Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Flickering in Material Editor Preview when Absolute World Position node used
UE - Graphics Features - Oct 17, 2017Creating a material with "Absolute World Position" node plugged into the "World Position Offset" input of the base Material node results in flickering in the preview window of the material editor. ...
Cannot specify custom window positions in "windowed mode" for packaged games
Tools - Nov 30, 2017There is an issue where you cannot specify a specific location for a windowed packaged game when using a command line to open the project, the project will move to that position for a brief moment b ...
Static mesh's material slot's cast shadow does not require a build of StaticLight
UE - Graphics Features - Dec 7, 2017If static mesh's material slot's cast shadow is changed, UE4 does not show "LIGHTING NEEDS TO BE REBUILT". I solved it with the following fixes. StaticMeshEditorTools.cpp void FMeshSectionSettin ...
Cannot run any packaged project if "Force all skinned meshes to recompute tangents" has been enabled in an unrelated project
UE - Foundation - Core - Apr 20, 2018Enabling the "Force all skinned meshes to recompute tangents" sets the value at a Windows user level so that it affects all UE4 projects opened by that user, including unrelated packaged projects. T ...
Children of editor-only actors do not maintain correct transforms when placed inside level instances for PIE and cooked builds
UE - Engine Scaling - Streaming - Level Instances - Oct 20, 2025We have found an issue where children of editor-only actors get wrong transforms in PIE and cooked builds when placed inside level instances. This affects both engine version 5.5 and 5.6. The issue ...
Unnecessary files in Perforce Depot
Several unnecessary files seem to have found their way into the Perforce depot and need to be cleaned up. Affected files:Engine/Documentation/Source/Engine/Matinee/HowTo/MHT_3/Images/MHT#_Drag_In_C ...
Startup Movies don't play on Oculus
UE - Platform - XR - Apr 26, 2017Startup movies don't seem to play on OculusLoading ShooterGame on 4.15 in a standalone game from the command line plays the intro movie audio, but I just get a black screen forever and it fails to l ...
Foliage experiences odd culling when world origin is changed
UE - Graphics Features - Sep 13, 2017There is an odd issue occurring when the world origin is changed, changing the world origin causes the foliage to cull in unexpectred ways. The issue can be solved by using the console command "r.Al ...
[CrashReport] UE4Editor_Foliage!AInstancedFoliageActor::PreEditUndo() [instancedfoliage.cpp:2296]
UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Foliage - Dec 1, 2017This is a common 4.18 crash. Users have not provided any description of their actions when the crash occurred. Source Context 2286 void AInstancedFoliageActor::PreEditUndo() 2287 { ...
Buffer Visualization Modes Are Inaccurate
UE - Graphics Features - Apr 19, 2018In 4.18, Buffer Visualization Modes appear very similar to their representation in Buffer Overview. In 4.19 and Main (CL 4008322) the results are very blown out. Similar issue reported in [Link Remo ...