Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Niagara Ribbon Facing Mode Custom Side Vector does not work correctly
UE - Niagara - Feb 28, 2020The Custom Side Vector facing mode is no different than the Custom facing mode on Niagara ribbons. The linked UDN has more information on a potential cause, as well as a proposed fix. It looks like ...
Skelmesh Bake Materials doesn't remove old materials from slots
UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Merge Actor - Mar 24, 2021When an LOD get materials reduced to one with Bake Materials, it doesn't delete the extra slots on the LOD. So if starting with 10 slots on the skelmesh, then baking, slot 1 gets the newly baked mat ...
An array of structures variable has its values reset when the structure is modified without recompiling the blueprint
UE - Framework - Blueprint Compiler - Apr 2, 2021An array of a structure that has been modified without the array's blueprint being complied results in the values of the array element being reset. Compiling each blueprint that has the array of str ...
Dark square appears in hair in direction of spotlight when shadows disabled
UE - Graphics Features - Sep 18, 2024A dark square appears in the direction of a spotlight on hair when the spotlight has no shadow. [Image Removed] In UE 5.4 the dark square is visible when the spotlight has no shadow, and a light s ...
No warnings or errors if a UEnum has Bitflags metadata, but no Flags flag.
UE - Framework - Blueprint Compiler - Jan 29, 2025The problem here isn't obvious: the native enum, EAnotherEnum, is missing the Flags flag for the UEnum. As a result, K2Node_GetEnumeratorNameAsString returns the max enum when it gets a combined fla ...
Additives using Frame From This Animation as the Base Pose Type fail to retarget correctly
UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Feb 13, 2025Additive animations that use a frame from their own sequence as a base pose are initially broken when retargeted. Users have to refresh the properties that select the base pose in order to fix the ...
Actors transforms broken in cooked builds when their parent is an IsEditorOnlyActor
UE - Foundation - Data Pipeline - Cooker - Oct 7, 2025When creating a hierarchy of Actors in the Outliner, the transform of the "child" actors will be reset if their Parent's IsEditorOnlyActor property is true. The project in the EPS case is using ...
Changing Texture compression settings breaks Materials with mismatch on Texture Sample Sampler Type
UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Aug 5, 2015If you change a texture's compression settings, materials will show errors because of a mismatch in the Sampler Type of Texture Samples. This can be fixed by adjusting the Sampler Type and re-savin ...
Delete Unused Variables Does Not Remove Local Variables
UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Oct 13, 2015Using the Delete Unused Variables option under the Edit tab of a blueprint does not remove local variables. Instead, it displays a "All variables are in use" error. Occurs in 4.9.2 and 4.8.3 binar ...
Variable Names with a Leading Space Cannot be Copied
UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Nov 9, 2015If you begin a variable name with a space, attempting to copy any instances of that blueprint will prompt an error warning: "Unknown property in <BlueprintName>: <VarName> = <Value>. Found in 4.9.2 ...