Dragging a texture from content browser no longer creates material

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Summary

Yesterday dragging a texture onto a plane would automatically create the material. Today that has been disabled.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Get texture from content drawer
  2. Drag it onto plane

Expected Result

Material automatically created and applied to plane

Observed Result

Drop operation is unsupported

Platform(s)

UEFN

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J’ai exactement le même problème. Selon Epic Games, ils ont renforcé les règles de dépôt de textures, alors que nos textures respectent pourtant les critères.

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I have the same issue

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Same issue here and I can’t drag materials onto anything anymore as well.

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I should have an updated on this soon.

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FORT-1039151’s status has changed to ‘Ready for QA’. A member of the QA department is investigating the issue.

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i JUST started back doing this, and i updated it yesterday, now my textures are saying “drop operation is unsupported” even though i was doing it RIGHT before i updated :frowning: ima need a fix for this asap haha

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Having the same issue