MoviePlayer loading screen with FLoadingScreenAttributes::bAllowEngineTick results in high DeltaSeconds tick post-playback

UE - Gameplay - Feb 16, 2024

IGameMoviePlayer playback of a movie during loading screen lets you set bAllowEngineTick  = true as a parameter. This will make FDefaultGameMoviePlayer manually tick the engine: if (GEngine && bAll ...

UNetDriver server-side hitch results in ActorInfo->NextUpdateTime far into future

UE - Networking - Feb 16, 2024

A high UWorld::Tick DeltaSeconds (i.e. GameThread hitch) results in a high UNetDriver::TickFlush DeltaSeconds. This DeltaSeconds can high (many seconds) if the hitch is long. This value then affects ...

Placing a section at the end of montage is not properly handled

UE - Anim - Gameplay - Feb 24, 2024

Placing a  section at the very end of a montage with no duration or animation assigned after it is not properly handled.  Normally sections with 0 length are skipped and search continues since they ...

On NM_Client, GameplayDebugger defaults to green smiley for NPCs implying running BehaviorTree while AI info is unknown

UE - AI - Debugging - Mar 12, 2024

Context GameplayDebugger (Press ` in-game) displays a green smiley (AICON-Green) for AIControlled pawns that are running a BehaviorTree and a red angry face (AICON-Red) otherwise. If the AIControll ...