Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Packaging for DLC with plugin multiple times causes failure due to file path length
When the DLC is being built for a project and stored in a plugin, the result is normaly until the DLC is packaged multiple times. This leads to the file path becoming more and more nested each time. ...
TMap Contains Node Returns False Incorrectly Under Specific Circumstances
Tools - Nov 20, 2019The Contains node doesn't return an existing row from a data table under specific circumstances. This didn't occur when the struct the data table is based on was made via blueprints or there are mor ...
Toggling SetSimulatePhysics state on a Primitive component with a child PrimitiveComponent leaks PxShapes
UE - Simulation - Physics - May 23, 2016FBodyInstance::Weld did not check to see whether or not child components were already welded to a parent. This meant that whenever Weld was called, ShapeToBodiesMap would continue to grow in size, e ...
Editor Crashes When Duplicating Actor that Contains Additional Components
UE - Gameplay - Dec 11, 2015Attempting to spawn a copy of an actor that has components that were added to an instance of that actor in the level causes a crash. Spawning the actor without adding additional components to the in ...
Blueprint Struct Issues - Data table wiped data
UE - Gameplay - Blueprint Compiler - Aug 19, 2024The user has come across various issues with using nested blueprint structs within a data table. The first issue relates to changing a variable in a child struct and setting it back then saving, cau ...
Alpha channel is not working on drag and drop function
Tools - Nov 5, 2014When using the drag and drop function in UMG on an image with an alpha map the background will show up as black instead of translucent. ...
Actor Component properties can become "linked" across multiple Blueprints after a hot reload
UE - Gameplay - Components - Dec 3, 2018If code in an Actor Component class is changed (eg. a new UPROPERTY is added) and a hot reload is performed to implement the changes, the properties in the component can become linked across any Blu ...
Difference in LODs between PIE and editor
UE - Rendering Architecture - Dec 7, 2023It is possible to repo this without the exact steps, but that leaves it ambiguous if the camera moved when exiting PIE or not. ...
Niagara crash when using a particle attribute reader that has been passed around between modules
UE - Niagara - Oct 28, 2025The following Niagara usage pattern results in either a crash or in incorrect data being read from a Particle Attribute Reader: Emitter Spawn Stage – A module has an Attribute Reader input specifie ...
Lighting behavior is unreliable for translucent lit materials, results are inconsistent depending on the editor camera's FOV and the editor viewport's width/height/aspect
UE - Rendering Architecture - Oct 27, 2024When working on the level editor viewport or testing on PIE, the visual appearance of additive/translucent lit materials changes significantly (and abruptly) when varying the camera FOV or the viewp ...