Point Lights Invlidate Virtual Shadow Map Cache when at a distance from attenuation radius

UE - Graphics Features - Oct 28, 2025

When the camera is outside of a certain distance from a point lights attenuation radius the VSM of that point light stops caching shadow maps. This can also be reflected in the output from the 'r.S ...

bStaticWhenNotMoveable in Lighting category instead of Physics

UE - Simulation - Gameplay - Oct 24, 2025

"UPrimitiveComponent::bStaticWhenNotMoveable"'s category is set to Lighting, not Physics. This causes it to be hidden when lighting-related properties are hidden, even though it controls physics sta ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mover character no longer calls ProduceInput on server when the only client unpossesses it and disconnects

UE - Gameplay - Player Movement - Mover - Oct 21, 2025

When a client disconnects/unpossesses a mover character, the character's Network Prediction Component will re-configure itself now that it does not have a net connection. However, this handling will ...

Reimporting of skeletal mesh results in a scrambled skeletal mesh

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - Oct 17, 2025

When we reimport our skeletal meshes with updated FBXs, the resulting skeletal mesh is scrambled up. See Scrambled.jpg attached. This does not affect every single reimport but happens randomly. W ...

Spline mesh deform breaks WPO when used with Nanite meshes

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Oct 13, 2025

Nanite spline meshes deforming along the world normal vector do not use the same world normal as a non-Nanite spline mesh. This results in inconsistent behavior between Nanite and non-Nanite spline ...

Skylight Leaking Tint in Reflection

UE - Graphics Features - Oct 10, 2025

From 5.6 onwards, Skylight Leaking is much stronger in reflections than in the world. Also tested on //UE5/Release-5.6, CL 45232827 ...

HZB Occlusion causes large stalls on the render thread

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Oct 7, 2025

HZB Occlusion causes large stalls (greater than 5ms seen) on the render thread due to an RHI flush. This is caused by the following code in FDynamicRHI::RHIMapStagingSurface_RenderThread which force ...