Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Draw debug depth priority oddities
UE - Graphics Features - Feb 18, 2020Came across a few oddities with draw debug. DrawDebugSolidBox ignores the DepthPriority parameter and appears to always draw in World. In the screenshot the sphere is drawn on top of the mesh, the ...
Costs of Static Lights on Render Thread
UE - Graphics Features - Jun 9, 2016A Japanese developer's making a scene that has over 4000 static point lights. They thought the lights don't affect rendering in runtime. But they realized the RenderThread's costs become bigger. I ...
[CrashReport] Crash while snapping multiple actors at once
Tools - Aug 29, 2017Crash occurs when selecting all actors and pressing "End" to snap them to the floor. This doesn't occur if you create a blank map and add a few actors to it. The specific conditions may need to be ...
Control Rig - Undo doesn't function correctly with proxy and multi bone controls
UE - Anim - Rigging - Control Rig - Oct 26, 2025Issue from my Technical Animator where the undo operation in Control Rig doesn't work as expected on Proxy Controls. He has recreated the issue using the "Control Rig Samples Pack" and recorded a vi ...
Crash using Custom HLSL Node with Empty Shader Directory
UE - Graphics Features - Jul 13, 2017A crash is occurring when adding an empty shader directory when using the custom node within the material editor. This crash is preventing some users from opening their projects that use this workfl ...
UnrealCEFSubProcess requires Visual Studio 2013 to be compiled
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Oct 21, 2016When trying to build the entire engine solution or UnrealCEFSubProcess directly, Visual Studio 2013 is required to be installed for UnrealCEFSubProcess to complete successfully. There is also an err ...
Crash when quick binding a function in a class that extends LevelSequenceDirector
UE - Anim - Sequencer - Sep 16, 2020The purpose was to create a Level Sequence Director inheritance class so that the same event could be reused in multiple sequencers. Attempting to quick-bind this base Level Sequence Director event ...
Python crash the engine at exit.
UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Oct 25, 2022A UDN reported various crashes at exit in the embedded Python library. I was able to repro the issue in Release-5.1 and trace it back at the point where python runs its garbage collection in Py_Fina ...
GAS and single process PIE: modifiable static variables accessed by server and client
UE - Gameplay - Gameplay Ability System - Nov 16, 2022See: UAbilitySystemGlobals::HandlePreLoadMap GAS features static variables that are modified by both server and client, thus result in issues in single process PIE where they access the same memory ...
When duplicating the last point in a closed-loop spline, its metadata is inserted at the wrong index
UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Nov 1, 2023The SplineComponentVisualizer allows users to alt+drag on a spline point to duplicate it. When this is done on the last point of a spline marked as "closed-loop", the new point is correctly added at ...