UGameplayStatics::SpawnObject

function Engine Blueprint Since 4.0

#include "Kismet/GameplayStatics.h"

Access: public Specifiers: staticBlueprintCallable

Description

Creates a new UObject instance of the given class with the specified outer. This is the Blueprint-exposed equivalent of NewObject<T> for non-actor UObjects.

Caveats & Gotchas

• Marked BlueprintInternalUseOnly — it appears as part of the 'Construct Object from Class' BP node, not as a directly callable node in the event graph.
• Cannot be used to spawn AActor or UActorComponent subclasses; use SpawnActor for actors and AddComponent for components instead.
• The created object is not tracked by the world's actor list and will not receive Tick, BeginPlay, or any actor lifecycle events.

Signature

static ENGINE_API UObject* SpawnObject(TSubclassOf<UObject> ObjectClass, UObject* Outer);

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
ObjectClass	TSubclassOf<UObject>	The class of UObject to instantiate. Must be a non-Actor, non-ActorComponent UObject subclass.	—
Outer	UObject*	The outer object that owns this new object. Determines garbage collection lifetime.	—

Return Type

UObject*

Example

Construct a save game object in C++ C++

// Prefer NewObject directly in C++; SpawnObject is a Blueprint shim
UMySaveGame* SaveGame = NewObject<UMySaveGame>(GetGameInstance(), UMySaveGame::StaticClass());
if (SaveGame)
{
    SaveGame->PlayerName = TEXT("Hero");
    UGameplayStatics::SaveGameToSlot(SaveGame, TEXT("Slot1"), 0);
}

Version History

Introduced in: 4.0

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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