Find Directories function?

[ubunoir1]

I’m new to Unreal and blueprints. I need a way to get a list of all subdirectories in a given directory.

Find Files seems to only return files. Find Recursive almost works, but I only want folders from the given folder, not all the way down. I could probably filter the results to only what I need, but that seems like it could be quite slow if there are a lot of subdirectories. I feel like there must be a simple way to do this.

For background, I’m trying to build something like a 360 VR video player (but not exactly). I’ve got it working in a proof of concept way, but I need to give the user the ability to browse for, and select media files from their system to play. That means building a VR file browser, thus why I need this function.

Thanks!

[GabUECV]

I assume you are looking for blueprint based solution.

In that case, it seems it is not directly directly feasible with the default provided UE nodes (unless using the Find Recursive + filter solution).

Though, here is a few plugins which expose more complete Filesystem nodes:

• https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/blueprint-file-management
• https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/easy-file-system-plugin
• https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/blueprint-file-sdk
• https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/file-helper-bp-library (free)

This is just some examples, and some of them are even free. Note that I did not reviewed them, nor I am affiliated with any them. But I’m pretty sure I think you would find what you need in the Marketplace !

As a side note, implementing the functionality you need as a C++ utility function (exposed to BP) would be quite straightforward I think.

[ubunoir1]

Ohh, thanks! I’ll check those out first. I’ve been hesitant to try any c++, since I’m new to unreal and thought that learning my way around with blueprints might make for an easier starting point.