Moving assets between packages and updating references in map?

[MadMax1998]

One of the level designers on my project has asked the following, and I thought maybe someone around here could help us with that. Thanks!

There is going to come a time when I/we will need to move and or replace an asset in the scene with one from another file. A problem I will face is updating place holders with the real thing. This is somewhat easy with static meshes as I can select all of type and replace the browser instance with the new object. How ever I have found with prefabs that if I want to move it to the level file that I cannot do so without manually placing the prefab again once I have moved the prefab.

UDK has some new features that I am not too familiar with. One being the consolidate object tool.. I'm not sure if this holds the key to the problem, but 'm wondering if anyone has a proven method for moving an object to a new package and at the same time updating the reference of all instances that use it in the scene.

There are ways to move/copy the objects, but it didn't seem to update used references. Ill keep playing around with it.

[ShiftedDesign]

I know that if you move objects between packages which the level open, it updates that map's references but if you multiple maps this most likely wont work.

[DGlow]

You should be able to move and rename things in a package and all levels should work fine with the changes. If you empty a package it will still contain invisible redirectors so don't get rid of a package until all levels have been opened and resaved so that the redirectors can take effect.

[MadMax1998]

I see, thanks!

[Crusha K. Rool]

You should be able to move and rename things in a package and all levels should work fine with the changes. If you empty a package it will still contain invisible redirectors so don't get rid of a package until all levels have been opened and resaved so that the redirectors can take effect.

Or run this batch:

@echo off
D:\UDK\UDK-2012-10\Binaries\Win32\UDK.exe fixupredirects

It will go through all packages and maps and point everything that points to a redirector to what this redirector is ultimately pointing to instead.

[DGlow]

oh snap, that's useful