Overriding SAssetView::GetThumbnailScale()

Development Pipeline & Plugins
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How would I go about properly overriding an engine function?

Specifically SAssetView::GetThumbnailScale(). It’s an extremely simple private function under the SAssetView class that decides the thumbnail size of the content browser’s contents.
This widget is what controls the ThumbnailSize enum that is then switched into a float via GetThumbnailScale:

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This is what the function looks like:

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This is the private declaration:
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Using Unreal source code I know this is all I need to change, but I’m not sure how to change it outside of source.

Thanks.

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@rokenrock did you ever figure out the answer to this?

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Sadly, I could never figure out how to do this without source. I did implement it myself in source, and it worked nicely.
It seems that 8 months later, 5.5 released with this. I’m not at all sure how to enable it though.
It’s blocked behind a predefined macro: UE_CONTENTBROWSER_NEW_STYLE

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That’s a shame. I am curious whether or not a plugin can overwrite existing functions or classes in the editor. My guess is probably not given how much work they have put into making the editor extendable.