Preview of blueprint's inherited mesh component in Content Browser

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I have “Weapon” class and child classes “Axe 1”, “Axe 2”, “Sword”, etc.
“Weapon” class has variable “WeaponModel”, which is set to StaticMeshComponent in construction script. This way in every child class (every weapon) i can set it’s model in Defaults tab. It’s working fine, but weapons created this way have no preview in Content Browser :frowning:
In Components tab it’s ok, selected mesh is visible, but it doesn’t appear in blueprint thumbnail. Is there any way to fix it?

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Bump ^^ It’s rather cosmetic problem, but showing model preview in thumbnails is helpful when you have more items.

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Hi Slavq,

Thank you for the feedback. I see how this could be handy to have, so I’ve entered it as a Feature Request in our system.

Please keep in mind that Feature Request’s aren’t guaranteed to make it into the editor but our developers will be looking into it further.

Cheers,

TJ

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Yes please add this feature! It has been really frustrated as we have so many child blueprint that need to be identified in a quick glance to speed up workflow. Thanks.

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bump it would be really great if this could be fixed/implemented! :slight_smile:

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The more assets I have, the more I feel a need for this feature :slight_smile: