Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Shadow Maps performance issue with 5.4 in comparison towards 5.3
UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Nov 20, 2024Shadow depths performance for non-VSM in certain scenes, notably those with rect lights and meshes that are set to movable, went from ~2ms to ~18ms going from UE 5.3 to UE 5.4. Setting the movable a ...
TranslucentVolumeAmbient is darkened in InjectTranslucencyLightingVolume pass when using VSMs with r.Shadow.Virtual.ForceOnlyVirtualShadowMaps is Off
UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Nov 18, 2024CSM targets are still created and affect the InjectTranslucencyLightingVolume pass when moving in a project that only uses VSM causing over brightening of fog planes and other translucent meshes. r ...
CSM shadow casters falsely culled due to incorrect primitive octree test
UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Sep 13, 2024While setting up whole scene shadows, CasterOuterFrustum is used to cull shadow casters from PrimitiveOctree. CasterOuterFrustum doesn't extend far back enough, which means that if an octree node fi ...
Geometry with Static Shadow Invalidation Behaviour being written into invalidated VSM Pages
UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Jul 17, 2024Geometry that has its "Shadow Cache Invalidation Behavior" set to "Static" will still draw in the dynamic shadow cache when it is experiencing WPO ...
Draw Invalidating Bounds debug view mode for Virtual Shadow Maps is gone in 5.4
UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Jun 9, 2024The CVar "r.Shadow.Virtual.Cache.DrawInvalidatingBounds" referenced in the official 5.4 documentation for virtual shadow maps, no longer shows any bounds as the underlying code seem to be removed in ...
Stale VSM pages after HLOD transition
UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - May 23, 2024Virtual Shadow Maps do not invalidate pages when HLODs replace meshes. This can lead to inconsistencies between the geometry and the shadows, which can cause artifacts as pages are invalidated. ...
CSM Shadows disappearing at larger coordinates with different FOVs
UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Apr 5, 2024Cascaded shadows disappear at some FOVs when far from the world origin. This behavior was not present in 5.2. Also found in CL: 32690246 in Release-5.4 ...
Shadow doesn't update for a moving nanite mesh (fixed in 5.4)
UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Mar 25, 2024When a nanite mesh moves, the shadow does not. ...
Contact shadow has box artifacts with backlighting for two sided Subsurface shading model
UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Nov 14, 2023See slack channel: [Link Removed] ...
Shadow Flickering with Lighting Channels
UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Oct 27, 2023It looks like static meshes can invalidate large numbers of VSM pages when the geometry and the light are not on light channel 0. ...