Imported assets get renamed

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Summary

When importing a static mesh it gets renamed to an existing asset, with the engine asking weather or not to overwrite that asset.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

Create and import a mesh , in my case SM_rock_cube.
Create and import a second version, for example SM_rock_cube_A

Expected Result

The second rock with a different name should be added to the project.

Observed Result

UEFN says “asset already exists, do you want to overwrite it?”

Platform(s)

Windows 11

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I should mention that that rock is also used as foliage, in case that causes the conflict.

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Could the file you are importing also importing other assets with it maybe? like textures etc that use the same name? I’m not sure what could be the causer

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No, I have the option to import materials and textures disabled. I take from your question that you can’t reproduce this effect?

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What file type is the assets you want to import?
.fbx .obj?
I’ll try to repro

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Fbx, created in ZBrush, imported as static mesh. Thanks for looking into this!

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Hi @Mineblo ,

So I just imported another rock, SM_Rock_rotated_cube.fbx into the folder containing SM_Rock_cube, and now there is no conflict. It’s a little embarrassing, but that overwrite conflict was happening all day long, that’s why I created a ticket. Sorry if wasted anyone’s time.

This case can be closed I guess.

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