Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Artifacts when using virtual textures for multiple attributes in material layers
UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Sep 29, 2022When using the Material Layer system and virtual textures, the number of physical texture samples in the shader increases with the number of material attributes that a virtual texture writes to. The ...
WindDirectionalSourceComponent.h has a meta edit condition that, by referencing an undefined property (bSimulatePhysics), throws an error
UE - Framework - Apr 15, 2025WindDirectionalSourceComponent.h has a meta edit condition that, by referencing an undefined class property (bSimulatePhysics), throws an error in the logs: LogEditCondition: Error: EditCondition pa ...
Disabled Skeletal Mesh Sections cause Shadow Ray Tracing Flicker
UE - Graphics Features - Dec 12, 2025If a skeletal mesh has a section disabled the ray traced shadow will flicker when the camera or itself moves. Previously in 5.6.0 no raytraced shadow would appear if a section was disabled. This wa ...
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, 2024When 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. ...
When exporting from a level sequence, the LOD for the bones is based on the camera distance, instead of using LOD0
UE - Anim - Sequencer - Oct 9, 2025When exporting a level sequence to an animation sequence, the bones used will be based on the LOD for the current camera location, instead of exporting LOD0. This is very noticable if you pull the ...
CachedMaxDrawDistance value are not updated by CullDistanceVolume in persistent Level
UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Composition - Dec 16, 2022in PIE, RerunConstructionScript() is executed and actor's CachedMaxDrawDistance is updated as expected. in packaged game, RerunConstructionScript() is not executed so, CullDistanceVolume is not u ...
Unnecessary reference remains in material instance when using StaticSwitch in material
UE - Graphics Features - Aug 7, 20191.Create a material that switches textures using StaticSwitch. 2.Create a material instance and toggle the switch to overwrite the texture. 3.Then return the static switch settings to their defaul ...
Directional light triggers 'too many overlapping lights' error in forward shading
UE - Graphics Features - Sep 24, 2019The underlying reason seems to be that the stationary lights require SM channels for casting shadows from movable objects and they are assigned channels 0,1,2 by lightmass (or somewhere along the w ...
Exception generated launching Horde Agent built with 5.6
UE - Foundation - Horde - Server - Jul 28, 2025The source of the problem seems to be using IOptionsSnapshot with a Singleton. Per the MS documentation for IOptionsSnapshot, "Is registered as Scoped and therefore can't be injected into a Singleto ...
Niagara module inputs don't handle bitfield enums correctly
UE - Niagara - Feb 17, 2025As one clicks on the enum fields trying to form an input, the log is written with a variation of the following: [2025.02.14-17.42.38:940][521]LogNiagaraEditor: Error: Error getting default value fo ...