Destroying an Actor using Destroy and a Timer

This recipe will reuse the GameMode from the previous recipe, Instantiating an Actor using SpawnActor, so you should complete that recipe first.

How to do it...

1. Make the following changes to the GameMode declaration:

UCLASS()
class CHAPTER_04_API AUECookbookGameModeBase : public AGameModeBase
{
  GENERATED_BODY()

public:
  virtual void BeginPlay() override; 

  UPROPERTY() 
  AMyFirstActor* SpawnedActor; 

  UFUNCTION() 
  void DestroyActorFunction(); 
};

2. Add #include "MyFirstActor.h" to the implementation file's include statements. Remember, we need to place it above the .generated file:

#pragma once

#include "CoreMinimal.h"
#include "GameFramework/GameModeBase...