This would probably also save Plastic some bandwidth if these status queries are cloud-live.

Another guess is that due to me having a very large open changeset that's slowing things down?

Anyway, if I knew better what caused this I could make sure to change my workflow in the future.

Log          LogSourceControl          ExecuteSynchronousCommand: Copy
Log          LogSourceControl          Moving C:/dev/dead-money/maki/Maki/Content/Marketplace/PolygonDungeonRealms/Meshes/Characters/SK_Chr_Hero_Female_01_Skeleton.uasset to C:/dev/dead-money/maki/Maki/Content/Marketplace/Environment/PolygonDungeonRealms/Meshes/Characters/SK_Chr_Hero_Female_01_Skeleton.uasset...
Log          LogSourceControl          RunCommand: 'undochange "C:/dev/dead-money/maki/Maki/Content/Marketplace/Environment/PolygonDungeonRealms/Meshes/Characters/SK_Chr_Hero_Female_01_Skeleton.uasset"' (in 0.152s) output (175 chars):
Log          LogSourceControl          c:\dev\dead-money\maki\Maki\Content\Marketplace\Environment\PolygonDungeonRealms\Meshes\Characters\SK_Chr_Hero_Female_01_Skeleton.uasset unchecked out correctly
Log          LogSourceControl          RunCommand: 'move --nomoveondisk "C:/dev/dead-money/maki/Maki/Content/Marketplace/PolygonDungeonRealms/Meshes/Characters/SK_Chr_Hero_Female_01_Skeleton.uasset" "C:/dev/dead-money/maki/Maki/Content/Marketplace/Environment/PolygonDungeonRealms/M' (in 0.156s) (output 307 chars not displayed)
Log          LogSourceControl          RunCommand: 'add "C:/dev/dead-money/maki/Maki/Content/Marketplace/PolygonDungeonRealms/Meshes/Characters/SK_Chr_Hero_Female_01_Skeleton.uasset"' (in 0.324s) (output 223 chars not displayed)
Log          LogSourceControl          RunCommand: 'status --compact --noheaders --all --ignored "C:/dev/dead-money/maki/Maki/Content/Marketplace/"' (in 1.857s) (output 2595691 chars not displayed)
Log          SourceControl             The selected items are about to be added. Please wait ...
Log          SourceControl             Item c:\dev\dead-money\maki\Maki\Content\Marketplace\PolygonDungeonRealms\Meshes\Characters\SK_Chr_Hero_Female_01_Skeleton.uasset was correctly added
Log          LogSourceControl          Copy of 1 files processed in 2.523s

What's Changed (selection):

• Implement "Shelve status": listing shelves and their content by @SRombautsU in #58
• Implement the "Shelve" operation by @SRombautsU in #60
• Implement the "Unshelve" operation for Unreal Engine 5 by @SRombautsU in #61
• Implement the "Delete" Shelve operation by @SRombautsU in #59
• Add support to diff a file from a shelve by @SRombautsU in #67
• Fix checkin changelist with blank comment by @SRombautsU in #66
• Added support for "Should Delete New Files on Revert" by @juliomaqueda in SRombauts#124

Cheers!
Sébastien

See attached gif for example.

This is absolutely driving me crazy. I've wasted days on this so far. PlasticSCM used to work no problem with UE, but now is not working at all. It seemed to start happening after I built/rebuilt a project in Visual Studio, but that could be a total red herring.

Reproduction:
1. Start new Unreal 5.1 blank c++ project
2. Click "Source Control" when open
3. Follow setup guide precisely as listed here for Engine OR Project setup: https://github.com/PlasticSCM/UEPlasticPlugin#readme, using correct username, waiting for "Checking Files Into Source Control" to complete before finishing the dialog, etc.
4. Verify that source control is now enabled and there are no errors.
5. Save all in UE, save all in Visual Studio.
6. Close UE and Visual Studio.
7. Start project from explorer OR from Epic Games Launcher
8. Wait for project to load..
8a. At about ~90% loaded, observe the loop shown in attached gif, displaying "Checking/Updating..." while trying to load /StarterContent/Architecture/Floor_400x400
8b. Wait a few minutes while this loop drives you crazy.
9. Observe that UE finishes loading.
10. Click on Source Control and "View Changelist".
11. Observe a change list of 267 files, while 3,626 need to be checked for reconcile. See attached "changedAssets.png"

12. Close out of UE and look at logs to see a huge list of items being checked out and wonder why the heck things aren't working anymore: MyProject.log

I'm also attaching "backup" logs.

