Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Local lights appear broken when baking lighting with GPU Lightmass
UE - Rendering - Graphics Features - Jun 2, 2025Encountered 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, 2025In Unreal Engine, materials can expose parameters that can then be modified via instances (MaterialInstanceConstant). The UMaterialEditingLibrary provides several functions to modify these parameter ...
GPU Lightmass no longer works with cascaded shadow maps
UE - Graphics Features - May 29, 2025Since 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 ...
Search field in 'Quickly Add to Project' fails with Chinese Pinyin input unless manually focused
UE - Editor - UI Systems - Localization - May 28, 2025A licensee reported that under the Chinese language setting in UE5, using the “Quickly Add to Project” button results in incorrect or ignored input when entering text via Pinyin IME. If the user sta ...
UAnimSingleNodeInstance doesn't sample notifies on montage animation tracks
UE - Anim - Gameplay - May 27, 2025Notifies 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, 2025Text 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 ...
Misaligned sampling in UI Material with with CustomStencil
UE - Editor - UI Systems - May 19, 2025The 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 ...
Tick functions are skipped on the first frame in package build and standalone PIE
UE - Gameplay - May 19, 2025It'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 - Core - Systems - May 15, 2025In 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 - Rendering - Graphics Features - Ray Tracing - May 14, 2025A 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 ...