GPU Lightmass no longer works with cascaded shadow maps

UE - Graphics Features - May 29, 2025

Since Unreal Engine 5.5 stationary lights have stopped working with GPU Lightmass when using Cascaded Shadow Maps. With Virtual Shadow Maps enabled on the project, GPU Lightmass works. This issue d ...

Keyboard Shortcuts don't work on the Outliner Window if it is detached from the Main Window

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - May 27, 2025

Keyboard Shortcuts don't work on the Outliner Window if it is detached from the Main Window. As described in Steps To Reproduce, as soon as the Outliner Window is detached from the Main Window, most ...

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 ...

Tick functions are skipped on the first frame in package build and standalone PIE

UE - Gameplay - May 19, 2025

It's reported that all Tick functions are skipped on the first frame when running in packaged builds and standalone PIE. This is because both TickVisitedGFrameCounter and GFrameCounter are initializ ...

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 ...

RayTracingManager::Tick() called twice in a single game frame

UE - Graphics Features - Ray Tracing - May 14, 2025

A licensee has shared a project with us, in which they are able to trigger a problematic case where the RayTracingGeometryManager is ticked twice during a single game frame. It would be good to inve ...