UEFN unable to find pre-cooked landscape material

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Summary

Hi all,

I ran into an issue with UEFN where I couldn’t undo a change to the Landscape Material in a Landscape. This landscape was from an island template and has the name /Game/Athena/Environments/Landscape/Creative/M_Athena_Terrain_DesertBiome1.

Unfortunately, because we don’t have access to these files (or do we?), I cannot revert back to this landscape material.

How do I revert this material back to the default?

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Change Landscape’s Landscape Material in a default island such as Wasteland Island
  2. Notice how you cannot search for the M_Athena_Terrain_DesertBiome1 material

Expected Result

The expectation is that this material should be available to use

Observed Result

Actual result is that this material cannot be found

Platform(s)

Windows 10

In case anybody runs into this same issue, I discovered a workaround.

Right click your Landscape Material in UEFN, click paste, and it will paste the contents of your clipboard to the material.

E.g. my clipboard contained /Script/Engine.Material'/Game/Athena/Environments/Landscape/Creative/M_Athena_Terrain_DesertBiome1.M_Athena_Terrain_DesertBiome1' and I pasted that to the Landscape Material. The biome is now correctly being used again.

Hello friend. I’m encountering the same issue and with you being the only person I across to mention it, I want to ask you something. Could you at the point of having the problem you mentioned edit your landscape material? I’m trying to add a lava portion to my snowy map. I can’t quite figure how to add layers to my landscape material without being able to edit it. Any tips? I’m running out of potential solutions.
Thanks in advance!

If you’re trying to edit the default map landscape, I don’t think you can. You’ll have to make a new material.