Dark square appears in hair in direction of spotlight when shadows disabled

UE - Graphics Features - Sep 18, 2024

A 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, 2025

The 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, 2025

Additive 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 ...

Crash calling destroy actor for Geometry Collection while it's simulating

UE - Simulation - Physics - Destruction - May 12, 2020

Crash occurs when user call Destroy Actor on a Geometry Collection Actor. This seems to only occur while the actor is simulating. If called while on the ground, it doesn't seem to occur. ...

Exiting PIE with dedicated server checked causes editor to crash on Linux

UE - Platform - Linux - Oct 25, 2016

Checking the box for Dedicated Server in the Play dropdown menu causes the editor to crash when exiting PIE. This does not occur in 4.13 or 4.14 on Windows. ...

Changing Texture compression settings breaks Materials with mismatch on Texture Sample Sampler Type

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Aug 5, 2015

If 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 ...

Switching to different modes in the Modes panel causes PIE to take input from a connected VR headset for the Y axis camera movement

UE - Platform - XR - Dec 9, 2016

If a VR headset is connected, it will be used for Y axis camera input in PIE if you have switched to and from the Landscape tab in the Modes panel. You can fix this temporarily by reopening the edit ...

[CrashReport] Mac crash in UE4Editor-Engine.dylib!LoadPhysXModules()::$_0::operator()()

UE - Platform - Apple - Jun 8, 2017

This is a common Mac crash that has been occurring since 4.15. It shares the same callstack with [Link Removed], but that was verified fixed for 4.16.0, while this crash still continues into 4.16. ...

Material Ambient Occlusion Does Not Work With Skylight Set to Movable

UE - Graphics Features - Jul 27, 2018

Material ambient occlusion does not work with the skylight set to movable. Setting the material to allow static lighting will fix the issue until the level is reloaded. Found in 4.19 CL# 4033788, 4 ...

Shader Complexity viewmode does not work on masked materials

UE - Graphics Features - Oct 16, 2019

In engine versions 4.23 and above, the Shader Complexity Viewmode doesn't render appropriately for meshes with masked materials. Tested in 4.22.3 (CL - 7043647), 4.23 (CL - 8386587), 4.24 (CL - 961 ...