Actor blueprint 'bOptimizeBPComponentData' breaks subobject instantiation for runtime spawned actors in cooked builds

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint Runtime - Aug 29, 2024

A user has reported that when an actor blueprint enables Generate Optimized Component Blueprint Data, default instanced objects of components are not properly duplicated in cooked builds. This resul ...

Foliage rendering issues when using both Density Scaling and MaxWorldPositionOffsetDisplacement

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Foliage - Aug 29, 2024

When a material with WPO effects and MaxWorldPositionOffsetDisplacement is applied to a foliage mesh, foliage applied to a map will no longer work as expected with density scaling, especially after ...

Nanite can assert in ValidateFixupChunk: 'Assertion failed: HierarchyNodeIndex < Resources.NumHierarchyNodes'

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Aug 29, 2024

Reported by a licensee. More discussion in the linked UDN case. "Sometimes the WorldPartitionBuilderCommandlet will fail after encountering this error:" Error: Assertion failed: HierarchyNodeIndex ...

Message to rebuild lights does not display after static mesh position has changed

UE - Graphics Features - Aug 28, 2024

In a static lighting environment, moving static objects no longer marks the built lighting as invalid. This prevents the on-screen warning from appearing. Regression introduced in CL: 25964466 on / ...

An imported file that resides within the project's folders gets a relative path. That path is not updated it you copy the uasset to another folder. That breaks the Reimporting functionality.

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Aug 28, 2024

An imported file that resides within the project's folders gets a relative path. That path is not updated it you copy the uasset to another folder, so from the location of the new asset's the relati ...

Does FSlateElementBatcher::AddCachedElements need to check if r.HDR.UI.CompositeMode is enabled?

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Aug 28, 2024

When a specific configuration of HDR cvars are set, PIE in a New Editor Window will not render the game world. Settings (For DefaultEngine.ini): ```[SystemSettings] r.AllowHDR=1 r.HDR.Display.Color ...

Improve extra state debug box when net debug drawing

UE - Networking - Aug 28, 2024

With net debug drawing enabled, an extra debug box is drawn around some actors to indicate if the actor is always relevant or if it is distance culled. However, the strange size of this box makes ne ...

Material Layering sometimes increses Shader complexity significently

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Aug 28, 2024

Nanite meshes are lit differently in Actor Colorization view modes than non-Nanite meshes

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Aug 28, 2024

When the Lit > Actor Coloration > Affects Navmesh or other Actor Coloration mode is used, Nanite meshes apply lighting differently than non-Nanite meshes which can make it difficult to use the Actor ...

Material instance UI doesn't show correct parameter preview for logic in a material function

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Aug 27, 2024

The Material Instance UI doesn't show the correct parameter values when the logic is moved from the material graph into a material function used in that material graph. Example setup showing the wr ...