Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
HLODs appear dark/near black when built for very large geometry with Virtual Textures enabled
UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Jan 27, 2025Building HLODs for a very large landscape with Virtual Textures enabled results in the built HLODs being very dark for the most part. Building the same large landscape's HLODs with Virtual Textures ...
External Actors can hold stale references to Blueprint classes as edited instance properties
UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Nov 14, 2024When a component is removed from a class that exists as an instance with external actors enabled, a deleted BP component on an actor will remain referenced by the instance. Disabling External Actor ...
RegisterAssetTypeCategory failed as all user bits have been exhausted
UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Nov 22, 2024Hi, with adding additional plugins, etc. to our project, we have encountered an issue with registering too many asset categories, such as: LogAssetTools: Warning: RegisterAssetTypeCategory("Water", ...
Distance Field AO from Moveable Skylight (non-Lumen) invalidates AO incorrectly with a screenspace offset to the right of moving objects
UE - Graphics Features - Mar 25, 2025When Global Illumination is set to “None” in the project settings the ambient occlusion does not correctly render shadows for moving objects. This has been observed in versions 5.4 and above. ...
Skylighting on distant objects causes severe flickering with Lumen
UE - Graphics Features - Lumen - Mar 31, 2025Lighting on distant meshes flickers when using Lumen and Skylights. Turning Lumen off and lighting from the skylight is stable. Turning off Lumen screen traces also lowers the amount of flickering ...
Inconsistent parameter handling for pak/iostore block size / patch padding
UE - CoreTech - IoStore - Apr 14, 2025Users have trouble overriding the blocksize/patchpaddingalign parameters for UnrealPak from UAT commandlines.There is no easy way to specify these parameters through a buildcookrun, instead they n ...
Changes to Instanced Properties default value on BP not propagated to placed actors in the opened level
UE - Foundation - May 15, 2025In UE versions 5.4 and onwards (as of CL 42589677 in Main), when an Instanced UObject property is defined in an Actor Blueprint, modifying the default value in the Blueprint does not propagate the c ...
GetMonitorSizeFromEDID may fail to acquire the native resolution for ultrawide monitors
UE - Foundation - Dec 20, 2023For some ultrawide monitors, UE may not correctly fetch the native resolution. GetMonitorSizeFromEDID attempts to retrieve native resolution from the Detailed Timing Descriptor of the EDID, but thes ...
DumpShaderStats doesn't output any shader data
UE - Rendering Architecture - Shaders - May 1, 2024The DumpShaderStats console command doesn't output any shader stats because the code to calculate that information in DumpShaderStats (Shader.cpp) is commented out https://github.com/EpicGames/Unrea ...
Imposter renders incorrectly in PCG volume after updating to 5.4
UE - World Creation - Procedural Tools - PCG Component - Jun 27, 2024The last level of impostors in PCG volumes render incorrectly after updating from 5.3 to 5.4. ...