Aaand this was a bad idea… I’ve literally collapsed my whole project by doing so. It started showing different errors instead of opening. Yes, I am dumb. But we all make mistakes. At least after I brought back the original names back to where I changed them, I somehow fixed everything, except for one thing. The project started getting validation errors or smth llike that, so I wasn’t able to launch a game with those. Only with the help of the error log I somehow figured out, that in that txt file I had to change some id, that for some reason changed when I changed names. (Idk how to better explain this).
Anyway. After nearly losing my whole project and finding 0 solution to how to change the name of it, I am now here. Seeking for any info about this, cause I didn’t find a single mentioning about how to do it or if it is even possible. (I only found some guide about how to change an Unreal Engine project name, but those differ).
I guess some people might have gotten in a same situation, when they just didn’t think about naming their project, when they first created it and are left with “MyProject”.
I didn’t think about proper name for my project too. But instead called it by some other game’s name, as the gamemode in the project was inspired by that game. Now, when I am on a finish line, of course I am thinking of a name for this project. But found out, that I have no idea how to get rid of the old name being mentioned.
This naming issue definetely needs some guide. Or if it is impossible to fully rename your project, it needs to be addressed better.
Can someone plz help address this ? I’m getting validation errors due to a project name moderation given my project file names are “HellGate” but the actual display name is “Get Out” and project has been live for 2 years.
Did someone bother checkign if project file names is even possible before putting this nonsense moderation ? Players don’t even see the project file names… plz help as literally can’t do anything to my game
Woah… They do moderate file names, without letting you to change them… Epic being Epic. Again. Tbh something has to be done with that. ESPECIALLY if they moderate thing like FILE NAMES.
Before doing anything backup your project files just to be safe (I believe this breaks Unreal Revision Control so do the old method of just copying and pasting the folder of the project i guess)
Go to your Projects Folder And Find the .uefnproject file, rename the file to an appropriate name that abides the guidelines.
After that you will need to manually open the file in UEFN next time so just press the Browse… button in the project selector and manually find your project file.
That should fix the error from showing even after changing the project name, I’d still recommend avoiding using the word hell in anything that user’s might see in the map just to be on the safe side. Also Do not try to change the name on your World and Plugin as that might corrupt/break your project
If I am not mistaken this is the exact way I broke my whole project in the first place. Oh dаmn… I wish they made it so you could rename your project without getting into the files and code.
Your project would have been broken if you messed with the
.uplugin files which you should Not rename or touch, you should only rename the .uefnproject file and the name inside it to change the name if it’s getting denied for having an inappropriate name
