4.23 Landscape Material BUG/Crash?

Development Rendering
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The game crashes when the landscape with the applied material comes into the camera view.

How to reproduce:

  1. Create a new project
  2. Add a landscape
  3. Apply a landscape material
  4. Package for Windows 64-bit
  5. Launch the compiled game and turn the camera towards the landscape. If the Build Configuration is set to Shipping — the game crashes; if Development — it works, but the landscape material doesn’t show.

Crash Error is: LowLevelFatalError [File:Unknown] [Line: 2046] Fatal Error Material not found

Note: Everything works in editor, I can play the game in editor and it doesn’t crash and the material shows correctly too.

Engine version is 4.23.0 that just came out (not preview).

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Thanks

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This thread seems to have found a solution (or a workaround) - Landscape material not showing on packaged game - Rendering - Unreal Engine Forums

In short, Landscape Material must have at least one Layer Blend. And you have to set layer name to something other than default “None”

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That fixed it, thanks!