Are content examples for the new / recent Niagara features available somewhere?
Just testing out getting a vertex cached mesh geo into ue4.26b via usd (from Houdini). But I am not having much luck getting texture uvs (udim or just 1001) to be recognized in my assigned materials (st primvar is present). Also tried leaving them named âuvâ, but no luck either there. Anyone can replicate the problem or have an idea what I am missing (the documentation says textures are supported)?
Hi guys,
Lighting artist here, I have been trying GPU lightmass a bit. So far here are my observations:
⢠Blazing fast (RTX 2080 Ti). Turns hours into minutes. Using a low amount of samples + denoising makes wonders in such a small amount of time, itâs amazing.
⢠Baking trees with a rather high resolution looks possible at a wide scale.
⢠The infamous seam issue when baking modules is almost gone. Itâs still a bit visible when using denoising, I guess itâs because denoising is done on the texture itself, so the system has no idea when 2 shells are contiguous. A great improvement nonetheless.
⢠I hit a limit with 256 lights being baked. Lights over 256 are ignored.
⢠Soft shadows do not work on spot lights (works fine on direct, area & point lights).
⢠Non invert-square attenuation is not accounted for when baking.
⢠Some VLM are getting weird illumination:
I have been waiting for this for years, and I hope for a swift & bugless release.
Cheers!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1ulh9Lsb_06OTBnc3lkY1cxUkE
!! Awesome ! THANK YOU !
im sorry but you literally had to ignore the warning that shows when you open a project warning you about not downgrading, even offering to open a copy in that same window, then click âmore optionsâ instead and click to actually convert in place, at no point did you think it might be worth backing up? at no point did you think what âpreviewâ meant and that at the very top of this thread it exlicitly says not to do this?? unreal has itâs issues but this is 100% user error
So what you are saying is the feature that was working in 4.25.3 should be working in non-preview version of 4.26? ok point noted.
UPDATE!
We have just released Preview 2 for 4.26! Thank you for your continued help in testing the 4.26 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 original post in this thread.
REMEMBER: Please report any new bugs you find by following the How To Report a Bug Guide
Fixed in Preview 2
Fixed! UE-100161 Cannot watch pins for property access-bound properties
Fixed! UE-80323 SoundNodeQuality and RandomNodes should be evaluated during cooking
Fixed! UE-97354 Remove legacy slower reverb effect and only have fast reverb
Fixed! UE-96023 Creating a new plugin in EngineTest fails to create plugin âFailed to register pluginâ
Fixed! UE-98000 Crash when reverting multiple blueprints
Fixed! UE-89841 GitHub 6744 : Expose Name property in FCollisionProfileName as BlueprintReadOnly for blueprint access. Add BlueprintAutocast function for converting FCollisionProfileName to FName.
Fixed! UE-90581 Cloth Simulation with Wind requires high Wind strength and speed
Fixed! UE-96396 Crash on exit after PIE was started and ended in ChaosDestructionDemo
Fixed! UE-96529 Crash occurs when selecting PIE for a level with a fractured mesh
Fixed! UE-100015 CPU crash on RHI thread when launching on with attached project
Fixed! UE-99789 Screen renders with artifacts when looking towards the back of the TM-VRSmoke level in QAGame
Fixed! UE-99767 Metal toolchain output log spam on Windows
Fixed! UE-86692 Remove Mac workaround in SSGI frame reduction
Fixed! UE-100023 DX12 crash by lost device while building PSO
Fixed! UE-99208 TM-ShaderModels crashes in MobilePreview and on an Android Device
Fixed! UE-100085 GitHub 7352 : fix Landscape LOD selection for stereo rendering
Fixed! UE-99608 Crash when opening the Owen asset
Fixed! UE-96421 Crash when attempting to get a Physics Assetâs info without a default source selected
Fixed! UE-72533 Use closes point in rect light estimate
Fixed! UE-97020 Multiplayer viewport size (in pixels) not changing the client window size
Fixed! UE-100253 PIE unnecessarily tries to save modified assets when use Separate Process is enabled
Fixed! UE-100333 Socket chooser popup appears in top left corner of screen when OS DPI scaling is enabled
Fixed! UE-100299 Water spline point is snapped to nearest spline point when moving the camera down
Fixed! UE-94014 Actor selection isnât cleared (or updated to select simulated actor) when PIE starts
Fixed! UE-97222 Renaming a Read-only asset in the content browser wonât prompt the user to check it out or make it writable
Fixed! UE-100220 Levels created from Content Browser cannot be opened if Donât Save is selected in Save Content dialog
Fixed! UE-100029 Revit hidden objects still export with Direct Link
Fixed! UE-91206 DataPrep - Create Proxy Mesh issue with the preview
Fixed! UE-92381 Unable to Import Alembic Static Meshes into UE 4.25
Fixed! UE-100222 Crash after opening Awesome Dataprep Asset more than one time (twice or thrice)
Fixed! UE-100215 Pipelines are absent for Awesome Dataprep Asset
Fixed! UE-100048 Crash after clicking Execute button in Dataprep asset instance
Fixed! UE-56605 Corona Material converts with errors inside Unreal
Fixed! UE-97816 Entities on layers inside blocks get assigned the wrong layer
Fixed! UE-92874 SpeedTree assets cannot be imported via Python automated import
Fixed! UE-100171 USD - mismatch framerate when staging a file with several animated layers
Fixed! UE-99884 The Content Browser stays in current folder when User creates Weight-Blended Layers from Landscape Paint Layers
Fixed! UE-100191 Player is falling through landscape if âSimple collision Mipâ is set to â3â
Fixed! UE-91577 GitHub 6834 : Clear landscape cached heightfield when the landscape is changed.
