Unreal Engine 4.7 Update Notes

4.7.0 Release

Released: 02/24/2015

Github: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/releases/tag/4.7.0-release

Release Notes: Unreal Engine 4.7 Release Notes

4.7.1 Hotfix

Released: 02/27/2015

Github: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/releases/tag/4.7.1-release

Fixes:

• UE-6706 Text does not scale when using the "Draw Text" node in a HUD blueprint

• UE-7139 Crash caused by "/Game/Maps/UEDPIE_2_Menu.Menu not cleaned up by garbage collection!"

• UE-7497 No Graphs are displayed in Visual Logger after enabling them

• UE-9745 Color picker does not work.

• UE-10016 Using the Merge Blueprints feature crashes the editor

• UE-10114 LevelScript should not get a Overlap event added by default

• UE-10137 Redirected graph nodes cause a crash in IsDataOnlyBlueprint

• UE-10141 Vehicle code project has default texture in packaged game

• UE-10143 High reflectivity on all materials in SunTemple on Android

• UE-10167 Undoing a pasted custom event node with an input pin results in a crash

• UE-10169 When installing VS through the editor, invoke installer with a command-line parameter that enables Microsoft's Telemetry

• UE-10257 Mac to Android first time device is plugged in, after installing tadp user still has to place sdk paths

• UE-10260 Pre-existing Foliage stays at highest LOD

• UE-10277 Android fails to show as valid platform for Mac in UFE until editor is opened

• UE-10283 TargetArray nodes are reported as invalid if played in Standalone mode but not in PIE

• UE-10298 Creating an exposed variable does not always update correctly to the bp's Details panel

• UE-10305 Set Timer node does not stop the timer if it is set to zero by the Custom Event

• UE-10313 Crash playing animation montage in reverse

• UE-10319 Crash attempting to edit a Struct Transform's rotation value as a slider

• UE-10406 All shadow casting on Paper2D sprites is broken (no sprites cast shadows)

• UE-10410 Reparenting an Actor Blueprint crashes the editor

• UE-10510 Crash occurs applying instance changes to Blueprint when instances have different changes

• UE-10524 Icon reports failure to add if creating a project with source control enabled

• UE-10529 TappyChicken: HTML5: Firefox: The Fullscreen button now displays the screen offcentre (large black border on the right)

• UE-10537 Editor crash when child component has physics enabled and is moved

• UE-10562 Empty if blocks are generated in shaders and can cause driver compiler crashes on Android

• UE-10646 Crash occurs copying a non-scene component in component window

• UE-10650 Possible crash in USceneComponent::UpdatePhysicsVolume

• UE-10658 Excessive memory consumption in some circumstances due to off-by-1 count error

• UE-10732 Actor's attached to an Actor with a Blueprint created root component don't stay in correct relative position when moved

• UE-10793 GitHub 851 : Update .gitignore - ignore FeaturePacks

• UE-10812 Comparing BB entries doesn't work

• UE-10822 Crash clearing the undo buffer during Blueprint merge

• UE-10826 Crash compiling Level BP after deleting event

4.7.2 Hotfix

Released: 03/04/2015

Github: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/releases/tag/4.7.2-release

Fixes:

• UE-11207 ios launch fail after upgrading to 4.7.1, provision not found, signing key not found

• UE-11202 Horizontal navigation in Notify timelines is super-frustrating

• UE-11130 Cannot build code projects for ios

• UE-11102 Mac editor sometimes crashes in FMacWindow::IsMaximized when creating a new window

• UE-11046 Crash in FLandscapeComponentSceneProxy::GetStaticBatchElementVisibility with tiny component size

• UE-11023 Opening the engine crashes: Assert failed: GConfig->GetInt

• UE-11018 Synced BlackBoard keys don't work

• UE-8589 MatineeFightScene has no sound on mac

• UE-8550 Audio cuts out during scene transitions in the Particle Effects cinematic

4.7.3 Hotfix

Released: 03/17/2015

Github: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/releases/tag/4.7.3-release

Fixes:

• UE-11029 Crash after converting to 4.7.0 from 4.6.1

• UE-11404 Second player is not affecting by any gamepad input.

