UBlueprintPathsLibrary::MakeStandardFilename

function Engine Blueprint Since 4.20

#include "Kismet/BlueprintPathsLibrary.h"

Access: public Specifiers: staticUFUNCTIONBlueprintPure

Description

Produces a fully standard "Unreal" pathname by normalizing separators, removing extraneous slashes, collapsing internal ".." segments, and making the result relative to Engine/Binaries/<Platform> (so it will always start with "../../../").

Caveats & Gotchas

• The output is always relative to Engine/Binaries/<Platform>, which surprises callers expecting a path relative to the project root — it is a very specific normalized form used internally by the engine's path-handling code, not a general-purpose "clean up this path" utility.
• The result is returned via the OutPath output parameter, not the return value.

Signature

static void MakeStandardFilename(const FString& InPath, FString& OutPath)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
InPath	const FString&	The path to convert to standard Unreal form.	—
OutPath	FString&	Receives the fully standardized path.	—

Return Type

void

Example

Produce a standard engine-relative path C++

FString Standard;
UBlueprintPathsLibrary::MakeStandardFilename(TEXT("C:/MyProject/Content/Textures/Rock.png"), Standard);
// Standard begins with TEXT("../../../")

Version History

Introduced in: 4.20

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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