Instance Tool - Editing instances directly in editor viewport

[Nate]

@RodenHirata;746186

1. I came across the mirrored asset bug which is mentioned earlier, I assume this is not fixed yet in UE? The shadows etc were still being cast, but the asset appeared invisible/glitched for some reason.

As far as i know that the bug hasn’t been fixed yet. The workaround is that either avoid using mirrored asset with instancing or create an new HISMA for all mirrored assets (with mirror apply on HISMA but not instanced meshes).

2. The names/labels/tagging of the assets is a little confusing at first, so I wasn’t sure what I was working with after a while - as far as I can tell, by default (most use cases), when you instance an actor, the original actor’s rendering is turned off and it’s then moved into the source actors folder. And then when you convert the instance back into an actor, it doesn’t use the original actor but creates a new copy that is placed in converted and that one can also be manipulated directly with your plugin tool. Something like that…?

3. Is there a way to easily ungroup instances into new groups or something? When I first used the tool, I just selected a bunch of stuff in the outliner to convert into instances, but then later realized I didn’t like how they were grouped/was difficult to work with/move around. And then I kind of made a mess with converting stuff (as in point 2), but no worries I’ll get used to it…

It seems that part of the confusion comes from the fact the naming of converted actor is generated and hard to find in the scene outliner. I’ll add option to let user specific the naming of converted actors in future update.

4. A lot of walls/assets have a dashed seam inbetween instances… any idea how to fix these? The attached screenshot shows HISMA instances at the top (with the seam) and the bottom parts are actors which appear fine. I’d be really happy to know what is causing this.

It’s a renderer issue, log within UE-17458: Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (UE-17458). It’s current status is “Backlogged” so probably won’t be fixed in official release anytime soon. I fixed that in my own repository and will submit it to Epic as a pull request soon.