Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Creating a plugin in a C++ project opens a second instance of Visual Studio
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - Plugin System - May 15, 2017Note If creating the project outside of Binary, build the project in VS, but do not close it. When creating a new plugin, the editor compiles the project and opens in Visual Studio. If the project ...
Refresh rate for windowed package builds causes frame stuttering
UE - Graphics Features - Aug 24, 2017THere is an issue where the refresh rate of a windowed packaged game does not match the refresh rate of a monitor correctly, this results in stuttering. This issue does not occur in the editor (PIE) ...
Visual flicker occurs with object during play
UE - Graphics Features - Sep 5, 2017There is an issue occurring where objects are flickering, and what appears to be jittering at set distances when rendering, increasing the bounds of the mesh pushes the distance for the issue out. T ...
Lighting Build Fails With High Density Foliage
UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Foliage - Jan 16, 2018Trying to build lighting on a map with high density foliage will fail lighting build or cause the editor to crash. This occurs in 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, and 4.18. There have been multiple reports of this ...
SetOneWayInteraction functionality has no effect on the simulation
UE - Simulation - Physics - Nov 11, 2022Calling SetOneWayInteraction on a BodyInstance has no effect within the physics engine. The state of the flag is passed in to Chaos but nothing actually uses the value once it is there. It is expe ...
Manually importing LODs are rotated 90 degrees when using Transform Vertex to Absolute
Tools - May 26, 2016When importing a Static Mesh if you use the default settings and then manually import any LODs for that static mesh they will be rotated by 90 degrees. I found that disabling Transform Vertex to A ...
Crash playing source media file after attempting to play undefined source file
Media Framework - Mar 2, 2017After attempting to preview the undefined File Media Source in the Media Player Window and getting an error. I set the path of the File Media Source to Windows sample video 'Wilflife'. Then attempt ...
Preprocessor checks for VS 2017 version of MSC do not look for the latest version of MSC
UE - Foundation - Core - May 8, 2018There are some pre-processor checks in the Engine code that look for the version of MSC that was introduced with Visual Studio 2017 (eg. #if _MSC_VER == 1900). However, this does not take into consi ...
Anamorphic Squeeze Factor causes a blocky Depth of Field issue on AMD Hardware
UE - Graphics Features - Jul 30, 2025When using the Anamorphic Squeeze Factor on a camera on AMD RDNA3 and RDNA4 hardware, blocking artefacts may be seen depending on the extent of the blur. The peripheries of the viewport appear to be ...
Landscape DFAO shadowing artifacts in Standalone and packaged
UE - Graphics Features - Oct 25, 2016The Heightfield from DFAO when playing in Standalone or a packaged game has darkened shadow artifacts for the level. Workaround: Use r.AOGlobalDistanceField 0 to disable the Global Distance Field. ...