Editor vs Runtime: Inconsistent data layer behavior when attaching actors

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Jun 5, 2025

In editor, data layer system respects the data layer settings for each actor, but at runtime, the condition check is made collectively for each actor cluster, resulting in differences in behavior. ...

ChordBlockers don't work as expected when ChordAction is set in InputAction

UE - Gameplay - Input - Jun 3, 2025

In the Enhanced Input System, when using a UInputTriggerChordAction to define a chorded input (e.g., Shift + W), the automatic chord blocking system (UInputTriggerChordBlocker) only functions correc ...

Local lights appear broken when baking lighting with GPU Lightmass

UE - Graphics Features - Jun 2, 2025

Encountered an issue where local lights appear to be broken when baking lighting with GPU Lightmass. See screenshots attached. Tested regression in //UE5/Release-5.5 @ CL40574608 and the issue does ...

Multiple setter functions in UMaterialEditingLibrary always return false even when the parameter is correctly set on the MaterialInstance.

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - May 30, 2025

In Unreal Engine, materials can expose parameters that can then be modified via instances (MaterialInstanceConstant). The UMaterialEditingLibrary provides several functions to modify these parameter ...

UAnimSingleNodeInstance doesn't sample notifies on montage animation tracks

UE - Anim - Gameplay - May 27, 2025

Notifies that are placed on animations referenced by montages aren't triggered when using the UAnimSingleNodeInstance to play back the montage. This is because - unlike on UAnimComposite - there is ...

Rendering of a Text Widget with Outline does not track LayerId correctly

UE - Editor - UI Systems - May 27, 2025

Text widget with Outline uses 2 LayerId levels to draw the outline and the text glyphs. This can be seen in function FSlateElementBatcher::AddShapedTextElement(), where lambda BuildFontGeometry() is ...

World Source in Take Recorder does not record auto-tracked actors properly

UE - Virtual Production - Tools - Take Recorder - May 23, 2025

The Take Recorder plugin allows for multiple sources to be recorded during gameplay. The World Source is expected to record everything in the level when the Autotrack Actors option is enabled. Once ...

Misaligned sampling in UI Material with with CustomStencil

UE - Editor - UI Systems - May 19, 2025

The output of the CustomStencil node in a User Interface material does not align with the viewport dimensions. Toggling fullscreen/windowed mode (F11) causes the offset to reappear, so scaling the n ...

AnimNotify Issue with LevelSequencer Actor with URO

UE - Anim - Runtime - Anim Blueprints - May 19, 2025

Sometimes AnimNotify does not fire when an animation is executed under the following conditions. 1. The CharacterMesh's AnimationMode uses UseAnimationAsset 2. CharacterMesh's URO is enabled (Enable ...

Changes to Instanced Properties default value on BP not propagated to placed actors in the opened level

UE - Foundation - May 15, 2025

In UE versions 5.4 and onwards (as of CL 42589677 in Main), when an Instanced UObject property is defined in an Actor Blueprint, modifying the default value in the Blueprint does not propagate the c ...