Convenience task for spawning actors on the network authority. If not the net authority, we will not spawn and Success will not be called. The nice thing this adds is the ability to modify expose on spawn properties while also implicitly checking network role before spawning. More...

Static Public Member Functions
Static Functions
static UClass	StaticClass ()
Static Public Member Functions inherited from UAbilityTask
static UClass	StaticClass ()
Static Public Member Functions inherited from UGameplayTask
static UClass	StaticClass ()
Static Public Member Functions inherited from UObject
static UClass	StaticClass ()

Public Attributes
Variables
FSpawnActorDelegate	DidNotSpawn
	Called when we can't spawn: on clients or potentially on server if they fail to spawn (rare).
FSpawnActorDelegate	Success
Public Attributes inherited from UObject
const UClass	Class
const UObject	Outer
const UPackage	Outermost
const UPackage	Package
const UWorld	World
const FName	Name
const bool	IsRooted

Additional Inherited Members
Public Member Functions inherited from UGameplayTask
void	ReadyForActivation ()
void	EndTask ()
	Called explicitly to end the task (usually by the task itself). Calls OnDestroy. Note:: you need to call EndTask before sending out any "on completed" delegates. If you don't the task will still be in an "active" state while the event receivers may assume it's already "finished".
Public Member Functions inherited from UObject
bool	MarkPackageDirty () const
void	RemoveFromRoot ()
bool	GetIsRooted () const
bool	IsTransient () const
bool	Modify (bool bAlwaysMarkDirty=true)
void	SetTransactional (bool bTransactional)
bool	IsSupportedForNetworking () const
UClass	GetClass () const
UObject	GetOuter () const
UObject	GetTypedOuter (TSubclassOf< UObject > Target) const
	Traverses the outer chain searching for the next object of a certain type.
UPackage	GetOutermost () const
UPackage	GetPackage () const
void	AddToRoot ()
UWorld	GetWorld () const
FName	GetName () const
FString	GetFullName (const UObject StopOuter=nullptr) const
FString	GetPathName (const UObject StopOuter=nullptr) const
bool	IsA (const UClass Class) const
	Returns true if this object is of the specified type, or a child of that type.
void	SaveConfig ()
void	LoadConfig ()
void	ReloadConfig ()
void	CopyScriptPropertiesFrom (const UObject OtherObject)
void	opCast (?&Address) const
FString	ToString () const

Detailed Description

Convenience task for spawning actors on the network authority. If not the net authority, we will not spawn and Success will not be called. The nice thing this adds is the ability to modify expose on spawn properties while also implicitly checking network role before spawning.

Though this task doesn't do much - games can implement similiar tasks that carry out game specific rules. For example a 'SpawnProjectile' task that limits the available classes to the games projectile class, and that does game specific stuff on spawn (for example, determining firing position from a weapon attachment - logic that we don't necessarily want in ability blueprints).

Long term we can also use this task as a sync point. If the executing client could wait execution until the server creates and replicates the actor down to it. We could potentially also use this to do predictive actor spawning / reconciliation.

Member Function Documentation

◆ StaticClass()

UClass StaticClass ( )

static

Member Data Documentation

◆ DidNotSpawn

FSpawnActorDelegate DidNotSpawn

Called when we can't spawn: on clients or potentially on server if they fail to spawn (rare).

◆ Success

FSpawnActorDelegate Success

Static Public Member Functions