Null Material Layers in Material Instances cause Opacity Mask and WPO to break on Nanite Meshes

UE - Rendering - Architecture - Materials - Oct 31, 2024

When a Material Instance is loaded that has a nullptr layer in StaticParametrs.Materiallayers.  The Material Instance will create it's own CachedExpressionData but the ConnectedParameterMask will be ...

Static/stationary child actor components are invisible and/or move position when placed inside a dynamically loaded level

UE - Engine Scaling - Streaming - Oct 31, 2024

When loading a non-world partitioned level into a persistent world partitioned level, parent actors with child actor components within the loaded map will move position or become invisible. Within t ...

Reduce the overhead of World Partition cells UObjects on GC

UE - Engine Scaling - Streaming - World Partition - Oct 30, 2024

Users with large numbers of UObjects (500k+) that are using World Partition want to enable GC actor clustering to handle streaming levels but no performance gains are realized when enabling GC clust ...

Objects animated in Sequencer fail to trigger collisions against stationary characters with character movement components

UE - Runtime - Character - Oct 22, 2024

When an object, such as a cube, is animated in sequencer and that object's path intersects a stationary character with a character movement component, the object will pass through the character with ...

Actor foliage does not respect "foliage.CullDistanceScale"

UE - Engine Scaling - Streaming - Oct 15, 2024

Actor foliage does not respect the "foliage.CullDistanceScale" console variable. This was brought up in a UDN: [Link Removed] ...

Nanite foliage doesn't respect "foliage.MaxEndCullDistance"

UE - Engine Scaling - Streaming - Foliage - Oct 15, 2024

Nanite foliage static meshes do not respect the "foliage.MaxEndCullDistance" console variable setting. This was brought up in a UDN: [Link Removed] ...

Ghosting effect of fast moving objects in Lumen

UE - Rendering - Features - Lumen - Oct 15, 2024

Level Instance desaturation effect does not respect occlusion when the selected object is occluded by a Nanite mesh

UE - Engine Scaling - Streaming - Level Instances - Oct 14, 2024

When selecting an asset in a level instance that is being edited via LevelInstance/Edit, the silhouette of the object is visible through occluding nanite meshes. This has the effect of disabling th ...

Check for sRGB on Normal and Mask samplers instead checks against Greyscale and Alpha samplers

UE - Rendering - Architecture - Materials - Sep 24, 2024

In FMaterialInstanceEditor::RefreshOnScreenMessages, there is a check for sRGB on Normal and Mask samplers. The issue is the check uses a TextureCompressionSettings enum cast to EMaterialSamplerTyp ...