Import Selected Assets

To import selected uasset files, select them in the Asset View, then click Import or Flat Import button on the toolbar.

Or you can right click on the selected uasset files, select Import or Flat Import from the conext menu.

Import Options

Click on the pull down button beside Import button to access Import Options.

Basic Import Options

• Abort If Dependency Missing
  Abort import task if any dependency of the uasset file is missing.

Uncheck the option will make it possible to import an invalid uasset file, but the imported asset will not working properly.

• Ignore Soft References Error
  Usually missing or invalid soft references are harmless, keep the option checked to ignore any soft references error in the import process.

• Overwrite Existing Assets
  Whether or not overwriting existing assets in current project with imported uasset files and dependencies.

• Rollback If Failed
  When the option is checked and import task failed, any folders or files added to current project will be removed, any overwrote files will be reverted to original files.

Post Import Options

• Sync Assets In Content Browser
  When the option is checked, after uasset files been imported successfully, the imported asset files will be selected in Content Browser.

Only the uasset files selected to import wil be selected in Content Browser, the depedency uasset files imported will not be selected to avoid clustering.

• Sync Skipped Existing Assets
  If the uasset files try to import already exist in current project and the Overwrite Existing Assets option is unchecked, the uasset files will be skipped to import. With the option checked, the skipped asset files will also be selected in Content Browser.

• Load/Reload Assets After Import
  Load/Reload imported assets into memory to make it useable immediately.

The assets will always be loaded in Flat Import regardless of whether the option is checked, as the imported assets need to be processed for Flat Import.

• Add to Collection
  When the option is checked, all imported assets and their dependencies will be add to a collection with the collection name specified in the Collection option below.

By default, all assets will be add to same collection unless Unique Collection for Each Import option is checked.

• Unique Collection for Each Import

With this option checked, a new collection will be created for each import session.

• Collection

Here you can customize the collection name for imported assets.

Reset Import Options

Click the Reset Options to reset all import options back to default values.

Flat Import

While Normal Import will import uasset file and place all dependencies into folders as how it stored in original project, Flat Import will collect all dependencies into one selected folder.