Custom animation node not working in standalone

Development Programming & Scripting C++
1

Hi everyone,
I’m having a problem with my custom animation node.
I followed this documentation to create it:

and this to create the custom editor module:

It’s all working, my animation node works and everything is cool when I play in editor, but when I play in standalone, it doesn’t work.

Can someone help me with this problem?

2

This is my configuration for the modules. It’s the first time I do this type of things, so if there is something stupid, please tell me :slight_smile:

MyGame.Build.cs



using UnrealBuildTool;

public class MyGame: ModuleRules
{
	public MyGame(TargetInfo Target)
	{
		PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(
          new string] {
            "Core",
            "CoreUObject",
            "Engine",
            "InputCore",
            "Landscape",
            "UMG",
            "Slate",
            "SlateCore",
            "AnimGraphRuntime"
        });

        if (UEBuildConfiguration.bBuildEditor == true)
        {
            PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(
                new string] {
                    "MyGameEditorExtension"
                }
            );
 
            CircularlyReferencedDependentModules.AddRange(
                new string] {
                    "MyGameEditorExtension",
                }
            );
        }
	}
}

MyGameEditorExtension.Build.cs



using UnrealBuildTool;
 
public class MyGameEditorExtension: ModuleRules
{
    public MyGameEditorExtension(TargetInfo Target)
    {

        PublicIncludePaths.AddRange(
                new string]{
                    "MyGameEditorExtension/Public"
            }
        );

        PrivateIncludePaths.AddRange(
                new string] {
                    "MyGameEditorExtension/Private"
            }
        );
        PublicDependencyModuleNames.Add("MyGame");


        PrivateIncludePaths.Add("EditorModule/Private");
 
        PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string] { "Core", "CoreUObject", "Engine", "InputCore", });
 
        PrivateDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string] { "UnrealEd", "BlueprintGraph", "AnimGraph", });
   
        PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(
             new string] {
                    "MyGame"
                }
        );
 
        CircularlyReferencedDependentModules.AddRange(
            new string] {
                    "MyGame",
                }
        );
    }
}

MyGame.Target.cs



...

public override void SetupBinaries(
		TargetInfo Target,
		ref List<UEBuildBinaryConfiguration> OutBuildBinaryConfigurations,
		ref List<string> OutExtraModuleNames
		)
	{
		OutExtraModuleNames.AddRange( new string] { "MyGame" } );

        if (UEBuildConfiguration.bBuildEditor)
        {
            OutExtraModuleNames.Add("MyGameEditorExtension");
        }
    }

...

MyGameEditor.Target.cs



...

public override void SetupBinaries(
		TargetInfo Target,
		ref List<UEBuildBinaryConfiguration> OutBuildBinaryConfigurations,
		ref List<string> OutExtraModuleNames
		)
	{
		OutExtraModuleNames.AddRange( new string] { "MyGame" } );
        OutExtraModuleNames.Add("MyGameEditorExtension");
    }

...
3

Ok, I solved it.

This was my .uproject module configuration:



"Modules": 
	{
		"Name": "MyGame",
		"Type": "Runtime",
		"LoadingPhase": "Default",
		"AdditionalDependencies": 
			"Engine",
			"CoreUObject"
		]
	},
	{
            "Name": "MyGameEditorExtension",
            "Type": "Editor",
            "LoadingPhase":  "PostEngineInit"
        }
	]

I have edited the type and the loading phase of my editor extension module:



"Modules": 
	{
		"Name": "MyGame",
		"Type": "Runtime",
		"LoadingPhase": "Default",
		"AdditionalDependencies": 
			"Engine",
			"CoreUObject"
		]
	},
	{
            "Name": "MyGameEditorExtension",
            "Type": "Runtime",
            "LoadingPhase":  "Default"
        }
	]
4

I had the same problem but wasn’t too happy to change my editor module to runtime.

Got some help from Epic, here is the solution:

“Editor modules need to be marked as “Developer” rather than “Editor” to run in Standalone.”

Changing the Type to “Developer” instead of “Runtime” should work too.

5

Oh this is why some developers have issues when they package “Development” builds; I actually only package in “Shipping” mode for test, so I don’t see the problems they have when they package a test build… Looks like I have some updates to do, add a “Developer” module for the people building in Development mode with custom nodes included and remove those nodes from “Editor” module :3