Assert crash when playing Groom Cache with Card Mesh LOD

UE - Rendering - Graphics Features - May 29, 2026

Playing a Guides Groom Cache while Card Mesh LOD (Guide-Based) is active causes an assert in RunHairStrandsInterpolation_Cards when the renderer switches to Card LOD. Assert location:Plugins/Runtim ...

Niagara Mesh Renderer registers NumParticles x NumMeshVariants TLAS instances

UE - Rendering - Graphics 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 ...

check(bRenderStateCreated) fires in SendRenderDynamicData_Concurrent called from FRegisterComponentContext::Process

UE - Rendering - Architecture - RHI - May 18, 2026

FRegisterComponentContext::Process() in ActorComponent.cpp iterates over SendRenderDynamicDataPrimitives and calls SendRenderDynamicData_Concurrent() on each. The existing guard checks ::IsValid(Pri ...

Meshes with scaled root bones pop when entering simulation

UE - Runtime - Simulation - May 15, 2026

This issue is fallout from the changes in 33851494. Prior to that, we didn’t get the pop on beginning the sim. The problem appears to be that in USkeletalMeshComponent::PerformBlendPhysicsBones we ...

Resavepackages commandlet strips level package thumbnails

UE - Editor - Developer Usability - May 12, 2026

When loading thumbnails in FLinkerLoad::SerializeThumbnails, the level asset has two thumbnails. The first one has a size of 0, which causes the loading process to abort early. Since the actual thum ...

Material parameters flickering due to UMG animation switching and multi-threaded execution

UE - Editor - UI Systems - UMG - May 12, 2026

When continuously transitioning to UMG animations that have a track targeting the same material parameter within the UUserWidget::OnAnimationFinished event, the number of source inputs to UMovieScen ...

Curve Atlas Row Parameter uses derivative ops when Texture Sample connected to curveTime input

UE - Rendering - Architecture - Materials - May 1, 2026

When a Curve Atlas Row Parameter node is used with a Texture Sampler connected to the curve time input, the sample type uses derivative ops. This has negative performance implications for Nanite co ...

Open Formats: Interchange Import Runtime - Interchange ImportAssetAsync runtime GLB import — materials, textures, tangents, and shaders non-functional in packaged builds (6 issues, UE 5.7.4)

UE - Editor - Open File Formats - Apr 30, 2026

Description* We are using Interchange's `UInterchangeManager::ImportAssetAsync()` to import GLB files at runtime in a packaged (Shipping) application. The orchestration layer (`ImportInternal` in `In ...

Double to float conversions of time in renderer causes precision issues

UE - Rendering - Architecture - Materials - Apr 8, 2026

In game sessions when the value for world time becomes large enough we start running into floating point precision issues. These issues can easily be seen in materials which do periodic animation b ...

[StateTree] Cannot use SetLinkedStateTreeOverrides if the linked asset uses the same schema with a parent context data class of the root tree.

UE - AI - StateTree - Apr 3, 2026

If both assets have the same schema (StateTreeComponentSchema), but the root tree has the Context Actor class set to Character and the linked asset is using a Context Actor class of Pawn. So the sch ...