Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Collision Drawing in Cooked Builds (Development) doesn't Show Geometry for Nanite Meshes
UE - Graphics Features - Jun 2, 2025Context The showFlag.CollisionVisibility 1 cvar is a viewport visualization mode that highlights which Actors will block visibility. The showFlag.CollisionPawn 1 cvar is a Player Collision viewmode ...
Local lights appear broken when baking lighting with GPU Lightmass
UE - Graphics Features - Jun 2, 2025Encountered an issue where local lights appear to be broken when baking lighting with GPU Lightmass. See screenshots attached. Tested regression in //UE5/Release-5.5 @ CL40574608 and the issue does ...
Possible bug with GAOGlobalDistanceFieldCacheMostlyStaticSeparately
UE - Graphics Features - Jun 2, 2025The Global Distance Field can constantly update, even when the camera is stationary, in large World Partition maps. This bug requires a large amount of the World Partition map to be loaded to reprod ...
TSR and TAA history accumulation gets reset when taking viewport screenshots or when clicking outside the tree in the outliner
UE - Graphics Features - May 30, 2025TSR (and TAA) history accumulation gets reset when taking viewport screenshots or when clicking on an empty area in the outliner (when a tree item is selected). This can cause an undesirable issue w ...
Enabling Wireframe Mode along with HDR (EyeAdaptation) Visualization crashes the Editor
UE - Graphics Features - May 29, 2025In the Viewport, enabling Wireframe Mode (ALT+2) along with HDR (EyeAdaptation) Visualization crashes the Editor. I've tested different versions and this issue is not present on 5.0, but it reproduc ...
GPU Lightmass no longer works with cascaded shadow maps
UE - Graphics Features - May 29, 2025Since 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 ...
VSM SMRT SamplesPerRay CVars behave differently if groom assets are present leading to a potential full-scene shadow
UE - Graphics Features - May 28, 2025When a groom is present, setting any SamplesPerRay SMRT CVar to zero results in an unexpected complete shadow projected from the light. ProjectLight() in VirtualShadowMapProjection.usf has addition ...
Specular highlight and roughness issue on clearcoat material with second normal at certain view angles
UE - Graphics Features - May 21, 2025Specular highlights on non-Nanite meshes with a clearcoat material that has the second normal enabled will disappear at certain view angles. This can be worked around by adding a constant node to th ...
Editor 'Build All Levels' discards Volumetrics Lightmaps in persistent level
UE - Graphics Features - May 14, 2025Building the level or lightmaps can clear the volumetric lightmap. In 5.5, this requires you to perform a full build, or a lighting only build with a BSP brush in the scene. In 5.6, all level build ...
ResavePackages commandlet (buildlighting) fails/asserts on reflection captures in non-visible sub-levels
UE - Graphics Features - May 13, 2025When building reflection captures through the ResavePackages commandlet, it frequently triggers an ensure inside of ReflectionEnvironmentCapture.cpp. If distributed shader builds start causing prob ...