Unreal Engine Issues

Unable to override private Blueprint variables in child classes

In UE4, "Private" for Blueprint variables was misnamed: its behavior actually meant "Protected". In other words, it can't be read or written to by external objects, but it can be by derived types. A ...

USkeletalMeshComponent::HandleExistingParallelClothSimulation() calling WaitUntilTaskCompletes can trigger arbitrary task that modifies currently iterated UWorld::ComponentsThatNeedPreEndOfFrameSync

Context ActorComponents can schedule an end-of-frame update for themselves by calling UWorld::MarkActorComponentForNeededEndOfFrameUpdate. The UWorld will iterate all those actor components once pe ...

Crash after generating HLODs for merged meshes that have all triangles culled

Crash after adding an AI Perception component to a parent and child character

Crash after adding an AI Perception component to a parent and child character. First they both must have had AI Perception components > Compiled and saved > Then both AI Perception components delete ...

[CrashReport] FPhysicsAssetEditorSharedData::FPhysicsAssetEditorSharedData

This is a trending crash coming out of the 4.18 release, and may be a regression. Users have not provided any descriptions of their actions when the crash occurred. Source Context 2290 #end ...

Loading a blueprint with an invalid gameplay tag container pin causes ensure and data loss

The gameplay tag system depends on tags being registered with the global manager as valid in order to correctly read them off disk. Two different issues are combining to cause a confusing ensure and ...

Custom Primitive Data on BP instance not taking affect while in editor

https://udn.unrealengine.com/s/case/5004z00001n9LsOAAU/custom-primitive-data-on-bp-inst ance-not-taking-affect-while-in-editor Original Repo is from 4.27, however, it still happens in 5.2. This is ...

HotReload fails with Linker errors when using Visual Studio 2017

I had a tester with VS 2015 run through the steps I failed with, and they were unable to repro. JamesF was able to repro the issue on VS 2017. JamesF pointed out that this does not occur is you cho ...

EDITOR: LIVE: CRASH: Reroute nodes can cause a loop that freezes the editor.

Branch Build Label UE4-Main Promoted-CL-2230001 DESCRIPTION: If reroute nodes are used to make a loop, the editor will not catch it and the loop will freeze the editor. ADDITIONAL NOTES: Creatin ...

Steam fails to initialize when using the steamclient file from SteamCMD

Steam fails to initialize when using the steamclient file SteamCMDLogLoad: Game class is 'ShooterGame_FreeForAll' LogOnline: OSS: Creating online subsystem instance for: Steam LogOnline: Verbose: ...