GPU Lightmass no longer works with cascaded shadow maps

UE - Graphics Features - May 29, 2025

Since Unreal Engine 5.5 stationary lights have stopped working with GPU Lightmass when using Cascaded Shadow Maps. With Virtual Shadow Maps enabled on the project, GPU Lightmass works. This issue d ...

Live Link Hub hang when discovering YUV444 encoded takes in Capture Manager

UE - Virtual Production - IO - LiveLink - May 28, 2025

When using Capture Manager in Live Link Hub to discover takes which contain video encoded with the YUV444 pixel format will cause the application to hang. The Windows Media Foundation library used ...

VSM SMRT SamplesPerRay CVars behave differently if groom assets are present leading to a potential full-scene shadow

UE - Graphics Features - May 28, 2025

When a groom is present, setting any SamplesPerRay SMRT CVar to zero results in an unexpected complete shadow projected from the light. ProjectLight() in VirtualShadowMapProjection.usf has addition ...

MRQ - No Rayrtaced Shadows casted from Groom Caches with only 1 Spatial Sample

UE - Anim - Sequencer - MRQ - May 28, 2025

A groom cache will not cast a raytraced shadow with only 1 spatial sample. It does not matter how many temporal samples you have. ...

Keyboard Shortcuts don't work on the Outliner Window if it is detached from the Main Window

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - May 27, 2025

Keyboard Shortcuts don't work on the Outliner Window if it is detached from the Main Window. As described in Steps To Reproduce, as soon as the Outliner Window is detached from the Main Window, most ...

Synthetic Benchmark Giving Inconsistent Results

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - May 27, 2025

A licensee has noted that the synth benchmark has been giving inconsistent results when they try to find optimal scalability settings for their application. The root cause of this is unclear, but lo ...

UAnimSingleNodeInstance doesn't sample notifies on montage animation tracks

UE - Anim - Gameplay - May 27, 2025

Notifies that are placed on animations referenced by montages aren't triggered when using the UAnimSingleNodeInstance to play back the montage. This is because - unlike on UAnimComposite - there is ...

Rendering of a Text Widget with Outline does not track LayerId correctly

UE - Editor - UI Systems - May 27, 2025

Text widget with Outline uses 2 LayerId levels to draw the outline and the text glyphs. This can be seen in function FSlateElementBatcher::AddShapedTextElement(), where lambda BuildFontGeometry() is ...

Dealing with spaces in perforce directories

UE - Foundation - Horde - May 26, 2025

Hello, We're encountering a fatal error when trying to set up a project in Horde using the AutoSdk: Fatal error: EpicGames.Perforce.PerforceException: Unable to parse view map entry: &quot ...

Virtual Shadow Maps on Spot Lights cause a blocky presentation similar to an incorrect mip level

UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - May 26, 2025

Spot Lights may present with very blocky shadow artefacts when a long attentuation radius is provided with a small cone angle. In extreme cases, this causes the VSMs to invalidate every frame. Notab ...