Merge Actors (Simplify) is broken with Substrate Shader Models Node

UE - Graphics Features - Substrate - Sep 29, 2025

Substrate Materials cannot be baked when Meshes are merged using the "Simplify" method. All textures except for the normal are reduced to a single black parameter. The normal texture produced does n ...

Enabling Strip Source Data On Cook on Geometry Collection is also stripping the Anchor flag of cooked assets

UE - Simulation - Physics - Jul 20, 2025

Enabling Strip Source Data On Cook on Geometry Collection (GC) is also stripping the Anchor flag of cooked assets. The licensee has reported that once they do a build the Anchors disappear and GCs t ...

FString.Mid doesn't react appropriately when given negative values for the Count variable

UE - Foundation - Core - Jul 16, 2015

If you use a 5 character string (hello) to call the Mid function and provide 0 for start, -1 for count, it'll give you the entire string. This should either return an assert or treat all negatives a ...

Calling r.DistanceFieldAO command does not work in Shipping Game

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 24, 2015

Calling the r.DistanceFieldAO command does not work in Shipping Game. It is being called from inside the level blueprint with the "Execute Console Command" node. In the example projects I have it ...

Hierarchical Instance Static Mesh's array does not reorder itself correctly

UE - Graphics Features - Jan 16, 2017

When an instance is removed from a Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh's array, if there are indices that are further along in the array that fill that index, the last index in the array is used to d ...

Editor Preferences export failing

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Mar 14, 2023

Editor preferences are not successfully exporting in //UE5/Release-5.1 This issue is occurring in Binary //UE5/Release-5.1 at CL 23901901 This issue is NOT occurring in Binary //UE5/Release-5.0 at ...

Dark square appears in hair in direction of spotlight when shadows disabled

UE - Graphics Features - Sep 18, 2024

A dark square appears in the direction of a spotlight on hair when the spotlight has no shadow. [Image Removed] In UE 5.4 the dark square is visible when the spotlight has no shadow, and a light s ...

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 ...

same PhysicsAsset refresh multi times when modify multi SkeletalBodySetup properties in same PhysAsset

UE - Simulation - Gameplay - Nov 20, 2025

USkeletalBodySetup::PostEditChangeProperty will call OwningPhysAsset->RefreshPhysicsAssetChange(), if I modify many SkeletalBodySetup properties in same PhysAsset, will cause call OwningPhysAsset-> ...

Editor mode keyboard shortcuts active when in Play In Editor

UE - Editor - Developer Usability - Jun 20, 2025

Editor mode keyboard shortcuts active when in Play In Editor. This behavior is a departure from previous versions. It was described by the licensee as confusing and it clashes with gameplay assigne ...