Folder names impossible

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Summary

Hello forum,

you can not have those folder names within your sharedassets folder:
material
mesh
texture

Because they seem to be reserved by the system. I was getting those errors:
C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/UnrealEditorFortnite/Saved/VerseProject/MyProject/Assets/MyProject/MyProject.assets.verse(3,61, 3,69) : Script error 3588: Ambiguous identifier; could be myname@fortnite.com.MyProject.MyLevel_sharedassets.material or Verse.org.Assets.material
Script error 3588: Ambiguous identifier; could be myname@fortnite.com.MyProject.MyLevel_sharedassets.mesh or Verse.org.Assets.mesh
Script error 3588: Ambiguous identifier; could be myname@fortnite.com.MyProject.MyLevel_sharedassets.texture or Verse.org.Assets.texture
The assets digest could not be generated. Please ensure that your imported assets do not have names that clash with existing Verse symbols.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

UI/Tools

Steps to Reproduce

  • create a new map
  • create a folder named material in “All/MyProject Content/MyLevel_sharedassets”
  • Import an asset into that folder (I’ve used an *.obj file with drag and drop)
  • Errors occur

Expected Result

No errors occur.

Observed Result

C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/UnrealEditorFortnite/Saved/VerseProject/MyProject/Assets/MyProject/MyProject.assets.verse(3,61, 3,69) : Script error 3588: Ambiguous identifier; could be myname@fortnite.com.MyProject.MyLevel_sharedassets.material or Verse.org.Assets.material
Script error 3588: Ambiguous identifier; could be myname@fortnite.com.MyProject.MyLevel_sharedassets.mesh or Verse.org.Assets.mesh
Script error 3588: Ambiguous identifier; could be myname@fortnite.com.MyProject.MyLevel_sharedassets.texture or Verse.org.Assets.texture
The assets digest could not be generated. Please ensure that your imported assets do not have names that clash with existing Verse symbols.

Platform(s)

PC (Windows 11)

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This is probably intentional, As “material”,“mesh” and “texture” are words used by verse to refer to the asset types and thus cant be used (Similarly how you just cant make a variable named int or string)

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Thanks for the info.
It would be an easy thing for the devs to prohibit the user from creating folders with a reserved name and it would have saved me a lot of time.