• I have uninstalled and reinstalled Unreal 5.1 and PlasticSCM, for the record. When I do "cm version" in the Command Prompt I get "11.0.16.7726" back. Same thing when I do "cm version in UE"
• If I do a checkin of all these files, the same exact thing happens again. All of the files are loaded again with only their dates/times being changed, see "changedAssets.png" above.
• If I open up PlasticSCM I see the same list of assets ready to be checked in once again. See SCM GUI for an example:
  
  
  PlasticSCM used to work so well, so easily. Now I can't do any work in UE without endangering everything I do. I am at the end of my rope, and am thankful for any help anyone has to offer!
  
  Thanks,
  
  Grant

MyProject-backup-2023.01.24-22.48.28.log MyProject-backup-2023.01.24-22.31.04.log MyProject-backup-2023.01.24-22.05.00.log MyProject-backup-2023.01.24-22.56.37.log

What's Changed (selection):

1.7.1:

• Fix working directory for cm on Linux by @dacanizares in SRombauts#120
• Fix UE5 crash on ReloadPackages at the end of the "RevertAll" operation by @SRombautsU in #54
• Fix cm shell timeout if the cli doesn't have credentials saved by @SRombautsU in #55
• Fix saving a modified asset locally and being able to revert it even if it is locked by @SRombautsU in #56
• Fix for the 3 way merge tool not showing the Source (Remote) revision… by @SRombautsU in #57

Cheers!
Sébastien

How do I ignore files that're already added to Plastic?

What's Changed (selection):

1.7.0:

• Fix crash on updating workspace using "Sync" from global source control menu by @SRombautsU in #46
• Fix the View Changelists window not updating on some updates made outside of it by @SRombautsU in #48
• Fix reverting locally changed files in partial workspace by @SRombautsU in #49
• Fix shared collection: assumes that the default source control status 'Unknown' is "in source control" by @SRombautsU in #50
• Limit the size of the history for performance reasons by @SRombautsU in #51
• Support for compilation with UE5.2 in current ue5-main branch

Cheers!
Sébastien

Quite importantly, its PR has been accepted and integrated into ue5-main for the upcoming UE5.1 release!

Cheers!
Sébastien

What's Changed (selection):

1.6.2:

• Fix updating the cache of the changelist when interacting with files from the Content Browser (add/remove/checkout/revert)
• Mimic P4V colors, the red icon if there are active file(s), the blue if the changelist is empty or all the files are shelved.

1.6.1:

• Fix calling too many times Progress.Tick() crashes the GPU Out of Memory: fixes SRombauts#86, SRombauts#93 and SRombauts#97
• Support new 11.0.16.7248 cm changelist --descriptionfile Needed for multiline descriptions, as well as special character support: ?*"
• Editing the Default changelist also moves all its files
• Add support for new Plastic Icons now integrated into Unreal Engine 5.1

UnrealBuildTool : error : Found 'PlasticSourceControl' plugin in two locations (C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.0\Engine\Plugins\Developer\PlasticSourceControl\PlasticSourceControl.uplugin and C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.0\Engine\Plugins\UE4PlasticPlugin\PlasticSourceControl.uplugin). Plugin names must be unique.

So, I tried deleting the old plugin at C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.0\Engine\Plugins\Developer\PlasticSourceControl but then I get this error instead 

UnrealBuildTool : error : Expecting to find a type to be declared in a module rules named 'XmlParser2' in UE5Rules, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null.  This type must derive from the 'ModuleRules' type defined by Unreal Build Tool.

So... it seems like I'm pretty stuck here? How do I get around this? 

I had some problems with one drive renaming my files and confusing the heck out of both me and plastic... it added my computer name to the end of every file. Once I rectified that I tried adding changes to plastic only to be met with that error about encryption keys and my configuration.

I currently cannot use source control nor compile. This is what I get when I attempt to compile:
 

Quote

Manual recompile triggered

---------- Creating patch ----------

Running ..\..\..\Engine\Binaries\DotNET\UnrealBuildTool.exe -Target="MYCPP_FPSProjectEditor Win64 Development -Project=""C:/Users/jacob/wkspaces/MYCPP_FPSProject/MYCPP_FPSProject.uproject""" -LiveCoding -LiveCodingModules="C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.27/Engine/Intermediate/LiveCodingModules.txt" -LiveCodingManifest="C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.27/Engine/Intermediate/LiveCoding.json" -WaitMutex
  Target is up to date
  Total execution time: 0.69 seconds
---------- Finished (0.000s) ----------

Let me state that this looks to me like a file handle issue; though I've quick restarted UE4 and shut down my IDE (VS 2022) multiple times attempting to let UE4 grab the project files so that I can compile, to no avail.

