Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Different instanced materials are seen as the same material due to GUID
UE - Graphics Features - Jun 3, 2021See licensee description of the issue: The problem appears when I have two instanced materials with the same number of parameters. I've noticed that ShaderMapId has MaterialLayersParameterIDs where ...
[VR] Camera attached to non-root scene component in BP will sink into floor after Reset to Floor Origin
UE - Platform - XR - Aug 12, 2016When a project is first created following the Setting up UE4 to work with SteamVR docs, the Vive camera works correctly and will display at the correct height. However, if at any point during develo ...
TickComponent and PostPhysicsTick in SkeletalMeshComponent can cause simultaneous read/write access
UE - Anim - Runtime - Jan 18, 2023When a SkeletalMeshComponent is restarted by calling in order of SetSimulatePhysics and SetComponentTickEnabled, the TickComponent and EndPhysicsTick are executed simultaneously. As a result, the ...
Blueprints from UE4 with dangling delegate reroute node crashes on UE5 load
UE - Gameplay - Blueprint Compiler - Dec 22, 2023If a project from UE 4.27 or earlier has a blueprint with a reroute node dangling (no outgoing connection) from a Custom Event Node's delegate pin (red), this blueprint will crash when loaded in UE ...
Niagara Crash : ExportParticleDataToBlueprint module causes buffer overrun
UE - Niagara - Aug 10, 2021This buffer overrun is probably caused by the ExportParticleDataToBlueprint module does not respecting the GPUAllocation Fixed Size setting in the module. In fact, out-of-range export data is not c ...
Crash on play if a BP uses a ClearInstances node followed by an AddInstance node
UE - Graphics Features - Jul 21, 2017Crash on play if a BP manipulates a InstancedStaticMeshComponent by using a ClearInstances node followed by an AddInstance node. This is a blocker for the licensee. This is a regression: Working ...
Crash in FUniformExpressionSet::FillUniformBuffer trying access deleted UTextureCollection
UE - Rendering Architecture - May 30, 2025Crash in FUniformExpressionSet::FillUniformBuffer trying access deleted UTextureCollection (Experimental in 5.6). The licensee describes their crash, their analysis, and a proposed fix: This crash ...
Initializing custom Component on Actor in constructor causes odd hierarchy and details panel issues
UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Feb 19, 2019When testing with a simple setup, as follows: MySceneComponent has a UProperty(VisibleAnywhere, BlueprintReadOnly) of a USphereComponent pointer, initiated in the Constructor AMyActor has a UProper ...
Focus mode in the Editor does not handle Actors without PrimitiveComponent correctly, treating them as if they were at the origin (0,0,0), skewing the camera placement.
UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Nov 18, 2024Focus mode in the Editor does not handle Actors without PrimitiveComponent correctly, treating them as if they were at the origin (0,0,0), skewing the camera placement. Some Actors like the WorldDat ...
Updating Material does not update platform stats in derived Instance
UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Nov 26, 2024It would seem that updating a material does not update the associated platform stats in a material instance editor, only the parameters. Can workaround by manually invoking shader compile in the ma ...