Summary
All character modifiers stripped from all (hundreds of) NPC Spawners
Nevarro map, so as you know one character modifier is used and cosmetics (and for some NPC’s, 1 or 2 other modifiers, I assume team index for guards) are hand-applied to each of the NPC’s. It is a huge setback and an unreasonable amount of work to repair, I’m assuming by deleting them and copy/pasting ones from a fresh instance of the map, although beyond being a lot I have concerns that would cause issues with event bindings. I can’t simply revert the unauthorized changes with Lore without reverting all my legitimate work either.
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
AI
Steps to Reproduce
Edit Nevarro map. I can’t tell what triggered this. The only action I performed on any of the NPC’s was transforming them along one horizontal axis, in bulk.
Expected Result
Character modifiers stick and don’t get stripped for no reason.
When things like this happen, a verbose error flagging dialogue would be ideal.
An extra ask would be these modifiers being somehow made the defaults on these IP template maps so users can at least just mass-select and reset to map-default vs Fn-default. Not sure if the engine provides for such, at the moment.
Observed Result
Character modifiers do not stick and do get stripped for no reason. Happens to all NPC’s all at once, all modifiers, consistently. This has happened every time not long into editing a fresh version of Nevarro.
It doesn’t tell users anything about the modifiers being stripped until it’s asking them to save the destruction, no proactive flagging or dialogues or anything, if the editor even is following what’s going on.
The modifiers are still there, but values blanked. Character definitions are in-tact.
Affects Versions
5.8
Platform(s)
Windows
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Additional Notes
Hundreds of errors all show up in log at once with no explanation, following this same pattern:
AssetCheck: Error: [AssetLog] /NevarroFresh17Jul26/NevarroFresh17Jul26 : NPC Spawner73: Missing character modifier
AssetCheck: Error: [AssetLog] /NevarroFresh17Jul26/NevarroFresh17Jul26 : NPC Spawner69: Missing character modifier
etc