Prefab Tool - Prefab Support for Unreal Engine

[ʎǝןǝʞɐɹq-ǝןoɹd]

Hi Dan, foliage support was purposedly disabled as I ran into some issues in the implementation. I'll re-eval the problem and see if can come up with proper solution this time. Will keep you updated. Thanks for bringing it up.

I'm going to be taking a look at the code this week as well, as our artists really want this. I'll let you know what I find!

What did you mean by "foliage support was purposely disabled"? Are you doing something in your code to ensure foliage gets destroyed cleanly?

[ʎǝןǝʞɐɹq-ǝןoɹd]

Well, I've taken a couple stabs at this, and both involved changes to the engine to work (we're on UE 4.19 at the moment). If anyone reading this is also willing to alter the engine to get this working, here's the summary:

1. In FPrefabToolEditorUtil::ReplacePrefabInstances, as we iterate over ActorsToReplace, I find the AInstancedFoliageActor* for the Actor's Level, and I tell it to temporarily early out in OnLevelActorMoved and OnLevelActorDeleted (first engine change).

2. At the end of that same for loop, I turn OnLevelActorMoved and OnLevelActorDeleted back on, and I add the AInstancedFoliageActor* to a TSet.

3. Immediately after the for loop, I iterate through the TSet of AInstancedFoliageActors and call a new function ReplaceMissingBases (second engine change). ReplaceMissingBases is based off AInstancedFoliateActor::MapRebuild, but instead of looking for bases with UModelComponents, I'm looking for bases with null component. Also, MapRebuild uses LineTraceSingleByObjectType, which unfortunately collides with LODs, which is not at all what I want, so I use LineTraceMultiByObjectType instead, and then cull out anything I don't want to collide with (see AInstancedFoliageActor::FoliageTrace for the example I pulled from).

[Prole_Norm]

Hey Nate! Firstly thanks for the excellent plugin.

I'm in the process of updating from 4.19 to 4.21, and one problem we're having is that all/most of our prefabs crash when FPrefabToolEditorUtil::RevertPrefabActor() runs on map load. Ultimately, the crash happens in FPrefabGEditorAdapter::LevelFactory_FactoryCreateText() while trying to parse all the objects stored in the prefab actor.

We believe this is due to some physics classes that were moved and renamed as part of 4.21, and so since the tool works by using the copy/paste functionality, those references can't be correctly fixed up (and therefore can't be parsed!). I've tested and confirmed that I can fix individual prefabs by disabling the revert on map load, and then going to a map that has the prefab placed within it and hitting Apply to push the properly fixed-up version back to the uasset.

My question is: has this ever come up in previous engine version upgrades? Based on my limited understanding of the problem, this seems like it would be an issue anytime Epic made significant changes to class names in an engine update. Is there some existing functionality or commandlet I can use to re-serialize all of our prefabs so that they'll get properly fixed up? Thank you for your time!

[adamnv]

Obligatory question: is a 4.22 version on the way?

[FHC_Disco]

EXCELENT!
Feature request : an option to import an .fbx as a prefab (or create a prefab during import), maintaining the original object hierarchy and the original pivot points. It would be awesome!

[COMPR3SSION]

Is there a way to spawn a prefab outside the editor? Dynamically? For example, I want to duplicate an existing prefab at run time, and spawn that new duplicate.

[DomusLudus]

I have prefabs inside of prefabs, with the last version the "Destroy Keep children" destroy all prefabs, not only the father.
Please fix it in next update. Thanks
4.20.3

[tundra_cool]

Heads up: I'm receiving a crash with a 100% repro rate when trying to create a new prefab (either empty or from selected actors). I have no idea if it was already posted since I'm just stopping by to drop this off (but I figure it's better than ignoring it).

I don't know if it's related but there isn't an option to create a new prefab when right-clicking in the Content Browser.

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UE4Editor_PrefabAsset!FPrefabGEditorAdapter::ImportObjectProperties() [d:\build\++portal+dev-marketplace+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\prefabtool\source\prefabasset\private\prefabgeditoradapter.cpp:3058]
UE4Editor_PrefabAsset!FPrefabGEditorAdapter::LevelFactory_FactoryCreateText() [d:\build\++portal+dev-marketplace+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\prefabtool\source\prefabasset\private\prefabgeditoradapter.cpp:1924]
UE4Editor_PrefabAsset!FPrefabGEditorAdapter::edactPasteSelected() [d:\build\++portal+dev-marketplace+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\prefabtool\source\prefabasset\private\prefabgeditoradapter.cpp:1035]
UE4Editor_PrefabAsset!FPrefabToolEditorUtil::DoRevertPrefabActor() [d:\build\++portal+dev-marketplace+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\prefabtool\source\prefabasset\private\prefabtoolhelpers.cpp:1240]
UE4Editor_PrefabAsset!FPrefabToolEditorUtil::RevertPrefabActor() [d:\build\++portal+dev-marketplace+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\prefabtool\source\prefabasset\private\prefabtoolhelpers.cpp:848]
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UE4Editor_PrefabAssetEditor!SPrefabToolMainWidget::OnNewPrefabFromSelectionClicked() [d:\build\++portal+dev-marketplace+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\prefabtool\source\prefabasseteditor\private\widgets\sprefabtoolwindow.cpp:1196]
UE4Editor_PrefabAssetEditor!TBaseSPMethodDelegateInstance<0,SPrefabToolMainWidget,0,FReply __cdecl(void)>::Execute() [d:\rocketsync\4.21.0-4541578+++ue4+release-4.21\working\engine\source\runtime\core\public\delegates\delegateinstancesimpl.h:279]
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Please PM me if you need more info since I never browse the forums.

[kbeerbaum]

hi, testing this tool for my company, we're running into an issue where when you first create a prefab it works as intended for that session, however if you restart the editor, you can no longer place previously created prefabs and the following message occurs when I try to place them.