Editor loads assets, game doesn't.

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I’m at a complete loss here. I what would cause this? To re-iterate. The editor loads my assets fine, or the game when launched through the editor via the command line (editor.exe -game), but if I launch my game or through the editor via the launch button none of my resources load.

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Is this happening for all resources, or only some (eg, those used by Slate)?

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I’m pretty sure for all resources, but I’ve only imported/used what is being used by Slate. So yes, only slate, but I think it’s a larger issue (all resources).

Would moving my project to a different directory cause this to happen (It was on my D drive but I moved to C).

I’ll try adding some meshes/textures to the game and seeing if they load.

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Ah, yes, that would’ve done it.

It’s strange that running the game in the editor lets you do that though. I’ll raise a bug to investigate that.

Thanks.

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I found out that Slate UI Brushes have to be in the
/Game/UI
directory, or sub-directory as the engine searches sub-directories recursively.

I had my slate brushes in /Game/Slate/Spells, so while the editor didn’t care where UI brushes are the actual game did.

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The problem was that the editor cooks(bakes?) Slate resources only from these directories (taken from editor.ini)

[UI]
ContentDirectories=/Game/UI
ContentDirectories=/Game/Widget
ContentDirectories=/Game/Widgets
ContentDirectories=/Engine/MobileResources

Evidently the brushes were not being cooked (baked?). My options were either 1) add /game/slate to the editor.ini list above, or 2) move resources to /Game/UI. I chose the latter, I don’t think Epic really wants us messing with the .ini files though (can cause strange bugs), so it’s recommended that Slate UI resources go in /Game/UI. The editor doesn’t require resources be cooked, so that’s why it was working with the editor and not the game.

I’m not sure it’s a “bug”, Slate is better off if it isn’t loading all the entity of the game’s content (just to avoid this behavior). I’ll be updating the/my wiki page soon with a suggestion to put UI conent in /Game/UI/…

If you really wanted to you could create the /filesystem/project/content/ui/ directory by default on project creation and put a readme in there that just says “UI content must go here.”