Include better comments/warnings for certain edge cases when using dependent actors with RepGraph

UE - Networking - Aug 17, 2021

A recent UDN brought up two scenarios with dependent actors in RepGraph that could use better comments/warnings. The first is that calling ForceNetUpdate on an actor that is only replicated as a de ...

Enum to string conversion has different results in PIE vs Cooked builds

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint Runtime - Aug 17, 2021

This is because the metadata is editor only and will be stripped in a cooked build. We should make the behavior of the to string function consistent between PIE and a cooked build. ...

Pixelated volumetric translucent shadows

UE - Graphics Features - Aug 17, 2021

I narrowed down the issue to the Main call of ShadowProjectionPixelShader, and tested (on 4.26 and 4.27) a combo of different material and light shadow settings, as well as enabling transmission on ...

MediaFramework - Webcam Video input shows as black in Media Player

UE - Media Framework - Aug 17, 2021

Alejandro Arango 3 days ago In fact, it seems the 4.27 changes are conditioned by WMFMEDIA_PLAYER_VERSION . So the only change needed is in WmfMedia.Build.cs . They only need to change it to say: P ...

Plugin Config filenames need to be different for Engine vs Game plugins

UE - CoreTech - Aug 16, 2021

Right now, plugins installed to the game directory will only load plugin-specific config files with the path /Project/Plugins/PluginPath/Config/*Default*PluginName.ini. However, engine plugins will ...

Cascade To Niagara Converter doesn't respect Initial Location Module

UE - Niagara - Aug 13, 2021

Niagara's Initialize Particle Module has the Input.Position Write default Value False which is fine as long as the Cascade To Niagara Converter can realizes whether Cascade has the location Module a ...

Editor crashes when dragging the BP_LightStudio asset into the level

UE - Graphics Features - Aug 12, 2021

When dragging the BP_LightStudio asset, that is included in Starter Content, the engine crashes. Out of the 4 times I reproduced this, one of the instances didn't crash until I dragged the BP_LightS ...

Renaming a SkinnedMeshComponent onto a different owning actor will cause issues with FAnimUpdateRateManager

UE - Anim - Runtime - Aug 12, 2021

As mentioned in the UDN - the user tried to rename an SMC to a different actor, which leaves the URO manager left with an incorrect data as it is not aware of the move. User proposed overriding Post ...