Moderators accept the answer because it’s correct. CTRL+S in the material editor shouldn’t save the level, only the currently focused asset.
I’m aware, but ctrl-s does not seem to be functioning at all. With no windows open except the level editor, and the level modified, nothing happens. I was always able to save the level with ctrl-s, and that’s also how you would intuitively expect it to work…
Edit: For unknown reasons, saving in the level editor wasn’t bound in the keybind settings anymore, I definitely didn’t remove it manually though! Now it’s all working again.
Still no support for paper 2D :,(
Can we get a little insight into how to access this stuff?
Thanks, I totally missed that this was added. I assume it’ll be featured more prominently in the final release (assuming it’s considered stable enough I guess) but it’s working great for me so far.
Even for a scene that’s statically lit it’s great for area shadows in that it allows for super-crisp up-close shadows without needing high-res light-maps just for direct lighting, and it also blends pretty easily* with baked shadows in the distance. I’ve only noticed a couple of pretty minor glitches too, which are probably attributable to limitations of the technique rather than implementation bugs. Performance impact doesn’t seem too problematic either.
*although the behavior of directional light angles for lightmass and PCSS don’t quite seem to be one-to-one – this might be attributable to a clamp on how big of a penumbra PCSS can support.
It’s bit odd that you have two light angle parameters at directional light. You can configure the shadow filter kernel max radius.
Thanks for reporting the issue. This is a bug and I just add a jira to fix this issue (UE-47342).
UPDATE!
We have just released Preview 2 for 4.17! Thank you for your continued help in testing the 4.17 build before its official release. As a reminder, the Preview builds are for testing only, and should not be used for the active development of your project.
For a list of known issues affecting this latest preview, please follow the links provided on the first post in this thread.
Cheers!
Fixed in Preview 2
Fixed! UE-47036 Unable to change Type or Auto in Anim Curves panel
Fixed! UE-47035 Constraint axes are not visible in Physics Asset editor viewport
Fixed! UE-46994 GetCrossFadeDuration node is missing
Fixed! UE-47039 Unable to rename, create, or delete Curves in Anim Curves Panel
Fixed! UE-47034 Merging actors keeps around previous UV Channel
Fixed! UE-47002 Get Transition Time Elapsed node is missing
Fixed! UE-46992 Multiple Ensures when running Launch On QAGame TM-SkelMeshMerge
Fixed! UE-46967 Alembic Import Assertion Failed: Array index out of bounds: 2 from an array of size 2
Fixed! UE-47187 Editor crashes when applying AutoConvex settings to SM_Rock on mac
Fixed! UE-47168 Save Icon in Preview Scene Settings is squashed
Fixed! UE-46870 Crash after adding Virtual Bone, then Creating Asset
Fixed! UE-47003 Undo of animation Key placement removes Additive Layer Tracks from view
Fixed! UE-47186 Curves cannot be renamed to existing curve names (smart names)
Fixed! UE-47169 Audio mixer crashes on shutdown when streaming audio sound wave
Fixed! UE-47031 Generating a HLOD cluster with multiple actors that contain lods will not bake correctly
Fixed! UE-46984 Using Mesh data for vertex colour bakes materials incorrectly
Fixed! UE-47049 Packaging Match3 fails with PhysX error
Fixed! UE-47155 Ensure during Cook on the Fly abnormal shutdown on Mac
Fixed! UE-46668 PCM still has stability issues
Fixed! UE-46954 Level streaming issue - new levels are not loaded until levels have finished unstreaming
Fixed! UE-47104 Update to March QFE 2 XDK
Fixed! UE-47059 Redirecting script packages that contain structs does not work properly
Fixed! UE-46472 GitHub 3707 : Fixed UBT stack size
Fixed! UE-23291 Actor created with same name as existing/destroyed actor is missing native subobjects
Fixed! UE-45563 Users project crashes when opening level that loads multiple sub-levels
Fixed! UE-47145 Crash when selecting Edit Map for Paper Tile Map Actor
Fixed! UE-46799 Changing copy signature does not have an undo action
Fixed! UE-46860 Crash Occurs After Calling Move To Location on an AI Pawn using a DetourCrowdAIController
Fixed! UE-47140 Error when exposing a tMap/tSet on spawn and connecting it to a custom event
Fixed! UE-47055 Crash when referencing GearVRController
Fixed! UE-46981 Crash occurs when two animation blueprints reference each other.
