Custom asset doesn't show up when creating via Content Browser despite Factory set up

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Hey. I’m currently doing some research into custom assets and editors in UE4 and I’ve been stopped at the very beginning of my path there. As there’s very little up-to-date documentation/tutorials online, I’m hoping someone here can help me. Basically I’ve created the asset class inheriting from UObject, I’ve created factory for it, setup seems very similar to other, built-in asset types, but my class doesn’t appear in Context Menu under Misccellaneous, as it should, from what the tutorial I’m following states. I even tried copying the exact code from the tutorial to no effect neither… Following are my code files:

MyCustomAsset.h:

#pragma once

#include "CoreMinimal.h"
#include "UObject/NoExportTypes.h"
#include "MyCustomAsset.generated.h"

/**
 * 
 */
UCLASS(BlueprintType, hidecategories = (Object))
class QUESTSYSTEM_API UMyCustomAsset : public UObject
{
    GENERATED_BODY()

protected:
    UPROPERTY(VisibleAnywhere, Category = MyCustomAsset)
    FString Description;

    UPROPERTY(VisibleAnywhere, Category = MyCustomAsset)
    bool bIsActive;
};

It has nothing in its .cpp.

MyCustomAssetFactory.h:

#pragma once

#include "CoreMinimal.h"
#include "Factories/Factory.h"
#include "MyCustomAssetFactory.generated.h"

/**
 * 
 */
UCLASS()
class QUESTSYSTEM_API UMyCustomAssetFactory : public UFactory
{
    GENERATED_BODY()

public:

    UMyCustomAssetFactory(const FObjectInitializer& ObjectInitializer);

    virtual UObject* FactoryCreateNew(UClass* InClass, UObject* InParent, FName InName, EObjectFlags Flags, UObject* Context, FFeedbackContext* Warn, FName CallingContext) override;

    bool ShouldShowInNewMenu() const override;
};

MyCustomAssetFactory.cpp:

#include "MyCustomAssetFactory.h"
#include "MyCustomAsset.h"

UMyCustomAssetFactory::UMyCustomAssetFactory(const FObjectInitializer& ObjectInitializer) : Super(ObjectInitializer)
{
    SupportedClass = UMyCustomAsset::StaticClass();
    bCreateNew = true;
    bEditAfterNew = true;   
}

UObject* UMyCustomAssetFactory::FactoryCreateNew(UClass* InClass, UObject* InParent, FName InName, EObjectFlags Flags, UObject* Context, FFeedbackContext* Warn, FName CallingContext)
{
    UMyCustomAsset* MyCustomAsset = NewObject<UMyCustomAsset>(InParent, InClass, InName, Flags);
    return MyCustomAsset;
}

bool UMyCustomAssetFactory::ShouldShowInNewMenu() const
{
    return true;
}

Does anyone have any idea why it doesn’t show up?

2

Ok so I’ve managed to solve this. Turns out the solution is simple - I needed to create an AssetActions class that defines the actions for this asset and then register the action in the module.

3

Can you like, post the code you added to get this to work?

4

Did you figure it out?