[UE4] C++ Spine components vs blueprint incongruities...

Mantic

Yo!

I'm trying to implement a base character class that creates and manages its own USpineSkeletonAnimationComponent and USpineSKeletonRendererComponent, but the UE4 editor doesn't seem to like it very much.

In the editor my c++ created spine renderer has different items in the details tab than if I were to create one from straight in the editor:

Editor / Blueprint created spine renderer:

The same goes for the spine animation.

This makes it difficult to edit / manipulate them in the editor as the properties are in a weird order and are missing a lot of parent properties. Sometimes when I click on a C++ generated component, I don't even see any details. I have to close and re-open the objects page.

Here's how I'm creating them:

Luckily they seem to compile and render just fine in the game... just can't manipulate them easily in the UE4 editor.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Mantic

Mario

Component creation looks fine to me. The C++ details don't show the transform component. Is RootComponent a scene component?

Mantic

My C++ class bases from ACharacter, so it has all the standard root component and other items:

I guess I could just have a blueprint where I load the objects via the blueprint editor... it just seemed so much more convenient to instantiate them in code. 😛

Are there any other instantiation configuration I'm missing on the components?

I think I keep answering my own questions... :$

I changed a little how I define the components, and now they show up just fine. I'm a bit new to C++ in addition to UE4, so I imagine I'm making some newb mistakes.

Here's what I changed the setup to and the components appear correctly in the editor:

Notice I took the "class" away from in front of the definitions. I also moved the definitions in the .h file down below the default variable instantiator function call.

It's working, but I'm not sure why per se. Any thoughts? 😛

Kk, last post and I feel like an idiot. If you make a component

UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite)

then it won't show up properly in the editor.

Components need to be set to:

UPROPERTY(VisibleAnywhere, BlueprintReadOnly)

Case closed! :clap:

Mario

Ugh, glad you figured it out. I'm not a big fan of UE4's annotations. To easy to overlook. Thanks for following up and posting your solution!