Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
GPU specific issue with Lighting while moving - GTX 770
UE - Graphics Features - Apr 26, 2017While testing GPU - ContentExamples - Lighting - Nvidia gtx 770 in the 4.16 GPU Compat Pass, I noticed a strange effect on lights while the player is in motion. I've had multiple people attempt to ...
Packaging fails after changing from Dynamic to Static Nav Mesh Runtime Generation
UE - AI - Feb 8, 2016If you package with Runtime Generation set to Dynamic and then switch to Static and attempt to repackage, the packaging will fail with the following error message.[2016.02.08-16.18.14:511][217]MainF ...
Selection Highlight cannot be disabled for Skeletal Meshes
Tools - Feb 7, 2017Selection highlight cannot be disabled for Skeletal Meshes. They will always have the outline selection and some tinted selection over their faces. Static Meshes do not exhibit this behavior. This ...
Tabbing out of exclusive fullscreen leaves the window & backbuffer in an incorrect state
UE - Editor - UI Systems - Apr 24, 2020With windows 10 there has come some new swap chains, which unfortunately messes some things with regards to fullscreen up. We've fixed a bunch in the renderer (which would downright cause crashes), ...