Unreal Engine Issues

Material functions should be able to output the same data as it can accept as inputs

Material Functions cannot output Texture Objects or Booleans. This seems to be because the Material Editor believes that the outputs are Floats, and forbid connections to inputs that take Textures ...

NPC - When an NiagaraParameterCollection asset is duplicated or when its namespace is changed, any existing parameters get incorrectly duplicated/renamed with the addition of the namespace prefix

When an NPC asset is duplicated, the ne wasset gets incorrectly duplicated parameters: one set with the correct names, and one set with the original namespace prefix embedded into the names. These i ...

NPC - Does not get updates from Material Parameter Collection changes in the editor

When an MPC is selected as the Source Material Collection for an NPC, all of its current parameters are carried over to the NPC with their current values. After that, if parameters are added to, rem ...

Deleting an external actor without checking it out causes bad state

Changing the Global Time Dilation to a very small value and returning it to a large value (by either using the slomo console command or directly in BP) makes Physics simulating ragdolls fly off into space.

Changing the Global Time Dilation to a very small value and returning it to a large value (by either using the slomo console command or directly in BP - slomo sets TimeDilation) makes Physics simula ...

Problems with shadows on transluscent materials

Shadows on the surface of SingleLayerWater are heavily pixelated, and don't appear to use bilinear filtering at all. Also tested on //UE5/Release-5.5, CL: 36481335 ...

Spline Component Spline Generation Panel does not trigger Construction Script

From Licensee Spline generation tool no longer triggers the construction script We recently updated from Unreal 5.3 to 5.4 and our level designers are having an issue with the spline mesh generatio ...

Check for sRGB on Normal and Mask samplers instead checks against Greyscale and Alpha samplers

In FMaterialInstanceEditor::RefreshOnScreenMessages, there is a check for sRGB on Normal and Mask samplers. The issue is the check uses a TextureCompressionSettings enum cast to EMaterialSamplerTyp ...

Blueprint improperly marked dirty when it contains a latent node with a byte enum

In UE 5.4, when deleting actors in our levels, some blueprints will be mark dirty despite not having changed. We traced that down to FAssetRenameManager::CheckPackageForSoftObjectReferences. The af ...

Property Editors fail to select assets within paths containing valid non-alphanumeric characters

Property Editors for asset types allow you to drag assets from the Content Browser into them, or to make a selection using an Asset Picker widget. Some examples would be selecting Static Meshes or M ...