Lumen ignores Landscape Holes (Landscape Visibility) when Hardware Ray Tracing is enabled and Ray Lighting Mode is set to Surface Cache

UE - Graphics Features - Ray Tracing - Jan 31, 2025

Context Lumen is the default global illumination and reflections system. Lumen renders diffuse interreflection with infinite bounces and indirect specular reflections in large, detailed environments ...

Foot Placement: Up vector is not configurable

UE - Anim - Gameplay - Jan 31, 2025

Up vector is not configurable so Foot Placement does support variable gravity cases. ...

No warnings or errors if a UEnum has Bitflags metadata, but no Flags flag.

UE - Framework - Blueprint Compiler - Jan 29, 2025

The problem here isn't obvious: the native enum, EAnotherEnum, is missing the Flags flag for the UEnum. As a result, K2Node_GetEnumeratorNameAsString returns the max enum when it gets a combined fla ...

Bitmask ints can't be converted to strings

UE - Framework - Blueprint Compiler - Jan 29, 2025

While we do have an auto cast function that handles an int to string conversion, bitmask ints use a "bitmask" subcategory which thwarts are ability to find the cast function. ...

K2Node_GetEnumeratorName doesn't support bitmasks

UE - Framework - Blueprint Compiler - Jan 29, 2025

This is almost identical to [Link Removed]. The difference is that we need a variant of UEnum::GetNameByValue that supports bitmasks. We'll likely have to run this by Core. ...

SkinnedMeshComponent::BoneTransformUpdateMethodQueue is never reset in server builds

UE - Rendering Architecture - Jan 27, 2025

We reset BoneTransformUpdateMethodQueue in USkinnedMeshComponent::CreateRenderState_Concurrent and USkinnedMeshComponent::SendRenderDynamicData_Concurrent but these code paths are never called in se ...

HLODs appear dark/near black when built for very large geometry with Virtual Textures enabled

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Jan 27, 2025

Building HLODs for a very large landscape with Virtual Textures enabled results in the built HLODs being very dark for the most part. Building the same large landscape's HLODs with Virtual Textures ...

In -game in Editor, if streaming-in a LevelInstance and initialize its world partition, then leaving that cell and make it go outside the streaming grid, to re-enter it again, will trigger a check(!StreamingPolicy) if no GC has happened during that time.

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Jan 27, 2025

This crash can be fixed by adding a couple of || IsRunningGame() like it is done here:    FGenerateStreamingContext Context = FGenerateStreamingContext()        .SetLevelPackagesToGenerate((bIsPIE ...

PropertySet : changes in instancedstruct are not detected by the watch

UE - Graphics Tools - Modeling Tools - GeometryScripting - Jan 24, 2025

Hi, I tried to use for a scriptable tool the watch property node for a struct. The objective for me was to offer to my user a view of a struct in the scriptable tool and have these modifications b ...

When a TSoftObjectPtr pointing to a const type is used as a parameter for a Dyanmic delegate, unreal marks it as deprecaded.

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealHeaderTool - Jan 21, 2025

A change has been done to the TSoftObjectPtr class that warns when constructing a pointer-to non-const from a pointer-to-const. This change makes sense and is correct. Example: UTexture2D* Loade ...