Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Differences in DistanceToNearestSurface and DistanceFieldGradient results between 4.27 and 5.0
UE - Rendering - Features - Apr 27, 2022In the UE5 case, we end up seeing very harsh lines in both the gradient and the distance to nearest surface examples whereas the results in 4.27 appear smooth. It was also interesting to observe c ...
Nested components do not appear in proper order in viewport instances
UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Nov 22, 2017When an actor contains a nested component (components declared inside another component class), the hierarchy for the actor blueprint does not match the hierarchy of a placed instance of the actor ...
Integer Blueprint variables reset the Bitmask Enum setting when the Editor closes
UE - Framework - Blueprint - Feb 28, 2019User created Bitmask flag Enumerators are not correctly stored and retrieved from Blueprint Integer variable settings. When the Editor is restarted the value of the Integer's Bitmask Enum is set to ...
Editor queries source control for files outside the project or engine
UE - Platform - XR - May 12, 2022When using SVN as SSP, the following warning will be output to the log LogContentStreaming: Texture pool size now 1000 MB LogSourceControl: Attempting "svn status --show-updates --verbose --xml "/ ...
Engine build fails in Visual Studio 2017 if Visual Studio 2013 is also installed on the same computer
UE - Foundation - Build - Farm - Mar 21, 2017Attempting to build the Engine using Visual Studio 2017 will fail if Visual Studio 2013 is also installed on the same computer. If Visual Studio 2013 is uninstalled, or if the computer has Visual St ...
IOStore : Packaged game crashes when doing garbage collection right after cancelling async loading by UnloadPrimaryAssetList
UE - Foundation - Core - RuntimeLoader - Mar 15, 2021Packaged game without IOStore never hits this error. ...
Blueprint "Diff Against Depot": Restoring an instanced object results in reference to the object in the temporary diff asset
UE - Framework - Blueprint - Feb 19, 2024When diffing a blueprint against depot via the Content Browser context menu action "Revision Control > Diff Against Depot", restoring an instanced object property from the depot version results in t ...
TakeRecorder cannot record Auto Activate and Destroy of Niagara effect
UE - Rendering - Architecture - Niagara - Apr 1, 2024When Niagara FX of a recording actor is spawned during taking a record, that FX behavior must be recorded and able to be playbacked. However, Niagara Component Auto Activation by BP node is not reco ...
Unreal Header Tool can sometimes fail if an Engine plugin is Enabled By Default and has the "Program" Module Type set
UE - Foundation - Core - Feb 15, 2018An Engine plugin with the Program module type and EnabledByDefault set to true can cause the Engine to fail to build successfully due to UHT failing. I was only able to reproduce this behavior using ...
Keep Simulation Changes will persist only a subset of changed properties
UE - Editor - Jan 10, 2025As per the steps to reproduce, Keep Simulation Changes will often only copy back the most recent property changed on a simulating Actor back to the version of the Actor in the Editor level. It is no ...