This primarily affects 2d meshes that are on a plane that intersects the origin.
#jira UE-193309
#rb alexis.matte
[CL 27632735 by david hill in ue5-main branch]
Add reimport callback to refresh the UI when we reimport a skeletalmesh
#jira UE-173402
#rb jeanluc.corenthin
#fyi bojan.brankov
#rnx
#preflight 63b8771b68068a8bd63d0b1b
[CL 23601639 by Alexis Matte in ue5-main branch]
BoneInfluencesLimit can be set on each LOD of an asset. DefaultBoneInfluencesLimit is a per-platform global default that can be set from the project settings.
This allows you to, for example, enable Unlimited Bone Influences on a project while ensuring that meshes don't use more than 8 influences by default, even if they've been imported with more.
#rb alexis.matte,josie.yang
#preflight 6380959cf514e1ded907774d
[CL 23265588 by henry falconer in ue5-main branch]
Skeleton compatibility is now bi-directional. Specifying a compatible skeleton A -> B now implies B -> A.
Skeleton compatibility is now an editor-only concern. The runtime will attempt to do the 'best it can' via name -> name mappings. Only the editor will prevent assigning incompatible skeletons in (e.g.) asset pickers etc.
Skeleton compatibility checks in editor can now be disabled in the editor preferences (and each asset picker now has a checkbox option in its view settings that allows for quick access to this).
Moves FSkeletonRemapping to its own file (which is now private).
Skeleton remappings are now generated on demand on worker threads just before animation decompression and stored in a registry, guarded by FRWScopeLock for thread-safety.
Fixed some anim BP compiler edge cases where asset references on pins were not getting preloaded correctly, causing skeletons to be erroneously reported as missing.
Exposed the current asset registry filter in SAssetView so that menu extensions can access it (and use it to provide context)
#jira UE-166054
#jira UE-167355
#rb Jurre.deBaare,John.vanderBerg
#preflight 635902602e6690262afa86f9
[CL 22878911 by Thomas Sarkanen in ue5-main branch]
- Skeletal mesh is now import using the skeletalmesh compile system to make sure all properties are locked and will stall another thread trying to access them.
---- This fix multiple crash if a viewer display the skeletal mesh and use some properties.
- Remove animation pipeline ensure(no skeleton) if we import with force static mesh and there is some translated animation node
- Fix crash when importing static mesh and the get mesh payload return an empty mesh description
- Reimport of skeletalmesh is not calling anymore postedit change if we reimport with interchange, interchange will call it in a post edit step.
---- This fix multiple crash if a viewer display the bones of the re-import skeletal mesh.
General:
- Reimport handler now have a reimport async version so the caller can control if a reimport is done asynchronously or synchronously
#jira UE-166986
#rb danny.couture , jeanluc.corenthin
#rnx
#lockdown jeanmichel.dignard
#preflight 634f61fdec03b54e9cdfe0bf
[CL 22634973 by alexis matte in ue5-main branch]
The main change is that FSoftSkinVertex, used by FSkeletalMeshLODModel, in now stores weights as 16-bit after conversion from the import data. This increases the size of each FSoftSkinVertex from 144 bytes to 160 bytes (about 10% increase). By default render meshes still use 8-bit skin weights, with weights downshifted from the 16-bit modeling data, so no change in GPU memory consumption there. However, the vertex buffer will automatically return a 16-bit skin weights when requested from the GPU side (e.g. for CPU skinning and viewing tangents).
This change in the model data and vertex buffer CPU-side query, resulted in many changes throughout the codebase and will have an effect on licensees who are actively reading from and writing to these two storage locations.
The GPU skin cache shader has had one more permutation added when not using unlimited skin weights. The vertex factory is not affected.
#jira UE-164386
#rb alexis.matte, josie.yang
#preflight 632c0c5ab4515b7e22b4804d
[CL 22215219 by halfdan ingvarsson in ue5-main branch]
* Removed deprecated or dead code paths
* Simplified build system setup for physics support
* Deprecated build system flags and unsupported macros
#jira none
#rb Chris.Caulfield, Kriss.Gossart
#preflight 62963ec0fe779f23c8ea0c5e
[CL 20450744 by Benn Gallagher in ue5-main branch]
This change consists of multiple changes:
Core:
- Deprecation of ANY_PACKAGE macro. Added ANY_PACKAGE_DEPRECATED macro which can still be used for backwards compatibility purposes (only used in CoreUObject)
- Deprecation of StaticFindObjectFast* functions that take bAnyPackage parameter
- Added UStruct::GetStructPathName function that returns FTopLevelAssetPath representing the path name (package + object FName, super quick compared to UObject::GetPathName) + wrapper UClass::GetClassPathName to make it look better when used with UClasses
- Added (Static)FindFirstObject* functions that find a first object given its Name (no Outer). These functions are used in places I consider valid to do global UObject (UClass) lookups like parsing command line parameters / checking for unique object names
- Added static UClass::TryFindType function which serves a similar purpose as FindFirstObject however it's going to throw a warning (with a callstack / maybe ensure in the future?) if short class name is provided. This function is used in places that used to use short class names but now should have been converted to use path names to catch any potential regressions and or edge cases I missed.
- Added static UClass::TryConvertShortNameToPathName utility function
- Added static UClass::TryFixShortClassNameExportPath utility function
- Object text export paths will now also include class path (Texture2D'/Game/Textures/Grass.Grass' -> /Script/Engine.Texture2D'/Game/Textures/Grass.Grass')
- All places that manually generated object export paths for objects will now use FObjectPropertyBase::GetExportPath
- Added a new startup test that checks for short type names in UClass/FProperty MetaData values
AssetRegistry:
- Deprecated any member variables (FAssetData / FARFilter) or functions that use FNames to represent class names and replaced them with FTopLevelAssetPath
- Added new member variables and new function overloads that use FTopLevelAssetPath to represent class names
- This also applies to a few other modules' APIs to match AssetRegistry changes
Everything else:
- Updated code that used ANY_PACKAGE (depending on the use case) to use FindObject(nullptr, PathToObject), UClass::TryFindType (used when path name is expected, warns if it's a short name) or FindFirstObject (usually for finding types based on user input but there's been a few legitimate use cases not related to user input)
- Updated code that used AssetRegistry API to use FTopLevelAssetPaths and USomeClass::StaticClass()->GetClassPathName() instead of GetFName()
- Updated meta data and hardcoded FindObject(ANY_PACKAGE, "EEnumNameOrClassName") calls to use path names
#jira UE-99463
#rb many.people
[FYI] Marcus.Wassmer
#preflight 629248ec2256738f75de9b32
#codereviewnumbers 20320742, 20320791, 20320799, 20320756, 20320809, 20320830, 20320840, 20320846, 20320851, 20320863, 20320780, 20320765, 20320876, 20320786
#ROBOMERGE-OWNER: robert.manuszewski
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: robert.manuszewski
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 20430220 via CL 20433854 via CL 20435474 via CL 20435484
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Staging -> Main) (v949-20362246)
[CL 20448496 by robert manuszewski in ue5-main branch]
[FYI] Alexis.Matte
Original CL Desc
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Add section to prioritize sharing the prioritize weight value. This will allow to reduce less a particular section.
#rb david.hill
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: alexis.matte
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 18303911 via CL 18303917 via CL 18303919 via CL 18304027 via CL 18304034
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Release-Engine-Staging -> Release-Engine-Test) (v895-18170469)
[CL 18304035 by alexis matte in ue5-release-engine-test branch]