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Unreal Decoder
Start with what you see or what you need to build. Each guide narrows the likely answer, puts the first checks in order, and links to the Epic documentation behind it.
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TSR Ghosting
Trace afterimages and trails back to TSR inputs, velocity, translucency, or history rejection.
TSR Flicker and Moire
Separate temporal reconstruction limits from unstable geometry, lighting, and frame-rate-dependent effects.
WPO Smearing
Correct previous-frame World Position Offset so TSR and motion blur receive usable velocity.
Translucent Temporal Ghosting
Balance translucent depth and velocity output against the opaque scene behind the effect.
Lumen Surface Cache Gap
Find missing Lumen Card coverage that blocks bounced light and produces black reflection regions.
Lumen Enclosed-Space Light Leak
Check trace distance, wall thickness, mesh scale, and distance-field representation in sealed spaces.
Lumen Emissive Instability
Stabilize small bright emissive sources that are culled or undersampled by Lumen.
Screen-Space Reflection Edge Leaking
Recognize reflection cutoffs caused by missing off-screen scene data.
Nanite Fallback Mesh Mismatch
Compare the visible Nanite mesh with the coarse geometry used by other engine systems and platforms.
Virtual Shadow Map Page-Pool Overflow
Confirm physical page exhaustion before changing shadow resolution, light count, or GPU memory allocation.
Shadow Terminator
Fix the mismatch between low-poly geometry and smooth shading normals before applying global shadow bias.
Virtual Shadow Map Projective Aliasing
Identify shallow light angles and oversized local lights that exhaust projected shadow resolution.
Texture Streaming Undersampling
Distinguish a real memory shortage from stale streaming data, bad scale estimates, and slow mip requests.
Lightmap Seam and Bleed
Check the assigned lightmap channel, chart padding, UV coverage, and effective lightmap resolution.
Auto-Exposure Pumping
Stabilize exposure metering when bright and dark objects enter or leave the camera view.
Data Table or Data Asset?
Choose between a table of uniform rows and individual assets with their own data definitions.
Data Asset or Primary Data Asset?
Decide whether a data asset needs direct discovery and loading through the Asset Manager.
Hard or Soft Asset Reference?
Control whether an asset loads with its owner or stays as an unloaded path until requested.
Tick, Timer, Timeline, or Event?
Pick the update mechanism that matches how often the work needs to run and what drives it.
Blueprint Function or Macro?
Choose a normal callable function or a graph that expands into each call site.
Level Blueprint or Blueprint Class?
Separate one map orchestration from reusable behavior that belongs to an object type.
Direct Reference, Cast, Interface, or Event Dispatcher?
Pick the Blueprint communication method that matches the relationship between sender and receiver.
Actor, UObject, or Actor Component?
Match a gameplay type to its world presence, ownership, and lifecycle.
Function Library, Subsystem, or Component?
Place shared functionality according to whether it is stateless, globally managed, or owned by each Actor.
Which Subsystem Lifetime?
Choose the narrowest automatic lifetime that owns the service and its state.
Game Mode, Game State, Player State, or Game Instance?
Put gameplay state in the framework class whose lifetime, authority, and replication match it.
SaveGame or Game Instance?
Separate temporary cross-map state from data that must survive closing the game.
UMG, CommonUI, or Slate?
Choose a UI layer based on visual authoring, cross-platform input needs, and native tooling requirements.
Enhanced Input or Legacy Input?
Choose the current asset-based input system or retain UE4-style mappings during migration.
Gameplay Tag, Enum, Name, or Boolean?
Represent state with the smallest type that preserves its valid combinations and query needs.
Replicated Property, RepNotify, or RPC?
Choose durable replicated state or a transient call across the network.
World Partition or Manual Level Streaming?
Choose automatic spatial streaming or explicit loading of separate level packages.
Level Instance, Packed Level Blueprint, or Blueprint Actor?
Package a reusable world assembly according to how it is edited, rendered, and controlled at runtime.
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