Hi people!
I have an external middleware that generates a bunch of binaries and metadata spanned across a somewhat rigid directory hierarchy. I want to set up a pipeline where those files would be auto-converted into .uassets whenever the middleware creates new files or modifies existing.
I’m checking UFactory now but cannot make it do what I need.
My goal is to create or modify a .uasset each time a pair of binary-metadata files are regenerated by the middlewhare, e.g. SomeObject.bin and SomeObject.json should together create SomeObject.uasset. However, UFactory import is triggered on a per-file basis, and for .json, a default factory is invoked.
I tried the following with no luck:
- Giving my custom factory a very high priority with hopes of it taking precedence over the default .json factory.
- Overriding
FactoryCanImport()method so that my factory would only process specific directories - to be honest, this method is either broken or works under specific circumstances, I haven’t figured it out completely yet. - Rreading both API and sources, couldn’t find a way to implement this.
Is there no way to set up an automatic pipeline which imports several external files into a single .uasset, like many-to-one mappings? Or should I look elsewhere, not in UFactory?