Player reference device used for animations doesn't validate anymore

Summary

Old player reference device from creative 1.0 used to animate players’ characters doesn’t validate anymore since update 39.0 when trying to launch a session. This might be intended as it’s not really an official way to do it but breaks many popular existing maps.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Steps to Reproduce

  • Copy and paste (Ctrl+V) text from this notepad file into an empty UEFN project : files - Google Drive
  • press to launch a session
  • validation errors pops up

Expected Result

After pressing to launch session validation errors don’t appear.

Observed Result

Player reference device works as intended.

Platform(s)

PC

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PlayerRefValidationError.png

FORT-1026761 has been created and its status is ‘Unconfirmed’. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.