Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
VSM shadows are missing for non-Nanite meshes in a PPV where Megalights is disabled, but Megalights is enabled in the project
UE - Rendering - Features - Jul 14, 2026In UE 5.8 r.Visibility.LocalLightPrimitiveInteraction mode 2 (enabled if MegaLights is disabled) was added and made the new default as a performance optimization. However, this causes shadows to d ...
Creating a function with parameter type TEnumAsByte<MyEnum> will crash while compiling
UE - Editor - Jan 11, 2022This is a regression.This does not affect UE5. Creating a function with parameter type TEnumAsByte<MyEnum> will crash while compiling. In 4.26 and UE5 the code compiles without issue, and the user ...
PlaySoundAtLocation node not working in packaged IOS games
UE - Platform - Mobile - Jan 12, 2015Sound queues set to play with "Play Sound at Location" node don't play on a game packaged for IOS. **NOTE** User workaround mentioned that sound will come out from connected bluetooth. ...
Ray Traced Distance Field on OpenGL not working
UE - Graphics Features - Dec 1, 2015Are Ray Ttraced Distance Field Soft Shadows supported on OpenGL ES3.1 + Android Extension Pack platforms like the Shield Tablet or Shield Console? Since the ES3.1+AEP platform supports deferred ren ...
Crash After Reimporting Static Mesh With Added Material Slot
Tools - Jan 12, 2017After importing a mesh without any materials assigned, if you add a material slot and save the material. Reimporting this mesh will cause a crash. The only way to avoid this crash is to import a me ...
Switchboard Unable to Launch Multi-User Slate Server in Launcher Builds
zComponent - Archive - Jan 14, 2023Switchboard is unable to launch the Multi-User Slate Server in launcher builds. This is because the default install location has "Program Files and "Epic Games" in the path (aka folders with spaces ...
Delete Unused Variables Does Not Remove Local Variables
UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Oct 13, 2015Using the Delete Unused Variables option under the Edit tab of a blueprint does not remove local variables. Instead, it displays a "All variables are in use" error. Occurs in 4.9.2 and 4.8.3 binar ...
Path Tracing denoiser is not stable in animation
UE - Graphics Features - Nov 30, 2021When rendering an animation with the path tracer through MovieRenderQueue, at low sampling rates the denoiser produces splotchy results that flicker from frame to frame. The current denoiser (Ope ...
Maximum number of State Machine connections?
OLD - Anim - Mar 16, 2015Adding more than 8 connections to or from a state in the state machine results in unpredictable behavior, like causing an animation to fail. (See image.) Was able to reproduce with user's test file ...
Live Node Previews are broken with Coordinates higher than UV0
UE - Rendering - Architecture - Materials - May 18, 2015User reporting the Live Node Preview in the Material Editor will return only Black in the Node when using any UV other than UV0. Also reproduced in Main Promotable-CL-2552010 & Releases/4.8/Promote ...