Custom Landscape with Custom Material Crashing Editor

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

World Building

Summary

I have been working on a map for over a month and it had been working fine until today when I tried to load the level and it kept crashing on me before it would fully load.

I managed to solve the crashing by removing the custom landscape material (Which had been working for a month as stated).

I then spent all day trying to narrow down the issue with the material by working in a new map and testing out various things to see if I could get a custom material to work for more than a few minutes.

Finally I figured out a few very easy steps to get a crash to happen consistently. I don’t know if this has something to do with the state of my current editor or if others are experiencing this but I can reproduce it 100% of the time.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Load the editor fresh and start a new blank template
  2. Select Landscape Mode from the dropdown menu
  3. From the material dropdown menu select Material
  4. Name the material, the materials is created and saved
  5. Select Create to Create the Landscape
  6. The Editor Crashes

Expected Result

The landscape should be created with a blank material

Observed Result

Crashes to Crash Report Window

Platform(s)

PC