Runtime Virtual Texture (RVT) baked mips using Streaming Virtual Texture (SVT) only bakes the base colour

Using Streaming Virtual Textures for the lower mips of an RVT using Base Color, Roughness, Normal seemingly leads to both roughness and normal being sampled as 0. This causes a significant shading a ...

Affect Indirect Lighting While Hidden can affect the environment after data layer unload in editor

UE - Graphics Features - Sep 9, 2024

After setting Affects Indirect Lighting While Hidden but before saving the level, the emissive contribution persistents through datalayer visibility toggles. This does not appear to occur in PIE, on ...

It's possible to create a locked state on a rigidbody by creating a TransientField that will keep the rigdbody Sleeping even after it leaves the Field's area of influence

UE - Simulation - Physics - Sep 5, 2024

The licensee found a way to lock the state of a rigidbody as PBDRigid->ObjectState() == EObjectStateType::Sleeping by subjecting it to a particular transient field composed of a RadialFalloff and a ...

Assets referenced solely in disabled Niagara Emitters are still cooked and packaged

UE - Niagara - Sep 5, 2024

Niagara Emitters, when disabled, appear to be removed from the Niagara System's packaged asset as evidenced by a sizeable reduction in size. However, if the Emitter referenced an asset, such as a st ...

r.Shaders.Optimize=0 crashes when compiling a UI material

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Sep 2, 2024

[2024.08.30-22.12.22:384][ 73]LogWindows: Error: appError called: Assertion failed: CurrentGPUVirtualAddress != 0 [Link Removed] [Line: 659] Disabling shader optimisation can crash the editor when ...

Message to rebuild lights does not display after static mesh position has changed

UE - Graphics Features - Aug 28, 2024

In a static lighting environment, moving static objects no longer marks the built lighting as invalid. This prevents the on-screen warning from appearing. Regression introduced in CL: 25964466 on / ...

Does FSlateElementBatcher::AddCachedElements need to check if r.HDR.UI.CompositeMode is enabled?

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Aug 28, 2024

When a specific configuration of HDR cvars are set, PIE in a New Editor Window will not render the game world. Settings (For DefaultEngine.ini): ```[SystemSettings] r.AllowHDR=1 r.HDR.Display.Color ...

Nanite meshes are lit differently in Actor Colorization view modes than non-Nanite meshes

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Aug 28, 2024

When the Lit > Actor Coloration > Affects Navmesh or other Actor Coloration mode is used, Nanite meshes apply lighting differently than non-Nanite meshes which can make it difficult to use the Actor ...

Material instance UI doesn't show correct parameter preview for logic in a material function

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Aug 27, 2024

The Material Instance UI doesn't show the correct parameter values when the logic is moved from the material graph into a material function used in that material graph. Example setup showing the wr ...

In some situations, a Blueprint can become devoid of an Event Graph. While no graphs are present, multiple variables can be created with the same name.

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint Editor - Aug 26, 2024

In some situations, a Blueprint can become devoid of an Event Graph, or be created without one from the start. For example, function "FKismetEditorUtilities::CreateBlueprint()" in UE 5.4 does not ca ...