Fixed! UE-46952 Packaging nativized Match3 fails with multiple errors
Fixed! UE-47146 Crash when playing in Mobile Preview in C++ projects
Fixed! UE-46866 Crash opening project
Fixed! UE-46627 Ensure launching test map onto Windows
Fixed! UE-47257 [CrashReport] Crash related to looped Reroute nodes
Fixed! UE-47201 Crash removing split pin from vector + vector node
Fixed! UE-47198 Crash when recombining a split vector pin on Make Array
Fixed! UE-47261 [CrashReport] FBlueprintEditor::OnRemoveExecutionPin()
Fixed! UE-47222 [CrashReport] UE4Editor_LandscapeEditor!TSharedPtr<SWidget,0>::ToSharedRef() [sharedpointer.h:794]
Fixed! UE-46913 [CrashReport] UE4Editor_LandscapeEditor!FLandscapeEditorCustomNodeBuilder_TargetLayers::HandleAcceptDrop()
Fixed! UE-47115 Match3 iOS launch on fails to build
Fixed! UE-47076 Crash in MobilePatchingLibrary OnInstallComplete when install fails
Fixed! UE-47066 Packaged HTML 5 Map Prompts for Firefox Update in Chrome
Fixed! UE-47102 iOS splash screen rotated and stretched irrespective of orientation
Fixed! UE-47061 Android Fails to Build during LaunchOn when Gradle is Enabled
Fixed! UE-47028 Redundant clears in mobile rendering
Fixed! UE-46995 Incorrect specs in experimental mobile PIE json profiles
Fixed! UE-47274 Crackling in new audio mixer on Android
Fixed! UE-47204 IPhonePackager does not find UE4_UUID.mobileprovision provisions
Fixed! UE-47152 Vulkan project crashes on supported device when packaged for ETC1
Fixed! UE-44956 Protostar crashes on Mali devices
Fixed! UE-46869 Crash opening project
Fixed! UE-41651 Android movie player doesn’t work with Vulkan
Fixed! UE-43227 Rare crash occurred when closing the editor after launching to android
Fixed! UE-46163 App hangs on splash screen when launched on iOS
Fixed! UE-46434 No Refraction in QA Game TM-Shadermodels HTML5
Fixed! UE-47081 Galaxy S8 Mali device detects as Android Mid device profile
Fixed! UE-47075 Crash in GetScreenRect on OPPO and Vivo devices
Fixed! UE-47073 DOF rendering artifacts on Redmi Note 3
Fixed! UE-47238 Android Vulkan crashes after returning from Home screen
Fixed! UE-46294 Launching on HTML 5 causes an expression fail
Fixed! UE-46775 Unable to install iOS certificate if it requires a password via the editor or IPP
Fixed! UE-47048 Remove close button from Android SDK license dialog
Fixed! UE-46455 Android Crash on app launch if AdditionalPluginDirectories contains wildcards in path
Fixed! UE-40869 Crash Occurs When Using NetProfile While Running Packaged Build With Connected Client
Fixed! UE-47057 Ensure when r.LightPropagationVolume = 1 are added to ConsoleVariables.ini
Fixed! UE-47112 Skin cache crashing at boot
Fixed! UE-47084 Check() when rendering wire frame
Fixed! UE-47016 10.11.6 AMD FFT Bloom - [CrashReport] Assertion failure in UE4Game!FMetalComputeShader::FMetalComputeShader()
Fixed! UE-47194 Mac editor crashes when clicking Build in the editor toolbar
Fixed! UE-47166 Crash when launching QAGame onto Mac from the project launcher
Fixed! UE-46410 Ensure occurs when launching projects with r.LightPropagationVolume = 1
Fixed! UE-46863 Crash when launching on with QAGame (Assertion fail involving NiagaraSimulationShader)
Fixed! UE-46606 QAGame crash when loading TM-ShaderModels in -vulkan
Fixed! UE-46602 Crash when launching Infiltrator demo (D3D11)
Fixed! UE-44657 Shared Material Native Shader Libraries Don’t Function With Iterative Cooking
Fixed! UE-44079 [CrashReport] Access violation - code c0000005 in FD3D11DynamicRHI::RHISetShaderTexture
Fixed! UE-44040 GitHub 3484 : [unreallightmass,clang-4.0] use buildin __rdtsc if available
Fixed! UE-46828 Emissive green material on Character when opening Animation Editors
Fixed! UE-46351 Viewport flashes black when clicking off of a right click context menu
Fixed! UE-47193 Crash using Custom HLSL Node with Empty Shader Directory
Fixed! UE-46989 Crash at end of onboarding infil
Fixed! UE-47177 Crash when PIE on TM-Sequencer_EventTrack_Basics in QAGame
Fixed! UE-46647 Autokey needs to work with blendable sections
Fixed! UE-47226 Camera Cut Tracks are stuck on last frame when using “Stop and Go To End”
Fixed! UE-46988 Ensure Type.IsSet()
Fixed! UE-46401 Sequencer tree view has clipping issues
Fixed! UE-47269 Accessed None for Sequence Actor references in project upgraded to 4.17
Fixed! UE-47054 Ensure hit when submitting SVN asset
Fixed! UE-47068 Save process fails for BuiltData.uassets when trying to PIE - Standalone Game
Fixed! UE-47051 One-time crash changing View Type in Animation Asset Browser
Fixed! UE-47121 OpenVR extensions may not be properly queried on Vulkan init
Fixed! UE-46177 [CrashReport] Assertion failed on Linux: SharedContext.hGLContext in OpenGLLinux.cpp
Fixed! UE-45739 Crash on Mac when adding Convex Collision to a mesh converted from a brush
Fixed! UE-46490 UE4Printers.py is read only by default causing a permission denied error
Fixed! UE-46027 GitHub 3672 : Linux build fixes
Fixed! UE-46915 Make all properties editor thumbnail the same size
Fixed! UE-46403 Localization is gathering from instanced sub-widgets
Fixed! UE-46937 Material editor stats don’t automatically update when enabled
Fixed! UE-47167 Text appears jumbled in Bound Actor search menu on Mac
Fixed! UE-46919 Simplygon crashes when simplifying any object
Fixed! UE-47228 [CrashReport] UE4Editor_Slate!TAttribute<FText>::Get() [attribute.h:130]
Fixed! UE-47225 Text Renaming Broken
Fixed! UE-45249 Deleted widgets from a widget blueprint remain in the variables list.
