Physical Material Mask bug found in GetPhysMatIndex, potentially causing issues with lookup.

UE - Simulation - Core - Dec 2, 2024

On line 408 of UPhysicalMaterialMask::GetPhysMatIndex() in PhysicalMaterialMask.cpp, the AdjustCoord() function is given AddressX for both the U and V coordinates. The AddressY input is never used i ...

Nanite Mesh Reduction Issue

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Nov 28, 2024

This issue was reported through a UDN. Licensee mentioned that they are seeing a hole in their Nanite mesh at as they move away from it. Using the Nanite debug view we observe at a certain distance ...

Updating Material does not update platform stats in derived Instance

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Nov 26, 2024

It 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 ...

Diffing blueprints in Perforce changelist reviewer incorrectly displays blueprints that reference assets not in local filesystem

UE - Framework - Blueprint - Nov 22, 2024

When diffing a blueprint in the Perforce changelist reviewer in-editor (Review Changelists), if the blueprint references an asset that does not exist locally but rather exists as a newly added asset ...

RegisterAssetTypeCategory failed as all user bits have been exhausted

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Nov 22, 2024

Hi, with adding additional plugins, etc. to our project, we have encountered an issue with registering too many asset categories, such as: LogAssetTools: Warning: RegisterAssetTypeCategory("Water", ...

Bug: Relative File Paths for Asset Source Files are Incorrectly Generated for Engine and Engine Plugin Assets

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Nov 21, 2024

When importing an asset like a Texture asset using the steps mentioned in the Repro steps, the imported asset does not have the correct relative path listed under the newly-created asset's "Source F ...

Shadow Maps performance issue with 5.4 in comparison towards 5.3

UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Nov 20, 2024

Shadow depths performance for non-VSM in certain scenes, notably those with rect lights and meshes that are set to movable, went from ~2ms to ~18ms going from UE 5.3 to UE 5.4. Setting the movable a ...

Widget Flickering Observed in RetainerBox with Incorrect LayerId

UE - Editor - UI Systems - UMG - Nov 19, 2024

Setting the Phase Count of a RetainerBox to 2 or more may cause other widgets within the same UserWidget to flicker. Upon investigation, we found that during frames where the flickering occurs, the ...

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. ...

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 ...