I need to modify a texture directly but can’t seem to locate the actual file. All I’m finding are the reference files. Where can I find the actual textures (.png files)?
Thank you.
There’s no one place for all texture files. They are dotted around in the content browser, but to find the relevant one, you need to follow through from the material it’s used in.
I think the engine converts them from png, jpg etc to its own usable assets which is why you can’t find them in the engine, if they’re ones you’ve added to the project yourself there is an option to find the original by right clicking on the texture asset and selecting ‘show source file location’ this should open up the explorer window where it’s located. For some reason this doesn’t work anymore for me, maybe it’s broken in 5.2?
If you need to edit a texture and cant find a png for it, then right click on the asset file and go to ‘asset actions’ and select ‘export’, then you can select the export type, then once you’ve done whatever you need to you can either import it as an additional texture your usual way or you can replace the original one by clicking on the texture asset and selecting ‘re-import with new file’. Using re-import will replace the texture in all materials where it’s referenced.