Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Blueprint Billboard Components render Opaque in Editor but Translucent during PIE
UE - Graphics Features - Jan 28, 2016Billboard components render translucent during play, but render opaque within the editor. Simply adding a billboard as a component to a new actor blueprint and placing it in the level will reproduce ...
GetActorsPerception useless in 4.7
UE - AI - Mar 11, 2015The new AI Perception system's BP API, marketed in release notes, depends on UAIPerceptionComponent::GetActorsPerception, that, as one AnswerHub user points out, is useless due to a buggy condition ...
Line trace fails to detect Destructible Mesh
UE - Simulation - Physics - Destruction - Jun 15, 2015When using a line trace in the construction script so that objects can return a value destructible meshes will not return a hit. This does not affect use in game with PIE or Standalone game, but if ...
SetActorEnableCollision does not affect Destructible meshes
UE - Simulation - Physics - Destruction - Jan 4, 2016Setting the SetActorEnableCollision blueprint node to false does not disable collision for a destructible mesh. Workaround: Adding a static Mesh component and setting any mesh will cause the collis ...
Custom Component Being Added to Wrong Target Blueprint
UE - Gameplay - Components - Nov 2, 2015When attempting to add a custom component to a blueprint at runtime using the Add Component function, if you give the component an exposed variable, it will ignore whatever target you specify and ad ...
Ensure occurs when turning on Vector Fields Developer Flag
UE - Niagara - Jan 11, 2017The editor crashes with an ensure in the output log when Vector Field flag is toggled on in the show options of the viewport. LogOutputDevice:Error: === Handled ensure: === LogOutputDevice:Error: E ...
Calling a Multicast RPC from a Player Controller creates a new Player Controller on the Client
UE - Networking - Jun 3, 2015Calling a Multicast RPC from a Player Controller creates a new Player Controller on the Client. In 4.7.6, this results in a repeating log warning: "LogPlayerController:Warning: Calling IsLocalContro ...
Material preview artifacts
UE - Graphics Features - Apr 4, 2016Import the attached speedtree asset. The material view will be glitched. Disabling the world position offset input and reenabling seems to help. This issue did not occur in 4.10.4 and does not occu ...
Creating a Second Strategy Game Project with the Default Name Doesn't Update References in Code
Tools - Dec 1, 2015Creating a second Strategy Game project, and leaving it as the default name (StrategyGame2) will prevent it from being compiled. The compile fails because the files are not properly renamed to match ...
Adding Multiple Scene Components to an Actor Causes Parenting Errors
UE - Gameplay - Components - Jan 5, 2016Attempting to add multiple instances of a Scene Component that was created in code and contains a component such as a Box Collider causes the Box Colliders of each Scene Component to be parented to ...