Follower mesh components don't inherit the lead component's recently rendered flag

UE - Anim - Runtime - Mar 25, 2025

Follower mesh components have their recently rendered flag set in their TickComponent method. This means that if a user turns tick off on a follower component, the recently rendered flag isn't upda ...

Crash when exposing a TOptional<FName> or TOptional<FText> to the editor through a UProperty.

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Mar 25, 2025

Support for editor-exposed uproperties of type TOptional<T> has been added by CL 28199740 on september 2023. However, since then until today in UE 5.5, a crash can happen when exposing TOptional<FNa ...

UDataLayerManager::Initialize perf issue in Editor build

In editor, WorldDataLayers acceleration table used to map DL Names to DL instances is not created. The main reason was to avoid to handle all the case where it would need to be updated. When UDataL ...

In Vehicle sims, CenterOfMass override isn't factored into UpdateMassProperties

UE - Simulation - Physics - Mar 24, 2025

Origin from this UDN ticket, https://udn.unrealengine.com/s/question/0D5QP00000sGtbO0AS/chaosvehiclemovementcomponent-intertia-tensor-isnt-adjusted-for-center-of-mass-override?fromCase=1 TLDR is th ...

World Partition IsStreamingCompleted returns true while standalone level instances are still fully loading

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Mar 21, 2025

IsStreamingCompleted returns true while standalone level instances are still fully loading. ...

Scenecapturecomponent not including Niagara effect if custom renderpass is used

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 20, 2025

When using an "FSceneRenderer::CustomRenderPasses", the View never has Distance Field textures assigned. Can it instead reuse the Distance Field clipmap from the main view? ...

Shadow artifacts on translucent objects when using the setting Cast Dynamic Shadows As Masked

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 20, 2025

Flickering shadow artifacts can be seen with translucent mateirals with "Cast Dynamic Shadows As Masked" enabled. Please note that the artifacts disappear when switching from virtual shadow maps to ...

Moving a saved duplicate of an OpenWorld level crashes the Editor

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Mar 19, 2025

Moving a saved duplicate of an OpenWorld level crashes the Editor. The act of moving the duplicated OpenWorld level crashes the Editor the moment the engine tries to delete the original level, so it ...

FSkeletalMeshComponentInstanceData subclasses FSceneComponentInstanceData instead of FPrimitiveComponentInstanceData

UE - Anim - Rigging - Mar 19, 2025

FSkeletalMeshComponentInstanceData subclasses FSceneComponentInstanceData instead of FPrimitiveComponentInstanceData. When calling ApplyToComponent() the SceneComponentInstanceData version will be c ...

HDR (eye adaptation) visualization has incorrect output when Allow static lighting is disabled

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 19, 2025

Licensees have reported that this issue occurs in UE 5.5 and does not appear to occur in UE 5.4 or with Substrate enabled. ...