Above that I get like 100 messages in yellow text saying this:

Quote

Non-unique symbol _volmd found in COFF file C:\Users\jacob\wkspaces\MYCPP_FPSProject\Plugins\UE4PlasticPlugin\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\PlasticSourceControl\Module.PlasticSourceControl.cpp.obj. Do not change the order of these variables while live coding, or consider upgrading to a newer compiler (VS 2015 or later)

Let me be clear I don't know what I've done wrong but it never seemed right to begin with 😭 I would appreciate any help!! 😅

Have to say that Plastic Application works fine, problem only with Unreal Source Control.

Anyways, I know this is noob territory so any help is appreciated. I have long been just doing the Winrar backup per update route but I know at this point as deep as I am beginning to develop I will definitely require source control in there. So all this is new to me even though I have dabbled with Perforce slightly. Good work though on this, I feel so much more at ease in Plastic and honestly its fitting my way of developing much better than other options out there, so its my home for sure once I fully figure out the sync situation so I can easily bounce around ahead.

Thanks for anyone that clarifies this little part for me. Good to roll though outside of this, even if I do have to restart to switch back revisions.

I added Unreal external diff tool as follows:

Custom extension = .uasset
External tool = "C:\Unreals\UE_4.27\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor.exe" "C:\Repos\ExampleProject\ExampleProject.uproject" -diff "@sourcefile" "@destinationfile"

It worked fine so far, but after the upgrade I tried to diff some Blueprints and an error appeared:
"There aren't any diff tools defined in the client configuration file"
But clearly there are. I can see the Unreal diff tool in the Diff tools settings.

I reinstalled Plastic few times, removed all config files but the error persisted.

I looked into the %LocalAppData%\plastic4\client.conf file and noticed that the <DiffToolData> section with my Unreal diff tool contains "<FileType>enTextFile</FileType>" sub-section. This is weird since I selected "Custom extension" in the Plastic diff tools settings. I removed this sub-section, leaving the "<FileExtensions>.uasset</FileExtensions>". And it worked 🙂

I don't know if it's a bug or just my config got corrupted. I spent few hours solving this issue and I decided to write about this in case somebody else has similar problem.

We have released a new version of the Plastic SCM plugin for Unreal Engine 5.0, adding support for the new View Changelists window:
https://github.com/PlasticSCM/UEPlasticPlugin/releases/tag/1.6.0

This release is also compatible with UE4.27, except for the Changelists UI that is a new feature of the UE5 Editor.

Cheers!
Sébastien

how would you approach this, do you have a tip for us? 

thank you very much and greetings!

sascha

I have good news from Epic Games: they have merged the latest version of our Plastic SCM plugin v1.5.1 on ue5-main for the upcoming Unreal Engine 5.1! 
https://github.com/PlasticSCM/UE4PlasticPlugin/releases/tag/1.5.1 was only a bugfix release on top of already merged 1.5.1, including support for some recent breaking code changes.
I have now checkout the latest commit , rebuilt the editor, and run our validation steps in order to be on the safe side

Enjoy!
Sébastien

What's Changed:

• Rename back the provider to "Plastic SCM" so it's the same as in Engine and users can easily switch from one to the other
• Fix connection at init for commandlets by @SRombautsU in #29
• Optimize the Revert command to operate on all the files at once for Unreal 5 by @SRombautsU in #27
• Fix performance issue with the new call to "history" added to each UpdateStatus() by @SRombautsU in #30

My

This is our ignore file

But whenever I add something to it (yes we use Plastic's Unreal Plugin but the team commits through Plastic/Gluon):

Plastic is all like "Nah brah, let's commit dat"

Our lock rules even state that "PLEASE DON'T TRY TO LOCK FILES IN THIS FOLDER"

We've had A TON of issues with Plastic's Ignore. And this has been a major point of contempt; with my team pushing for us to go back to Git. So yeah, I don't even know how to defend you guys anymore.
What could be happening?