Widget Component Not Showing

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Here are the steps of what I did. I also am following this video by Ryan Laley to display a nameplate above NPCs. Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial - Nameplates - YouTube

  1. Created Widget Blueprint
  2. Added text, and bound it to NPC text variable, “name”
  3. Attached Widget Component to NPC (I can see it in the viewport)
  4. Leave everything as default (I followed the tutorial exactly but the widget doesn’t show, so I tried again and stopped following along once I attached the widget just to see if I could see it in-game at default settings.)
  5. Press Play

See the pictures below, the widget shows before I press play, and the second I run the game, it doesn’t show. Can anyone please help me, this is driving me insane. I’ve tried deleting and attaching the same widget multiple times to see if it was bugged. Tried reopening the project, doing the exact same thing in multiple default 3rd person template projects, nothing works!!!

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Hi Andyzeus Nutus

Try set the widget material to two-sided. My best guess is that there is a mistake with the billboard logic which is flipping the widget around. Basically, you’re seeing the back of it which will not be drawn if the material is one-sided.

Let me know how your testing goes.

Alex