AssetRegistry: In a packaged game ScanPathsSynchronous with bForceRescan=true will permanently forget about assets inside IOStore containers

UE - Foundation - Data Pipeline - May 7, 2025

This came up from several discussions on UDN and internal discussion. The root cause is that the AssetRegistry currently cannot discover packages inside IOStore containers, it relies on the seriali ...

WidgetComponent is not updated with occlusion culling disabled

UE - Platform - XR - May 7, 2025

LastRenderTime is never updated with occlusion culling disabled, so the widget component will always stop updating.  (see UWidgetComponent::ShouldDrawWidget) Developers can force updates by TickWhen ...

Datasmith - Lights imported with incorrect transforms

TM - Interoperability - May 6, 2025

Reported in SF [Link Removed] In Twinmotion 2025.1.1, lights imported through Datasmith appear with incorrect transforms. Lights will appear rotated 90 degrees about the Y axis with an offset. Test ...

FInstancedStruct and TInstancedStruct in DeveloperSettings only write default values to configuration ini files

UE - AI - May 6, 2025

FInstancedStructs, or its TInstancedStruct sibling, can be included in a class that inherits from UDeveloperSettings. UDeveloperSettings will persist data in a configuration file. In the case of FI ...

ConditionalBeginDestroy on ActorComponent does not unregister the component with the world nor cause a warning

UE - Framework - Components - May 6, 2025

Calling ConditionalBeginDestroy on an ActorComponent (instead of DestroyComponent) can lead to a crash due to the object not being correctly unregistered. BeginDestroy doesn't unregister tick funct ...

Animating a bone in Persona when additive curves are present, causes exponential translation

UE - Anim - Runtime - May 5, 2025

If there is an additive curve present with scalar data, and that scalar data is something like 10,10,10. When you attempt to animate the bone again the translation of the widget with translate expon ...

Fade local light shadow with r.Shadow.DoesFadeUseResolutionScale doesn't work with VSM

UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - May 2, 2025

When VSM is enabled, local light shadows don't fade even if r.Shadow.DoesFadeUseResolutionScale is true. Local shadows do fade based on resolution when using regular shadow maps (CSM). ...

Blueprint compiler doesn't always initialize struct consts correctly

UE - Framework - Blueprint Compiler - May 1, 2025

Blueprints currently don't support unsigned 64 bit ints, but they do support signed 64 bits. If a Blueprint uses a native struct variable that contains a uint64 property, it incorrectly assigns that ...

Ensure triggered when creating Scene Proxy for GroomComponent

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Apr 30, 2025

When a room component is added in C++ via the actor constructor, an ensure is triggered from precaching and the groom component. Behavior also observed on UE5/Release-5.5, CL: 40988944 ...

Horde Artifact Browser can produce download URLs greater than 8KB

UE - Foundation - Horde - Storage - Apr 29, 2025

Using the Horde Artifact browser browse to a folder with a lot of files in a subfolder (for example temporary artifacts that contains Engine/Binaries/Win64, see attached) and use the "Download" butt ...