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Epic Documentation

Epic Resource & How to declare our own Metadata tags

Last updated 2 months ago

For those unfamiliar with Asset Metadata in Unreal, I recommend reading Epic's provided documentation:

One of the most important sections of this page is how to properly register our own Metadata tags in Project Settings -> Game -> Asset Manager :

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