• UE-11402 Editor will not build if you have PS4 code, and ONLY SDK 2.0

• UE-11485 Compiling the engine with Xcode 6.3 beta generates errors

• UE-10128 Preview Static mesh does not translate with socket

• UE-11315 Bugg 38187: SIGSEGV: invalid attempt to access memory at address 0x1010102

• UE-10569 Crash when opening maps and Blueprints in user's project

• UE-10708 Build failing for users project with all platforms

• UE-11312 Mac Bugg 38298: SIGSEGV: invalid attempt to access memory at address 0x3

• UE-11369 Crash when clicking on a "Two Bone IK" node

• UE-11185 A function in a Blueprint Function Library that references another function in that library cannot be saved after closing and reopening the project

• UE-11322 Crash when refreshing/moving/deleting BP nodes

• UE-11743 4.7 does not support Morpheus under SDK 2.0

• UE-11302 Cannot deploy to iPad

• UE-11692 Crash when rendering hit proxies

• UE-11304 Can't compile CrossCompilerTools due to missing file

• UE-11484 Fix Xcode 6.3 beta clang issues.

• UE-11393 Tiled landscape import' creates overlapped landscape components

• UE-11017 GitHub 857 : Fixed native enum support in blackboard component.

• UE-10697 Crash when opening Post Process Material with Live Data Preview running in Profiler

• UE-11225 Closing Chunk Parameters tabs with chunk selected and reopening Destructible will cause crash

• UE-10149 Project crashes on load after modifying Parent Blueprints

• UE-11244 Crash when renaming assets from the Persona asset browser

• UE-11272 Blueprint compile error when upgrading project

• UE-11319 Crash on project open (Assertion Failed)

• UE-11401 Need more logging in the Deployment Server

• UE-11292 Editor Crashes when clicking on Transform(Modify) Bone node in Content Examples

• UE-10900 Crash in FBatchingSPDI::DrawMesh in stand alone game

• UE-11505 Crash launching Blueprint Office standalone

• UE-10856 Crash on dragging static meshes into the scene

• UE-11298 Crash with Distance Fields while using World Composition

• UE-11422 GitHub 894 : wrong parsing of the return of adb cmd: device

• UE-11447 Player Character does not collide with landscape

• UE-11638 GetActorsPerception useless in 4.7

• UE-11589 GitHub 909 : Update .gitignore

• UE-11605 Overridden components are broken in static Actors in cooked build

• UE-11666 UberGraphFunction should be preloaded in Class::Link

• UE-11711 Severe log spam when particles collide with static objects

• UE-11640 AI Move To issues in 4.7

• UE-11360 Placing a ' - ' in theproject name will cause the Android build to fail

• UE-11647 Denver Tegra K1 (Nexus 9) disables rendering thread causing bad performance

• UE-11383 Screen orientation is ignored on Android devices.

• UE-11460 A level will not save if a Blueprint that uses a Blueprint Component with an Event Dispatcher is placed in it

• UE-11600 Performing a hot reload on a project that contains an FStringAssetReference will crash the Editor.

• UE-11707 Implement workaround for Localization being broken for a number of editor strings

• UE-11592 Cook on the fly Android projects crash after launching on the device.

• UE-11739 In some circumstances CrowdManager doesn't get created.

• UE-11321 Crash when creating landscape

• UE-11777 BP-implemented BT decorators end up thinking they're not on active branch

• UE-11826 MediaPlayer14 class lookup crash with distribution builds

• UE-11840 Launch on Nexus 9 fails due to unknown arm64-v8a architecture

• UE-11893 Editor crashes when dragging a docked window

4.7.4 Hotfix

Released: 04/02/2015

Github: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/releases/tag/4.7.4-release

Fixes:

• UE-11891 MoveToActor doesn't update AI's path on goal actor's move

• UE-11997 Navigation crashing on PIE in absence of NavOctree

• UE-12108 [CrashReport] Ensure in UPrimitiveComponent::SetCanEverAffectNavigation()

• UE-12106 [CrashReport] Saving after Blueprint change causes crash.

