BakedSourceTexture missing from Sprite in packaged game

UE - Gameplay - Paper2D - Nov 15, 2024

The UPaperSprite::BakedSourceTexture will be nullptr in a packaged game if the sprite is not referenced by the UGameInstance.  The attached sample project demonstrates this scenario. ...

WP crash entering PIE when unsaved non-editor actors are referenced through a editor-only property

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Nov 15, 2024

From licensee: A simple example is setup in the project, the relevant part is just this code: UCLASS(meta = (BlueprintSpawnableComponent)) class TESTBUGEDITORONLYEDITOR_API UEditorOnlyComponent : ...

No warning given when a subobject is registered to a component not using the registered subobjects list

UE - Networking - Nov 15, 2024

AActor::AddReplicatedSubObject will ensure in this case if the actor doesn't set bReplicateUsingRegisteredSubObjectList, but there is no equivalent check in AActor::AddActorComponentReplicatedSubObj ...

Slow Actor ContainsDataLayer / HasDataLayers

AActor ContainsDataLayer Is Slow: Navigation builds are heavily slowed down by TObjectPtr to TSoftObjectPtr conversions when checking if DataLayerAssets contain Users discovered a huge time los ...

Material attribute layers issue with texture sample and VT lookups

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Nov 14, 2024

When using material attribute layers in a material layer setup, there is a potential discrepancy in the number of VT Lookups presented in the material instance's Platform Stats. When the same textur ...

External Actors can hold stale references to Blueprint classes as edited instance properties

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Nov 14, 2024

When a component is removed from a class that exists as an instance with external actors enabled, a deleted BP component on an actor will remain referenced by the instance. Disabling External Actor ...

Crash when entering PIE after modifying BP child actor component

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Nov 13, 2024

Asset reload results in DeadPackage with PackageReload.EnableFastPath

UE - Editor - Nov 12, 2024

With PackageReload.EnableFastPath enabled, doing an asset reload, will result in DEADPACKAGE Slack thread: [Link Removed] ...

Skeletal Mesh Customizable Object Node does not warn of changes to mesh sections.

UE - Anim - Mutable - Nov 12, 2024

When reimporting meshes with changes to their material sections, specifically additions, there is no indication that there will be an issue on output of a generated mesh. Ideally, we can watch for a ...