Engine files in wrong location when packaging

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I’m using UE 4.14 built from the GitHub sources and packaging my game for Windows 64-bit.

Packaging finishes without errors but some files end up in WindowsNoEditor/<MyGame>/Editor/Engine instead of WindowsNoEditor/Engine.

The game works when I move those files to the correct location but that’s obviously just a workaround, I’d like to know what’s causing this problem.

I haven’t tried packaging the game for a long time but it definitely worked correctly with UE 4.12.

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I found what’s causing this problem in Source\Programs\AutomationTool\AutomationUtils\DeploymentContext.cs.

The way paths are determined to be project relative or engine relative is by checking if they start with either ProjectRoot or LocalRoot.

In my case ProjectRoot is H:&lt;MyGame> and LocalRoot is H:&lt;MyGame>Editor.

Both start with H:&lt;MyGame> therefore the engine files are assumed to be project files and end up in the wrong directory.

Renaming the editor’s directory so it doesn’t start with the project name is a workaround for now but this definitely should get fixed.