No current map error in movie pipleline render

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Hi, I’ve tried to follow this tutorial https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.2/en-US/movie-render-queue-in-runtime-in-unreal-engine/ to render a move using an editor utility widget.

I get the following error:

LogMovieRenderPipeline: Warning: Unable to start movie pipeline job. No current map.

I assume it’s something to do with me doing this via a utility widget but I don’t have much experience in UE5 so don’t know how to fix it.

I can render the sequence manually without a problem. I want to do this via a blueprint because I want to add some functionality to save some per frame information, and my plan was to open a file, start the render, and have an event outputting the additional data, and then close the file at the end of the render.

Can anyone help? Thanks

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Did you find a solution to this? I’m having the same issue.

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I believe the Blueprint pipeline for this is broken.
If I create a Python script to call the render where I set the map of the job like this:

job = queue.allocate_new_job()
job.set_editor_property('map', unreal.SoftObjectPath(MAP_PATH))
job.set_editor_property('sequence', unreal.SoftObjectPath(LEVEL_SEQUENCE_PATH))

It works!

However, doing the same in Blueprints I continue to get the ‘No current map’ error.

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Map path and Sequence path are the same for both Blueprints and Python versions, of course.

The complete error for the Blueprint version is:
Warning: Unable to start movie pipeline job. No current map.

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@here
Hi everyone.

I ran across this issue too. Turns out the “current map” means the gameplay-time map. So the logic will work if triggered from withing the game-time, not editor-time. It’s a bit frustrating as it makes it more fiddly when you want to script this using some editor utility widgets or something like that, but it works.

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I’m really new to the process, so I’m sorry in advance if this is something too advanced for me. Trying to set up a batch render tool for work and following this same tutorial. Could you explain how you would edit the tutorial to work in an editor utility widget?

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This is what I ended up doing to find the current loaded world

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