Deleting an asset and replacing with another asset while connected to source control can cause issues

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Oct 7, 2024

When using SVN, when deleting an asset in Unreal Editor and replacing it with another asset, the checkout fails and the references connected to the previous asset are broken. ...

Ocean spline impacting landscape way outside of its bounds

UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Water - Oct 4, 2024

From licensee: "[...] it seems that regardless of our settings and how far away the control spline is from the landscape edge, one corner of the landscape will always be impacted by the falloff and ...

Crash during garbage collection when container UPROPERTIES specify raw interface pointer element types without TScriptInterface wrapper

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealHeaderTool - Oct 1, 2024

When a UPROPERTY() TMap or TArray has raw interface pointers as element type, the garbage collector tries to handle them and crashes. For raw interface pointers without a container, UHT generates a ...

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

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Sep 30, 2024

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 ...

Deleting an external actor without checking it out causes bad state

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Sep 26, 2024

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.

UE - Simulation - Core - Sep 26, 2024

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

UE - Rendering Architecture - Sep 24, 2024

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

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Sep 24, 2024

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

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Sep 24, 2024

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

UE - Framework - Blueprint Editor - Sep 23, 2024

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 ...