How to get disk or SourceControl path from an asset's game path (Blueprint or python)

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Hi,

I’ve got an asset path (‘/Game/…’) and I want to convert it to the SourceControl depot path (‘//…/Content/…’) or at least to the local path (on my local disk).
I’ve not found anything in Paths or SourceControl documentation.

I could do something like this :
game_asset_path.replace(‘/Game/’, unreal.Paths.project_content_dir())

but the file extension is different between the asset (‘my_asset_name.my_asset_name’) and the file (‘my_asset_name.uasset’) so I can’t deduce it from it.

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Hello! You can try this

  • let path will be asset path
  • if path contains “.” then take part to the left of it (throw away dot itself also)
  • add proj prefix to path

That should be it…

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Thanks for the reply, but if I want to perform operations on my local file, I need its full path, extension included.
Currently I assume it’s a .uasset and I’m doing what you suggest + adding ‘.uasset’ at the end of the full_path.
But if a user calls this function to query a level file path, then it’s not valid as level files extensions are ‘.umap’.

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At the moment I dont find if there is common way to get .tail part from assets… Even in plugin copy code they use just a list of cases as strings… it seems that there is no common and easy way to get that… As for practical thing - you can just collect all existing .tails and create simple replcaer for them

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You are looking for get_system_path function from SystemLibrary unreal.SystemLibrary — Unreal Python 4.27 (Experimental) documentation

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dont know if this is the right thing

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You get the asset import data property from the object property then you put it into a asset import data cast (ex: FBX) and then get the filename function from the cast, and there you have it

Asset import types:

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Really Helpful! In Blueprint, you can use Unreal Engine API Reference | Unreal Engine 4.27 Documentation