Fixed! UE-88448 GitHub 6675 : Speed up landscape tessellation PIE load
Fixed! UE-99848 CutRevolve and PolyRevolve Draw Plane reset to default icon is not hidden when selected
Fixed! UE-99980 Crash when setting value of Steps in CutRevolve and PolyRevolve to 2147483647
Fixed! UE-99544 Completing a shape with Polygon tool does not add a transaction to Undo History
Fixed! UE-97093 Brush Radius field isnât disabled when Specify Radius is disabled
Fixed! UE-99682 PolyPath setting Ramp Start Ratio is enabled when Output Type is not Ramp
Fixed! UE-99681 PolyPath settings Height Mode and Height is enabled when Output Type is Ribbon
Fixed! UE-98041 Shared Gizmo (Local) becomes detached from single object
Fixed! UE-96983 Vertex Gizmo is focusable while creating new vertices in DrawAndRevolve
Fixed! UE-100169 Rotation of draw plane in DrawAndRevolve/PolyRevolve is unstable
Fixed! UE-100347 BP_IncameraStageSettings will always print âAdd InCamera [BP name] ZOrder 0â
Fixed! UE-97198 Unable to Frame in on control always Frames to body/face
Fixed! UE-97886 [CrashReport] UE4Editor-Sequencer!FSequencerObjectBindingNode::GetClassForObjectBinding() [SequencerObjectBindingNode.cpp:1123]
Fixed! UE-100142 Control Rig is marked dirty after interacting with the viewport when the controls are displayed
Fixed! UE-100231 Closing sequence while control is selected breaks the control
Fixed! UE-99909 Skeletal Mesh with an added animation rotates at the end frame when playback in the sequencer
Fixed! UE-99787 MoviePipeline motion blur amount doesnât respect post-processing volumes.
Fixed! UE-99708 Repeated movie renderings do not have consistent frame number timings
Fixed! UE-100345 Crash rendering several duplicate jobs with Movie Render Queue
Fixed! UE-93092 Shotgun integration - Crash upon creating a new level and a publish UI is up on a static mesh actor
Fixed! UE-100149 When RemoteSession is connected, editor UI clicks are offset on pop out windows after moving or resizing the popout window once
Fixed! UE-100200 Crash after clicking Reset to Default arrow near âOutput Providersâ section on VCamCoreTest map
Fixed! UE-100250 VCam 2 UI cant force Draw Debug Focus Plane to true because it is fighting the Lens Modifier
Fixed! UE-100369 Vcam - Focus reticle strange behavior
Fixed! UE-99465 Release-4.26 missing updates between copy-up and opening the stream
Fixed! UE-99348 When a Patch is created from a fixture type with no mode/function, it will still show in unassigned category after creating modes/functions
Fixed! UE-99865 Matrix Cell order seems incorrect compared to patch.
Fixed! UE-100153 Saved Composure projects did not load fully
Fixed! UE-78777 Crash when opening a packaged Simple Composure project
Fixed! UE-100353 Cannot create packages with DMXFixtures plugin enabled
Fixed! UE-99896 Remote API - Metadata Range Values
Fixed! UE-98119 Remote Control API - Scroll Bars
Fixed! UE-98085 Remote Control API - Rearrange groups
Fixed! UE-98120 Remote Control API - Actor Selection
Fixed! UE-100263 Pixel mapping box size is locked to size of name text
Fixed! UE-100311 Canât expose array elements
Fixed! UE-97729 Remove black box that shows up when you drag component in pixel mapper
Fixed! UE-100124 Typo in Output Settings (2 categories vs 1)
Fixed! UE-99790 DMX - Deleting attribute causes order to re-shuffle?
Fixed! UE-100260 Need additional attributes for Fixture Templates
Physics Handle Component and Attach/Detach physics actors are still broken in preview 2. I submitted a bug report
(preview 2 is out)
I did the update, said preview 1, reinstalled whole thing but it still says preview 1?
No Water plug-in and System on Preview 2 tooâŚ
Exit the launcher. Then restart.
itâs always the dumb stuff that get me. hadnât had this before so was unsure
Yes, those two new functions are what you should use from now on. I made a mistake by removing the old functions, instead of keeping them but marking them deprecated. This will be fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.
Im on preview 2 and I noticed that there is a difference between GPU and CPU light builds for dynamic objects lit by light probes⌠GPU is too dark.
Preview 2 : still only Shallow Water plugin.
I canât even compile source of 4.26 because of errors in SRemoteControlPanel.cpp
Physics components. Lock Rotation (X, Y, Z) does not work
I thought there was going to be updates to World Composition?
If youâre talking about the grid based editing system, Ryan Brucks said in his unrealfest talk that it was a ways out from release which I interpreted as âNot coming in 4.26â
Ok thanks Arkiras, exactly what I was asking about.