Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Material LocalPosition node does not work correctly with Nanite Skinned meshes
UE - Graphics Features - Dec 1, 2025Nanite Skinned Meshes don't receive the correct Local Position in some shadow passes. This depends on the clipmap level, and is not related to VSM caching. Unreal Engine 5.6 shows the same issue, b ...
PIE also rendering in-active / unfocused editor viewport
UE - Graphics Features - Nov 28, 2025In 5.8, after entering PIE, the editor will start doing two SceneRenders per frame. This dramatically drops performance. Presumably this second render is for the inactive / unfocused editor viewport ...
Translucent Wireframe Materials Exhibit TSR Aliasing/Crawling Due To Incorrect Velocity Rendering When Set to Output Depth And Velocity
UE - Graphics Features - Nov 27, 2025Note that this bug potentially also affects a wide variety of material / geometry setups; however, a translucent wireframe setup is currently the main reproduction case. The issue may also be notice ...
Groom assets can no longer be created without curves data
UE - Graphics Features - Nov 18, 2025It used to be possible to create an empty Groom assets without an Alembic file. However, this is no longer possible because curve data is required This workflow is useful to create grooms that onl ...
LWCLength precision issues
UE - Graphics Features - Nov 18, 2025Large World Coordinates tile-offset position data can result in artifacts far from the world origin, when using it as input for mathematical distance field generation. This can be mitigated by demot ...
Static Mesh Contact Shadows still render when all LOD sections have Cast Shadows dissabled
UE - Graphics Features - Oct 30, 2025When the cast shadow checkbox is disabled for all sections that make up a static mesh the main shadow is no longer rendered but the contact shadow does not respect the instruction to disable shadows ...
Point Lights Invlidate Virtual Shadow Map Cache when at a distance from attenuation radius
UE - Graphics Features - Oct 28, 2025When the camera is outside of a certain distance from a point lights attenuation radius the VSM of that point light stops caching shadow maps. This can also be reflected in the output from the 'r.S ...
World Position Offset invalidates Point Lights Entire Virtual Shadow Map Cache when light frustrum is only overlapping a small portion of the mesh
UE - Graphics Features - Oct 22, 2025When adding a spotlight to the scene it does not correctly use cached virtual shadow map pages when the spotlight overlaps a mesh using WPO. This can be most easily observed by entering 'Cached Pag ...
Lightmass CalculatePointShadowing regression in UE5.6
UE - Graphics Features - Oct 14, 2025There is a regression or change in the Build Lighting process when using Lightmass in Unreal Engine 5.6:When building lighting with Lightmass calling the CalculatePointShadowing function, the result ...
Skylight Leaking Tint in Reflection
UE - Graphics Features - Oct 10, 2025From 5.6 onwards, Skylight Leaking is much stronger in reflections than in the world. Also tested on //UE5/Release-5.6, CL 45232827 ...