Duplicating verse devices with references

Summary

UPDATED EXPLANATION* since its very hard to describe this problem

Lets say Verse Device A has a array of objects XYZ Object XYZ holds a editable for a button. In Verse Device A, all objects XYZ have their buttons configured When you duplicate this device to create Verse Device B, the buttons will get mixed up across the obejcts in the array within this Verse Device. → One object can point to multiple buttons (even though there is only one editable) After duplicating, the affected editable slots will be permanently broken. Clearing them and setting up the buttons again manually doesn’t change anything. The only solution here is to add a new editable.

When duplicating a verse device and all the devices linked in it, the new verse device uses the new duplicated devices but also the original devices thats linked with the original verse device. If i duplicate verse device A linked with Button device A then i get Verse Device B with Button Device B. The problem is that Verse device B is linked with Button device A and B. Here is a video of my pop up being showed 3 times instead of once as its supposed to.

  • IMPORTANT NOTE here is that the new verse device displays its using the new and correct values even tho its affecting the old devices.

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Creative

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

Duplicate
Test
Linked with original verse device references

Expected Result

The new Verse device to only be linked with the duplicated values/devices and not be linked to the original stuff aswell. (only happens with devices)

Observed Result

The new verse device is using the original verse device “device-values” aswell as the new duplicated verse device stuff even tho it sais it uses the new ones.

Platform(s)

PC

Video

Thank you for reporting, the team is checking into this.

This looks like the bug I’ve also reported here, it’s a weird one indeed.
I’ve included detailed repro steps to help this get fixed as it’s also very problematic for us.

alr nice! Do you know if theres any progress yet? My whole verse device is mixed with itself rn

This bug is still not fixed making it impossible for me to do these actions without my map getting insanly screwed up

yeah its just screwing everyone with big verse systems over. Literally unbarable. Its been like this for months now…

This is a duplicate of some other posts and tickets, and I’ll post them here. It appears that this issue is scheduled to be addressed in 38.00.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/you-have-a-critical-error-with-copying-verse-devices-and-links-within-them/2658299
FORT-977231

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/bug-when-duplicating-a-verse-device-containing-an-array-of-device-references/2659054
FORT-978913

FORT-977739 has been ‘Closed’ as a duplicate of an existing known issue. Origin Issue: FORT-977231, Origin Topic: You have a critical error with copying Verse devices and links within them.