Since updating to 5.5 I get this warning when compiling my project with UE5.5 (upgraded from 5.4) warning C4996: ‘TSoftObjectPtr < UTexture2D > ::TSoftObjectPtr’: Constructing TSoftObjectPtr from an incompatible pointer type has been deprecated. Please update your code to the new API before upgradi…

I think I found the reason and a solution, so it might help someone else if they stumble upon this. It seems in 5.5 some implicit casts have been deprecated. So code like: TMap<TSoftObjectPtr<UTexture2D>, FName> Found; Found.Add(TSoftObjectPtr(a.GetAsset()), a.AssetName); That worked before, as …

in cases where i saw this, where the following generates same warning as OP USTRUCT(BlueprintType) struct FSomeData { ... UPROPERTY() TSoftObjectPtr<UObject> Asset; } and assigning a value to this, that was using const UObject* Asset… the const was throwing things off. so, instead using const …

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