Why receiver on custom events and not sender?

[sinzer0Participant]

I often find myself needing to get the sender of a custom event, but as far as I can tell that is not possible without passing the gameobject with the event.

Why is receiver exposed when receiver is always the same as self in the graph that receives the event? As far as I can tell.

For example I have to pass the game object that sent the event if I need to get access to it’s blackboard etc (see the attached image).

It would be nice to have the sender of an event available by default without having to use the event parameter for the sender.

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[GavalakisKeymaster]

Hey,

In case the “Target Mode” of the event node, is set to “Single Target”, then indeed the receiver is itself, but in case it is set to “Mutliple Targets”, the receiver is different. Having said that, also having an output port with the “Sender” is obviously a good idea.
I will add this in for the next version.

Thanks!

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