On NM_Client, GameplayDebugger defaults to green smiley for NPCs implying running BehaviorTree while AI info is unknown

UE - AI - Debugging - Mar 12, 2024

Context GameplayDebugger (Press ` in-game) displays a green smiley (AICON-Green) for AIControlled pawns that are running a BehaviorTree and a red angry face (AICON-Red) otherwise. If the AIControll ...

Deprecated blueprint variable fixups may fail depending on loading order

UE - Framework - Blueprint - Mar 7, 2024

There is currently no simple way to do a deprecated variable fixup on native variables that are set by a blueprint class. For a simple variable rename, CoreRedirects can be used and will work proper ...

Water reflections and GI flicker in 5.4 and 5.3 (fine in 5.2)

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 7, 2024

Since 5.3 customers have been reporting flicker with water surfaces, demonstrating that in 5.2 this flicker is not present. [Link Removed] ...

External actors don't show soft references in reference viewer

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - OFPA - Mar 6, 2024

No warning that soft references will be broken when deleting an actor

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - OFPA - Mar 6, 2024

Deleting an actor that has soft references to it will not trigger a message box to confirm the deletion nor provide the list of other actors that reference it unless they are dirty. ...

Cooker: Research and recommend a solution for third-party systems to aggregate data from cooked UObjects

UE - Foundation - Data Pipeline - Cooker - Mar 6, 2024

As with shader compilation, some third-party plugins need to accumulate information about all UObjects cooked in a cook session, and write their data to a database at the end of the cook; the databa ...

Incorrect Level Instance Bounds with non-trivial transform

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Level Instances - Mar 5, 2024

From licensee: The streaming bounds of an instantiated level instances are incorrect in the world partition editor. When the bounds are computed for a level instance during FLevelInstanceActorDe ...

"Override Function" search box in the Blueprint Editor does not match actual function name (only its display name)

UE - Framework - Blueprint Editor - Mar 5, 2024

This is a quality-of-life issue for UE users. The issue was also detailed by the UDN user in a video in the linked UDN case. The Blueprint Editor provides an "Override Function" functionality in th ...

Skeletal Mesh reduction clamps UVs at 1024

UE - Anim - Rigging - Mar 4, 2024