Unable to get virtual assets to work in Unreal 5.3

[michor.lu]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Please see below to some of you questions.

@Paul

To help me try to narrow down the problem can you try running the process again then after the error check if the temp workspace mentioned in the log (VASubmission-1500d517-43d8-bc77-dd3b-dd86c943f4c2 in the snippet you posted) actually exists and if so does it have the .upayload in an added state and in that case exactly where is that .upayload on disk?

After doing a check-in via the Editor, those temporary workspaces are getting created and appears to be in the add state (see attached). When I use the Perforce client to browse the to file, it takes the projects ./Saved/VASubmission/ folder. It appears to be empty.

@Paul

One final question, is your engine installation in the same disk as your project?

The Engine is installed in C:/Unreal/Engine/5.3/Windows/ and the project is located in C:/Unreal/Projects/pipeline/

@Paul

EDIT: You could also try running the editor with -logcmds=“LogVirtualization Verbose” as with verbose logging enabled the virtualization process will log the file paths of each .upayload file written to disk for perforce submission.

The log that I have provided do have the Verbose enabled. Do you think there should be more than what I have attached?

@Paul

If you feel comfortable you could try running the Microsoft tool Process Monitor (Process Monitor - Sysinternals | Microsoft Learn ) to watch for .upayload activity on disk and check if and/or where they are actually being written.

Let me get Process Monitor going and get back to you.