Enabling Shader compilation via XGE for 4.18 Editor downloaded from Launcher doesn't work, prevents shaders from compiling at all, editor from loading in some cases

UE - Foundation - Build - Rocket (Installed Engine) - Nov 9, 2017

If you enable Shader compilation via XGE by setting r.XGEShaderCompile = 1 in ConsoleVariables.ini in 4.18 Editor downloaded from Launcher, it prevents shaders from compiling at all, and as a result ...

Incremental Cooks: Add dependencies on files loaded during Load/Save of the package

UE - Foundation - Data Pipeline - Cooker - Oct 19, 2022

Iterative and Incremental cooking are supposed to recook packages when their "inputs" change. Most of the time inputs are the package file itself and the other package files on which it has dependen ...

BP - Editing defaults on a nested subobject of a component inherited from a native parent class won't preserve those defaults when the BP is instanced.

UE - Gameplay - Components - Jan 19, 2017

I think the issue is that in GetInstancedSubobject() (CoreNative.cpp), the following bit of code is not considering that the instanced subobject might be outered to another instanced subobject withi ...

Translucent Materials and Atmospheric Fog Appear Black or Pink on Mac

UE - Graphics Features - Jan 3, 2018

I tested this on a Mac Pro in UE 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, and 4.18. As a possible workaround for the fog issue, I've discovered that setting Atmospheric Fog > Lighting > Disable Ground Scatter to "True" wi ...

Loading instanced static mesh causes memory leak in packaged game

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Foliage - Mar 3, 2021

The leaking variable is UInstancedStaticMeshComponent::InstanceDataBuffers. The memory block is passed to InitPerInstanceRenderData() via InstanceDataBuffers.Release(). But the function doesn't mana ...

Saving Level changes the Rotation of actors with parent-child relationships

UE - Gameplay - Components - Nov 14, 2019

According to the licensee report, UnrealMath.cpp (588) constfloat SINGULARITY_THRESHOLD = 0.4999995f; It seems that this can be avoided by changing the above value. However, changing SINGU ...

Large Memory Allocations When Adding a Landscape_WaterBrushManager

UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Mar 17, 2025

When a "Water Body River" is added to a Scene with a Landscape, eleven Render Targets are allocated for the water rendering. These Render Targets are sized according to the resolution of the Landsca ...

Sequencer crashes when scrubbing characters with sub-anim instances and montage slots

OLD - Anim - Oct 2, 2019

I saw a following assertion. Assertion failed: (AdditivePoses.Num() > 0) || (NonAdditivePoses.Num() > 0) [Link Removed] [Line: 1381] This is my quick fix// code placeholder void FAnimInstance ...

Mobile Preview -> AutoLandscape Material broken if created in 4.22+

UE - Platform - Mobile - Oct 25, 2019

Landscape Layers created in 4.22+ revert to default material in Mobile Preview. Confirmed in MAIN at CL 9730599 ...

[CrashReport] UE4Editor_UMG!TBaseDelegate<FMargin>::operator=() [delegatesignatureimpl.inl:381]

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Aug 29, 2017

This is a longstanding and common UMG crash that has affected more than 200 users since at least the 4.15 release. User DescriptionsI was working in the UI and undid several last changes in quick s ...