Cumulative Patching does not work with Pak signing

UE - Foundation - Feb 20, 2024

Cumulative patching is implemented by copying the generated pak files during staging of the base and each patch to the Releases directory. When creating a patch, all of the pak files from the releas ...

Copied Actors in World Partition Levels Maintain References to Actors They Are Copied From

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Feb 19, 2024

When an Actor is duplicated in the editor inside a world partition level it maintains references to the Actor it is a copy of. This can cascade, i.e. Actor C, which is a copy of Actor B which is a c ...

Blueprint "Diff Against Depot": Restoring an instanced object results in reference to the object in the temporary diff asset

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Feb 19, 2024

When diffing a blueprint against depot via the Content Browser context menu action "Revision Control > Diff Against Depot", restoring an instanced object property from the depot version results in t ...

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 ...

Cursor input does not work properly in exclusive fullscreen mode on a secondary monitor

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Slate - Feb 14, 2024

Input doesn't seem to work properly when using exclusive fullscreen mode on some monitor other than the primary monitor. This is similar to other issues we've seen in the past with the cursor being ...

Niagara user parameters out of sync between the Sequencer and the Details panel

UE - Niagara - Cinematics - Feb 13, 2024

User Parameters on Niagara actors do not sync in the details panel when animated with Sequencer. Scrubbing in sequencer does not update the details panel. ...

Lumen indirect lighting artifacts when far from world origin

UE - Graphics Features - Lumen - Feb 6, 2024

Lumen seems to not be using Large World Coordinates somewhere. The Lumen Scene develops artifacts at large distances (5000 KM) from the world origin. ...

Atmosphere Sunlight shafts, artifacts, for both cascaded and virtual shadow maps.

UE - Rendering Architecture - Feb 5, 2024

Very large objects casting dynamic shadows on the sky atmosphere can lead to flickering (cascaded shadow maps) or square patterns (virtual shadow maps). ...

Crash when duplicating component with Instanced property initialized with CreateDefaultSubobject

UE - Framework - Feb 2, 2024

An editor crash can be observed when copy-pasting an actor with an actor component with an instanced object property when set to a non-default value. Detailed steps to reproduce are provided below. ...