• UE-12443 [CrashReport] Crash in Blueprints during autosave

• UE-9417 It is easy to make a comment box unselectable when it overlaps with another comment block

• UE-10891 Force deleting a Blueprint that is parented to another Blueprint causes crash

• UE-10865 4.6.1 to 4.7 conversion crash "Assertion failed: Pin != nullptr ...K2Node_DynamicCast.cpp]"

• UE-11523 DateTime variables will cause a crash on compile

• UE-11011 Crash (assert) when accessing a property in a blueprint

• UE-12073 [CrashReport] Disconnecting/changing Blueprint nodes causes crash.

• UE-12206 GitHub 944 : UE-12128: Properly save structs when struct field default value is different

• UE-12962 Editor crashes after clicking on "Apply Instance Change to Blueprint" button

• UE-10574 Component properties of template not propagated when SpawnActor called

• UE-12109 [CrashReport] Crash while attempting to load a project

• UE-11368 uv scale of materials on hollow BSP does not persist after building geometry

• UE-4743 Crash when moving a sprite imported as part of a spritesheet to another folder if the sprite names had invalid character

• UE-11372 Access Violation in UE4Editor_SlateCore!TWeakPtr when changing view options

• UE-9824 Widget class is replaced with a placeholder class when reloaded

• UE-10040 Copy/Paste a button inside of another button then attempting to move the pasted button crashes editor

• UE-11204 Crash when returning to viewport from immersive mode with an editor window tabbed beneath

• UE-12915 Crash when using static lighting in foliage

• UE-7213 Crash occurred trying to cycle gizmo in Persona Anim BP Viewport

• UE-9982 Sprites with non-center pivots can be invisible in thumbnail renders

• UE-12196 Automatic collision generation is incorrectly rotated for sprites that were imported as rotated from a sprite sheet

• UE-12041 Sprite sheets with modified textures don't reimport correctly

• UE-7918 Sprites don't initialize PixelsPerUnrealUnit in cooked builds, causing invalid values for GetSocketLocation, etc... for assets that have Pixels/uu of 2.56

• UE-11903 Crash closing ElementalDemo game in opengl

• UE-12150 Crash launching PIE when sublevel contains landscape in hidden level

• UE-12111 [CrashReport] Crash after undoing/deleting landscape.

• UE-12433 Editor crashes when toggling off visibility for a sublevel that contains a landscape

• UE-11815 [CrashReport] Crash while attempting to connect iOS device.

• UE-12165 Morpheus crashes occasionally while running

• UE-12209 Canvas items are not drawn correctly in Morpheus

• UE-12211 Morpheus tears visibly even when VSync is on.

• UE-12212 Morpheus runs HMD distortion shader an extra time.

• UE-12324 Morpheus rendering broken when console rendering is on the screen.

• UE-11302 Cannot deploy to iPad

• UE-12063 Cannot package project on Linux

• UE-12210 Morpheus IPD is applied incorrectly.

• UE-13048 Xbox projects (code and BP) launch to black screen, logs show success

• UE-12213 Landscape material reverts to default when launched onto an Android device

• UE-12542 MAC: Very slow texture compression times in Editor

• UE-12235 Large performance regression in shadow rendering.

• UE-6190 UVs skewed in Mobile Preview mode for some skeletal meshes

• UE-11865 Open a level that contains instanced meshes (with built lighting) will crash the editor

• UE-10664 Crash in OpenGL3 and OpenGL4 occurs when opening any map after having a map loaded with foliage.

• UE-11810 [CrashReport] Crash in ULevel::BuildStreamingData casting Texture

• UE-11434 New user crashes on Editor load

• UE-12228 Invalid error messages in crashes

4.7.5 Hotfix

Released: 04/08/2015

Github: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/releases/tag/4.7.5-release

Fixes:

• UE-13250 Multiplayer Shootout project sample crashes on start

• UE-13274 Projects crashing on launch after converting from 4.7.3 to 4.7.4

• UE-11828 HydroErosion on landscape crashes on Linux

4.7.6 Hotfix

Released: 04/20/2015

Github: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/releases/tag/4.7.6-release

Fixes:

• UE-13664 MAC: Crash on startup