it still bothers me when I imagine my character running with 100+ attached actors, which are still replicating even if only to this character.

One my my earliest implementations of an inventory system I used UObject as my Item Data when it was within my inventory and an ItemActor when it was in the world. The ItemActor contained the UItem object or the players inventory contained the UItem Object. When the player picked up the Item from the world only the UItem was given to the players inventory and the ItemActor was Destroyed. When the item was dropped from the players inventory the UItem spawned an ItemActor into the world and it was set to that ItemActor. This worked pretty well but it requires both the UItem and ItemActor to have a cross reference to each other’s types, which can be a bit cumbersome as a Designer must build both a UItem for Data and an ItemActor for world visual representation.

Substitute UObject for struct and this is pretty much how I have my inventory set up. But in my case, as I’ve said before, designer only creates a 'pickup (an actor) and populate the item data on it. Then, I can just generate the actual item struct at runtime whenever I need it.

Btw, have you managed to use EditInlineNew and Instanced on UObjects? So that it’s possible to create them within the editor? Or did you just subclass them?