FVector Widget Not Appearing with Actor Class

[Karim_Bastami]

hi,

(This is from The Unreal engine Multiplayer course) (Lecture 10)

So Sam showed us how to use FVector widgets to visualize the vector, i tried recreating it using an Actor Component class instead of a Static Mesh Actor as used in the course. when i applied the UPROPERTY and compiled successfully, nothing was appearing. But when i use the static mesh actor it does appear. Is this feature exclusive to the static mesh actor or am i missing something?

(Header)

(CPP)

[sampattuzzi]

I might only work on SceneComponents. Give it a try with that as a base class.

[Karim_Bastami]

Hi Sam,

The scene component class also works, so does that mean pure actors classes don’t have this feature?

Thank you

[sampattuzzi]

Looks like that might be the case. Probably because the vector needs to be relative to a position and it uses the position of the scene component. ActorComponents don’t have position.

[Karim_Bastami]

ok thanks for the help