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 ...

Runing PlayInEditor with NetMode PlayAsClient and a LevelSequence that AutoPlays in the level and is also opened in Sequencer leads to a Fatal world leak crash on 5.5 and up

UE - Anim - Sequencer - May 28, 2025

Runing PlayInEditor with NetMode PlayAsClient, a LevelSequence that AutoPlays in the level, contains a Spawnable BP_ThirdPersonCharacter with an animation, and is also opened in Sequencer, leads to ...

Live Link Hub hang when discovering YUV444 encoded takes in Capture Manager

UE - Virtual Production - IO - LiveLink - May 28, 2025

When using Capture Manager in Live Link Hub to discover takes which contain video encoded with the YUV444 pixel format will cause the application to hang. The Windows Media Foundation library used ...

PlayMontages can break after binding an actor with an AnimInstance inside a LevelSeuqence.

UE - Anim - Sequencer - May 28, 2025

When an Animation Sequence is overridden by a LevelSequence, and later reverts to its original animation state, the AnimInstance fails to properly reinitialize. This prevents subsequent animation lo ...

VSM SMRT SamplesPerRay CVars behave differently if groom assets are present leading to a potential full-scene shadow

UE - Graphics Features - May 28, 2025

When 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 ...

Crash when two textures reference eachother as composite textures

UE - Texture - May 28, 2025

When (unintentionally) trying to set one texture as the composite texture of another, which itself is the composite texture of the first, a stack overflow occurs leading to a crash: in UTexture::Pos ...

Scene with texture collection crashes when dumping a full memreport

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - May 28, 2025

A licensee has reported that generating a full memreport of a packaged project which uses a texture collection leads to a crash. ...

MRQ - No Rayrtaced Shadows casted from Groom Caches with only 1 Spatial Sample

UE - Anim - Sequencer - MRQ - May 28, 2025

A groom cache will not cast a raytraced shadow with only 1 spatial sample. It does not matter how many temporal samples you have. ...

Unexpected Collision Response When Nesting Primitive Components with auto-weld enabled and physics disabled on children. The root primitive falls through floor even though it is set to block all.

UE - Simulation - Physics - May 27, 2025

Context Auto-weld makes it so if a child is attached to a parent, the two bodies will be joined into a single rigid body. Physic settings like collision profile and body settings are determined by t ...

DynamicEntryBox with EntryBoxType Radial is stacking Entries if SectorCentralAngle is multiple of 360.0f and DistributeItemsEvenly is enabled

UE - Editor - UI Systems - May 27, 2025

DynamicEntryBox with EntryBoxType Radial is stacking Entries if SectorCentralAngle is multiple of 360.0f and DistributeItemsEvenly is enabled. The licensee has provided an analysis: On void SRadia ...