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FKismetEditorUtilities::CreateBlueprintFromActor

Take an Actor and generate a blueprint based on it. Uses the Actors type as the parent class.

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Deprecated

Use version that passes parameters via parameter struct

References

Module	UnrealEd
Header	/Engine/Source/Editor/UnrealEd/Public/Kismet2/KismetEditorUtilities.h
Include	#include "Kismet2/KismetEditorUtilities.h"

Syntax

static UBlueprint * CreateBlueprintFromActor
(
    const FName BlueprintName,
    UObject * Outer,
    AActor * Actor,
    bool bReplaceInWorld,
    bool bKeepMobility,
    UClass * ParentClassOverride,
    bool bOpenInEditor
)

Remarks

Take an Actor and generate a blueprint based on it. Uses the Actors type as the parent class.

Returns

The blueprint created from the actor

Parameters

Parameter	Description
BlueprintName	The name to use for the Blueprint
Outer	The outer object to create the blueprint within
Actor	The actor to use as the template for the blueprint
bReplaceActor	If true, replace the actor in the scene with one based on the created blueprint
bKeepMobility	If true, The mobility of each actor components will be copy
ParentClassOverride	The parent class to use when creating the blueprint. If null, the class of Actor will be used. If specified, must be a subclass of the Actor's class.
bOpenInEditor	If true, open the created blueprint in the blueprint editor

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