Collision Meshes Are Ignored Until FBX Is Reimported

Tools - Feb 20, 2017

When importing a mesh with it's collision geometry and its LOD meshes all contained within the same group it won't import the collision geometry correctly. This can be fixed by simply right clicking ...

Material Slot Names Get Replaced With "None" After Merge Actors Operation

Tools - Mar 23, 2017

After merging two actors the resulting merged actor's slot names will be replaced with "none". Fixing this is a very tedious process for our licensee since there usually is a large amount of slot ...

KiteDemo: Bookmark spawn function broken if in Run mode

Docs - Samples - May 4, 2017

While testing in KiteDemo - //UE4/Release-4.16 CL 3420042 in Binary – I found that pressing the bookmark attraction Scene keys (1 - 0) does not work as intended if user is in Run mode. ...

Keying the Spawned Property of a Spawnable Breaks in the details panel

UE - Anim - Sequencer - May 18, 2017

The spawnable mesh seems to be breaking when their spawned property is altered. If you uncheck the spawned property in Sequencer, the Details panel also breaks similar to keying the property. This ...

Datasmith imports glossiness Texture as a Normal Texture

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Datasmith - Exporters - Sep 6, 2018

The Datasmith Importer for 4.20 (4.20E2) imports Glossiness Textures as Normal Maps. This is a regression from 4.19.2 (0.182) as Glossiness Textures were imported as World Textures ...

Private lobbies cannot be invited to on Steam

UE - Online - May 13, 2019

The old method doesn't work with private match invites as it doesn't have the right security permissions. It's still valid for dedicated servers. It also doesn't work properly with lobbies on VR eit ...

Montage Root Motion does not work from sub anim instances

UE - Anim - Gameplay - Oct 25, 2019

Root motion from sub instances is not used when the parent instance is marked as 'Root Motion from Montages Only'. Proposed fix is to modify USkeletalMeshComponent::IsPlayingNetworkedRootMotionMo ...

ISM Component in an instanced BP does not take into account changes to NumCustomDataFloats from the BP class

UE - Graphics Features - Sep 16, 2022

PerInstanceSMCustomData is bulk serialized and doesn't get changed on the BP instance when changing NumCustomDataFloats, possibly causing out of bounds array access leading to a crash. Possible sol ...

LOD ScreenSize per platform is not reflected in the mobile preview

UE - Platform - Mobile - Jan 31, 2023

in 5.0 or 5.1, MinimumLOD  per platform can be previewed in the mobile ES3.1 preview mode, but It seems that the LOD ScreenSize per platform is not reflected in the mobile preview. ...

DX12/SM6 Sampler Counts increased for empty materials between 5.1 and 5.2

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - May 19, 2023

While not a major issue in and of itself, this can cause considerable headaches for materials where sampler counts in 5.1 were at 15/16 or 16/16 and when upgrading to 5.2 are now exceeding the built ...