FComponentReference loses its actor reference when the target actor is reinstanced

UE - Gameplay - May 15, 2023

The "OtherActor" pointer in an FComponentReference is invalidated when the referenced actor is reinstanced after compilation. ...

Auto-Save failing, pulling old saves and blocks users from continuing

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - May 15, 2023

Reporting an issue where are users are getting prompted to auto-save, but then it appears to fail and asks them to manually save. They're being prompted with outdated save files, but get stuck in a ...

MaterialProxyReplace node does not work with Approximate setting in HLOD generation or Actor Merge

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - May 15, 2023

This is the same behavior for HLOD generation of World Partition. Replace is useful when there is a material that changes parameters with information such as camera. ...

Use a shared context in Loading instead of copying the LinkerInstancingContext

UE - Foundation - Core - EditorLoader - May 12, 2023

Current LinkerInstancingContext are copying instead of being shared internally during loading which can induce a lot of memory usage when used with World Partition which can contains a lot of mappin ...

Check in UCharacterMovementComponent::SmoothClientPosition fails when travelling between servers

UE - Gameplay - Player Movement - May 11, 2023

While attempting to connect and travel to a new server, the client's NetDriver will be shutdown, and a new pending net driver created (in UEngine::Browse). When the original NetDriver is destroyed, ...

Suspend/resume iOS Metal Crash on low end device with MTLCommandBufferErrorMemoryless error with lots of geometry

UE - Platform - Mobile - May 11, 2023

The project was built in Unreal 4.27.2 binary from the Epic Games Launcher. At this stage we have only observed the crash on devices with a hardware combination of Apple A9 1.8 GHz and 2GB of Memory ...

Variant Thumbnails are washed out

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Variants - May 11, 2023

I think somewhere in Thumbnail Generator::Generate Thumbnail FromTexture() is applying this washout. ...