The DefaultSceneRoot's tooltip claims adding a new scene component will automatically replace it as the new root, but this is no longer true

UE - Gameplay - Components - Jun 24, 2015

The DefaultSceneRoot's tooltip claims, "Adding a new scene component will automatically replace it as the new root", but this is no longer true in 4.8 and 4.9. Instead, the DefaultSceneRoot remains ...

VR preview does not work when the project was converted from 4.7 to 4.8

UE - Platform - XR - Jun 15, 2015

If the user upgrade a project form 4.7 to 4.8 the VR preview will only show up as a regular stand alone window. ...

Screen Space Ambient Occlusion Artifacts

Docs - Samples - Apr 3, 2015

Flickering occurs when using the Post Process Ambient Occlusion (Screen Space AO). This is more noticeable when using stronger values entered into the AO fields. I checked these settings in both 4 ...

Crash from FGameplayDebugger when pressing PIE after Dragging PlayerController to Empty Player Component

UE - AI - Jun 16, 2015

A crash occurs after dragging an 'Empty Character' actor into the viewport and attempting to add the 'PuzzlePlayerController' as a component by dragging it into the components list via the 'Details' ...

Crash when destroying a pawn on the client

UE - Networking - Jul 6, 2015

Crash when destroying a pawn on the client. Reproduced in 4.8.1 and Main (//depot/UE4/Promotable-CL-2610743). This is a regression: the crash does not occur in 4.7.6 Crash Report: [Link Removed] ...

Camera Rotation Stays locked in Place after Ejecting the Player Controller

Tools - Jul 14, 2015

Camera Rotation Stays locked in place after Ejecting the Player Controller so that even when PIE is stopped the camera position stays locked in it's rotated position rather than returning back to no ...

Packaging with Code Editor plugin crashes and then fails to build

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - Plugin System - Jun 18, 2015

Packaging with the [experimental] Code Editor plugin enabled causes a crash during the packaging process in 4.8 source. The crash does not kill the editor, project can recover by choosing for Window ...

The Top Down template TopDownController has Block Input enabled by default

Docs - Samples - May 19, 2015

The Top Down template TopDownController has Block Input enabled by default. This is potentially confusing for new users not aware of this difference. Note that due to [Link Removed], testing this r ...

Setting the Camera Modifier to 'None' crashes the editor

UE - Gameplay - Jul 14, 2015

The PlayerCameraManager will cause the engine to crash if you set the first element to 'none' under the Camera Modifier. ...

Deriving a class from UBlackboardData results in runtime check failures

UE - AI - Jun 15, 2015

It needs to be either supported, or UBlackboardData should not show up in lists of valid parent classes. I'm not sure the latter is possible at all, so we should at least patch it up so that that ru ...