Tutorial Sit Yourself Down, Take A Seat, All You Gotta Do Is Repeat After Me (a Passenger Seating Tutorial)

Hey everyone, so I guess I promised you all a tutorial on passenger seating. here's part 1!

Note: This tutorial series will assume that you have already created the basic setup for a Rail Vehicle, as outlined in part of @Martin_TSP 's useful Guide here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I6AABG0TIIS1Cg8ccXWzTYYGaO0qEKlRZkqkCABI1M0/edit?usp=sharing​

Part 1 - The Required Blueprint Components

In your RVM, you will need to add the following components:

• An InteractionEnvironmentComponent

This component tells TSW that interactions can take place in part of your Rail Vehicle, not sure why it's needed, probably to make rolling stock more computationally manageable. I named mine "PassengerEnvironment."
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• A SeatManagerComponent

This is what manages the seating in the general sense. Here you will add references to your individual seats, as I will discuss in later parts of this tutorial.
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In your RVV, you will need to add the following components:

• A MultiSeatComponent

This component stores information about specific seats, including the hitboxes that prompt the player to "take a seat." (The prompt is customizable, by the way, that's why mine says "Grab a seat.")
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• A HierarchicalInstancedStaticMeshComponent

Here is where you provide the static meshes you want to use for the seats, and their locations. Using separate static mesh components would probably work, I just haven't tried it as i don't see the point.
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• An InteractionEnvironmentCameraComponent

This is the camera that the game uses while you are interacting with the seat.​

Well, that's it for part 1 of the tutorial, part 2 will detail the setup of the components, when I get to it in a day or two. Feel free to test things out in the meantime!

p.s. I hope no one minds the Jackson Five lyrics in the title; I couldn't resist!