GameplayTagQuery AutoDescription not refreshed after GameplayTag redirect on load

UE - Gameplay - Gameplay Tags - Jan 21, 2026

FGameplayTagQuery does not refresh its cached AutoDescription after GameplayTag redirects are applied during asset load. As a result, after renaming a GameplayTag and restarting the editor, the Game ...

Material Analyzer misreports static params for Material Layers

UE - Rendering - Architecture - Materials - Jan 20, 2026

When analyzing materials that use Material Layers, Material Analyzer reports that multiple Material Instances “share the same static parameter array” and therefore recommends reparenting so that onl ...

Character unnecessary step down during PHYS_Flying mode

UE - Gameplay - Player Movement - Jan 15, 2026

When MovementMode is set to PHYS_Flying, the character may unexpectedly step down by MaxStepHeight when colliding with a wall near a ceiling. This occurs because UCharacterMovementComponent::StepUp ...

"Scale for <ComponentName> has a component set to zero, which will result in a bad body instance" warning spam when moving actor instance even with Collision Profile overriden to "NoCollision"

UE - Runtime - Simulation - Jan 12, 2026

When a StaticMeshComponent has a scale component of zero in WorldSpace (after accumulating with the hierarchy from the root to it), function UPrimitiveComponent::OnCreatePhysicsState() logs the warn ...

GameplayTags meta "Categories" return warning when all categories are not present inside the FGameplayTagContainer

UE - Gameplay - Gameplay Tags - Jan 12, 2026

Categories are not processed correctly for gameplay tags when meta "Categories" is used. Categories filter which categories appear for the mentioned gameplay tag variable and with recent changes, it ...

Temporal blur artifacts on Geometry Cache Components in Blueprint actor

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Alembic - Jan 9, 2026

When a Geometry Collection is in a Blueprint, attached to other components, it can render incorrect motion vectors at some angles. In the test project, any angle that is not a multiple of 45 will re ...

Inconsistent Behavior in TextureLODGroups when setting NumStreamedMips=0

UE - Rendering - Architecture - Jan 8, 2026

A licensee has reported that it is not possible to disable texture streaming of a given TextureLODGroup by setting "NumStreamedMips=0" in their device profiles. Currently, using 0 results in the sam ...

OverrideVertexColor causes a crash on mobile renderer

UE - Platform - Mobile - Jan 8, 2026

Setting Allow CPU Access on the mesh, or setting bSupportsManualVertexFetch=1 in Engine.ini, avoids the crash. ...

Global Weight of Slot Node is incorrect when fetched after using a Pose Cache

UE - Runtime - Anim BP - Jan 7, 2026

When a montage slot node output is pushed to a Pose Cache and used in a Two-Way Blend, the value returned by GetSlotNodeGlobalWeight will be the current fractional value rather than the actual globa ...