Brick Pattern Artifact in Volumetric Clouds

UE - Rendering - Features - Jul 28, 2026

A licensee has reported seeing a repeating brick-like pattern in volumetric clouds when they overlap with very distant geometry (or at the transition between nearby and distant geometry). The artifa ...

FMassMoveTargetFragment::CreateNewAction does not update PreviousAction, breaking the start-of-path avoidance fade and related behavior for MassEntity crowds

UE - Runtime - Character - Jul 28, 2026

In MassEntity-based crowds, when an agent transitions from Stand to Move and begins walking, the Avoidance trait parameters StartOfPathDuration and StartOfPathAvoidanceScale, which are meant to temp ...

MATERIAL_SHADINGMODEL_TOON macro is not propagated to the substrate tool BSDF material on a DDC hit

UE - Rendering - Features - Shading Models - Jul 27, 2026

On a DDC hit, the SubstrateMaterialBsdfFeatures variable restored into MaterialCompilationOutput is not copied into SubstrateTranslatorData.SubstrateMaterialBsdfFeatures, which is referenced by the ...

Volumetric clouds are jagged along mesh edges when Fog Height Falloff is 0

UE - Rendering - Jul 27, 2026

Volumetric clouds are composited against opaque mesh silhouettes at a reduced resolution. A blocky and jagged edge appears along the silhouette. The fog brightness of the clouds also changes abruptl ...

Crash when merging Skeletal Mesh with incomplete LOD streaming

UE - Runtime - Deformable - Jul 24, 2026

SummaryMerging a Skeletal Mesh whose LOD streaming has not completed crashes with an AccessViolation while the vertex copy reads the Null buffers of LODs that have not been streamed inRoot cause is ...

Issue with UHLODBuilder::ComputeHLODHash

UE - Engine Scaling - Streaming - Jul 23, 2026

The HLOD content hash used to detect changes and trigger rebuilds effectively ignores everything hashed before the source-component loop — including the result of UHLODBuilderSettings::ComputeHLODHa ...

BlendSpace Loop Boundary Produces Inconsistent Sync Marker Data andTriggers an AnimSequence Follower Assertion

UE - Anim - Jul 22, 2026

Summary In UE 5.7.4, when a looping BlendSpace with Match Sync Phases enabled plays as a SyncGroup Leader and crosses its loop boundary during a transition to an external AnimSequenceFollower in th ...

GPU Validation texture barrier errors for SkyAtmosphere component

UE - Rendering - RHI - Jul 20, 2026

A licensee reported that two SkyAtmosphere texture resources do not have proper memory transitions added by the RDG. This happens because in VolumetricCloud.usf, these textures are referenced via Vi ...

Viewport Controller Camera Control Regressions in UE5.8

UE - Editor - Jul 16, 2026

In UE5.8 it appears some changes were made to the camera control and navigation in the editor viewports. You can no longer use controller and mouse simultaneously to control the camera. Previously ...