Cannot create Editor Toolbar Button with the name "Button"

Tools - Apr 19, 2017

The plugin fails to be created with the name "Button". The name button or BUTTON works as a plugin name. If there are some names that plugins cannot be called, then an error/warning message in the o ...

Unexpected behavior from moving multiple widget components with render transform

UE - Editor - UI Systems - May 10, 2017

Unexpected behavior occurs from moving multiple widget components with render transform applied to them. The individual components seem to change relative position or rotation when being clicked and ...

Split Struct pins cause errors when a project is converted to 4.17

UE - Gameplay - Aug 11, 2017

Split Struct pins cause errors when a project is converted to 4.17. You are still unable to split struct pins even if a new variable is created for the struct. Only adding a new variable to the st ...

Unable to select foliage by left clicking after 1.5 k foliage meshes placed

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Foliage - Aug 28, 2017

When using the foliage tool, once the mesh count reaches around 1.5k and higher you will be unable to select individual meshes by using the mouse. The lasso tool and the select all tool work as inte ...

[CrashReport] UE4Editor_GraphEditor!SGraphPin::GetTooltipText() [sgraphpin.cpp:1100]

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Slate - Sep 7, 2017

This is a common crash that has affected over 60 users since at least 4.16 User DescriptionsDeleted a SET variable Source Context 1091 FText SGraphPin::GetTooltipText() const 1092 { ...

Crash on Mac on exit.

Media Framework - Aug 17, 2020

A licensee reported trouble with a crash on exit on Mac. They discovered that the file AvfMediaPlayer.cpp, on the function Open there is this piece of code:// Force the AV player to not be able to ...

OSS Steam: SteamSocket listen connections do not work after poll group changes

UE - Online - Oct 25, 2021

In 4.27 the logic in SteamSocket.cpp which is part of the SteamSockets plugin was changed to use Poll Groups instead of a removed API function that checked all children of a listen socket. However,  ...

Editor-only blueprints like WidgetBlueprint are not added to cooked asset registry class hierarchy

UE - CoreTech - Aug 10, 2022

Both the Asset Registry and Asset Manager look for all subclasses of UBlueprintCore and use that to search for blueprint classes and construct an inheritance hierarchy. This always works in editor b ...

Switchboard Unable to Launch Multi-User Slate Server in Launcher Builds

UE - Virtual Production - Tools - Switchboard - Jan 14, 2023

Switchboard is unable to launch the Multi-User Slate Server in launcher builds.  This is because the default install location has "Program Files and "Epic Games" in the path (aka folders with spaces ...

Animation attributes - user defined structs containing types defined in plugins cannot be registered

UE - Anim - Runtime - Dec 18, 2023

This issue is caused by us forcing user defined structs to be loaded as part of AttributeTypes::Initialize.  That is called after at the ObjectSystemReady run phase during engine initialization howe ...