Artifact occurs in package build when applying Material Layer with WPO to Opaque material

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Dec 15, 2022

An artifact is seen in package builds when an instance with a base material parented by a base material with no WPO output is set to Opaque and a layer with WPO output is used. Since the WPO is igno ...

Widget's shear render transform isn't reversed when using RTL text flow

UE - Editor - UI Systems - UMG - Dec 13, 2022

When a widget's flow preference is set to RTL, we adjust the render transform so that the horizontal transform is mirrored (see SWidget::GetRenderTransformWithRespectToFlowDirection). We should do t ...

STAT_VolumetricLightmapBuildData is not counted correctly

UE - Graphics Features - Dec 9, 2022

STAT_VolumetricLightmapBuildData isn't counted correctly. It seems that the root cause is Volume.IndirectionTexture.DataSize is set to 0 before STAT_VolumetricLightmapBuildData is decreased.// Prec ...

Custom Node interprets MaterialAttributes inputs as float3

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Dec 8, 2022

It seems that the Material Editor's Custom nodes don't handle inputs of type FMaterialAttributes correctly, and instead interpret them as float3. Using Material Attributes as an input to a Custom E ...

[Soundfield Submix] - Output is silent when routing sound to Unreal Ambisonics and then to Resonance

UE - Audio - Submixes - Dec 8, 2022

According to the official docs https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/WorkingWithAudio/Nativesoundfield/ an ambisonic submix can be rendered to Resonance or Oculus; however when doing so, while th ...

Game View renders Lights with Actor Hidden In Game enabled

UE - Graphics Features - Dec 6, 2022

This is not a regression. Tested in both 4.27.2 and //UE5/Release-5.0 CL20979098 Game View renders Lights with Actor Hidden In Game enabled. Documentation states: "...the Viewport to display the sc ...

Web Browsers widget components stop accepting input when toggling visibility with a delay if there is more than 5 browsers

UE - Editor - UI Systems - UMG - Dec 5, 2022

This is not a regression. Tested in //UE5/Release-5.0 CL20979098 Web Browsers widget components stop accepting input when toggling visibility with a delay if there is more than 5 browsers. This onl ...

Distance Field Shadows does not respect FSceneView::HiddenPrimitives

UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Dec 5, 2022

Basically, APlayerController::HiddenActors, which is propagated into FSceneView::HiddenPrimitives is not used to skip shadow casters in the DF shadow implementation. Because this does not use the g ...

SingleLayerWater does not support shadows on local lights

UE - Graphics Features - Dec 2, 2022

Local (point/spot) lights currently do not have shadows on SingleLayerWater materials. SLW uses forward-like clustered shading and loops over all local lights directly in the pixel shader. In order ...