Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Object Scale Not Working with Instanced Static Mesh
UE - Graphics Features - May 19, 2016Using Object Scale in your material with an Instanced Static Mesh does not change the color of the material if you scale the individual instances of the Instanced Static Mesh component. If you scal ...
Initializing custom Component on Actor in constructor causes odd hierarchy and details panel issues
UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Feb 19, 2019When testing with a simple setup, as follows: MySceneComponent has a UProperty(VisibleAnywhere, BlueprintReadOnly) of a USphereComponent pointer, initiated in the Constructor AMyActor has a UProper ...
Focus mode in the Editor does not handle Actors without PrimitiveComponent correctly, treating them as if they were at the origin (0,0,0), skewing the camera placement.
UE - Engine Scaling - Streaming - Nov 18, 2024Focus mode in the Editor does not handle Actors without PrimitiveComponent correctly, treating them as if they were at the origin (0,0,0), skewing the camera placement. Some Actors like the WorldDat ...
Updating Material does not update platform stats in derived Instance
UE - Rendering - Architecture - Materials - Nov 26, 2024It 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 ...
UMG widget callbacks do not set PIE context in editor
UE - Editor - UI Systems - May 21, 2018This 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 ...
GPU Particle Collision causes shaking when set to bounce with low resilience.
UE - Niagara - Jul 27, 2016A particle emitter with GPU sprites on certain settings will shake violently as they collide with the ground. This requires there to be a strong Const Acceleration module and Collision with low resi ...
Material Previews Reflection skybox are broken in 4.12
UE - Graphics Features - May 3, 2016Materials are rendering now in the preview pane with artifacts caused by the change in the reflection skybox. This can clearly be seen in 4.12 and later by enabling the reflections view in the previ ...
The light in the Blueprint Editor's Preview Scene does not respond to any lighting channel but 0.
UE - Framework - Blueprint Editor - Jun 28, 2024In 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 ...
Landscape Splines in Partially Loaded World Partition Levels Can Cause Nanite Landscape Invalidation
UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Nov 7, 2025Certain placements of landscape splines in world partition levels can cause Nanite landscape proxies to invalidate, and switch back to their non-nanite version. This happens when specific regions of ...
Meshes with scaled root bones pop when entering simulation
UE - Runtime - Simulation - May 15, 2026This issue is fallout from the changes in 33851494. Prior to that, we didn’t get the pop on beginning the sim. The problem appears to be that in USkeletalMeshComponent::PerformBlendPhysicsBones we ...