Static mesh's material slot's cast shadow does not require a build of StaticLight

UE - Graphics Features - Dec 7, 2017

If static mesh's material slot's cast shadow is changed, UE4 does not show "LIGHTING NEEDS TO BE REBUILT". I solved it with the following fixes. StaticMeshEditorTools.cpp void FMeshSectionSettin ...

Cannot run any packaged project if "Force all skinned meshes to recompute tangents" has been enabled in an unrelated project

UE - Foundation - Core - Apr 20, 2018

Enabling the "Force all skinned meshes to recompute tangents" sets the value at a Windows user level so that it affects all UE4 projects opened by that user, including unrelated packaged projects. T ...

GameCenter does not login on Match3 startup on iOS

UE - Platform - Mobile - Aug 23, 2016

When launching on or opening a packaged UnrealMatch3 project GameCenter does not login for the paired account. This causes Leaderboards and Achievements to appear blank. Tested on iPhone6s_6240 OS: ...

Emissive Materials Change Colors Unexpectedly With Increased Values

UE - Graphics Features - Jan 24, 2017

When multiplying vector 3 (R,G,B) values by a scalar value of increasing quantity the emissive output will begin to change colors. The most unexpected is the blue color that will turn purple while t ...

Unnecessary files in Perforce Depot

Several unnecessary files seem to have found their way into the Perforce depot and need to be cleaned up. Affected files:Engine/Documentation/Source/Engine/Matinee/HowTo/MHT_3/Images/MHT#_Drag_In_C ...

Foliage experiences odd culling when world origin is changed

UE - Graphics Features - Sep 13, 2017

There is an odd issue occurring when the world origin is changed, changing the world origin causes the foliage to cull in unexpectred ways. The issue can be solved by using the console command "r.Al ...

[CrashReport] UE4Editor_Foliage!AInstancedFoliageActor::PreEditUndo() [instancedfoliage.cpp:2296]

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Foliage - Dec 1, 2017

This is a common 4.18 crash. Users have not provided any description of their actions when the crash occurred. Source Context 2286 void AInstancedFoliageActor::PreEditUndo() 2287 { ...

Buffer Visualization Modes Are Inaccurate

UE - Graphics Features - Apr 19, 2018

In 4.18, Buffer Visualization Modes appear very similar to their representation in Buffer Overview. In 4.19 and Main (CL 4008322) the results are very blown out. Similar issue reported in [Link Remo ...

Complex collision mesh might lose its collision in the editor

UE - LD & Modeling - Modeling Tools - Mesh Editing - Feb 18, 2020

This is affected by loading order. In the case, display mesh was loaded firstly and try to build collision mesh form complex collision mesh asset. But the collision mesh didn't finished to make Ren ...

Destruction mesh with Crumble Smallest and Impact near another will leave residual mesh visible

UE - Simulation - Physics - Destruction - Jan 28, 2015

When using a DM that has Crumble Smallest and Impact damage enabled there will be instances where the residual mesh before fracture is left behind. What appears to happen is there is a force large e ...