[Bug] Post Pocess settings node.

Branch: ‘Binary’ Build from the Unreal Launcher

Build Version: 4.5.1 - 2336687

Detailed description of the issue:
Hey everyone,
just reporting that i found this “bug” while working with the “get settings” and “set settings” nodes from a cast to postprocess_volume. I just right-clicked on the struct pin and selected “split struct pin” in both of those nodes and while conecting all of their pins together found that there is one more in the “get” that’s not present in the “set”. The best is to just take a look at the screenshot… (i couldn’t test this in 4.6 yet as i’m not porting my project just yet)

Screenshot:

Repro Steps:
What i did is just:

  1. get all actors of class and selected PostProcess_Volume as type
  2. and made a ForEachLoop
  3. then casted to PostProcess_Volume from the Array Element pin
  4. and from the “As Post Process Volume” pin i created both nodes (get settings and set settings)
  5. and just right clicked in their struct type pin and selected “split struct pin”
  6. And compare them
    (I think it’ll be the same if you just get a reference for pp volume in the level blueprint instead of the cast)

Looks like the reason you’re getting this is because the “Tints” property - in actual fact the Lens Flare Tints array - is a static array which cannot be exposed to blueprint and therefore isn’t marked as BlueprintReadWrite. The code for splitting struct pins checks CanBeExposed() for the struct members on input pins, but not output pins, hence the discrepancy.
I’d be inclined to think that it should check CanBeExposed for both input and output pins, but somebody from Epic will need to confirm if this is an oversight or expected behaviour.

Let me know if it isn’t intended and I’ll see about submitting a PR for it.

Hi Meguido and twiddle,

I have created a bug report for this issue (UE-6597). I don’t believe this is intended, but I will let you know when I see an update on the bug report. Thanks for reporting the issue!

Hey just wanted to let you know that this bug it’s present in the pp settings for the camera too:

Yes - this is an issue with how any blueprint editor-based window will split and recreate structs. Thanks for the confirmation though.