Water Plugin Causing Crash In 5.4.4

Development Platform & Builds XR Development
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Steps to Reproduce

  1. Launch Unreal Engine 5.4.4 and create a VR Template. Please note, you don’t need to have starter content ticked.
  2. Once the engine has been loaded into the VR Template map, navigate to Edit->Plugins, in the search bar, type ‘Water’. Enable the water plugin by pressing the tick to the left of it.
    1. Please note, you do not need to enable the ‘Water Extras’ plugin. [Image Removed]
  3. Next, Navigate to Edit->Project Settings. In the search bar type ‘Instanced Stereo’ and tick to enable.[Image Removed]
  4. Once both the plugin and this setting is enabled, restart the editor.
  5. Once loaded back up, navigate to Quick Add button and type ‘Water’ in the search. Select one of the following and place it in the level

  • Water Body Lake

  • Water Body Ocean

  • Water Body River

    6\. As soon as you click to place one of those actors down, the engine will crash.