In UInstancedStaticMeshComponent, when some instances have near-zero scale, removing instances crashes the engine

UE - Rendering - Architecture - Oct 19, 2023

Class "UInstancedStaticMeshComponent" deliberately leaves null pointers in the "InstanceBodies" array of FBodyInstances. This can be seen in methods such as: [Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\I ...

Crash when copying PF_Stencil format from the GPU to the CPU

UE - Rendering - Architecture - RHI - Oct 18, 2023

This is a crash related to copying depth-stencil render targets to the CPU. See linked UDN for more info. ...

"Exclude From HLOD Levels" has no effect in a World Partition level set up with HLODs

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Oct 18, 2023

Unable to recapture the network channel data after stop the profile

UE - Metaverse - Profiling Tools - Oct 18, 2023

It appears that networking insights data is not being gathered when a delay capture is started with the "trace.send" or "trace.start" command. If we were starting from the application startup time w ...

Landscape nanite height mismatch

UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Landscape - Oct 17, 2023

From licensee: The height of Nanite rendered landscape does not match the height of non-nanite landscape. The error gets worse if you increase the Z Scale of the landscape actor. Our project rec ...

Nanite landscape mesh has a significant difference with normal landscape when using large Z scale value

UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Landscape - Oct 17, 2023

Result : there are significant differences between the generated Nanite mesh and the original landscape mesh (see [Link Removed]) Note : the bug was originally reported on this UDN : [Link Remove ...

Material Layers "swap" location instead of shift downwards.

UE - Rendering - Architecture - Materials - Oct 17, 2023

Licensee request for this as it is affecting productivity. Likely requires a method of allowing a user to choose which behaviour they prefer. For reference, the behaviour changed in CL 11684461 to f ...

A disabled Niagara component is respawned unexpectedly by scalability system in some edge cases

UE - Niagara - Oct 17, 2023

Even after manually Deactivating a Niagara component, this Niagara component may be revived under certain conditions. This issue occurs when the following conditions are met before the Deactivated N ...

Unable to affect setting cubemap blend in skyLight and reflections on transluscent materials

UE - Rendering - Architecture - Oct 17, 2023

Attempting to blend SkyLight Cubemaps via the SetCubemapBlend function to blend between different Cubemaps to make the changes seamless is not reflected. As a workaround, in LumenTracingCommon.ush, ...

FKismetCompilerUtilities::ValidateProperEndExecutionPath() was unintentionally removed from compile-time graph validation

UE - Framework - Blueprint Compiler - Oct 16, 2023

We no longer include a note/warning when an expected execution path will not be taken in a function graph due to the presence of a return node. This was inadvertently removed by the change that intr ...