[Easy]Missing Substance Plug In

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Hi there,

Im packing my game with some substance textures, within the editor everything works fine even stand alone runs fine, but when i package it and try to execute(win32) it show some error related that substance pluging wasnt found,so i copy manually the plugin to the my project folder but the problem persist.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi ,

Does your game have any C++ code or is it all done with blueprint? If it’s done with blueprint you will need to add a blank C++ file (Add code to project in UE4 Editor). This is so the Unreal Build Tool knows you need to compile the Substance plugin into your game.

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Yeah its all in blueprints, so just adding a blank c++ project will make unreal to compile the dependecis? Thanks ill try.

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Hi there,
I was able to add a blank class to my project, then i restarted the editor and it recompile the project, but when im packaging im getting this error:
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Windows (32-bit)): UnrealBuildTool: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file ‘C:\Program Files\Unreal Engine\4.4\Engine\Plugins\Substance\Binaries\Win32\SubstanceCore-Win32-Shipping-Static.lib’
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Windows (32-bit)): RunUAT.bat ERROR: AutomationTool was unable to run successfully. Im on 4.4.3.

If i disable the substance plug it package normally but a i cant use any substance textures.

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Interesting. Do you have visual studio 2013 installed?

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Yes, profesional version.

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Okay . Perhaps an alternative method we can try:

  • Right click on your uproject file and click on “Generate Visual Studio Project Files”
  • Open the YourProject.sln (where YourProject is the name of your UE4 Project)
  • Set the configuration to shipping
  • Compile

If you get no errors or warnings doing this, then try to package the build in UE4 as normal. I have found in the past that UE4 sometimes gets confused when compiling code in the editor, so I often compile it in Visual Studio and just let UE4 package the build.

Keep me posted!

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Error :frowning:

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you there, sorry for the pushing but in need to know if i can be able to use substance for my next project. Thanks!

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Hi !

No worries on the pushing, I want this to work for you also! Would you be able to email me at ? This way I can get you more rapid support and if needed exchange details on computer configuration, etc. Once we find the solution I can post in this thread for others :wink:

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Ok!

Thanks.

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Hello,

I haven’t received an email from you but I was wondering if you had tried the 4.4.3.0 plugin release and if so, how it was going. Thanks!

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I have a similar problem ( Error 61 error LNK1181: cannot open input file ‘C:\Program Files\Unreal Engine\4.6\Engine\Binaries\Win32\UE4Game-Redist-DesktopPlatform-Win32-Shipping.lib’ ) except that I’m using UE 4.6 preview (with substance 4.6). Everything in the editor works fine but it seems that Substance (packaging a project was perfect before adding the Substance plugin) needs the DesktoPlatofrm module even in the release (shipping) build. My project is a full c++ project btw.

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Hi ,

I’ve updated the github 4.6 branch with a hotfix for your issue. Let me know how it goes!

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Hi ,
it now works great! Thank you and sorry for having posted the same question on two different forums (after posting I realized that maybe this thread was dead).

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If Problem persist, just go to …\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\Substance\Libs and copy release folder to same location and rename it to Debug