Packed Level Actors will create ISMs with inverted normals when a portion of static meshes have negative scales. This is apparent with two-sided materials.

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Feb 17, 2025

Packed level actors will create ISM instances with inverted normals when the selection of meshes used to create the packed level actor contains a subset of meshes with negative scales. This is the ...

Deleting transient actor marks level dirty

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Feb 6, 2025

The licensee has noticed that the deletion of a transient actor still marks the scene as dirty and asks it to be saved. Checking the source it was noted that the transient flag is not verified on de ...

External Data Layers in level not removed when Game Feature Action is Removed or set to None

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Jan 9, 2025

When using External Data Layers in conjunction with Game Feature Plugins and World Partition levels, removing a Game Feature Action or changing its type to "None" does not remove the associated Exte ...

Improve performance when creating multiple Data Layer Instances

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Dec 10, 2024

Every time AWorldDataLayers::CreateDataLayer is called,  UDataLayerManager::ResolveActorDescContainersDataLayers() gets called and iterates on all actordescs of the world.When creating multiple data l ...

Issue with PLA Editing inside another PLA causes Z-Fighting or Mesh Disappearance.

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Dec 6, 2024

When editing a Packed Level Actor (PLA) that is inside another PLA, z-fighting or mesh disappearance will occur. More specifically, it is seen when duplicating a mesh inside the PLA, upon saving the P ...

The ResavePackages commandlet with -ResaveClass and -IncludeChildClasses doesn't resave unloaded assets

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Nov 28, 2024

The ResavePackages commandlet can be used to batch resave assets. The ResaveClass and IncludeChildClasses options let one resave all assets of a specific parent class. The problem is that blueprint ...

Focus mode in the Editor does not handle Actors without PrimitiveComponent correctly, treating them as if they were at the origin (0,0,0), skewing the camera placement.

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Nov 18, 2024

Focus mode in the Editor does not handle Actors without PrimitiveComponent correctly, treating them as if they were at the origin (0,0,0), skewing the camera placement. Some Actors like the WorldDat ...

External Actors can hold stale references to Blueprint classes as edited instance properties

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Nov 14, 2024

When 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 ...

Actors removed from the world are unregistered both before and after EndPlay

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Nov 5, 2024

Actors that are removed from the world have UnregisterAllComponents called twice. Removal can be caused by unloading a data layer that owns the actor. In cases like exiting the application or destr ...

Actor foliage does not respect "foliage.CullDistanceScale"

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Oct 15, 2024

Actor foliage does not respect the "foliage.CullDistanceScale" console variable. This was brought up in a UDN: [Link Removed] ...