Gas cans working incorrectly.

Summary

Gas cans incorrectly convert into item-form when dropped from inventory. When “thrown” they drop properly but can no longer be picked up by the phone, do not save between edit sessions, cannot be viewed or seen in UEFN, and do not validate anymore in islands that do have them.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

World Building

Steps to Reproduce

Issue #1: Get a gas can from the content drawer in live edit, drop it from your inventory.

Issue #2: In UEFN, Search for “petrol can” in the content drawer. In live edit, get a gas can from the content drawer, “throw” it, try and pick it up with the phone.

Expected Result

Issue #1: The gas can should drop as an interactable physics prop in the world that can be blown up.

Issue #2: In UEFN, the gas can should be available as a prop/pick up to place into the world. In live edit, when placed it should be able to be selectable, it should be viewable in UEFN, should save between sessions, and should validate.

Observed Result

Issue #1: The gas can incorrectly drops in item form.

Issue #2: In UEFN, the gas can does not show up. In live edit, it now shows up orange and is unselectable, doesn’t save, and doesn’t validate.

Platform(s)

PC, PS5

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I get this issue may not be as important or interesting as some others but to get no reply even from the Epic bot is crazy :sob:

The status of FORT-1145967 changed to ‘Needs Triage’. We are routing this to the appropriate team for investigation.