How to get reference to selected assets in content browser?

Stephane_Roncada · December 13, 2016, 9:01pm

Hi all,
I want to get a reference to a selected asset in the Content Browser, not a selected actor in the World Outliner.
Is there a way to do that in Blueprints, or do I need to write a custom c++ function?

I need to mass-assign a material to selected Static Mesh Actors in the Content Browser, but the Bulk Property Matrix doesn’t have a Material setting, so I want to create a blutility that lets me do that.

Thanks in advance for your help!

TroJanVirusLive · December 13, 2016, 9:05pm

You should be able to simply create a custom variable for your asset in the graph for your static meshes then simply use that variable where it’s needed.
Have you tried doing that?

TroJanVirusLive · December 13, 2016, 9:07pm

Just to reiterate, this documentation should hopefully help you:

Stephane_Roncada · December 13, 2016, 9:57pm

Hey TrojanVirus,
thanks for the reply and suggestions.

I need to assign a material to all selected assets in the Content Browser, so creating a custom array variable isn’t ideal, as I would have to assign each asset I want to update 1 by 1 to the array. There is a Blueprint function called GetSelectionSet, which returns an array of all selected Actors in the Editor/World Outliner, but I need to return all selected Assets from the Content Browser instead.

Any other suggestions?

TroJanVirusLive · December 13, 2016, 10:29pm

I don’t know of a specific node that does this. How many assets are we talking here? Sounds like a lot.

TroJanVirusLive · December 13, 2016, 10:32pm

Here’s a thread that appears to be similar to what you’re trying to do:

It looks like C++ is required.

Stephane_Roncada · December 14, 2016, 4:46pm

Thanks for your help Trojan, I’m looking into the links you posted

duke22 · August 16, 2017, 5:02am

GEditor->GetSelectedObjects() I think.

Ville_Nurmi · July 10, 2018, 11:15am

This gives you all the selected assets:

    TArray&lt;FAssetData&gt; AssetDatas;
    FContentBrowserModule& ContentBrowserModule = FModuleManager::LoadModuleChecked&lt;FContentBrowserModule&gt;("ContentBrowser");
    IContentBrowserSingleton& ContentBrowserSingleton = ContentBrowserModule.Get();
    ContentBrowserSingleton.GetSelectedAssets(AssetDatas);

The problem with GEditor->GetSelectedObjects() is that it doesn’t include assets that haven’t been loaded yet, even if they are selected in the GUI.

JediKnightChan · September 18, 2022, 7:07pm

#include "ContentBrowserModule.h"
#include "IContentBrowserSingleton.h"

TArray<FAssetData> OutSelectedAssets;
	FContentBrowserModule& ContentBrowserModule = FModuleManager::LoadModuleChecked<FContentBrowserModule>("ContentBrowser");
	IContentBrowserSingleton& ContentBrowserSingleton = ContentBrowserModule.Get();
	ContentBrowserSingleton.GetSelectedAssets(OutSelectedAssets);

UPO33 · March 5, 2024, 3:26pm

	TArray<FAssetData> SelectedAssets;
	IContentBrowserSingleton::Get().GetSelectedAssets(SelectedAssets);

Jotaid · August 3, 2024, 2:15pm

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