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 ...

“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 ...

Swarm Agent Binaries Missing in Launcher 5.7 Preview

UE - Foundation - Build - Rocket (Installed Engine) - Oct 23, 2025

The Swarm binaries are missing from Engine\Binaries\DotNET in the 5.7 Preview launcher version of the engine. This causes any lighting build or precomputed static visibility builds to fails due to t ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...