Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Shadow Maps performance issue with 5.4 in comparison towards 5.3
UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Nov 20, 2024Shadow depths performance for non-VSM in certain scenes, notably those with rect lights and meshes that are set to movable, went from ~2ms to ~18ms going from UE 5.3 to UE 5.4. Setting the movable a ...
Custom Nav Area Not Affecting Nav Mesh Until Restart
UE - AI - May 2, 2016When using a Nav Modifier volume with a custom Nav Area class, the Nav Mesh is not being affected until the editor is restarted. Found in 4.11.2 binary. Reproduced in 4.12 Preview 1 binary and Main ...
Geometry Collection (GC) fragments are affecting the Navmesh in wrong positions
UE - Runtime - Deformable - Dec 6, 2024Geometry Collection (GC) fragments are affecting the Navmesh in wrong positions and the identified cause is wrong indexing. Once a GC breaks, it's fragments, when big enough, are creating islands in ...
Legacy HLOD Nanite Meshes Always Rendering in 5.5
UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Mar 17, 2025From licensee: We are using the legacy HLOD system in our game. With 5.5 there was a change to FSceneProxyBase::DrawStaticElementsInternal() where the implementation was removed (https://github.com ...
Fields with Maximum resolution are not affecting all leaves of a Geometry Collection
UE - Runtime - Deformable - Apr 25, 2025Fields with Maximum resolution are not affecting all leaves of a Geometry Collection on 5.4 and onwards. When calling GetRelevantParticleHandles() a Maximum Resolution field does return all particl ...
UText3DComponent's Text property access: UE 5.3 broke BP setters. UE 5.6 unneccessarily broke compatibility and incorrectly removed BP getters.
UE - Core - Systems - Jul 30, 2025Class UText3DComponent from the "Text 3D" plugin contains a "FText Text" member which must be set through a SetText() function to correctly update the component's internal state. Up to UE 5.2, "Tex ...
Nanite Mesh Dither Opacity Mask Not Working in 5.6.0
UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Jul 30, 2025In Unreal Engine 5.5.4, the Dither Opacity Mask option in a Masked material works correctly on Nanite meshes. However, in version 5.6.0, the dithering effect no longer applies to Nanite meshes. ...
Cooked materials and material instances size have doubled when upgrading from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0
UE - Rendering - Architecture - Materials - Jul 18, 2023UDN: [Link Removed] A UDN customer has observed that their cooked materials have doubled in asset size going from 5.1 to 5.2. We need to investigate this is only a local issue on their side and no ...
When exporting a level sequence (with its associated level) to USD, the asset paths for the reference are different from 5.5 and older
UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - USD - Jul 21, 2025In 5.6, a referenced asset path looks something like prepend references = @../../../../../Data/USD/Exports/FN-Main/ExportFolder/Assets/Sphere.usda@ instead of prepend references = ...
In UE 5.5, "Open Level By Name" is not able to find the map if the map is not added to "List of maps to include in a packaged build"
UE - Framework - Feb 13, 2025The "Open Level By Name" is not able to find the map to travel when the map is not included in the "List of maps to include in a packaged build" option. This issue was not happening in UE 5.3 and UE ...