Adding/Removing a Material Layer on a Parent Material doesn't propagate to Children correctly

UE - Rendering - Architecture - Materials - Jun 9, 2026

When a Material Layer is added to or removed from a Parent Material the layer changes don’t automatically propagate to Child Materials correctly even if the Parent Material is saved. The Child mate ...

Lighting channels not working as expected when enabling Ray Tracing Shadow

UE - Graphics Features - Lumen - Oct 13, 2020

Non-Ray Tracing Shadows are only cast from lights on meshes assigned to the same Lighting Channel. When enabling Ray Tracing Shadows this is not the case. Lights will still cast Ray Tracing Shadows ...

Data Layer replication bug

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Aug 23, 2024

The bug is data layer runtime states can get out of sync between a client and a host depending on the initial runtime state of a data layer and the size of the replicated data layer names array. Se ...

Empty Shot Track Breaks Camera Component tracks when using Camera Cut Track

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Aug 18, 2016

Empty Shot Track Breaks Camera Component tracks when using Camera Cut Track ...

No shadow cast after Static Mesh Editor material assignment

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Datasmith - Importer - Apr 21, 2020

This is a Rhino file. Shadows are not cast on the Static Mesh after materials are assigned in the Static Mesh Editor. This was reported and tested in 4.24.3 (CL-11590370). This was reproduced in 4. ...

Lightmass: Blocky lightmap artifacts appears on the Mesh Actor which is shadowing by a single face mesh

UE - Graphics Features - Lumen - Jun 9, 2020

Begin Map Begin Level Begin Actor Class=/Script/Engine.StaticMeshActor Name=Plane_2 Archetype=/Script/Engine.StaticMeshActor'/Script/Engine.Default__StaticMeshActor' Begin Object Class=/Script/En ...

StaticMeshActors spawned at runtime are not visible until a property has been changed and also have no collision unless set to moveable

UE - Gameplay - Dec 22, 2015

Spawning a StaticMeshActor at runtime results in the StaticMeshActor not being visible until a property has been changed, such as the material for the Static Mesh. The spawned actor will also have n ...

Startup Movies not Copied to Content/Movies Directory in Content Browser

Tools - Oct 5, 2016

Startup movies are not being copied to the Content/Movies directory within the Content Browser. This can be confusing to users as it is not editable, but still functions correctly as a startup movie ...

MoverExamples: characters have 1-frame unnecessary extra input latency

UE - Runtime - Character - Mar 6, 2024

Due to the way input is handled on the MoverExamplesCharacter, including AnimatedMannyPawn, we have a delay in the time between when an input event occurs and when it is ingested by the movement sim ...

Exporting Mannequin to Blender then Re-importing to UE4 Incorrectly Rotates Animations by 90 Degrees

OLD - Anim - Jun 16, 2015

Exporting the UE4 Mannequin to Blender then re-importing to UE4 breaks the animations, causing them to reimport rotated 90 degrees ...