Actors and Components

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating a custom Actor in C++
• Instantiating an Actor using SpawnActor
• Creating a UFUNCTION
• Destroying an Actor using Destroy and a Timer
• Destroying an Actor after a delay using SetLifeSpan
• Implementing the Actor functionality by composition
• Loading assets into components using FObjectFinder
• Implementing the Actor functionality by inheritance
• Attaching components to create a hierarchy
• Creating a custom Actor Component
• Creating a custom Scene Component
• Creating an InventoryComponent for an RPG
• Creating an OrbitingMovement Component
• Creating a building that spawns units