APawnTurret::StaticClass() function not very well explained

[C_S]

Hi,
the StaticClass() function is thrown at us in thes lecture and ‘explained’ within half of a sentence. I think I am not the only one, not knowing what it is, what it does and - most importantly - where to use this and where not to.

Cheers

[DanM]

To be fair to Rob that’s an incredibly hard thing to fully explain at this level. Here it’s being used to essentially pass a type as a value to a function.

[C_S]

Ok, if it is that complex, is there a simple way to (just) notice, when XY::StaicClass() is neccesseary / what is the indikation for it?

[DanM]

It will be for UClass* parameters. Most of the time you would use it to pass the type as a value into a function.

SpawnActor(APawn, ...)

Isn’t valid syntax as you can’t just pass a type into a function. Functions take values not types.

The full answer is that UClass* is for the reflection data of a given class and that StaticClass() is to get that class’ UClass*.

[C_S]

Thanks Dan, thats something