Packed Level Actor should adjust transforms for negatively scaled actors when adding them to ISM

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Level Instances - May 24, 2024

When negative scaling is applied to an instance of an ISM, the instance transform is updated to apply a rotation instead. The same thing should happen when packing actors into ISMs for Packed-Level ...

Actors in always loaded sublevels are not immediately recorded into replays

UE - Networking - May 24, 2024

In FReplayHelper::ReplicateActor, we check Connection->ClientHasInitializedLevel(Actor->GetLevel()) to see if the actor should create a channel or not. However, the DemoNetConnection does not have a ...

Option "Update Animation in Editor" is reset for child skeletal meshes

UE - Anim - Runtime - May 24, 2024

When the boolean is set on a child skeletal mesh, looks like it gets reset   Specifically , at UActorComponent::ConsolidatedPostEditChange forces a reconstruction of the Blueprint, making the trans ...

delete_all_material_expressions_in_function Doesn't delete all expressions in one go.

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - May 24, 2024

UDN: https://udn.unrealengine.com/s/case/500QP000009NxNBYA0/deleteallmaterialexpressionsinfunction-doesnt-delete-all-expressions-in-one-go?fromCase=1 A UDN user is reporting that the delete_all_mat ...

LocalHeightFog placed in 5.3 projects are invalid and not appearing when the project is updated to 5.4

UE - Graphics Features - May 24, 2024

LocalHeightFog actors placed in levels for 5.3 projects are invalid and not appearing in levels after the project is upgraded to 5.4. This is likely due to LocalHeightFog being renamed to LocalFogVo ...

CPF_TextExportTransient and RF_TextExportTransient inconsistent behavior

UE - Framework - Blueprint - May 23, 2024

The TextExportTransient can be specified as a property flag and object flag. Behavior is inconsistent: there are many ways in which an object marked TextExportTransient can still be part of the text ...

Stale VSM pages after HLOD transition

UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - May 23, 2024

Virtual 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. ...

LogAssetRegistry Error produces a path error when referring to assets on a junction/hard link/soft link

UE - Foundation - Data Pipeline - Cooker - May 23, 2024

IAssetRegistry::GetChecked().ScanPathsSynchronous() now eventually calls FPathExistence::LoadExistenceData and logs the errorFPathExistence failed to gather correct capitalization from disk for <p ...

Baking lighting on Nanite landscape crashes the editor

UE - Graphics Features - May 23, 2024

When static lighting is baked using CPU lightmass for a nanite-enabled landscape it causes an editor crash with this assert: ...\Lightmass.cpp] [Line: 546] Attempting to add the same material twice ...

Gameplay Tag Query on Actor Component cannot be editted normally on instances

UE - Gameplay - Gameplay Ability System - May 23, 2024

A GameplayTagQuery in an ActorComponent cannot be properly edited on instances of an actor with said component. There is a workaround, but the issue makes editing Tag Queries rather annoying, doubl ...