UObject inside editor asset is null in standalone

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I am making a custom editor plugin and have a custom asset called UQuestAsset that can be created in the content browser. I can create new quests inside the browser and they work fine.

My issue is that inside the UQuestAsset I have a property:

UPROPERTY()
UQuest* Quest;

When I run a PIE session the Quest pointer is valid and works great. The problem is that in standalone/packaged, the Quest pointer is null and cannot be used. It appears that it doesn’t get saved when I run the game in standalone. All the other UPROPERTY()'s in the asset get saved, i’m assuming the issue is because UQuest is a UObject.

I need some way of saving the Quest object inside my Quest Asset class so that it stays valid and can be used in a packaged game.

Does anyone know how to do this? Thank you for your time!

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Still looking for help on this

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UObject should be saved with asset. How, where and when do you create Quest object?

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I have found the answer!

UObjects do get saved with the asset. My problem was that when I created my UObject using NewObject(), I forgot to set the Quest Asset as the Outer, so the UObject was ignored.

Once I passed in my asset as the Outer, the UObject saved perfectly.