Ambient Occlusion does not function with Forward Rendering enabled

UE - Graphics Features - Feb 24, 2021

Ambient Occlusion does not seem to function when enabling Forward Rendering. I tested the level without Forward Shading and could notice a visible difference in the shadows when Ambient Occlusion wa ...

Virtual textures flicker if physical pool is oversubscribed

UE - Graphics Features - Feb 24, 2021

If a virtual texture physical pool becomes oversubscribed the current behavior is: Log a one time only warning: ''Failed to allocate VT page from pool...' Continue to evict the least recently used t ...

Virtual textures can appear blurry or corrupt in the texture editor view.

UE - Graphics Features - Feb 24, 2021

Virtual textures can appear blurry or corrupt in the texture editor view. [Link Removed] ...

Auto virtual texture import can be confusing for some users

UE - Graphics Features - Feb 24, 2021

There have been a few times internally and with licensees where people have enabled virtual texturing on a project to access RVT and then have been surprised when textures start to be imported as st ...

Texture Reimport can change a regular texture to a virtual texture

UE - Graphics Features - Feb 24, 2021

Reloading a regular texture will convert it to a virtual texture if the size is greater or equal to the "Auto Virtual Texturing Size" setting. This is often not the desired behavior. The status of t ...

CheckForWorldGCLeaks crash using New Level from Template node to duplicate sublevel of the currently loaded level

Tools - Feb 23, 2021

A world leak crash occurs when using NewLevelFromTemplate to duplicate a sublevel of the currently loaded level. The crash doesn't manifest until another level is loaded even though the Sublevel ins ...

Loading a blueprint with an invalid gameplay tag container pin causes ensure and data loss

UE - Gameplay - Feb 23, 2021

The gameplay tag system depends on tags being registered with the global manager as valid in order to correctly read them off disk. Two different issues are combining to cause a confusing ensure and ...

Assertion failed: IsValid() in AudioDeviceManager.h related to dragging and dropping cues into the viewport

UE - Audio - Feb 23, 2021

I was not able to reproduce this issue with the user given repro steps, however the crash has occurred for multiple users according to Crash Reporter, so it is worth investigating more into ...

Persistent level containing sublevels with HLODS invalidate after saving.

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Feb 22, 2021