LevelEditor: "Replace Actor" marks level as dirty even when using external actors

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Jul 15, 2024

When using external actors, adding/removing/replacing/editing an actor instance inside a level does not cause any modification to the Level package, which helps reduce contention for the map file on ...

Broken TextureTest BP in Landmass plugin base content

UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Jul 15, 2024

It appears that the Landmass plugin has a content dependency on the BlueprintMaterialTextureNodes plugin. If the BlueprintMaterialTextureNodes is not loaded, then the blueprint "/Landmass/Landscape ...

UE5.4 Regression - crash when disabling shader optimization while raytracing is enabled on D3D12

UE - Rendering Architecture - Shaders - Jul 15, 2024

Certain interactions between a Rect Light with a Light Function and a Post-Process volume lead to a check() when compiling a Ray Tracing PSO for tracing lights. This check() only happens when shader ...

Natively declared Gameplay Tags aren't counted by Reference Viewer when set default by ctor

UE - Gameplay - Jul 11, 2024

Similar to Issue 199247 ([Link Removed]), Natively declared Gameplay Tags aren't counted by Reference Viewer when used in a variable set in a C++ ctor. ...

Sandbox Visitors can fail on empty directories on non-Windows platforms

UE - Foundation - Jul 11, 2024

When a Sandbox Visitor checks a directory and it doesn't exist, it returns true on Windows and false on other platforms. The code that uses the result of this check, IterateDirectory, doesn't conti ...

Integer overflow in NaniteBuilder can lead to an editor crash on certain meshes

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Jul 10, 2024

NaniteBuilder uses an int8 type for ExternalEdges and counts adjacency with a int32. The bug stems for the cast to int8 when adding the adjacency count into the ExternalEdges array. The precision l ...

'Max World Position Offset Displacement' causes culling issue on HISMC/foliage in 5.4

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Jul 9, 2024

Foliage/hierarchical instanced static mesh components have issues with culling when their material's "Max World Position Offset Displacement" value is a higher amount, e.g. 100.0. ...

World position offset behaves differently when setting its value directly on the result node

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Jul 8, 2024

The world position offset input of the result node does not behave consistently. There is an obvious visual difference between the setting it by connecting a float3 color constant, versus setting th ...

Incorrect behavior after attaching an actor to a non-root component of another actor in the Editor

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Jul 3, 2024

UE allows actors to be attached to other actors. More precisely, it allows the root component of an actor (child) to be attached to any component of another actor (parent). From now on, "parent" and ...