Hello! I’ve encountered several problems, and can’t find the solution. So if somebody knows how to do it, please share your knowledge
How can i load the object knowing its path?
When using unreal.load_object(outer, name) - what does outer means (it returns an error if i’m trying to pass str path to the object in this arg)
unreal.AssetRegistry.get_all_assets() - awaits for some arg and the docs doesn’t saying anything about it
unreal.AssetRegistry.get_asset_by_object_path(object_path, include_only_on_disk_assets=False) - also returns an error if trying to pass str as object_path - TypeError: descriptor 'get_assets_by_object*_path’ requires a ‘AssetRegistry’ object but received a ‘str’*
so, outer is the class of the passing object, you can get in by using f.e.
from unreal import StaticMesh
unreal.load_object(StaticMesh.get_default_object(), loading_path)
As a newbie to coding for Unreal I’ve been struggling with some of this same stuff for the last few weeks. Hopefully I can save you some of the pain I went through :):
Try this instead:
unreal.load_asset(path_to_asset)
# Where *path_to_asset* would be something like:
path_to_asset = '/Game/SkeletalMeshes/Char1_Skeleton'
Instead of AssetRegistry, first use AssetRegistryHelpers to actually get the registry (I’m not sure I understand the logic but there you go):
asset_reg = unreal.AssetRegistryHelpers.get_asset_registry()
# Then you can "extract" the assets from the registry:
asset_reg.get_all_assets()
import unreal
editor_asset = unreal.EditorAssetLibrary()
# Search for an asset using a Path String such as
# '/Game/ProjectName/Maps/Sandbox/Sandbox_P.umap'
# Game is the "Content" folder in Python
# This will return an AssetData class that contains a lot of usefull methods
# Check here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/PythonAPI/class/AssetData.html?highlight=assetdata#unreal.AssetData
search_for_asset = editor_asset.find_asset_data('pathstring')
# Now you can call the get_asset() method and receive the object that you can poss on to other functions
asset_get = search_for_asset.get_asset()
# You can for instance rename the file now
editor_util = unreal.EditorUtilityLibrary()
editor_util.rename_asset(asset_get, 'newnamegoeshere')
