Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
BulkData Async loading remains in memory
UE - Foundation - Core - Oct 26, 2016Gil's new loading path may already walk away from this issue. But here's some thing I tested locally if we want to fix this. A simple way to fix is to simply add BulkDataAsync.Deallocate(); ResetA ...
VC Runtime not in UnrealLightmass temp directory; causing lightmass build errors
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Oct 14, 2015A Redistribute file for VS 2015 is needed to build lightmass, but this is not currently included with the engine. If a user does not have VS 2015 installed, lightmass will fail with this error: Un ...
Pasted material function nodes lose their connections
UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Dec 3, 2019The fix for [Link Removed] caused a regression where links to material nodes no longer carry over when a group of nodes is copied and pasted ~ User submitted Image and repro steps appended. I conf ...
Android Crash on app launch if AdditionalPluginDirectories contains wildcards in path
UE - Platform - Mobile - Jun 23, 2017Having wildcards in the path for AdditionalPluginDirectories causes apps on Android to crash on launch. When testing this on iOS, the app did not crash but froze at the splash screen instead. Androi ...
Different instanced materials are seen as the same material due to GUID
UE - Graphics Features - Jun 3, 2021See licensee description of the issue: The problem appears when I have two instanced materials with the same number of parameters. I've noticed that ShaderMapId has MaterialLayersParameterIDs where ...
[VR] Camera attached to non-root scene component in BP will sink into floor after Reset to Floor Origin
UE - Platform - XR - Aug 12, 2016When a project is first created following the Setting up UE4 to work with SteamVR docs, the Vive camera works correctly and will display at the correct height. However, if at any point during develo ...
Adding Text Widget BP as "Widget Class" in Actor Class BP and compiling multiple times, changes Text visibility in Viewport
UE - Editor - UI Systems - Sep 15, 2017Adding a new Text Widget Blueprint as a Widget Class to a new Actor Class Blueprint changes the visibility of the Text in the Viewport when compiling the Widget Blueprint multiple times. Regressio ...
Crash in FUniformExpressionSet::FillUniformBuffer trying access deleted UTextureCollection
UE - Rendering Architecture - May 30, 2025Crash in FUniformExpressionSet::FillUniformBuffer trying access deleted UTextureCollection (Experimental in 5.6). The licensee describes their crash, their analysis, and a proposed fix: This crash ...
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 - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - 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 ...