Unreal Engine Issues

Replace references doesn't prompt to save dirtied assets that hold a soft reference to the deleted asset

When deleting an asset any other asset that holds a soft reference to the deleted item will appear in the reference list. For a soft reference when choosing to replace the references with another as ...

NiagaraSystem is compiled every time when first loaded in the editor

If you are using a large amount of Niagara, you will experience excessive load times in PIE even if nothing is changed. The following code change seems to be effective as an interim response. void ...

PlayerController isn't tickable during pause while using the 'Set Tickable When Paused' node

PlayerController isn't tickable during pause while using the 'Set Tickable When Paused' node. https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/243791/camera-ticks-but-does-not-update.html User Descriptio ...

[CrashReport] UE4Editor_Engine!UAnimSequenceBase::GetAnimationPose() [animsequencebase.h:148]

This is an intermittent crash coming out of the 4.17.1 release. I have not been able to find any record of this occurring in 4.17.0, so it may actually be a regression with the hotfix. Users have ...

Renaming a Blackboard Key removes it's references in the Behavior Tree

Renaming a Blackboard Key removes it's references in the Behavior Tree ...

Niagara - When Interpolated Spawning is disabled, the first frame of each particle unexpectedly does not take into account the Particle Update stage

Foreword: Even if the behavior described here is by design, it is rarely (if ever) expected or desired. This was discussed and agreed to be treated as a bug. Explanation below. When interpolated sp ...

Physics Constraints do not have the same values if they are part of an 'Always Loaded' level

Physics Constraints do not have the same values if they are part of an 'Always Loaded' level. They will work correctly in the Persistent level and a level that is Streamed in. This becomes problem ...

FoliageInstancedStaticMeshComponent Include Actor in HLOD state in InstancedFoliageActor is not set by change in FoliageType asset

In Editor, Blueprint resources are not freed up when the Blueprint is closed

It appears that the preview scene used to render thumbnails is not destroyed after a thumbnail is rendered, even after the blueprint editor is closed and GC is run. Also found in Release-5.4, CL: 31 ...

StructUtils plugin's `FInstancedStruct` in a CPP-defined struct in a `TArray` on an actor component defined in CPP and implemented in BP. Populating the instanced struct in an actor BP's class defaults breaks serialization of the class defaults.

Context Instanced structs are great for holding simple data with the main advantage they have is a low memory overhead unlike instanced objects. Problem The problem is in StructUtils plugin's `FIns ...