UE Actor-Component Architecture

Target engine: UE 5.8. APIs below are verified against the 5.8 headers; older forms are listed under "Deprecated — do not use".

Build actors out of components: lifecycle hooks in the right order, spawning (immediate, deferred, pooled), component creation and attachment, ticking, and C++ interfaces. Everything here is in the Engine module (GameFramework/Actor.h, Components/ActorComponent.h, Components/SceneComponent.h, Engine/World.h) on top of CoreUObject; a game module's Build.cs needs "Core", "CoreUObject", "Engine".

Context

Read .agents/ue-project-context.md if it exists (module names, conventions, enabled plugins, GAS/networking setup). Do not stop if it is missing.

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