Bindless Virtual Textures are sampled with non-virtual samplers

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Nov 28, 2024

Texture Collections can contain virtual textures. There is no way to inform TextureObjectFromCollection that the texture is virtual, only that it is a Texture2D. This texture object is then sampled ...

The visibility state of on-screen stat messages is not restored correctly after entering and leaving PIE. This also affects other important on-screen messages like map warnings and debug messages.

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Nov 28, 2024

Currently, the ShowStats viewport option is automatically enabled when entering PIE and automatically disabled when exiting PIE. This forced disabling happens even if the option was enabled prior to ...

CharacterMovementComponent: NavWalking with high value for NavWalkingFloorDistTolerance can causes character meshes to be teleported up/down when crouching/uncrouching

UE - AI - Navigation - Nov 27, 2024

Context CharacterMovementComponent can be set in the NavWalking mode so that on the server the characters move using the navigation mesh as floor. This helps performance when the nav mesh is more c ...

Landscape / Volume Culling option doesn't work on Simplified HLODs

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Nov 26, 2024

There are options on both landscapes and HLOD layers that when enabled, performs the  culling of invisible HLOD vertices (parts of HLOD meshes ending up below the terrain).  The option works fine w ...

Character jumping between two moving platforms will incorrectly inherit the sum of both platform velocities

UE - Gameplay - Player Movement - Nov 26, 2024

A character standing in a base will match its velocity to the base's velocity. If that character jumps into another base its velocity will be added to the new base's velocity and the character will ...

Crash on packaged dedicated server when a uproperty is marked as both replicated and editor-only

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealHeaderTool - Nov 26, 2024

In some situations, it can be useful to have a replicated editor-only C++ property (For example, the user that reported this issue was attempting to replicate settings to the client for game designe ...

Invalid PropertyConnectedMask in layered material instance when base material doesn't use material attributes

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Nov 20, 2024

When UMaterialInstanceConstant::UpdateCachedData() updates CachedExpressionData.PropertyConnectedMask for material instances with layers incorrectly, it can lead to various graphical issues includin ...

Shadow Maps performance issue with 5.4 in comparison towards 5.3

UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Nov 20, 2024

Shadow depths performance for non-VSM in certain scenes, notably those with rect lights and meshes that are set to movable, went from ~2ms to ~18ms going from UE 5.3 to UE 5.4. Setting the movable a ...

Getting the Outer (GetOuter()) inside AssetUserData::PostEditChangeOwner added to an instanced actor in a level returns the Outer marked with "Trash"

UE - Framework - Nov 20, 2024

When you call GetOuter() inside AssetUserData::PostEditChangeOwner, the Outer that is returned, is marked as "Trash". This is because the object is constructed again when an AssetUserData is added. ...

Behavior Tree (BT) services added to root nodes call the initial tick twice

UE - AI - Nov 20, 2024

Behavior Tree (BT) services added to root nodes call the initial tick twice A BT Service with the setting "Call Tick on Search Start" enabled will execute the initial tick twice when added to the ro ...