FComponentReference loses its actor reference when the target actor is reinstanced

UE - Gameplay - May 15, 2023

The "OtherActor" pointer in an FComponentReference is invalidated when the referenced actor is reinstanced after compilation. ...

Auto-Save failing, pulling old saves and blocks users from continuing

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - May 15, 2023

Reporting an issue where are users are getting prompted to auto-save, but then it appears to fail and asks them to manually save. They're being prompted with outdated save files, but get stuck in a ...

MaterialProxyReplace node does not work with Approximate setting in HLOD generation or Actor Merge

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - May 15, 2023

This is the same behavior for HLOD generation of World Partition. Replace is useful when there is a material that changes parameters with information such as camera. ...

Check in UCharacterMovementComponent::SmoothClientPosition fails when travelling between servers

UE - Gameplay - Player Movement - May 11, 2023

While attempting to connect and travel to a new server, the client's NetDriver will be shutdown, and a new pending net driver created (in UEngine::Browse). When the original NetDriver is destroyed, ...

Variant Thumbnails are washed out

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Variants - May 11, 2023

I think somewhere in Thumbnail Generator::Generate Thumbnail FromTexture() is applying this washout. ...

Reimporting static mesh doesn't respect changed lightmap settings

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - May 11, 2023

Licensee reports change of behaviour between UE4 and UE5 when reimporting a mesh after changing its lightmap build settings. Change of behaviour occurred in 17404767, which was to fix a similar pro ...

Replicated subobjects list crashes with unreachable yet valid objects when UE_NET_SUBOBJECTLIST_WEAKPTR=0

UE - Networking - May 8, 2023

This seems to occur when the subobject is considered unreachable but is not yet pending kill/marked as garbage. In this case, IsValid returns true while FWeakObjectPtr::Get returns nullptr for the o ...