Material Functions are incorrectly listed in the Layer Asset list

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Feb 3, 2026

Since UE 5.7, Material Functions are included in the Layer Asset list of the Material Layers of an instanced material using material layers. It is also possible to drag and drop Material Functions ...

MRQ reports missing frames when rendering multiple cameras on a Sequencer camera track with Temporal Sample Count > 1

UE - Virtual Production - Tools - MRQ - Feb 2, 2026

If there are multiple cameras in the Sequencer camera track, everything works correctly when the Temporal Sample Count for anti-aliasing is set to 1. However, when it is set to 3, the following erro ...

Crash when enabling Nanite on a Mesh using an OptimusDeformer

UE - Anim - Rigging - Deformer - Jan 29, 2026

When a skeletal mesh has a deformer present and then nanite support is enabled and applied. (the deformer in question was hsasset://DeformerGraph/Deformers/DG_LinearBlendSkin_Morph_Cloth_RecomputeNo ...

Textures from Data tables do not work with Clip with UV Mask.

UE - Anim - Mutable - Jan 23, 2026

Currently this workflow fails to generate in mutable, but using static paramters for textures do work. ...

Rotated RetainerWidget does not account for rotation during hit testing

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Jan 21, 2026

Hit testing for widgets contained within a RetainerWidget does not correctly account for rotation applied via render transforms . While the content renders with the expected rotation, hover and clic ...

UEditorEngine::OnAllPIEInstancesStarted() called prematurely, multiple times, while PIE clients are starting

UE - Gameplay - Jan 21, 2026

Context UEditorEngine::OnAllPIEInstancesStarted() is a virtual function that gets called when launching Play-in-Editor. It can be overridden if the game project chooses to introduce a subclass of U ...

Sequencer: Camera blends restore to incorrect view target after Keep State

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Jan 20, 2026

When a Level Sequence’s Camera Cut track with When Finished = Keep State is played, the “original state” is persisted into the PreAnimatedStorage array inside FPreAnimatedCameraCutStorage. From the ...

Clearcoat material behaves differently between 5.5 and 5.7

UE - Graphics Features - Jan 16, 2026

Starting with Unreal Engine 5.7, specular reflections on clearcoat Materials are less pronounced. Unreal Engine 5.5 tests performed on //UE5/Release-5.5/, CL: 41545209 ...

FMovieSceneSkeletalAnimationParams::MapTimeToAnimation returns the wrong value if InFrameRate is not the Tick Resolution

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Jan 16, 2026

FMovieSceneSkeletalAnimationParams::MapTimeToAnimation takes in an FFrameTime and FFrameRate and is supposed to tell you which frame of animation that evaluates to, when accounting for looping, play ...