Renaming a SkinnedMeshComponent onto a different owning actor will cause issues with FAnimUpdateRateManager

UE - Anim - Runtime - Aug 12, 2021

As mentioned in the UDN - the user tried to rename an SMC to a different actor, which leaves the URO manager left with an incorrect data as it is not aware of the move. User proposed overriding Post ...

Reimporting static mesh doesn't respect changed lightmap settings

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - May 11, 2023

Licensee reports change of behaviour between UE4 and UE5 when reimporting a mesh after changing its lightmap build settings. Change of behaviour occurred in 17404767, which was to fix a similar pro ...

Material Layers "swap" location instead of shift downwards.

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Oct 17, 2023

Licensee request for this as it is affecting productivity. Likely requires a method of allowing a user to choose which behaviour they prefer. For reference, the behaviour changed in CL 11684461 to f ...

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 ...

The "Make Static Mesh" feature for skeletal meshes does not account for disabled mesh sections.

UE - Anim - Rigging - Skeletal Editor - Dec 11, 2024

The licensee was not able to make static meshes with the correctly disabled sections from a skeletal mesh in the current implementation of the "Make Static Mesh" button in the editor. They have prov ...

Nanite mesh not culled when owner is editor only actor in gameview

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Mar 29, 2024

Nanite mesh is not culled because "DrawInGame" value in the primitive uniform buffer is always 1. Can be fixed with below modification:// in FPrimitiveSceneProxy::FPrimitiveSceneProxy DrawInGa ...

Building lighting fails on Linux

UE - Platform - Linux - Jan 15, 2016

When building lighting on Linux, the build process fails because UnrealLightmass cannot find the library libUnrealLightmass-Serialization.so. Reported using Mint Cinnamon 17.3 Internal machine uses ...

Translating bones in Persona is not affected by Snap Options

OLD - Anim - Dec 14, 2016

In Persona, moving a socket around is not affected by any changes to snapping (scale or size). Rotation is affected however. This is similar to [Link Removed], but according to James Golding there ...

Deactivated Skeletal Mesh Component Plays Animation

UE - Gameplay - Components - Aug 15, 2017

Animations on skeletal mesh components set to use an animation asset still play even when the component is deactivated. Found: 4.17 Reproduced: 4.16.3 & 4.18 Main CL# 3585944 ...

Unable to summon Preview Scene Settings from Viewport menu

OLD - Anim - Sep 15, 2017

REGRESSION: Yes, does not occur in 4.17.2 User is not able to summon Preview Scene Settings from the Viewport Menu. Still works if the user selects it from the Window > Preview Scene Settings opti ...