Variant Manager: LevelVariantSets asset corruption after rename or duplicate

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Oct 24, 2025

When renaming or duplicating a LevelVariantSets asset that contains a Director Blueprint, the internal DirectorClass reference becomes mismatched. Although the DirectorBlueprint pointer updates corr ...

“None” option removed from “Preview Game Language” in Editor Preferences since UE 5.6

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Oct 24, 2025

In Unreal Engine 5.5 and earlier, users could select “None” as the Preview Game Language in the Editor Preferences. Starting from UE 5.6, this “None” option is no longer available. Based on source ...

Lumen reflections break when the normals don't match the pixel depth information.

UE - Graphics Features - Lumen - Oct 23, 2025

Lumen Reflections can leave black spots in chrome materials with strong normals. Also tested on UE 5.5, CL: 41545209 and UE 5.6, CL: 45232827 ...

Snap to nearest spline point no longer working in 5.6. Right clicking on a spline point and using the option “Snap to nearest spline point" will no longer snap that point to any nearby spline and will sometimes cause the spline to snap to itself.

UE - Gameplay - Oct 22, 2025

Context: When editing SplineComponents in the level viewport, right clicking a spline point has a context menu action "Snap to nearest spline point". Problem: The problem is, Snap to nearest spline ...

World Position Offset invalidates Point Lights Entire Virtual Shadow Map Cache when light frustrum is only overlapping a small portion of the mesh

UE - Graphics Features - Oct 22, 2025

When adding a spotlight to the scene it does not correctly use cached virtual shadow map pages when the spotlight overlaps a mesh using WPO. This can be most easily observed by entering 'Cached Pag ...

Child actor components fail to attach in cooked builds when mobility is set to movable and end up at the origin

UE - Gameplay - Oct 21, 2025

Context: A Child Actor Component allows an actor in Unreal Engine to contain another actor as its child (component). Problem: The problem is inconsistent handling of child actor component mobility ...

Body Setup of a Static Mesh with Simple Collision will pass validation, but removing it and using only a Complex collision and setting Collision Complexity "Use Complex as Simple" will fail validation: "Bone None requires at least one collision shape".

UE - Simulation - Gameplay - Oct 20, 2025

Context: By default, Unreal Engine creates both simple and complex shapes, then, based on what the user wants (complex query versus simple query), the physics solver will use the corresponding shape ...

Children of editor-only actors do not maintain correct transforms when placed inside level instances for PIE and cooked builds

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Level Instances - Oct 20, 2025

We have found an issue where children of editor-only actors get wrong transforms in PIE and cooked builds when placed inside level instances. This affects both engine version 5.5 and 5.6. The issue ...

Inconsistent Nanite raster bin debug visualisation colors

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Oct 20, 2025

The raster bin debug colors are not always consistent when a static mesh and spline mesh are present ...

In the GameUserSettings class, Landscape quality is not taken into account by GetOverallScalabilityLevel, but is changed by SetOverallScalabilityLevel.

UE - Gameplay - Oct 17, 2025

Context: GameUserSettings stores user settings for a game, for example graphics and sound settings. The Scalability settings provide a way for to adjust the quality of various features in order to m ...