Importing static mesh while a PIE session is running permanently breaks nanite on the asset

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - Mar 12, 2025

Importing a Static Mesh during PIE can cause it to never enable Nanite, even if it reports that Nanite is enabled. To re-enable Nanite on the mesh, the asset needs to be deleted and imported again ...

Dragging to the content browser from an open import selection window will cause an assertion crash

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - Jun 21, 2016

Using a very specific way of importing an FBX will cause a crash assertion that closes the editor without opening crash reporter. Essentially when using the import button in the content browser and ...

Importing mesh with Materials and Textures created default white materials

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - Sep 21, 2016

REGRESSION: YesWORKING: 3132914 (Dev-Editor merge into Main)BROKEN: 3133983 FBX files referencing external textures via absolute path are no longer resolved correctly. This used to work - as seen w ...

5.5.4 - Morph targets 1 frame offset

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - Feb 17, 2025

Morph targets work! Yay! But found another issue. Basically import an fbx with multiple animated morph targets applied to it. The morph change shape over 1 frame and for some reason in 5.5.4, there' ...

Imported Maya animation seems to be 1-frame off in Unreal

OLD - Anim - Apr 5, 2016

A licensee reported this issue on UDN. They are seeing a discrepancy with animations imported from Maya. In this case, they appear to be off by 1-frame. We've talked about this on Slack and I know ...

Importing animation onto a camera in Sequencer adds extra keys to the scale and rotation attributes

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Oct 22, 2019

When importing non-baked animation (i.e. not keyed on every frame) onto a camera in sequencer, Unreal adds extra keys to the rotation and scale attributes as if it is baking the rotation and scale a ...

Editor Crashes when importing some FBXs with multiple Material IDs in 4.14.2

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - Jan 5, 2017

This is a regression in behavior between 4.14.1 and 4.14.2! The editor will crash when importing FBX meshes that have multiple material ID assignments. If it's a single material ID it will import w ...

Multiple Materials not assigned to Mesh on Import

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - Jan 6, 2017

Not all material elements are created and assigned to the static mesh using multiple materials. With the attached mesh, only the first element is created and the other two are left non-existent. I c ...

Camera Switcher Import option not functioning properly

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Oct 22, 2019

In UE 4.20 we got a feature that let you import a FBX file that contains cameras with a camereaswitcher to create a "camera cut track" within sequencer. From the release notes of 4.20: https://docs ...

Crash on setting Material in Element 1 of Combined Mesh

Tools - Mar 19, 2015

Crash on clearing or setting the second or third material slot in the Static Mesh Editor on an imported combined FBX Mesh. Also Reproduced in Main Promotable-CL-2484152 (Perforce) NOTE: User is o ...