Debug display of TargetingSelectionTask_AOE with cylinder is unnaturally tilted

UE - Gameplay - Gameplay Ability System - Oct 30, 2024

The following code fixes the tilt : void UTargetingSelectionTask_AOE::DebugDrawBoundingVolume(const FTargetingRequestHandle& TargetingHandle, const FColor& Color, const FOverlapDatum* OverlapDatum) ...

UnrealTraceServer exits when encountering a symlink on Windows

UE - Foundation - Insights - Oct 30, 2024

UnrealTraceServer exits on startup (or when watching a directory) when a watched store directory contains a symlink on Windows. Cause: The std::filesystem::directory_entry::is_directory() call thro ...

Invalid access location compressing a BC6h texture in the editor

RAD - Oct 29, 2024

Large texture crashes during Oodle compression with "-stompmalloc". It appears to be an internal Oodle error. Also tested on //UE5/Release-5.5/, CL: 37463908 ...

Depth of Field blur is inconsistent with r.ScreenPercentage == 100 (Dynamic resolution)

UE - Graphics Features - Oct 29, 2024

Depth of Field, with "r.DOF.Recombine.Quality = 0" will adjust the size of the depth in focus based on screen percentage. This might be related to over-fitting from the tile classification, because ...

UE 5.5 delayed Python initialization causes issues

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Oct 28, 2024

From this UDN: [Link Removed] The customer reports that this issue did not happen in 5.4. ...

Lighting behavior is unreliable for translucent lit materials, results are inconsistent depending on the editor camera's FOV and the editor viewport's width/height/aspect

UE - Rendering Architecture - Oct 27, 2024

When working on the level editor viewport or testing on PIE, the visual appearance of additive/translucent lit materials changes significantly (and abruptly) when varying the camera FOV or the viewp ...

Long thin splines with wide tangents do not generate correct collision geometry

UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Water - Oct 24, 2024

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GAS: Initial OnRep_SpawnedAttributes from DefaultStartingData clears attribute values for already replicated ActiveGameplayEffects

UE - Gameplay - Gameplay Ability System - Oct 23, 2024

Context The property 'DefaultStartingData' in AbilitySystemComponent can be configured from blueprint to spawn default attribute sets. This happens OnRegister. For runtime spawned actors like pawns ...

TraceString for TChar strings has an erroneous return statement leading to unreachable code

UE - Foundation - Insights - Oct 23, 2024

In StringTrace.cpp, the TraceString(const TCHAR* InString) function has an erroneous return statement before UE_TRACE_LOG_DEFINITION within the branch checking if the string is already in the set. ...

D3D12Texture::Lock incorrectly sizes staging buffer when locking block compressed resources

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Oct 23, 2024

D3D12Texture::Lock computes the size of the staging buffer on Line 1541 of D3D12Texture.cpp. This size uses the RowPitch, which for BCn resources encapsulates the size in bytes of a single row of bl ...