AActor::IsHidden

function Engine Since unknown

#include "GameFramework/Actor.h"

Access: public Specifiers: const

Description

Returns the raw value of the bHidden flag. This is the low-level accessor introduced so bHidden can be made private in a future engine version.

Caveats & Gotchas

• This returns the bHidden property directly, which is the hidden-in-game flag — distinct from the editor-only IsHiddenEd() state. An actor can be visible in-game while hidden in the editor and vice versa.
• SetActorHiddenInGame is the virtual, component-aware counterpart — it propagates visibility changes to components. IsHidden only reads the flag and does not account for component-level visibility overrides.
• Because this is a non-virtual inline accessor, it cannot be overridden in subclasses to report a different hidden state — if you need polymorphic visibility queries, check component visibility instead.

Signature

bool IsHidden() const

Return Type

bool

Example

Conditionally interact only with visible actors C++

bool AMyInteractionSystem::CanInteract(AActor* Target) const
{
    if (!Target || Target->IsHidden())
    {
        return false;
    }
    return Target->ActorHasTag(TEXT("Interactable"));
}

Version History

Introduced in: unknown

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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