Unreal Engine 4.15 Preview

[moookiexl]

Did anything change with instanced static meshes?
Because I got huge decrease in draw distances of instances, and can't see any way to turn it back up.
Landscape foliage is also affected, it gets much higher LOD vs the same object as a regular static mesh.

EDIT: turning up foliage.LODDistanceScale fixed foliage, still trying to find fix for instanced mesh
EDIT2: foliage.LODDistanceScale also affects other instanced meshes. Not sure if that's intended behavior or not, either way, turning it up fixes both.

[Jamie Dale]

Hi, I have some problems with new fontface stuff.
In my ps4 and xbox packages I've got a lot of warning of failed fontcache loading, this i the log:

GetFontFace failed to load or process '../../../../UnrealProjects/XXXXXX/Content/Fonts/dnc47_0_Default.ufont'

I think the problems are 2:
- the path is relative and with PC path (the XXXXXX folder is the game project one)
- the file created has .uasset extension and not the .ufont one

--EDIT--
I have just discovered that the ufont file is created in StageBuild directory

This should be fixed for preview 2, but feel free to try out a source build from GitHub and let me know if you're still seeing the issue.

It was previously writing out the .ufont path during cook, which wasn't always the correct path to load at runtime. It now works out the .ufont path at runtime instead.

[kamrann]

I kind of doubt that...
But maybe I didnt make myself clear, so let me try it again: It says that all header files include only the header files they need. This is something that we would usually do in the .cpp file since we would use forward declaration in the header files.

You should still use forward declarations in place of includes whenever possible. Basically all they've done is to clean up the engine includes, to remove a bunch of unnecessary code being included all over the place, hence the reduction in compilation times.

Generally, a header should include itself everything that it needs in order to compile, no matter where it might be included from. Previously this wasn't the case, many engine headers relied on includes being made by the precompiled header, which meant you'd sometimes get errors if you included such an engine header from your own code module with a different precompiled header.

[rYuxq]

You should still use forward declarations in place of includes whenever possible. Basically all they've done is to clean up the engine includes, to remove a bunch of unnecessary code being included all over the place, hence the reduction in compilation times.

Generally, a header should include itself everything that it needs in order to compile, no matter where it might be included from. Previously this wasn't the case, many engine headers relied on includes being made by the precompiled header, which meant you'd sometimes get errors if you included such an engine header from your own code module with a different precompiled header.

Ohh now I get it. I had assumed this was already the case. So I thought the change meant something different. My bad, my misunderstanding. I guess for us, nothing changes.

[VassiliosC]

In the new UE 4-15 Preview1 version when i use the FOLIAGE tool and place some trees in the Landscape the Trees disappear dont draw anymore ...when i move far away in the Editor also in Game!
In UE4.14.3 version that not happens!
What i must do when i wont the Trees dont disappear and stay.

Thanks!

[hls333555]

4.15p1 BUG:Enum is broken after converting from 4.14.3
https://answers.unrealengine.com/que...um-broken.html

[Perfect_Storm]

I was close to using the forward renderer in our projects, the only thing that let it down for us was the reflections.

Couldn't you set the material to High Quality Reflection for those objects that needed it? I did that at our project and it looks all fine. No problems with ugly reflections at all.

[Harry Florencio]

It is C++ compilations. It is not a performance increase..

Meaning up to 50% faster in case I'm making a C++ project, for example? 'Cause that was what I was talking about, and it's huge, is it not?

[CleanCut]

Meaning 50% faster compilation of your C++ project. So, yes, it's huge. If you waste ~30 seconds waiting for things to compile when you push the button now, then you should only waste ~15 seconds waiting for things to compile in 4.15, according to the theory.

[John Alcatraz]

The speedtree node seems to be a bit broken in 4.15:

https://answers.unrealengine.com/que...-node-bug.html

[Syed]

Meaning 50% faster compilation of your C++ project. So, yes, it's huge. If you waste ~30 seconds waiting for things to compile when you push the button now, then you should only waste ~15 seconds waiting for things to compile in 4.15, according to the theory.

Most probably one also has to modify their precompiled header to include only the related UE4 headers..
IMO, you should fit an SSD - it speeds up the build process tremendously. Previously, yes many times you were left wondering what the heck is happening.. I pressed Ctrl+Shift+B.. nothing seems to be running.. and often, it took more than 1 minute to see build text printing in the output window.. With SSD it just builds..

But then, I also have VC2005 installed in my machine - I tried to build my old project with it, it is simply wayy faster.. lol. Much like turbo pascal vs turbo c 2.0 in my teen years...

[DamirH]

Could we get a confirmation whether or not we'll see some more documentation regarding GameplayTags by the time 4.15 comes out?

[Stephen Ellis]

Could we get a confirmation whether or not we'll see some more documentation regarding GameplayTags by the time 4.15 comes out?

The documentation for Gameplay Tags will not yet be available by the time of the 4.15 release. They will be in progress and ready some time afterwards.

Cheers

[danjo133]

Meaning 50% faster compilation of your C++ project. So, yes, it's huge. If you waste ~30 seconds waiting for things to compile when you push the button now, then you should only waste ~15 seconds waiting for things to compile in 4.15, according to the theory.

The note said Engine compilation, not Project compilation. You may see some improvement w.r.t your project build times, but I believe the main win is for people who compile the engine themselves.

[danjo133]

I had a brief look at using the Logitech G29 steering wheel (ps3/ps4/pc version, slider set to ps4/pc) with the Raw Input plugin.

I created a clean project with 4.15, enbled the plugin and restarted editor.

Then I started a PIE, opened console and ran: showdebug input

The numbers seem to indicate that it senses changes to (most) buttons and axis.
But when pressing and holding a button, I get like one frame where text shows a '1' for that button and then it goes back to '0'
Axis are also a bit finnicky in that the output changes when pressing pedals, but values are also only shown for a frame or so before returning to '0'

This was with and without drivers installed.

Is this intended behaviour?
Is there anything else I need to do?

When using the virtual joystick vJoy, the button is indicated as '1' until it is released and then it returns to '0'.

I have not put anything in DefaultInput.ini