Hi everyone, I have built some game lobby with triggers and features into a specific world. I would like to copy/paste that lobby, features and game rules to another island. Is it possible and how can I do that through UE for fortnite?
Yes! You can copy assets between projects (e.g. a mesh, a material, a map). But it isn’t as straight forward in UEFN as it would be in a standard UE project (UEFN lacks the Migrate feature standard UE has).
You’ll need to move some files around in your file explorer. Start by finding the project you want to grab an asset from (my projects saved to ‘C:\Users[Username]\Documents\Fortnite Projects’ by default). UEFN project files are structured differently than UE files, but we can still find the ones we need. Open your project’s folder, then the “Plugins” folder, then another folder with the name of your project, then a “Content” folder. Your filepath should look like:
‘C:\Users[Username]\Documents\Fortnite Projects\MyProject\Plugins\MyProject\Content’
Everything you can access in your content browser in the editor is stored here. Find your asset (.uasset or .umap), copy, and navigate to the Content folder of your second project and paste.
In the case of your lobby, things might get hairy. While you can’t copy and paste an assembly of objects placed in a level from one project to another, you can copy and paste an entire level (.umap), and copy the assembly from that level and paste it into your new level.
Hopefully this will do what you need!
Thanks a lot for your quick support.
Actually using your terms, I do need to copy/past an assembly of objects (more than a hundred). First I tried to gather them into a single repository thinking it would be easier to retrieve files in the content of my project. But its seems that UEFN store all objects into a lot of different repositories in my project content (and non human readable name of repositories).
So I reckon, is my best chance to wait Epic to implement the copy/paste of a set of objects from one level of a project to a level of another project?