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 ...

Actors transforms broken in cooked builds when their parent is an IsEditorOnlyActor

UE - Framework - Oct 7, 2025

When 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, 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. ...

Static meshes in a particle system are not affected by decals

UE - Graphics Features - Dec 21, 2017

There is an issue where Static meshes in a particle system are not affected by decals, It is unsure if this is intentional behavior or not. This issue does not appear to be a regression Versions ...

The target for the "Should be Loaded" variable appears to have change to "Level Streaming Kismet"

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Jun 21, 2018

The target for the "Should be Loaded" variable appears to have change to "Level Streaming Kismet". This means that it no longer works with the "Get streaming level" node and can cause errors when us ...

World Aligned Texture / Normal in Decals does not Operate as Expected

UE - Graphics Features - Jun 26, 2018

World Aligned Texture / Normal in Decals does not operate as expected, however when used as a surface material it will work just fine. Found in 4.19 CL# 4033788, 4.20 Preview 3 CL# 4154964, 4.21 CL ...