With the latest change to 4.25 - Niagara particle systems are enabled by default. Because of this, if you are not using our UE4 Source branch, you will not be able to package unless you disable the Niagara. We have reached out to Epic to implement our fix, but are still waiting.
To Disable, go to Edit->Plugins and then Search Built-in for Niagara. Then disable it.
If you are using your own UE4 Source, there are two files that need to be changed. Our pull request is at - https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/6414
Running Cooked Games
The trueSKY DLL’s are located in [UE4]/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/Simul. When you package, cook, or launch a build, UE4 does not yet provide the capability to automatically deploy files to a build. Therefore on the Simul branch of UE4, this code has been inserted into [UE4]/Engine/Source/Programs/AutomationTool/Win/WinPlatform.Automation.cs (see line 43):
To rebuild the tools, build the UE4 solution in the “Development” configuration. This will recreate the executables located in the [UE4]/Engine/Binaries/DotNET directory.
If you’re using the binary distribution of UE with the trueSKY plugin binary installer, you won’t have this file: you’ll need to copy the resources manually. After packaging, find the “Engine” directory in your game, and copy:
Now you are ready to run your game with trueSKY.
Console Deployment
As the console automation files are not in the Git repository, it is not possible to distribute the necessary changes. So you must modify by hand the console Platform.Automation.cs files, in the function GetFilesToDeployOrStage(), add:
/// BEGIN trueSKY Additional code
SC.StageFiles(StagedFileType.NonUFS, DirectoryReference.Combine(SC.LocalRoot, "Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/Simul", SC.PlatformDir), "TrueSkyPluginRender_MD.dll", StageFilesSearch.TopDirectoryOnly);
if(!SC.StageTargetConfigurations.Contains(UnrealTargetConfiguration.Shipping))
SC.StageFiles(StagedFileType.NonUFS, DirectoryReference.Combine(SC.LocalRoot, "Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/Simul", SC.PlatformDir), "TrueSkyPluginRender_MD.pdb", StageFilesSearch.TopDirectoryOnly);
SC.StageFiles(StagedFileType.NonUFS, DirectoryReference.Combine(SC.LocalRoot, "Engine/Plugins/TrueSkyPlugin/Resources"), "*.*", StageFilesSearch.AllDirectories);
SC.StageFiles(StagedFileType.NonUFS, DirectoryReference.Combine(SC.LocalRoot, "Engine/Plugins/TrueSkyPlugin/Content"), "*.*", StageFilesSearch.AllDirectories);
SC.StageFiles(StagedFileType.NonUFS, DirectoryReference.Combine(SC.LocalRoot, "Engine/Plugins/TrueSkyPlugin/shaderbin",SC.PlatformDir), "*.*", StageFilesSearch.AllDirectories);
/// END trueSKY Additional code
/// BEGIN trueSKY Additional code
SC.StageFiles(StagedFileType.NonUFS, DirectoryReference.Combine(SC.LocalRoot, "Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/Simul", SC.PlatformDir), "trueskypluginrender.prx", StageFilesSearch.TopDirectoryOnly);
SC.StageFiles(StagedFileType.NonUFS, DirectoryReference.Combine(SC.LocalRoot, "Engine/Plugins/TrueSkyPlugin/Resources"), "*.*", StageFilesSearch.AllDirectories);
SC.StageFiles(StagedFileType.NonUFS, DirectoryReference.Combine(SC.LocalRoot, "Engine/Plugins/TrueSkyPlugin/textures"), "*.*", StageFilesSearch.AllDirectories);
SC.StageFiles(StagedFileType.NonUFS, DirectoryReference.Combine(SC.LocalRoot, "Engine/Plugins/TrueSkyPlugin/Content"), "*.*", StageFilesSearch.AllDirectories);
SC.StageFiles(StagedFileType.NonUFS, DirectoryReference.Combine(SC.LocalRoot, "Engine/Plugins/TrueSkyPlugin/shaderbin", SC.PlatformDir), "*.*", StageFilesSearch.AllDirectories);
/// END trueSKY Additional code
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