Rotated RetainerWidget does not account for rotation during hit testing

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Jan 21, 2026

Hit testing for widgets contained within a RetainerWidget does not correctly account for rotation applied via render transforms . While the content renders with the expected rotation, hover and clic ...

UEditorEngine::OnAllPIEInstancesStarted() called prematurely, multiple times, while PIE clients are starting

UE - Gameplay - Jan 21, 2026

Context UEditorEngine::OnAllPIEInstancesStarted() is a virtual function that gets called when launching Play-in-Editor. It can be overridden if the game project chooses to introduce a subclass of U ...

When Constrain Aspect Ratio is enabled, the display position of DrawDebug rendering becomes misaligned

UE - Gameplay - Jan 21, 2026

Display DrawDebugSphere at the DefaultPawn's positionSet bConstrainAspectRatio=true on the DefaultPawn's CameraComponent Setting bConstrainAspectRatio=true in CameraComponent causes DrawDebug renderi ...

Multicast RPCs may be sent to clients in a different level with Replication Graph

UE - Networking - Jan 20, 2026

UReplicationGraph::ProcessRemoteFunction does not check if the client has the same loaded world as the server when sending a multicast RPCs. For actors that are persisted partway through a seamless ...

Sequencer: Camera blends restore to incorrect view target after Keep State

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Jan 20, 2026

When a Level Sequence’s Camera Cut track with When Finished = Keep State is played, the “original state” is persisted into the PreAnimatedStorage array inside FPreAnimatedCameraCutStorage. From the ...

Material Analyzer misreports static params for Material Layers

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Jan 20, 2026

When analyzing materials that use Material Layers, Material Analyzer reports that multiple Material Instances “share the same static parameter array” and therefore recommends reparenting so that onl ...

[Enhanced Input] The action instance data is incorrectly reset when you call "Add mapping context" on the same mapping multiple times

UE - Gameplay - Input - Jan 16, 2026

This is somewhat related to [Link Removed] Closed and was brought up by a [Link Removed] Setting the CVar input.bRespectIM ...

Clearcoat material behaves differently between 5.5 and 5.7

UE - Graphics Features - Jan 16, 2026

Starting with Unreal Engine 5.7, specular reflections on clearcoat Materials are less pronounced. Unreal Engine 5.5 tests performed on //UE5/Release-5.5/, CL: 41545209 ...

FMovieSceneSkeletalAnimationParams::MapTimeToAnimation returns the wrong value if InFrameRate is not the Tick Resolution

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Jan 16, 2026

FMovieSceneSkeletalAnimationParams::MapTimeToAnimation takes in an FFrameTime and FFrameRate and is supposed to tell you which frame of animation that evaluates to, when accounting for looping, play ...