Unreal Engine 4.26 Preview

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689

Transmission with RT shadows is broken:

Ear_Transmission2.gif

690

Ray Tracing + Volumetric Fog + Lights with Volumetric Scattering intensity > 0 = Flicker!
Not sure if this is 4.26 specific but definitely a bug.

Have spent days trying to find workarounds using various console commands etc.
Any help or feedback appreciated.
Update - luckily this issue is only apparent in editor, not in rendered movies or PIE mode.

691

Guys, when the mentioned new iPad Virtual camera app is coming?

692

Has anyone gotten ā€œBake to control rigā€ to work in sequencer?
edit with FK seems to work but selecting bake to control rig and selecting my blueprint does nothing, no errors or anything.

693

Is there any ETA on preview 8?

694

Probably there will be no Preview 8. There are no code changes on GitHub 4.26 branch for a week, only Credits got updated. Iā€™d expect 4.26 release any day now :slight_smile:

695

Just throwing it out thereā€¦last week was a major holiday week in the US, maybe that is a factor for no code changes?

696

Hello, if anyone experienced the same problem as me, or know whatā€™s going on? i can not see the Fullbody IK control rig node on my side. i am on Unreal4.26 Preview 7. thx :slight_smile:

697

More previews = more stable release is.

698

Kind of random, but what the hayā€¦

So I was looking to apply a LUT through Post Process, and I was going to try using .cube files.
So I imported them in, fine. But then they donā€™t load into the slot because they are not image files (?).
Anyway, so I double clicked on one of the Cube files in the content folder to see if image inspector would even open it up, but when I double clicked on the .cube file it freezes the engine.
It does not crash, just freezes. I was going to close out through task manager, but I thought I should wait.
And then, about 5 minutes later, it became responsive again.
DONā€™T TRY USING .cube FILES!!!

699

The binary versions of Unreal Engine that are available through the launcher are always going to be the latest - If youā€™re looking for a specific version you can always download them from GitHub. You can disable plugins in a project without opening it by opening your .uproject file in a text editor and change the following


{
"Name": "StaticMeshEditorExtension",
"Enabled": true
}

to


{
"Name": "StaticMeshEditorExtension",
"Enabled": false
}
700

Hi. When i add the new water system to my existing landscape it dont connect/snap to my landscape, is this a bug or do i have to make a new landscape?. I have enabled edit layers on my old landscape

701

If you are using world composition: it was established earlier in this thread that the water system will not work with world composition. Somebody quoted an UE livestream where they said that.

702

Just to be sure, did you enable the Landmass plugin? Also, does it work in a fresh level with a brand new landscape? Along those same lines, do you have multiple landscapes within the same level? If so, the WaterBrushManager might be connected to one of your other landscapes and not the old one.

There are also certain settings with the water material and/or the WaterBrushManager that can cause this, but assuming everything is basically set to default it shouldnā€™t have a problem updating with a landscape already made (as long as like you said you enabled edit layers).

It does work with world comp, it just has some prohibitive issues such as large maps creating huge RTs causing extreme performance loss/crashes when moving water bodies around, or weird landscape deformation patterns emerging, etc. At a basic level though, it does deform and work on world comp landscapes.

703

Thanks for reporting this issue. Weā€™re looking into it and for tracking purposes, can you take a look here: Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (UE-103750)

704

full release when ? i need it

705

Iā€™d imagine soon they will want to wrap it up before the holidays I think.

706

But do not rush as maybe GPULightmass is working again and is even better and other issues are more cleared too then with stable Unreal then there will be lot of joy even for basic hobbyists like me who learns. Currently dont know what is this in preview 7? tesselation?

707

Is there documentation somewhere for using the new water body actors? When I drag the ocean body into the scene and assign a material to it I donā€™t see anythingā€¦

Found this for now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE9jZbhI3Xg

708

Sorry, not sure if Iā€™m reading your post wrong, but are you saying it works with the default water material and not a new one you are trying to assign it, or is it that it doesnā€™t work at all. Because if you drag it straight from the content browser it shouldnā€™t need a material to be assigned.

Without knowing more about your specific situation, the only other things I can suggest for now are to make sure you also enabled Landmass and your landscape has ā€œEnable Edit Layersā€ checked. Did you happen to place the ocean BP in the scene before the landscape? If that were the case, the WaterBrushManager would not be automatically created and connected to the landscape.

Sorry if this is not much help, let me know if there are any more details about your specific setup and Iā€™ll try to troubleshoot it.