Why not initialise UPhysicsHandleComponent in BeginPlay()?

[hwennlof]

Hi!

I’m just wondering why we don’t create a private variable to hold the UPhysicsHandleComponent, and then initialise it (with nullptr check) in BeginPlay()? Instad of creating a getter function that gets it from the owner and does the check every time.
I don’t see why the UPhysicsHandleComponent would change as gameplay goes on, but maybe we’ll get to that later…

Kind regards.
Håkan

[DanM]

That’s basically how I would do it honestly. I would just create the physics handle component as a subobject.