Specular highlight and roughness issue on clearcoat material with second normal at certain view angles

UE - Graphics Features - May 21, 2025

Specular highlights on non-Nanite meshes with a clearcoat material that has the second normal enabled will disappear at certain view angles. This can be worked around by adding a constant node to th ...

Misaligned sampling in UI Material with with CustomStencil

UE - Graphics Features - May 19, 2025

The output of the CustomStencil node in a User Interface material does not align with the viewport dimensions. Toggling fullscreen/windowed mode (F11) causes the offset to reappear, so scaling the n ...

Editor 'Build All Levels' discards Volumetrics Lightmaps in persistent level

UE - Graphics Features - May 14, 2025

Building the level or lightmaps can clear the volumetric lightmap. In 5.5, this requires you to perform a full build, or a lighting only build with a BSP brush in the scene. In 5.6, all level build ...

ResavePackages commandlet (buildlighting) fails/asserts on reflection captures in non-visible sub-levels

UE - Graphics Features - May 13, 2025

When building reflection captures through the ResavePackages commandlet, it frequently triggers an ensure inside of ReflectionEnvironmentCapture.cpp. If distributed shader builds start causing prob ...

Missing info in GPU breadcrumbs and DRED logs

UE - Graphics Features - Apr 21, 2025

Some breadcrumbs and D3D12 logs are missing data which should normally be filled in e.g. Breadcrumbs: > PostProcessMaterial %dx%d Material=%s [Active]. After investigating this, there seems to be a ...

Memory leak in distance fields with bDisableWorldRendering

UE - Graphics Features - Apr 17, 2025

There is a memory leak in the Distance Fields category when a mesh continuously moves through the world and the scene is being captured with bDisableWorldRendering set to true. This issue occurs on ...

XR - Volumetric Clouds - VM Clouds appear overtop of meshes in the right-eye

UE - Graphics Features - Apr 10, 2025

When the user changes the Volumetric Render Target Mode, the Volumetric clouds in a scene will render in front of Static Meshes in the Right-Eye. ...

Incorrect volume bounds check in FTranslucentLightInjectionCollector::AddLightForInjection

UE - Graphics Features - Apr 8, 2025

The 'VolumeBounds' array in FTranslucentLightInjectionCollector::AddLightForInjection is accessed as a pointer instead of with 'VolumeCascadeIndex' and thus fails bounds checks for the outer volume. ...

Sky Atmosphere Material Nodes not Correctly Represented in the Surface Cache for Nanite Enabled Static Meshes

UE - Graphics Features - Apr 1, 2025

When nanite is enabled on a static mesh, lighting contributions from Sky Atmosphere material nodes are not incident on the static mesh and no longer present in the overall lighting of the scene. Th ...