Modulated Self Shadowing can not be disabled for Static Meshes

UE - Platform - Mobile - Feb 6, 2017

Modulated Self Shadow is only ever disabled and enabled for Skeletal Meshes and does not have any effect on Static Meshes. You can use the command r.Shadow.EnableModulatedSelfShadow 1 to enable self ...

Landscape Grasstype warning causes log spam when landscape is streamed in or out

UE - LD & Modeling - Terrain - Landscape - Nov 16, 2016

Using the Landscape Grasstype will generate log spam for the number of Landscape components being used or if using World Composition will generate a log warning for each tile used. The warning ind ...

Cook fails when a MetaSound Source object is referenced utilizing FObjectFinder in C++

UE - Audio - MetaSounds - Apr 27, 2022

Android Cook fails when a MetaSound Source object is referenced utilizing FObjectFinder in C++ Repro Rate: 3/3 UATHelper: Cooking (Android (ASTC)): LogInit: Display: LogMetaSound: Error: Target int ...

Geometry collection marked as nanite has no fallback in cooked build when nanite is disabled

UE - Rendering Architecture - Dec 11, 2023

When geometry collection is set as nanite, there is no non-nanite render data cooked. This means that there is no fallback if the cooked build uses r.nanite 0. This used to work with some code worka ...

BulkData Async loading remains in memory

UE - Foundation - Core - Oct 26, 2016

Gil's new loading path may already walk away from this issue. But here's some thing I tested locally if we want to fix this. A simple way to fix is to simply add BulkDataAsync.Deallocate(); ResetA ...

Local binary build of 4.22.1 fails when only Visual Studio 2019 is installed

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - Apr 30, 2019

Attempting to create a local binary build of 4.22 using Visual Studio 2019 (with no other versions of Visual Studio installed) currently fails with several warnings and errors, including the followi ...

Crash when DFAO is disabled and a lower scalability is used while Distance Field Shadowing is enabled.

UE - Graphics Features - Feb 2, 2016

When enabling Distance Fields for a project and adjusting the cvars to disable DFAO and set a lower Detail Mode will result in a crash. Using the console commands outlined in the steps will work. ...

VC Runtime not in UnrealLightmass temp directory; causing lightmass build errors

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Oct 14, 2015

A Redistribute file for VS 2015 is needed to build lightmass, but this is not currently included with the engine. If a user does not have VS 2015 installed, lightmass will fail with this error: Un ...

Node Comments don't appear until the node is scrolled over after it is entered

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Nov 23, 2016

Node Comments don't appear until the node is scrolled over after it is entered This is a Regression. It was working in 4.13.2 but broken in 4.14. User Description: BP node comments hidden until m ...

Loading instanced static mesh causes memory leak in packaged game

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Foliage - Mar 3, 2021

The leaking variable is UInstancedStaticMeshComponent::InstanceDataBuffers. The memory block is passed to InitPerInstanceRenderData() via InstanceDataBuffers.Release(). But the function doesn't mana ...