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 ...

Uploading of the SBT via copy queue is not guaranteed to be synced with async compute queue but only direct queue in d3d12

UE - Graphics Features - Ray Tracing - Oct 28, 2025

When HitLighting is enabled, SBT commit is running on the Graphic Queue, and the pass "LumenSceneLighting->offscreenshadows->LumenDirectLightingHardwareRayTracingRGS" that uses SBT could run on the ...

World Partition view has different orientation compared to top-down orthographic view

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Oct 27, 2025

Orthographic viewport orientations were re-worked as part of the effort to align UE's editing experience with other industry-standard DCC tools. The World Partition view is still using the legacy o ...

TOptional value changes in parent BP don't propagate to loaded child BPs

UE - Framework - Blueprint Editor - Oct 27, 2025

Context TOptional<T> is a wrapping struct around a type, that lets the property have an set and unset state, in addition to the property's value when set. It is editor exposed: designers can open b ...

Control Rig - Undo doesn't function correctly with proxy and multi bone controls

UE - Anim - Rigging - Control Rig - Oct 26, 2025

Issue from my Technical Animator where the undo operation in Control Rig doesn't work as expected on Proxy Controls. He has recreated the issue using the "Control Rig Samples Pack" and recorded a vi ...

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 ...

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 ...