Summary
Working in Scene Graph, we are often presented with the yellow exclamation icon next to Entities that have had variables renamed or deleted on their components in Verse. Sometimes we are able to click on the icon and use the Data Recovery Tool to resolve issues. However, most of the time nothing happens on click.
The DRT is awesome and we’d love it to work consistently (or understand why it’s unavailable in a lot of instances).
Please select what you are reporting on:
Unreal Editor for Fortnite
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Assets
Steps to Reproduce
Add an entity to the scene. Add a custom component with a few variables and functions. Compile the project. Modify a few of the variable names and compile the project again. You’ll see a warning that says “This entity or its components have saved data that doesn’t match its current properties. You may re-add those properties to your verse code to recover the lost data.”. Sometimes this will be accompanied by an option to use the data recovery tool to reassign values. Most of the time this button is not available though.
Expected Result
If I see a yellow exclamation, there should always be a clear way to understand and fix the issue.
Observed Result
I do not know what I’ve changed that’s causing the issue most of the time. Without access to the DRT, I cannot easily fix the issue. This gets exacerbated on larger projects with lots of components that change.
Platform(s)
PC