Items in the Levels window can no longer be reorganized

Tools - Nov 9, 2017

Some changes were made to the Levels window for 4.17 which allowed sublevels to be organized into folders. It appears a side effect of this change was that levels can no longer be manually reorganiz ...

Hot reload causes placed actor to lose variable references

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - Hot Reload - Nov 9, 2017

Preforming a hot reload causes placed actors to lose code based variable settings. More repro steps: 1. Open UE4Editor.exe 2. Create a First Person Code project 3. Build the project for Developme ...

Checkbox steals input when set to "Self Hit Test Invisible"

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Nov 9, 2017

There is an issue with the checkbox taking input when the visibility is set to "Self Hit Test Invisible". It should not be taking input as it should have the same properties as "Hit Test Invisible", ...

SceneCaptureComponent2D 'Primitive Render Mode' Always Selects Legacy Option

UE - Graphics Features - Nov 9, 2017

When using SceneCapture2D and trying to edit the "Primitive Render Mode" (found in Details panel, Scene Capture) you can select the "Render Scene Primitives (Legacy)" and the "Use ShowOnly List" opt ...

Assigning soft reference not compiling with nativization.

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Nov 9, 2017

Assigning a soft reference in a blueprint and attempting to resolve it as an object/class while nativization is enabled causes the packaging process to fail. A sample project was provided by the use ...

Widget component disappears on Compiling the Widget blueprint

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Nov 9, 2017

Widget component disappears on Compiling the Widget blueprint. If an actor is using a widget component and the corresponding widget blueprint is compiled. The instance of the widget component in the ...

CPU benchmark value "inf" When using the console command "scalability auto"

UE - Foundation - Core - Nov 9, 2017

When running the console command "scalability auto" on a packaged project, the benchmark for the CPU is returning "inf". Example logs [2017.11.09-14.35.50:583][ 92]LogConsoleResponse: Display: Cu ...

Enabling Shader compilation via XGE for 4.18 Editor downloaded from Launcher doesn't work, prevents shaders from compiling at all, editor from loading in some cases

UE - Foundation - Build - Rocket (Installed Engine) - Nov 9, 2017

If you enable Shader compilation via XGE by setting r.XGEShaderCompile = 1 in ConsoleVariables.ini in 4.18 Editor downloaded from Launcher, it prevents shaders from compiling at all, and as a result ...

Light leak on mesh when in shadowed area

UE - Graphics Features - Nov 8, 2017

When Cast Shadow and Self Shadow Only in the Lighting Section of the Details of a mesh, the light will randomly hit the mesh even though it is in a shaded area. Light appears to flicker and will com ...

Some menu items are cut off when Window's Scaling is set to 150% or higher

UE - LD & Modeling - Terrain - Landscape - Nov 8, 2017

When a user sets Window's scaling to 150% or higher, some menus in Unreal Engine go off the screen and users are unable to select some options. Found in 4.18 3709383 Reproduced in 4.17 3658906 an ...