Niagara Mesh Renderer registers NumParticles x NumMeshVariants TLAS instances

UE - Rendering - Features - Ray Tracing - May 28, 2026

When using the Niagara Mesh Renderer with multiple mesh variants selected via MeshIndex, the number of TLAS instances allocated is NumParticles × NumMeshVariants and enabling the Path Tracer can ca ...

FNiagaraRendererMeshes::GetDynamicRayTracingInstances(...) corrupting GPUScene when rendering multiple views

UE - Rendering - Features - Ray Tracing - May 20, 2026

When rendering a game in splitscreen using Lumen HWRT, Nanite and a large number of Niagara Mesh Particles 1mil+, various meshes and actors will stop rendering. Setting r.RayTracing.Geometry.Niagar ...

Disabled Skeletal Mesh Sections cause Shadow Ray Tracing Flicker

UE - Rendering - Features - Ray Tracing - Dec 12, 2025

If a skeletal mesh has a section disabled the ray traced shadow will flicker when the camera or itself moves. Previously in 5.6.0 no raytraced shadow would appear if a section was disabled. This wa ...

GetStaticRayTracingGeometries doesn't check if mesh has ray tracing disabled

UE - Rendering - Features - Ray Tracing - Nov 12, 2025

An ensure is hit for static raytracing geometry because skeletal mesh assets that had ray tracing disabled were not handled in: FSkeletalMeshSceneProxy::GetStaticRayTracingGeometries The concurrent ...

5.6 Skeletal Meshes with Disabled Sections Flicker in Ray Tracing Scene

UE - Rendering - Features - Ray Tracing - Nov 7, 2025

Skeletal meshes with disabled mesh sections will flicker in the Hardware Ray Tracing Scene. Also tested on //UE/Release-5.6, CL:45232827 ...

Uploading of the SBT via copy queue is not guaranteed to be synced with async compute queue but only direct queue in d3d12

UE - Rendering - Features - Ray Tracing - Oct 28, 2025

When HitLighting is enabled, SBT commit is running on the Graphic Queue, and the pass "LumenSceneLighting->offscreenshadows->LumenDirectLightingHardwareRayTracingRGS" that uses SBT could run on the ...

Ray tracing scene doesn't reflect WPO with instance custom data

UE - Rendering - Features - Ray Tracing - Sep 19, 2025

When custom instance data is used to calculate WPO in a Material and applied to an ISM the WPO value in the Lumen scene (ray tracing scene) is different than the visible scene resulting in incorrect ...

Crash when a Deferred Decal (Translucent) base material has a Nanite Override (Masked Surface) Material and the mesh has Nanite + Ray Tracing enabled.

UE - Rendering - Features - Ray Tracing - Aug 14, 2025

A crash occurs when Nanite override material instance is used in a project with Ray tracing enabled where: 1 The Material assigned to the static mesh uses Deferred Decal / Translucent and the Nani ...