Send to Unreal: Would supporting Unreal mesh/animation folders that are relative to the .blend file be possible/reasonable?

[JJC1138]

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• Question: I'm planning out how my folder structure should look for my project's Blender to UE pipeline. For simplicity I'm thinking that I could just put my .blend files inside the UE project's Content folder at the same place where I want the asset to be. I would then like to specify the mesh and animation folders as just './'

That currently doesn't work, though, (it seems to fail silently) and I can imagine why, because I see that those options expect UE folder references in the project rather than direct filesystem paths.

Would it be possible/reasonable to support relative folders there, or am I perhaps being silly for putting my .blend files in the Content folder in the first place?

Thanks very much!

[james-baber]

@JJC1138 interesting question. I have typically seen art source files in a plugin location on projects, but can't say if this shouldn't be done or not. I guess what your trying to do here is infer the import path in order to save time having to explicitly input it?

[JJC1138]

Yes, that's right. It's mainly just to be robust and save time if files are moved around in the hierarchy, but I know it's not a big deal to update the destination to match manually.

[james-baber]

Hmm yea this might be good case for writing a quick extension that resolves this for you pre_operation. Essentially some logic that dynamically adjust the paths based on the blend, or whatever other project conventions, so this doesn't have to be inputted manually.

[JJC1138]

Oh, that's a great idea. I'll upload it if and when I get around to implementing it. Thank you very much!