Which reference to GetWorld() should we be using?

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As I’m using a later version of Unreal that features the Include What You Use (IWYU) architecture, for this lecture I have to add a #include to the header file to allow GetWorld() to successfully be called. My issue is that there are 3 versions of GetWorld(), all of which make the code work, but which one should we be using, and what are the differences?

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Hey there,

I found that using

#include "Runtime/Engine/Classes/Engine/World.h"

did it for me! Let me know if it doesn’t work, but it should be fine. If you try to include AActor::GetWorld, VS17 complains about not knowing about the UWorld class.

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Hey Lucas,

I agree - it makes a lot of sense to include World.h as this is the header that includes the class UWorld, which is the return type of GetWorld().

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Hi,

I initially included “Engine/World.h” but my AI could not find the player tank. When I replaced it with “Runtime/Engine/Classes/Engine/World.h” it found the player tank!. Not sure what was happening though !