Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Crash when DFAO is disabled and a lower scalability is used while Distance Field Shadowing is enabled.
UE - Graphics Features - Feb 2, 2016When enabling Distance Fields for a project and adjusting the cvars to disable DFAO and set a lower Detail Mode will result in a crash. Using the console commands outlined in the steps will work. ...
VC Runtime not in UnrealLightmass temp directory; causing lightmass build errors
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Oct 14, 2015A Redistribute file for VS 2015 is needed to build lightmass, but this is not currently included with the engine. If a user does not have VS 2015 installed, lightmass will fail with this error: Un ...
Node Comments don't appear until the node is scrolled over after it is entered
UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Nov 23, 2016Node Comments don't appear until the node is scrolled over after it is entered This is a Regression. It was working in 4.13.2 but broken in 4.14. User Description: BP node comments hidden until m ...
Loading instanced static mesh causes memory leak in packaged game
UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Foliage - Mar 3, 2021The leaking variable is UInstancedStaticMeshComponent::InstanceDataBuffers. The memory block is passed to InitPerInstanceRenderData() via InstanceDataBuffers.Release(). But the function doesn't mana ...
Crash when opening Post Process Material with Live Data Preview running in Profiler
UE - Foundation - Core - Feb 24, 2015Edit: CrashReporter link: [Link Removed] When running the Session Frontend Profiler as a Live Data Preview and you open a Post Process material, the editor will crash to the desktop. Reproduced in ...
GPU Crash may occur when using Nanite Tesselation on landscape with several shadow casting local lights
UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - May 5, 2025The GPU may time out in NaniteSplit when drawing VSM shadows for Nanite Tessellated landscape with in a scene with several local shadowed point lights. The issue doesn't reproduce in 5.6, likely to ...
Adding a custom plugin to a code project that is in the root location of a drive will result in an error stating that the plugin was found in two locations
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - Plugin System - Nov 25, 2016Creating a new custom plugin in the root location of a drive results in the project being unable to open or build. An error message appears that states that the plugin was found in two locations, an ...
Android: Mali Txxx GPUs Encounter Stretching Geometry When Running with Support GPU Scene Enabled
UE - Platform - Mobile - Nov 27, 2019When attempting to run SunTemple with r.Mobile.SupportGPUScene enabled on some Mali GPUs, the project renders with what looks like pieces of the geometry stretching across the level and bending out ...
Apex Cloth will not render correctly with cloth assigned to multiple materials
UE - Simulation - Physics - Character - Nov 12, 2015Apex cloth material assigned to multiple material elements will not render correctly in Persona or when PIE/Simulate in the editor. Any material element other than element 0 will be masked/invisible ...
MakeArray wildcard node gives a compilation error when being used in a Blueprint Macro.
UE - Framework - Blueprint - Dec 19, 2024There is an error with the SmartMacroInterface, where you can't use an empty wildcard "Make Array" node. This error makes the blueprint not compile and the macro unusable. Disabling the bUseSimpleWi ...