HISM flickering when any character is visible

UE - Rendering - Architecture - RHI - Jan 12, 2026

On an NVIDIA GPU, Instanced Static Meshes can flicker when a Groom card or mesh LOD is visible. This appears related to an issue rendering the ISM into the Scene Depth. At the end of the Prepass, t ...

Light Function Materials containing a Texture Sample and Rotator nodes will fail RHI Validation

UE - Rendering - Architecture - RHI - Jan 12, 2026

Using a Light Function Material that contains a Texture Sample and Rotator nodes will cause RHI Validation to fail with the following error: LogOutputDevice: Error: Ensure condition failed: Bindings ...

WP Builders: The Datalayer states forced in UWorldPartitionBuilder::LoadDataLayers can be lost

A licensee reported that Datalayers that are added to UWorldPartitionBuilder::IncludedDataLayers in a custom builder PreRun are not respected.   I used the minimap builder to debug the state of t ...

Not possible to force the Skeleton attribute to None on a default asset pipeline preset

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Import and Export - Jan 9, 2026

I guess that when the default value of the pipeline is None, the editor will silently pick the skeleton that is in the same folder of where you are importing. If the UI is active you can then force ...

Velocity Scene Texture Data Integrity Issues

UE - Graphics Features - Jan 8, 2026

When a Post-Process Material uses the Scene Texture Material Expression, the following code is generated: ``` MaterialFloat2 Local0 = Parameters.TexCoords[0].xy; MaterialFloat2 Local1 = ClampSceneT ...

WP: Water surfaces are missing from the Minimap textures.

UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Water - Jan 8, 2026

The problem is caused by FWaterViewExtension::ShouldHaveWaterZoneViewData that prevents the water data from being updated in SceneCaptures. (re: FWaterViewExtension::SetupView) Removing the call to ...

Control Rig compile issue - Re-Entry of Instructions

UE - Anim - Rigging - Control Rig - Jan 8, 2026

Compiling a specific graph construction generates a compile error and blocks the execution of the graph. Sync to AnimSandbox CL 49645845 See attached picture and attached Control Rrig asset ...

Morph Targets fail to reset to zero

UE - Rendering - Architecture - RHI - Jan 6, 2026

"We have encountered a regression in UE 5.7 where Skeletal Mesh Morph Targets do not visually reset when all weights are set to 0.0. The mesh retains the deformation from the previous frame. This i ...

Out-of-Bounds Access During Partial Updates of ISMC Per-Instance Custom Data

UE - Graphics Features - Jan 6, 2026

When using instance custom data values, removing an instance and changing the number of custom data floats in sequence can cause an array-out-of-bounds crash. The underlying arrays are not resized ...

CommonUI: FUITag, FUIActionTag variables can't connect with blueprint wildcard Equals node

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Jan 5, 2026

Context UITag and UIActionTag are blueprint-exposed struct classes that derive from GameplayTag. GameplayTag variables can be compared in blueprint with ==. Under the hood, the node maps to  UBlue ...