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 ...

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 ...

After changing SupportedAgent settings, old Recast nav mesh actor is not deleted when saving map with External Actors (OFPA) enabled

UE - AI - Navigation - Nov 8, 2024

Context Recast lets you configure multiple agent types in Project Settings > Navigation System > Supported Agents. When agents have unique settings such as agent radius, building a nav mesh results ...

Crash when IK Anim Node is used in post process blueprint.

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Nov 5, 2024

If an IK Anim node is used in a post-process animation blueprint when that post-process blueprint is active in persona. It will crash attempting to get dynamically created goal components from an ac ...

LandscapeSplineMeshesActor instances not deleted when World Partition is disabled

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Oct 30, 2024

When landscape splines exist in a WP level, LandscapeSplineMeshesActor instances are created to allow streaming of splines. In a non-WP level, splines are components of the landscape actor. When a W ...

Editor Primitives do not render correctly when Composite Editor Primitives is disabled

UE - AI - Oct 29, 2024

When the Composite Editor Primitives setting is disabled, these editor primitives do not render correctly. In specific, ZoneGraph editor primitives do not render with a colour. This appears to be t ...