Material Analyzer misreports static params for Material Layers

UE - Editor - Jan 20, 2026

When analyzing materials that use Material Layers, Material Analyzer reports that multiple Material Instances “share the same static parameter array” and therefore recommends reparenting so that onl ...

[Enhanced Input] The action instance data is incorrectly reset when you call "Add mapping context" on the same mapping multiple times

This is somewhat related to [Link Removed] and was brought up by a [Link Removed] Setting the CVar input.bRespectIMCPriortyForTriggers to false resolves the issue, but would re-introduce [Link Remo ...

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 ...

Optimize closing the Material Editor and Material Instance Editor

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Jan 15, 2026

[Link Removed] We always need to build texture data which requires building debug view mode shaders to do some rendering to get texture densities. Can we find another way to do this? Can we at le ...

Character unnecessary step down during PHYS_Flying mode

UE - Gameplay - Player Movement - Jan 15, 2026

When MovementMode is set to PHYS_Flying, the character may unexpectedly step down by MaxStepHeight when colliding with a wall near a ceiling. This occurs because UCharacterMovementComponent::StepUp ...

Constraint Binding ID is broken on attach track when subsequence asset is moved.

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Jan 14, 2026

Moving a level sequence asset that contains actors that are being referenced as a subsequence in an attach track causes the references to drop, even though the subsequence reference is correctly upd ...

Curve Retargeting does not work with SourcePose retarget mode

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Jan 14, 2026

Currently we build what source curves we are going to remap is done inside of: FIKRetargetCurveRemapOp::AnimGraphPreUpdateMainThread But in our ikretarget processor code we skip calling that functi ...

Detaching a component may not be replicated to clients

UE - Networking - Jan 13, 2026

Because the archetype for scene/static mesh components has a null value for AttachParent, there are some situations where changes to a replicated component's AttachParent are not replicated to clien ...