Packaing single asset as DLC

Development Platform & Builds
, , , ,
1

Hi,

In my game I have a dynamic list of all static meshes (I call them products in this project) from given path. I use this code to gather the meshes:

	TArray<FAssetData> Assets;
	FAssetRegistryModule& AssetRegistryModule = FModuleManager::LoadModuleChecked<FAssetRegistryModule>(TEXT("AssetRegistry"));
	IAssetRegistry& AssetRegistry = AssetRegistryModule.Get();

	FARFilter ARFilter;
	ARFilter.ClassNames.Add(UStaticMesh::StaticClass()->GetFName());
	ARFilter.PackagePaths.Add(PRODUCT_PATH);
	ARFilter.bRecursivePaths = false;
	ARFilter.bIncludeOnlyOnDiskAssets = true;

	AssetRegistry.GetAssets(ARFilter, Assets);

PRODUCT_PATH is a path that should contain static meshes I’m interested in. So the game will first look in /Game/Products directory and the check out the content-only-plugin directory that will be used as DLC - /NewProduct

It works fine the editor and in shipped build. What I want to do is create a DLC that would contain one or more products (static meshes).

So to do that, I followed tutorials on packaging and finally got my first DLC with a single product deployed in small .pak file. Next step is to apply the DLC, so I rename it, and copy/paste it into shipping build directory next to main .pak file.
It should work right?

Well, it doesnt.

For some reason AssetRegistry does not detect that new DLC/file was added and does not refresh itself. Content in DLC is just nowhere to be found by the code I posted above.

Whats interesting is that if I put a new map (level) into DLC and try to open it in shipped build it works just fine.

Am I missing something?

2

OK, so it turns out the assets are there but are not visible for AssetRegistry for some reason. When I statically load object from my DLC using StaticLoadObject I can use AssetRegistry.GetAssetsByPath function to get all the objects. But StaticLoadObject function requires a full path with a name to the object that I want to load so it doest really solve my problem…

So now, how can I load at once all assets from given pak file?

3

bump, anyone?