Distance Field Shadows Not Working On Large Objects

UE - Graphics Features - May 10, 2018

UDN Licensee reported this on 4.16, and I can repro in 4.17- 4.19.  Per Licensee: I'm trying to use distance field shadows on very large objects, but it looks like it does not work. Can you sugge ...

Capsule Shadows Not Visible When Using Movable Skylight With Bright Lower Hemisphere Color and Indirect Lighting Cache

UE - Graphics Features - May 9, 2018

I have managed to reproduce this issue in 4.18.3 and 4.19.2. In order to make the Capsule Shadow disappear:Indirect Lighting Cache must be used (Volumetric Lightmap works)Skylight must be set to 'M ...

Connections Expand When Using Layered Blend Per Bone Node With Blend Weight Over 2

OLD - Anim - May 9, 2018

When changing to the Blend Weight to a number greater than 2 the connections between nodes starter to blur in the anim graph. Connections become ever more distorted when zooming out of anim graph. ...

Parallax Occlusion Mapping Materials with Pixel Depth Offset Produce Black Artifacts

UE - Graphics Features - May 8, 2018

POM materials with PDO produce flickering black artifacts. This is more noticeable at certain camera angles.  ...

Preprocessor checks for VS 2017 version of MSC do not look for the latest version of MSC

UE - Foundation - Core - May 8, 2018

There are some pre-processor checks in the Engine code that look for the version of MSC that was introduced with Visual Studio 2017 (eg. #if _MSC_VER == 1900). However, this does not take into consi ...

Material Name Does Not Update When Textured Asset is Imported

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Datasmith - Importer - May 7, 2018

When the name of a material in 3Ds Max is changed and the asset is re-exported and reimported into the editor, the name of the material does not update -Uses 3Ds Max 2016 -Also occurs with Datasmi ...

Billboard Actor Component properties reset when attached to a Child Actor

UE - Gameplay - Components - May 5, 2018

The properties of the Billboard Actor Component reset whenever they are changed while the Actor that the component is attached to is also a child of another Actor as well. ...

Editor Crashes on Startup After Enabling Forward Shading When r.LightPropagationVolume=1

UE - Graphics Features - May 4, 2018

If r.LightPropagationVolume=1 in ConsoleVariables.ini, enabling forward rendering and then restarting the editor results in a crash. This occurs in 4.18.3 and 4.19.2. ...

Per Poly Collision Does Not Update With Morph Target

UE - Simulation - Physics - May 4, 2018

Per poly collision does not update with morph targets. Occurs with per poly collision enabled in both skel mesh editors and in details of editor. Video from user can be found in project folder att ...

Editor crashes when duplicating a Blueprint instance whose parent class overrides PreEditChange() without including a call to Super

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - May 4, 2018

Attempting to duplicate an instance of a Blueprint in a level where the parent code class has overridden PreEditChange() without including a call to Super results in the Editor crashing. ...