Advanced Data Asset Plugin for Unreal Engine 5.3

More advanced and convenient Data Asset based on Primary Data Asset with its own Thumbnail Render

Description

This asset has a feature in the form of an overridden ID function.

UAdvancedDataAsset::GetPrimaryAssetId()

The ID is formed as follows: FPrimaryAssetId(FPrimaryAssetType(AssetType), AssetId)

Asset Type

You can set the asset type directly in the C++ constructor:

class YOUR_API UMyAdvancedDataAsset : public UAdvancedDataAsset {
	GENERATED_BODY()
public:
  UMyAdvancedDataAsset();
}

UMyAdvancedDataAsset::UMyAdvancedDataAsset()
{
  AssetType = TEXT("MyAsset");
}

Asset ID

You can set the ID in the asset editor:

Asset Manager

Don't forget to add your asset to Asset Manager

Thumbnail renderer

You can select any icon from the project to display. You can also add a short name for the display.

Tips

Due to ID-Type you can use the following snippet code to load the data asset directly

class YOUR_API UMyAssetManager : public UAssetManager
{
	GENERATED_BODY()

public:

	template <class T>
	T* LoadAsset(FName ID)
	{
		if (const UAdvancedDataAsset* Default = Cast<UAdvancedDataAsset>(T::StaticClass()->GetDefaultObject()))
		{
			const FPrimaryAssetId PrimaryAssetId = FPrimaryAssetId(Default->GetType(), ID);
			const FSoftObjectPath path = GetPrimaryAssetPath(PrimaryAssetId);
			if (T* LoadedItem = Cast<T>(path.TryLoad()))
			{
				return LoadedItem;
			}
		}
		return nullptr;
	}
};

Documentation

Doxygen documentation: GitHubPages

Documentation sources: GitHub