Static mesh's material slot's cast shadow does not require a build of StaticLight

UE - Graphics Features - Dec 7, 2017

If static mesh's material slot's cast shadow is changed, UE4 does not show "LIGHTING NEEDS TO BE REBUILT". I solved it with the following fixes. StaticMeshEditorTools.cpp void FMeshSectionSettin ...

UInstancedStaticMeshComponent::AddInstances does not appear to be adding per-instance previous transforms when enabled

UE - Rendering - Graphics Features - Dec 3, 2025

Instanced static mesh component does not add instances transforms to PerInstancePrevTransform array when using UInstancedStaticMeshComponent::AddInstances. Additionally Updating the transforms of th ...

Landscape Paint Layers will not scroll to the end when using mouse wheel

UE - LD & Modeling - Terrain - Landscape - Sep 28, 2020

In a normal detail panel, each element has its own SDetailSingleItemRow and are mostly uniformly sized with some exceptions of having a few bigger rows (i.e. asset pickers). However, these layers ar ...

Building Lighting will Generate Additional Lightmaps after Rotating Lightsource

UE - Graphics Features - Jul 7, 2015

Lightmap sizes seem inconsistent after rotating a light source and rebuilding the lighting. This causes concern about file sizes when packaging the project that is using baked static lighting. The ...

New C++ Class (actor) fails to build

UE - Core - Cpp Tools - Mar 8, 2022

While trying to create a C++ actor to test if it can be created with a custom Copyright notice specified in Project Settings, the Live Coding window returns a "Build failed" and error of: "ERROR: U ...

Duplicate .so files in GoogleVR.

UE - Platform - XR - Jun 2, 2017

A licensee recently pointed out that there are now several GoogleVR lib files in 4.16 that are present in the Engine twice due to some of them being copied into a subdirectory. For example, , in 4.1 ...

Stencil that has been marked with ResponsiveAA is cleared by DistortionPass

UE - Graphics Features - Dec 14, 2021

From UDN: When an object with ResponsiveAA enabled is in the screen and then an object with Distortion enabled comes into the screen, ResponsiveAA does not work. ​ I guess this is because the Ste ...

Editor Type Plugins are Included in Packaged Development Build

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Feb 19, 2016

When you declare a plugin as "Editor" type, the plugin is still included in a packaged development build. Found in 4.10.3 binary. Reproduced in 4.11 Preview 5, and Main CL 2870013 ...

Unable to undo editing enum description

UE - Gameplay - Oct 30, 2019

The user is unable to undo the editing of the enum description. The output log and undo history would confirm that the undo was carried out, however it did not do anything in reality. Resetting the ...

Crash After Reimporting Static Mesh With Added Material Slot

Tools - Jan 12, 2017

After importing a mesh without any materials assigned, if you add a material slot and save the material. Reimporting this mesh will cause a crash. The only way to avoid this crash is to import a me ...