Renaming an asset is hell...

[kakyoism]

DarkS474 Thanks for the pointer. So I figured the correct workflow would be:

- Rename an asset;
- Run the project-wise command: UE4Editor.exe...

[kakyoism]

Alright, figured it out. I should've used high-level API EditorAssetLibrary instead of the low-level
AssetRegistryHelpers

[kakyoism]

Spent probably 2 whole days on this topic, and digged very deep into the API doc, but still couldn't get asset renaming working with the Epic Python Scripting...

[kakyoism]

so I found a faint clue:

unreal.AssetData.is_redirector()

tells me that redirector is an asset itself. However, this makes...

[kakyoism]

HappyTank2 have you tried

 unreal.AssetTools.rename_assets()

and

unreal.AssetRenameData

.

I haven't, but they look promising. Nothing is mentioned...

[kakyoism]

+1. I have the same question.

[kakyoism]

For the CLI solution, it should be

 /path/to/UE4Editor-Cmd.exe /path/to/my.uproject -run=pythonscript -script="/path/to/my_script.py"

[kakyoism]

Found it myself.

Learned from this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9UlyVtD5Dk

import unreal as ue

...

[kakyoism]

The posts I found on importing with Python seem to all use the stock asset factories that UE Python API offers. I've seen:

https://forum...

[kakyoism]

Found it myself.
The location is on the StaticMeshComponent of the StaticMeshActor, which is retrieved with:

actor.get_editor_pro...