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 ...

Nanite can assert in ValidateFixupChunk: 'Assertion failed: HierarchyNodeIndex < Resources.NumHierarchyNodes'

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Aug 29, 2024

Reported by a licensee. More discussion in the linked UDN case. "Sometimes the WorldPartitionBuilderCommandlet will fail after encountering this error:" Error: Assertion failed: HierarchyNodeIndex ...

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 / ...

An imported file that resides within the project's folders gets a relative path. That path is not updated it you copy the uasset to another folder. That breaks the Reimporting functionality.

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - Aug 28, 2024

An imported file that resides within the project's folders gets a relative path. That path is not updated it you copy the uasset to another folder, so from the location of the new asset's the relati ...

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 - Framework - 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 ...