AActor::GetActorTransform

function Engine Blueprint Since 4.0

#include "GameFramework/Actor.h"

Access: public Specifiers: UFUNCTIONBlueprintCallable

Description

Returns the full world-space transform (location, rotation, scale) of the actor's root component as an FTransform. More efficient than querying location, rotation, and scale separately when you need more than one.

Caveats & Gotchas

• Returns the transform of the root component. Actors without a root component return the identity transform.
• Returns a const reference into the component's transform cache. Do not store the reference — copy the FTransform if you need to keep it past the current frame.
• For physics-simulated actors, the transform may be one frame behind the physics simulation. Read from the physics body directly via GetBodyInstance() if sub-frame accuracy is required.

Signature

const FTransform& GetActorTransform() const

Return Type

const FTransform&

Examples

Copy another actor's transform to self on BeginPlay Blueprint

Copying transform to another actor C++

FTransform T = SourceActor->GetActorTransform();
TargetActor->SetActorTransform(T);

Version History

Introduced in: 4.0

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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