If you have read the documentation about property specifiers, you might have seen the 'EditAnywhere' specifier, and might have a question, why aren't we using it? 'VisibleAnywhere' makes components visible in blueprints so we can access component properties that have set edit specifiers on them, that's all what we need in blueprints. So how we can make our mesh component not disabled? We need to add 'VisibleAnywhere' specifier to our UPROPERTY(). You can read more about them here (if this link is not working anymore, just google 'Unreal Engine Documentation Properties' and you should be able to find a link to the new documentation page). You don't really need to use them on all of your variables in your C++ classes, but if you want to expose something to blueprints, then you will need to use them.

That's an Unreal Engine specific macro for properties that defines property metadata and variable specifiers. If we look back at our class header file, we see, that above our static mesh component we had UPROPERTY(), and if you have coded in C++ before, you probably haven't seen such a thing in regular C++. In the Unreal Engine editor in the bottom right corner press compile button.Also, if sometimes you compile your code, but it seems that it haven't updated in editor, you might want to close your Unreal Engine editor, compile code in IDE and then open Unreal Engine again. So let's use that for our compiling needs. I had better success rate with Unreal Engine reloading newly compiled code by using Unreal Engine 5 editor compile button.

There are few ways how to do it, we can either build it from our IDE or click the Recompile button in Unreal Engine 5 editor. Now we can try to compile our code and see if it will compile with a first try or it will have some errors.

If you have a question about why pawn class starts with letter A and static mesh component class starts with the letter U, you can read more about that here (if this link is not working anymore, just google 'Gameplay Classes Unreal Engine' and you should be able to find a link to the new documentation page). In the code, we can see that we are creating a new static mesh component and then making it the root component of our pawn.

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