Adding SmartObjectZoneAnnotationComponent to a blueprint actor causes a crash when building the package

UE - AI - SmartObject - Jan 30, 2025

If placing an actor with SmartObjectZoneAnnotationComponent added to blueprint actor in a level, it will crash when the level open. As a workaround, adding SmartObjectZoneAnnotationComponent to the ...

No warnings or errors if a UEnum has Bitflags metadata, but no Flags flag.

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint Compiler - Jan 29, 2025

The problem here isn't obvious: the native enum, EAnotherEnum, is missing the Flags flag for the UEnum. As a result, K2Node_GetEnumeratorNameAsString returns the max enum when it gets a combined fla ...

Bitmask ints can't be converted to strings

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint Compiler - Jan 29, 2025

While we do have an auto cast function that handles an int to string conversion, bitmask ints use a "bitmask" subcategory which thwarts are ability to find the cast function. ...

K2Node_GetEnumeratorName doesn't support bitmasks

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint Compiler - Jan 29, 2025

This is almost identical to [Link Removed]. The difference is that we need a variant of UEnum::GetNameByValue that supports bitmasks. We'll likely have to run this by Core. ...

Bindless Textures do not mip stream as expected

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jan 29, 2025

Bindless textures do not appear to stream mip levels. This issue is separate from an already reported bindless virtual texture streaming issue. When the editor is freshly launched or when mip level ...

When changing the Visibility of a RetainerBox wrapped widget to “Not Hit-Testable(Self&AllChildren)”, the widget incorrectly accepts the hit test

UE - Editor - UI Systems - UMG - Jan 28, 2025

The result of changing the Visibility of a widget placed as a child of RetainerBox is not reflected. Here we have disabled hittest for the Button widget, but hittest is incorrectly accepted. This is ...

[AI] UE_MT_SCOPED_READ_ACCESS(NavElementAccessDetector) Fails in editor on fresh sync

UE - AI - Navigation - Jan 27, 2025

Licensees have reported failed multi-thread access code for NavElementAccessDetector in complex levels that have not finished compilation of their static meshes. The eventual failed check is inside ...

In -game in Editor, if streaming-in a LevelInstance and initialize its world partition, then leaving that cell and make it go outside the streaming grid, to re-enter it again, will trigger a check(!StreamingPolicy) if no GC has happened during that time.

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Jan 27, 2025

This crash can be fixed by adding a couple of || IsRunningGame() like it is done here:    FGenerateStreamingContext Context = FGenerateStreamingContext()        .SetLevelPackagesToGenerate((bIsPIE ...

Dumping of world partitioned HLOD stats fails in commandlet

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Jan 27, 2025

Dumping of world partitioned HLOD stats in commandlets no longer works since updating to Unreal 5.5. The cause seems to be that the functionality has been moved from UWorldPartitionHLODRuntimeSubsys ...

UEditorEngine::AddPendingLateJoinClient checks original PIE/SIE state, not current state

UE - Networking - Jan 27, 2025

When adding late joining clients, the engine checks the originally requested EPlaySessionWorldType, rather than checking whether or not the session is currently simulating or not. This means if the ...