Light Function Materials containing a Texture Sample and Rotator nodes will fail RHI Validation

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jan 12, 2026

Using a Light Function Material that contains a Texture Sample and Rotator nodes will cause RHI Validation to fail with the following error: LogOutputDevice: Error: Ensure condition failed: Bindings ...

Velocity Scene Texture Data Integrity Issues

UE - Graphics Features - Jan 8, 2026

When a Post-Process Material uses the Scene Texture Material Expression, the following code is generated: ``` MaterialFloat2 Local0 = Parameters.TexCoords[0].xy; MaterialFloat2 Local1 = ClampSceneT ...

Inconsistent Behavior in TextureLODGroups when setting NumStreamedMips=0

UE - Rendering Architecture - Jan 8, 2026

A licensee has reported that it is not possible to disable texture streaming of a given TextureLODGroup by setting "NumStreamedMips=0" in their device profiles. Currently, using 0 results in the sam ...

Global Weight of Slot Node is incorrect when fetched after using a Pose Cache

UE - Anim - Runtime - Anim Blueprints - Jan 7, 2026

When a montage slot node output is pushed to a Pose Cache and used in a Two-Way Blend, the value returned by GetSlotNodeGlobalWeight will be the current fractional value rather than the actual globa ...

FViewElementPDI::DrawLine calls for SDPG_World are not rendered in PIE or in Game

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jan 7, 2026

When View.Family->EngineShowFlags.CompositeEditorPrimitives is false in the function RenderEditorPrimitivesForDPG. This code picks which version of the batched lines to renderconst FBatchedElements ...

Morph Targets fail to reset to zero

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jan 6, 2026

"We have encountered a regression in UE 5.7 where Skeletal Mesh Morph Targets do not visually reset when all weights are set to 0.0. The mesh retains the deformation from the previous frame. This i ...

Out-of-Bounds Access During Partial Updates of ISMC Per-Instance Custom Data

UE - Graphics Features - Jan 6, 2026

When using instance custom data values, removing an instance and changing the number of custom data floats in sequence can cause an array-out-of-bounds crash. The underlying arrays are not resized ...

CommonUI: FUITag, FUIActionTag variables can't connect with blueprint wildcard Equals node

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Jan 5, 2026

Context UITag and UIActionTag are blueprint-exposed struct classes that derive from GameplayTag. GameplayTag variables can be compared in blueprint with ==. Under the hood, the node maps to  UBlue ...

Virtual Memory leak when using specific rendering settings in the template project

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Dec 20, 2025

When a project is run with these settings in a template project, untracked virtual memory increases. Cvars r.GBufferFormat 3 r.Lumen.TraceMeshSDFs 1 r.Lumen.TranslucencyReflections.FrontLayer.Enab ...

Skeletal Mesh BLAS updates when not animating

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Dec 19, 2025

The BLAS for Skeletal Meshes that don't move, or tick get updated every frame even if the animation and skin cache aren't updated. This adds over 1ms to update time. The only exception is if the sk ...