Initializing custom Component on Actor in constructor causes odd hierarchy and details panel issues

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Feb 19, 2019

When testing with a simple setup, as follows: MySceneComponent has a UProperty(VisibleAnywhere, BlueprintReadOnly) of a USphereComponent pointer, initiated in the Constructor AMyActor has a UProper ...

Projects that use plugins located outside of either the Engine or Project directories cannot be deployed.

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - Plugin System - Dec 5, 2016

Trying to deploy a project that uses an external plugin (not located in either Engine/Plugins or Project/Plugins) will fail. The error message states that it is looking for the plugin to be located ...

UMG widget callbacks do not set PIE context in editor

UE - Editor - UI Systems - May 21, 2018

This is from a UDN post. Several gameplay functions, such as level streaming and SoftObjectPtr resolution, depend on the GPlayInEditorID being set when that code is executed in PIE in the editor. T ...

Anim notify gets skipped when clips are placed next to each other

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Jan 12, 2017

If a sequence has two clips(of a same animation) placed next to each other, some of the anim notifies do not seem to be called. In 4.14, the middle notifies are skipped (e.g. notifyBegin/1st clip ...

[CrashReport] UE4Editor_Engine!FSceneView::FSceneView() [sceneview.cpp:627]

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Slate - Apr 11, 2017

Opening UE4.14 using thecommand line "-forceenablecrashtracker," results in a red circle on the top right of the editor that when clicked provides a link to a 20 second video recorded from when you ...

IPA Package Sizes have Increased between Versions

UE - Platform - Mobile - Feb 21, 2017

When packaging for iOS the IPA file seems to have increased in size from previous versions. The licensee made an important observation that it appears the master materials have almost halved in si ...

Tabbing out of exclusive fullscreen leaves the window & backbuffer in an incorrect state

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Apr 24, 2020

With windows 10 there has come some new swap chains, which unfortunately messes some things with regards to fullscreen up. We've fixed a bunch in the renderer (which would downright cause crashes), ...

Increase in Engine Stats for large amounts of Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh Components

UE - Graphics Features - Apr 18, 2017

Increase in Engine Stats for large amounts of Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh Components User Description: We are having performance drops of almost 5ms in 4.15 when using "Hierarchical Instanc ...

Possible data loss/corruption when loading levels in editor

UE - Gameplay - Jul 18, 2018

Reported behavior: Given Level_A which contains object_X, where object_X references Level_BDeleting object_X causes AssetRenameManger to check if we need to patch up other levelsLevel_B is load ...

Failure to sign when packaging for iOS Distribution when using Remote Compile from a code project on Windows

UE - Platform - Mobile - Feb 20, 2019

Packaging for iOS Distribution from Windows using Remote Compile results in a failure during the signing portion. This seems to be caused by a hardcoded "false" for a property that is used to determ ...