Unreal Engine Issues

Changing the value of a parent class variable does not update after hot reload

When the value of a variable defined in a parent class is changed inside of the child class, the value is not updated in a BP of the child after hot reloading. ...

Transforming inherited component in editor will crash

When a component inherited from code is transformed in any way with the viewport controls (arrows, rotation sphere, scale boxes) the editor will crash. Using the value boxes to set the transform do ...

Editor crash after attempting to create layer info in new landscape window

Attempting to create landscape layer info from within the new landscape creation window crashes the editor. Workaround: create the landscape, switch to paint mode, create layer info in paint mode w ...

When walking off of angled geometry the player pawn will fall off of the edge horizontally instead of falling

When walking off of angled geometry the player pawn will fall off of the edge horizontally instead of falling. Even with all possibly related values changed in the character defaults, the player wi ...

Fix SourceLength to be tangent to spot light axis

Startup Movies not Copied to Content/Movies Directory in Content Browser

Startup movies are not being copied to the Content/Movies directory within the Content Browser. This can be confusing to users as it is not editable, but still functions correctly as a startup movie ...

Rotated component made into root displays incorrectly in the blueprint editor

Rotated component made into root displays incorrectly in the blueprint editor. Closing and reopening the BP editor corrects the displayed root component. ...

[CrashReport] UE4Editor_UnrealEd!PackageTools::ReloadPackages() [packagetools.cpp:576]

This is a common crash affecting users on 4.16. Users have not provided any descriptions, so additional information is currently unavailable. Source Context 561 ::SortPackagesForReload( ...

Native variable references like GameplayAttribute cannot be searched by "Find in Blueprints" or "Asset Search"

"Find in Blueprints" does not turn up results when searching a GameplayAttribute by name, even when there is a GameplayEffect blueprint that has a modifier for that GameplayAttribute. This is becau ...

UNetDriver server-side hitch results in ActorInfo->NextUpdateTime far into future

A high UWorld::Tick DeltaSeconds (i.e. GameThread hitch) results in a high UNetDriver::TickFlush DeltaSeconds. This DeltaSeconds can high (many seconds) if the hitch is long. This value then affects ...