Publishing modules and versioning

During development, particle assets are always being worked upon, even when they are being used in production. It may be necessary to release new versions of a module as more features are added to it. Not all particle systems used in production will need to be updated to the latest version of the module because there may be breaking changes where particle systems using the old version of the module stop working when the module is upgraded. Normally, you can manage versions using a version control system. However, when developing Niagara modules, we may need a particular particle system to keep using its old version of the module in production and switch to new versions when desired.

Niagara maintains its own internal versioning system for modules, where you can update version numbers as you update the modules and ensure that we can select what version of the module will be used in production.

Let’s assume that the Presence Detector module...