Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Local Variable loses value after reference moves file location
UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - May 23, 2017Local Variable loses value after reference moves file locations. This does not just affect construction scripts, following these steps with a function instead produced the same result. This issue do ...
ResavePackages commandlet with -fixupredirects flag won't update asset references on shared collections
UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Content Browser - Mar 29, 2018We currently have two methods of fixing up redirectors: the ResavePackages commandlet and the Fix Up option within the editor. While the editor's option correctly handles collections via FAssetFixUp ...
Editor Crash when trying to get Color data from Vertex buffer
UE - Graphics Features - Nov 6, 2019When attempting to get the vertex color of an instance of of a static mesh that is painted after placing it in the World Viewport. The Editor crashes returning an "Unhandled Exception". The cause o ...
[AI] Compilation error when using const version of FNavigationPath::CastPath<PathClass>() const
UE - Runtime - Character - Jan 5, 2022Const version of function is not used elsewhere in the engine so it usually gets skipped when compiling. Produces the following error when compiling: UnrealEngine\Engine\Source\Runtime\Navigation ...
Inconsistent VSM page behavior around the Dynamic Shadow Distance range
UE - Rendering - Features - Shadows - Feb 17, 2026When a sufficiently large object casts shadows near the Directional Light's Dynamic Shadow Distance range, the VSM pages are inconsistent in their shadowing - some will choose to shadow per-pixel, w ...
The crash reporter tool does not start on Windows 8.1 machines when running the Engine built from source code.
UE - Foundation - Core - Dec 5, 2014The source code to build the Engine that is available from GitHub includes the file dbghelp.dll, which prevents the crash reporter tool from starting on Windows 8.1 machines. This file is not presen ...
Inconsistent Spectator Camera Behavior When Run Dedicated Server is Enabled
UE - Networking - Apr 12, 2017Spectator cameras don't seem to be set to the correct transform when the ChangeState/ClientGoToState functions are called when using a dedicated server. After testing on a listen server, it appear ...
FGameProjectHelper::GetAvailableMaps() doesn't get all available maps
Tools - Aug 17, 2017This function hardcodes Game/Content/ and optionally includes Engine/Content to search for maps to cook. This means that you cannot select a map from a content plugin to cook. Instead the code shoul ...
Migrating assets to a plugin causes references to break
UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Content Browser - Jun 14, 2018The migrate function is meant for moving assets from one content folder to another, so it does no actual modification of the references in the migrated assets. This is normally fine, since we expect ...
Upgrading project results in loss of game input
UE - Gameplay - Input - Jan 7, 2020Upgrading a marketplace creator's project to engine version 4.23.1 and above results in loss of (previously) working functionality with game input. ProjectDownload: [Link Removed] Tested in: 4.2 ...