Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Engine build fails due to Unresolved External Symbol error after adding a new global variable to the Engine and then trying to reference it within Engine code
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Feb 7, 2018Building the Engine in Visual Studio will fail due to an unresolved external symbol error if a new global variable is added to CoreGlobals.h and then referenced elsewhere in the Engine code. The bui ...
Investigate moving morph target mesh work from FSkeletalMeshLODRenderData::InitResources from Runtime Load to DDC/Cook
UE - Graphics Features - Mar 21, 2018See UDN Thread: Possibility for reducing loading times for morph targets by moving work to editor/cooker/ddc (whichever is appropriate) Loading times: Our model has ~70k verts and ~900 morphs – O ...
FARFilter does not exclude classes when told to
Tools - Oct 29, 2018If you look at the static method FilterByFloatRange inside AssetRegistryActor.cpp, you can see that the asset registry filter is set to recursively search paths and classes. It is also set to exclud ...
Plugin module is not reloaded when a game module that depends on the plugin module is hot reloaded
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - Hot Reload - Jun 28, 2018Performing a hot reload after modifying game code (plugin code is unmodified) does not also reload plugin modules. In the attached project, there are some log messages output when the plugin module ...
"Create Layers From Assigned Materials" assigns existing LayerInfos at random
UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Landscape - Jan 17, 2025The automatic landscape layer assignment that is performed when using "Create Layers From Assigned Materials" just uses the first layer info it finds with the layer's name, which leads to maps refer ...
Don't allocate landscape heightfield collision component scene proxies when Collisions display is off
UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Landscape - Nov 7, 2022ATM, ULandscapeHeighfieldCollisionComponent's scene proxy is created all the time, although it's only used for displaying collisions when Collisions mode is on. The scene proxies pre-allocate a very ...
Slow-rendering thumbnails can be queued up for real-time updates
UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Content Browser - Sep 22, 2016A licensee is seeing performance drops while using the editor due to a custom thumbnail renderer taking a while to generate thumbnails while Real-Time Thumbnail rendering is enabled, and has request ...
Editor FPS has significant drop when moving a BSP brush in level with multiple BSPs
UE - AI - Navigation - Jan 8, 2025Editor performance plummets when moving BSP brushes in a level with several other BSP brushes present. Navmesh regeneration is the main cause as the full bounds for all BSP are used to determine whi ...
Creating a code project named Test will fail the initial compile and every hot reload in Binary
UE - Foundation - Build - Farm - Jul 21, 2016When a C++ project is named Test on a Binary version of the editor, the project will fail to compile. I'm assuming this is from the editor seeing a precompiled header from another file in the engine ...
FBasePassMeshProcessor crashes in ODSC code because the WorldGridMaterial doesn't support translucency
UE - Rendering Architecture - Jan 30, 2023UDN: [Link Removed] Slack: [Link Removed] Then, the return value of TryAddMeshBatch is determined by FBasePassMeshProcessor::Process. When the crash occurs, GetBasePassShaders fails to get the shad ...