Material functions should be able to output the same data as it can accept as inputs

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Sep 30, 2024

Material Functions cannot output Texture Objects or Booleans. This seems to be because the Material Editor believes that the outputs are Floats, and forbid connections to inputs that take Textures ...

Subsurface Scattering Checkerboard with SceneColourFormat 3 (High Scalability) leads to a visual artefact when temporal upscaling is in use

UE - Graphics Features - Sep 30, 2024

Primarily visible at very low internal resolutions (25-33%), the SSS checkerboard with an RGB scene colour format (r.SceneColorFormat 3) causes a double-image artefact both internally and on the sil ...

Issues with global invalidation (MoviePlayer)

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Sep 27, 2024

It was mentioned that the global invalidation should be toggled off during loading screen and subsequently restore the state after. A request was made for this dynamic behavior be part of the engin ...

Problems with shadows on transluscent materials

UE - Rendering Architecture - Sep 24, 2024

Shadows on the surface of SingleLayerWater are heavily pixelated, and don't appear to use bilinear filtering at all. Also tested on //UE5/Release-5.5, CL: 36481335 ...

Geometry collection components report incorrect mass for character movement components

UE - Simulation - Physics - Sep 24, 2024

A player cannot move heavier GC objects even if we have a valid setup due to the GC not reporting the correct mass.  ...

Strip out disabled Pose Search Database animations during cook

UE - Anim - Gameplay - Sep 23, 2024

Animations that are disabled in the Pose Search database still get loaded in a cooked build ...

Blueprint improperly marked dirty when it contains a latent node with a byte enum

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint Editor - Sep 23, 2024

In UE 5.4, when deleting actors in our levels, some blueprints will be mark dirty despite not having changed. We traced that down to FAssetRenameManager::CheckPackageForSoftObjectReferences. The af ...

Niagara Editor Viewport will crash when rendering opaque materials with Mobile Multi-View and Mobile Vulkan Preview Enabled

UE - Niagara - Sep 18, 2024

The Niagara viewport will crash when rendering opaque sprites if Mobile Multi View and the mobile preview are enabled. Additive materials do no crash, and if the viewport is not set to lit it does ...

Dark square appears in hair in direction of spotlight when shadows disabled

UE - Graphics Features - Sep 18, 2024

A dark square appears in the direction of a spotlight on hair when the spotlight has no shadow. [Image Removed] In UE 5.4 the dark square is visible when the spotlight has no shadow, and a light s ...