PCG - BiomeSample level crashes when opened with Instanced Stereo enabled

UE - World Creation - Procedural Tools - PCG Component - Oct 29, 2025

When the user attempts to open the Biome Sample Level with Instanced Stereo enabled, the editor crashes with a fatal error: Fatal error: [File:D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\RHI\Private\P ...

World-Space widgets don't cast whadows when using VSM

UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - Oct 29, 2025

When using Virtual Shadow Maps (VSM), widgets placed in world space do not cast any shadows. The same widgets correctly cast shadows when the Shadow Method is set to Shadow Maps instead of VSM. ...

Point Lights Invlidate Virtual Shadow Map Cache when at a distance from attenuation radius

UE - Graphics Features - Oct 28, 2025

When the camera is outside of a certain distance from a point lights attenuation radius the VSM of that point light stops caching shadow maps. This can also be reflected in the output from the 'r.S ...

Uploading of the SBT via copy queue is not guaranteed to be synced with async compute queue but only direct queue in d3d12

UE - Graphics Features - Ray Tracing - Oct 28, 2025

When HitLighting is enabled, SBT commit is running on the Graphic Queue, and the pass "LumenSceneLighting->offscreenshadows->LumenDirectLightingHardwareRayTracingRGS" that uses SBT could run on the ...

World Partition view has different orientation compared to top-down orthographic view

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Oct 27, 2025

Orthographic viewport orientations were re-worked as part of the effort to align UE's editing experience with other industry-standard DCC tools. The World Partition view is still using the legacy o ...

[AI] Bad entries in NavigationRepository for Box collision with bCanEverAffectNavigation set to false

UE - AI - Navigation - Oct 26, 2025

Some components continue to dirty the navigation state even if bCanEverAffectNavigation is unchecked. Behavior appears very similar to an existing bug, [Link Removed] ([Link Removed]), which invol ...

SetGamePause does not affect Sequencer pause if using audio clock as source

UE - Audio - Sequencer - Oct 24, 2025

We’ve run into some unexpected behavior when combining SetGamePause(true) with Level Sequences. When calling SetGamePause(true) while a Level Sequence is playing, the visuals pause correctly, b ...

“None” option removed from “Preview Game Language” in Editor Preferences since UE 5.6

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Oct 24, 2025

In Unreal Engine 5.5 and earlier, users could select “None” as the Preview Game Language in the Editor Preferences. Starting from UE 5.6, this “None” option is no longer available. Based on source ...

Lumen reflections break when the normals don't match the pixel depth information.

UE - Graphics Features - Lumen - Oct 23, 2025

Lumen Reflections can leave black spots in chrome materials with strong normals. Also tested on UE 5.5, CL: 41545209 and UE 5.6, CL: 45232827 ...

RuntimeCellTransformers can result in increasing the instance count when a BP instance is not destroyed.

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Oct 22, 2025

The problem is related to the SimpleConstructionScript that executes on the BP instances after the transformer.  The problem also happens at cook time as the SCS is executed when the package is sav ...