Improved handling of material functions for Virtual Texture usage validation in materials

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Apr 4, 2024

To enable proper validation between virtual texturing and opacity masked materials, a user has to check a project-level setting in order to get the material to compile, otherwise, they will encounte ...

Poor performance when Player Collision view mode active in City Sample

UE - Simulation - Core - Apr 2, 2024

The Editor become unresponsive and then has very low frame rates after activating the Player Collision view mode in the Small_City_LVL and Large_City_LVL maps in the CitySample project. The curre ...

Opaque GPU particles appear later than translucent one when Collision module is enabled

UE - Niagara - Rendering - Apr 2, 2024

When spawning GPUCompute Sim Niagara system which is consist of opaque particle emitter and translucent one, if those emitters use Collision module, opaque particle often appears one frame later tha ...

Nanite mesh not culled when owner is editor only actor in gameview

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Mar 29, 2024

Nanite mesh is not culled because "DrawInGame" value in the primitive uniform buffer is always 1. Can be fixed with below modification:// in FPrimitiveSceneProxy::FPrimitiveSceneProxy DrawInGa ...

Sampler Source: From Texture Asset with Streamed Virtual Texture

UE - Rendering Architecture - Mar 28, 2024

It appears that Texture Samplers for Virtual Textures do not respect the Tiling Method from the Virtual Texture Asset when the "Sampler Source" is set to "from texture asset". ...

GI not coming in with lighting build data when lighting built outside of main scene

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 27, 2024

Volumetric Lightmaps are not shared between Persistent maps that have the same sublevels. Also observed in Release-5.4, CL 32500436 ...

Clustering GeometryCollections in sleep state forces them to awake

UE - Simulation - Visual - Mar 27, 2024

The sleep state will be overwritten in ClusterUnionManager::UpdateAllClusterUnionProperties. Clustering using AClusterUnionActor results the same behavior as well. ...

Network Prediction Insights tool checks/crashes with trace data from a multiplayer PIE session

UE - Gameplay - Network Prediction - Mar 27, 2024

Loading a trace in Insights that has Network Prediction channel data from a multi-client PIE session will hit a check and crash the Insights tool. ...

Material Layers Ignore Virtual Texture Sampler Restrictions

UE - Rendering Architecture - Mar 25, 2024

Virtual Textures can be assigned to Texture Sample Parameters that are not configured for Virtual Textures, if that parameter is inside of a Material Layer. Also found in Release-5.4, CL 32426910 ...

Assert triggering when trying to copy-paste an empty CurveAtlasRowParameter node in the material editor

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Mar 25, 2024

A check happens when copy/pasting a Curve Atlas Row Parameter Expression that has no value. This behavior also exists on CL 32426910 of Release-5.4. ...