Graceful method to "Hook" actors?

[legacy-aardvarkk]

First of all, I'm not sure if "hook" is the verb I'm looking for. Basically what I'm trying to say is that I'm looking for a good way to get references to objects in my scene.

In different words: say I have an invisible actor that performs some function. If I'm instantiating it in my code then I have no problem -- I can easily maintain references to it (obviously).

The real issue is when I place an item in UnrealEd, for instance. Many of these objects I want to maintain references to, but the only solution I could really find was to do a bunch of AllActors iterators at the game start to "find" them all. I suppose the alternative is to write down the physical location in the game world and transfer these properties to the code so that the item automatically spawns exactly where I want it? This just seems too hard-coded to me.

If anybody could offer any ideas about better ways of grabbing references to objects, let me know! Thanks in advance...

[Hsoolien]

The best way is to just do a traceActors in the prebeginplay(0 function and asign them to a variabel, it's how I made my explosive health all reference one library actor for any values I wanted to set via the mutator

[legacy-Mr Evil]

There are several possible methods that are neater than iterators. For instance, one possibility is finding them when they are passed into a mutator's CheckReplacement function.

[legacy-aardvarkk]

i'm not really dealing with mutators right now -- it's a whole new gametype sorta deal. are there any other good approaches?

[legacy-Mr Evil]

There is nothing stopping you from using a mutator with a gametype. In fact gametypes have a default mutator which they automatically spawn for just such purposes (see DMMutator.uc).