Changing Static Mesh for a mesh with overridden materials should NOT reset materials

Tools - Feb 1, 2017

Sometime recently, the behavior of changing a static mesh changed. A very common operation is to want to change a mesh, while keeping material override. Here I have a sky mesh, and the material is ...

Crash in Skeletal Editor due to null ActorFactory reference

OLD - Anim - Feb 1, 2017

When a material is dragged/dropped into a skeletal editor's bone hierarchy, the editor will crash due to null ActorFactory Regression: Yes - Crash does not occur in 4.13.2 binary (CL 3172292) ...

Epic Mannequin's Material Does Not Render Correctly On Intel HD Graphics

UE - Graphics Features - Feb 1, 2017

The Epic Mannequin no longer renders correctly when using an Integrated Intel HD Graphics 4600 GPU. The character will either have parts of his body hidden(4.14) or completely black(4.15) depending ...

If Import animation is not enabled then morph targets will not be imported even if the model has them.

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - Feb 1, 2017

Importing an asset with morph targets enabled, but with import animation disabled does not import morph targets. Note: if you open the asset and press re import the asset's blend shapes will reimpo ...

Clicking reimport on a skeletal mesh crashes the editor - UE4Editor_Engine!USkeleton::GetSmartNameContainer() [skeleton.cpp:1410]

Information about this goes here....Reimported Skeletal Mesh FBX 2016/2017 in preview window. Didn't crash outside of preview in the standard content browser context menu. ...

Subway Sequencer too dark due to tonemapper film changes in 4.15

Docs - Samples - Jan 31, 2017

Scene is too dark in subway sequencer due to tonemapper film changes in 4.15. ...

Merge an actor that contains Instanced Static Mesh components will reset to 0,0,0

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Jan 31, 2017

Merge an actor that contains Instanced Static Mesh components will reset to 0,0,0. The Instanced Static Mesh components must be set using the Add Instance node through the Construction Script for th ...

[SM5] (Node TransformPosition) Error when opening HillTree_02 mesh from Open World Demo Collection

Docs - Samples - Jan 31, 2017

The HillTree_02 mesh from the Open World Demo collection has a shader compile error. The user pointing the issue out is reporting a freeze whenever he attempts to use the asset. I provided a workar ...