Common Actor Operations

See also

Assets used in creation of animations are a part of:

• Underground Subway by SO.Art

Place actors

Drag & Drop from the Content Browser

Using Context Menu

Place Actor submenu in context menu allows rapid placing common and last used actors.

Selection section shows selected actor in asset browser

Replace actors

Using Context Menu

Replace selected actors with does exactly that.

Duplicate actors

Alt + Drag

Press Alt and drag any gizmo axis to duplicate actor.

Note

This feature does not work inside of actor blueprint viewport.

Using Ctrl+D

Press Ctrl+D and then drag newly created actor using gizmo, or

Using Context Menu

Use Edit in Context menu.

Using Copy Paste

Keyboard shortcut: CTRL+C to copy, CTRL+X to cut, CTRL+V to paste

There is an extra feature, Paste Here which pastes copied actor at click location

Selecting Actors

Click on the actor to select it.

Hold Shift to select multiple actors.

Press ESC to deselect all selected actors.

Using outliner

Select Transparent/Translucent Actors

To select transparent/translucent actors, use Settings menu and enable Allow Translucent Selection

Transparent actors are actors with material that has blend mode set to other than Opaque or Masked

This does not include bsp_actors

Marquee Selection

Press CTRL+ALT+LeftMouseButton and drag to enable marquee selection mode.

Press CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+LeftMouseButton and drag to add actors to selection using marquee.

Strict Box Selection

This function enforces that actors selected by marquee selection have to be fully encompassed by the selection rectangle.

Box select Occluded Objects

Allows marquee selection to also select objects behind other objects and outside the view.

Rename Actors

Press F2 to rename selected actors. or RightClick on actor and go in Edit section in context menu.

Note

You cannot rename multiple actors at once using this method.

Change Visibility

Hide Selected

To hide actor in editor, press H

Note

Once you go into play, simulate mode or switch Levels actors will reappear.

Alternatively use Show Only Selected to hide everything else.

Note

This includes lights and sky box.

Show/Unhide selected actors

To unhide only selected actors, go to editor_outliner, and click on eye icon

Show/Unhide all actors

To unhide all hidden actors, press CTRL+H

Show/Hide Selected at startup

Once editor is in Play or Simulate state, selected actor will unhide/hide.

Show all at startup

Any actors that had Show/Hide Selected at startup set, this function will reset the state to default.

Actor Groups

Actors can be grouped to make moving multiple actors easier.

Keyboard shortcut: CTRL+G

Grouping using context menu

New actors can be added to group anytime using Regroup

Keyboard shortcut: CTRL+G while new actor and selected actor group is selected.

Unlocking group makes individual actors movable again until group is locked again.

Ungrouping removes the group bond between grouped actors.

Allow Group Selection temporarily disables all groups and group functionality.

Keyboard shortcut: CTRL+SHIFT+G

Upon pressing delete on a group, all actors being a part of this group are deleted. Warning message will be shown

Actor Groups cannot be grouped, only merged. Attaching Actors feature allows this, not only with single actors but groups too.

Attaching Actors

If you want to other actor copy transforms (location, rotation and scale) of other actor, but not be a component of it or in a group use Attach To from actor context menu.

It does not change scale of objects upon attaching, but after being attached it scales with parent actor.

Attached actors will be visible in outliner hierarchy

Upon parent actor deletion, child actors are simply detached.

Unlike Actor Groups, child actors can have other child actors attached to them and even whole groups.