Fixed! UE-47160 Retainer panel hiding things
Fixed! UE-47118 Android compile failure with GearVR
Fixed! UE-47101 Crash clicking Vive trackpad after setting LevelBP to disable facepad buttons
Fixed! UE-47044 Incorrect warning on command “vr.spectatorscreenmode 1”
Fixed! UE-47206 VR Spectator Screen crash if you try to set the texture with null.
Fixed! UE-47156 OVRGLOBALMENU does not launch in GearVR
Fixed! UE-46752 Using OculusBoundaryComponent crashes without the oculus runtime installed
Fixed! UE-46521 Daydream Instant Preview crashes on Macs with a separate integrated graphics card
Fixed! UE-47164 Crash enabling GoogleVR plugin on Mac
Fixed! UE-47148 Slowly flickering display in GearVR
Fixed! UE-44520 Splash screens do not appear in Gear VR
Fixed! UE-47163 Error: CDO Constructor (DeprecatedGearVRControllerComponent): Failed to find /OculusVR/Meshes/GearVRController message launching onto Android from Mac
Fixed! UE-47272 Sound files shorter than 2 decoded buffers long will repeat multiple times
REMEMBER: Please report any new bugs you find to the UE4 Answerhub in the ‘Bugs Reports’ section.
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ARKit support is coming, but due to scheduling, it wasn’t able to make the early previews. We’re shooting to have it out for 4.17 in Experimental form, which will be the same plugin code which we released at WWDC.
Also, Google Tango support is already in the 4.17 Preview, and has been developed in cooperation with Google’s team, and replaces the old external plugin that is available online.
Cheers
Experimental) Shaders are now supported in Plugins and Projects
So… Are only global shaders supported or all shaders
Hi,
[MENTION=9]Stephen Ellis[/MENTION]
I just updated, but the launcher still refers to it as “Preview 1”.
Is this correct?
Cheers,
Klaus
EDIT: Nevermind. Just needed to restart the launcher. Now shows correct as Preview 2… 
I can’t seem to get LPV emissive injection to work in 4.17. Anyone else have any luck?
Thanks for the update - especially about the Tango support! Would love to see a simple example project does something exist? Like a character a user can place on a surface and the character walks around it?
I’m getting a warning: “warning C4828: The file contains a character starting at offset 0x7b that is illegal in the current source character set (codepage 65001)”.
Never happened before. I think it’s the copyright character © in my comments. FYI this happens while I package a Win64 game from the editor.
It’s worth noting that none of my logs (build or runtime) have any extraneous warnings/errors anymore. Well done on that end!
it would be great to have a video with** example of usage **of every new features for every new patch.
Just an observation: if you have enough information to tell us we are including a dependency in the Build.cs file but not in the uproject/uplugin file then you have enough information that we shouldn’t need to indicate its inclusion twice.
[MENTION=9]Stephen Ellis[/MENTION]
I just tested this in 4.17 preview 2 and…THANK GOD I THINK YOU GUYS FINALLY GOT IT FIXED!
Regards!
when i download github branch staging 4.17 … compile and run editor …
it shows version as 4.18.0
is anyone else seeing the same thing ?
Can someone explain if this makes modding much easier or not and what way ?
Thanks.
Just to be sure, do you mean that it’s odd that the engine has two light angle parameters, or that I, personally, have those settings? That is, do you also see two parameters in your version, or is it something wrong with my scene?