Updating Material does not update platform stats in derived Instance

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Nov 26, 2024

It 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 ...

Capsule Shadows Not Visible When Using Movable Skylight With Bright Lower Hemisphere Color and Indirect Lighting Cache

UE - Graphics Features - May 9, 2018

I have managed to reproduce this issue in 4.18.3 and 4.19.2. In order to make the Capsule Shadow disappear:Indirect Lighting Cache must be used (Volumetric Lightmap works)Skylight must be set to 'M ...

UMG widget callbacks do not set PIE context in editor

UE - Editor - UI Systems - May 21, 2018

This is from a UDN post. Several gameplay functions, such as level streaming and SoftObjectPtr resolution, depend on the GPlayInEditorID being set when that code is executed in PIE in the editor. T ...

The light in the Blueprint Editor's Preview Scene does not respond to any lighting channel but 0.

UE - Framework - Blueprint Editor - Jun 28, 2024

In the Blueprint Editor, Primitive Components can be configured to respond to Lighting Channels 0, 1, and/or 2. However, if channel 0 is disabled (even with another one enabled), the Preview Actor's ...

FBX material IDs from 3DS Max are reordered in automatic LOD generation

Tools - Sep 12, 2018

This appears to be a UE4 bug in the way it handles the importing of FBX Material IDs from 3DS Max exports.Max uses set Mat IDs to organize multiple materials on a single object.UE4 correctly handles t ...

Tabbing out of exclusive fullscreen leaves the window & backbuffer in an incorrect state

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Apr 24, 2020

With windows 10 there has come some new swap chains, which unfortunately messes some things with regards to fullscreen up. We've fixed a bunch in the renderer (which would downright cause crashes), ...

Possible data loss/corruption when loading levels in editor

UE - Gameplay - Jul 18, 2018

Reported behavior: Given Level_A which contains object_X, where object_X references Level_BDeleting object_X causes AssetRenameManger to check if we need to patch up other levelsLevel_B is load ...

Failure to sign when packaging for iOS Distribution when using Remote Compile from a code project on Windows

UE - Platform - Mobile - Feb 20, 2019

Packaging for iOS Distribution from Windows using Remote Compile results in a failure during the signing portion. This seems to be caused by a hardcoded "false" for a property that is used to determ ...

SketchUp UV scale is not consistent for Datasmith imports.

TM - Interoperability - Dec 6, 2024

This is not a regression.  We have 2 issues here.  First we have different tiling for the different materials, since the way sketchup handles texture scale. They scale the UVs of the object instead ...

References to Data Assets that inherit from Blueprints may be broken during reinstancing

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Nov 30, 2020

It is possible to create new Data Asset instances in the editor that inherit from a blueprint-defined subclass of UDataAsset. This flow is not very well supported, and generally it is safer to just ...