FBX export from UE4 with multiple materials the UV is corrupted

Tools - Apr 18, 2016

When exporting a Static Mesh from within UE4 that has multiple materials, some of the material IDs will be condensed into a single ID which will mess up how the material assignment for that part of ...

Manually importing LODs are rotated 90 degrees when using Transform Vertex to Absolute

Tools - May 26, 2016

When importing a Static Mesh if you use the default settings and then manually import any LODs for that static mesh they will be rotated by 90 degrees. I found that disabling Transform Vertex to A ...

Actor Component properties can become "linked" across multiple Blueprints after a hot reload

UE - Gameplay - Components - Dec 3, 2018

If code in an Actor Component class is changed (eg. a new UPROPERTY is added) and a hot reload is performed to implement the changes, the properties in the component can become linked across any Blu ...

When very far out from the map origin, large static mesh is not streaming in until player is close in world partition even though it's within loading range.

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - May 7, 2025

Context World Partition has a distance-based level streaming system that provides a complete solution for large world management. Problem The problem is that when the player and large static mesh a ...

Costs of Static Lights on Render Thread

UE - Graphics Features - Jun 9, 2016

A 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 ...

Vulkan leaks memory when opening and closing windows

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Nov 22, 2019

As described here: https://udn.unrealengine.com/questions/532725/index.html (1) Start Prebuilt Vanilla 4.23.1. with Vulkan enabled (2) Create a new project (3) Drag and drop the Sphere from “modes ...

Plane Constraint Normal is not Properly Reset

UE - Simulation - Physics - Jan 26, 2016

In the Character Movement Component, setting the Plane Constraint Normal to a value other than default, and then attempting to change the value back to the default does not revert to the default val ...

Android compile failure with GearVR

UE - Platform - XR - Jul 11, 2017

Compiling failure from several compile errors in the output log. They're of same type like this:UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)): xgConsole: In file included from D:\Streams\UE4_Release\Engine\ ...

Package build fails after disabling VR plugins

UE - Platform - XR - Mar 27, 2017

Package build fails after disabling VR plugins and launching the project The error message that pops up is: Fatal error: [Link Removed] [Line: 353] Missing global shader FPixelShaderDeclaration, P ...

Light function does not work with volumetric fog when not compatible with light atlas

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 28, 2025

Light functions do not work as intended with volumetric fog when using clamped mask textures which are not compatible with the light function atlas. In light functions materials, when using any UV ...