Summary
When an editable component data field references a concrete entity from the scene or maybe even the prefab graph and such entity gets deleted, the editor does not remove the references automatically. Instead it keeps the deleted entities around and prefixes those with TRASH_*. If the same reference was used many many times, the editor will make it really hard to debug this problem and to find where such trashed entity is still around.
Please select what you are reporting on:
Unreal Editor for Fortnite
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Stability
Steps to Reproduce
test_component := class<final_super>(component) {
@editable
SomeEntity: entity
}
- Place two entities into the scene
- Add the above component on one of these entities
- Link / reference the other entity with the editable field
- Delete the referenced entity from the scene
- The reference will now become
TRASH_*
Expected Result
The editor should automatically remove the references and flag the fields as not being initialized!
Observed Result
The editor silently keeps a trashed reference which will create errors in the project that are hard to catch, debug and fix.
Platform(s)
UEFN