Child Actor Component Actor Duplicates and Persists After Play

UE - Gameplay - Sep 26, 2019

When an actor spawns another actor using AddChildActorComponent that comes alphabetically before it based on blueprint name it will spawn an extra actor that will persist when the scene is stopped d ...

With Ray Tracing Enabled And The RenderDoc Plugin Enabled Shadows Don't Render Correctly On Reflective Materials

UE - Graphics Features - Lumen - Jan 23, 2020

When the RenderDoc plugin is installed with raytracing enabled shadows don't render correctly. Found in 4.24.1 CL#10757647 Reproduced in 4.23.1 CL#9631420, 4.25 Main CL#11087956 ...

Motion vectors not generating correctly in build

UE - Simulation - Physics - Nov 3, 2023

Also tried using “show VisualizeTemporalUpscaler” and noticed the frames that have missing motion vector data showed up as pops in the “show VisualizeReprojection” part of the visualizer. ...

Map actor reconstruction does not reattach external non-root components

UE - Framework - Components - Jan 17, 2024

For two map placed actors, if one actor B's non root component is attached to another actor A, the attachment is not retained when actor A reruns its construction script, such as when moving actor A ...

When importing static mesh using interchange and collision is generated, the asset does not have Collision Generated set to true

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - May 19, 2025

Context: The Interchange Framework is Unreal Engine's import and export framework. When importing a mesh without collision, collision can be auto-generated. Problem: The problem is when importing s ...

Water tiles flicker in and out of visibility with instanced stereo enabled.

UE - Graphics Features - Jun 16, 2025

Water tiles flicker in and out of visibility when playing in VR with instanced stereo enabled. Requires instanced stereo rendering to be enabled (does not require forward shading to be enabled) Must ...

Actors re-scale to original size when attached to other actors

UE - Gameplay - Nov 21, 2014

Actors rescale to their original size when placed in level then attached to another actor. ...

Increment and decrement nodes return the incorrect value

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Jun 23, 2015

Increment and decrement nodes return the incorrect value User Description: Getting the result of the Increment Macro seems to be incrementing the variable twice. Very confusing. Is this normal? ...

If PIE is paused using the 'Pause key', the Pause or Resume buttons on the toolbar will no longer start PIE

Tools - Feb 5, 2015

If PIE is paused using the 'Pause key', the Pause or Resume buttons on the toolbar will no longer start PIE. You have to make sure that the icon is toggled to Pause, select the viewport, and then p ...

LIVE: Setting sg.EffectsQuality between values will reset Destructible meshes if they have fractured

UE - Simulation - Physics - Destruction - Nov 14, 2014

DESCRIPTION: Using the command line sg.EffectsQuality and setting a value will reset a destructible mesh if it has already been fractured. AH Post: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/12850 ...