what do you mean with externally here?

[little horizon]

right now, a database

[winged forge]

so the asset is not part of the project?

[little horizon]

i want a player to create characters, their config is saved centrally, these characters can be then loaded anywhere in a cluster of servers, for example

a uuid is loaded, references an asset or an array of assets etc.

this can then be spawned into the world

[winged forge]

but those would not be assets right

or how do you see this working?

cause you won't be able to create a uasset outside of unreal

[little horizon]

well the references to the assets i thought to use primary asset id

i just need to reference the primary asset id and provide it some config

[winged forge]

but where does the asset live

in your project?

or in the db

[little horizon]

the asset or the id?

the asset id is in the db, the asset is in the game

i save the primary asset id to the db and some properties

[winged forge]

so what's the difference between storing the id or storing an asset path then

[little horizon]

i then find and load the asset using the primary asset id

[winged forge]

you can do it in a multitude of ways

[little horizon]

asset path can change

primary asset id from what i read doesn't

bit like treating the content as a giant hash map

did that make sense?

[winged forge]

could be

I'm not too familiar with asset ids tbh

[little horizon]

i wasn't until recently, but this is the first time i tried to treat a blueprint as an asset