How do you iterate on an object inside UDK?

Polyc

I've looked around for some information on the subject but haven't found anything.

Let's say I have a mesh and want to see if it's working nicely inside UDK. I've only got a UV channel and want to make another for the lighting but the mesh is already inside UDK.

Let's say I find out I could optimise more my mesh or that I have a texture that could get tweaked some more.
What do I have to do?

Should I be better off just deleting the baked mesh or texture (if so do I click delete or force delete?), or is it possible to overwrite on top of the old mesh/texture by exporting again over my old mesh and the rest of the stuff will update itself accordingly?

haiddasalami

just copy over your new mesh (if your not working with your UDK directory as you project directory) and re-import mesh through content browser(right click) You can also set up texture re-importing.

sprunghunt

If you right click on the object in the content browser there's an option that says "reimport". You can just overwrite the mesh.

you can also setup udk to watch the source textures and to automatically import it when you make a change.

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ContentBlog.html#Automatically re-import textures

edit: too slow! ^^

Polyc

Thanks guys! I was really pulling my hair out on that one.