[UE 5.4] Deferred decal material needs emissive color otherwise it won't render

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Here is an example of what I mean:

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As you can see here, my material should technically be a visible decal, but nothing is being rendered. And even when the Emissive Color has a value of 1

Now when I plug something into the Emissive Color:

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This also happens with textures, I can’t really use this to make decals because textures aren’t showing up unless I plug in an emissive color, and when I do that color goes over my texture too, I don’t remember this being an issue in previous Unreal Engine versions, what could be happening here?

Edit: This also happens with Modulate and AlphaComposite blend modes

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Ok, it does render if I use it in a DecalActor that is placed in the world on some object, but in the material graph preview it doesn’t render, which is still strange