Distance Field Shadows do not work with Nanite meshes

UE - Rendering - Graphics Features - Nanite - Feb 16, 2026

Nanite meshes only cast virtual shadow maps and do not cast any distance field shadows, regardless of the distance of the shadow casting mesh to the camera. ...

Material Parameter Collection Track doesn't work in UMG Preview from 5.7

UE - Editor - UI Systems - UMG - Feb 12, 2026

The UMG editor allows us to add a Material Parameter Control track to an animation. This track makes it possible to animate parameters used in a material. Designers can scrub the timeline and previe ...

"Move to Level" of Landscape Tool leads component scale mismatch

UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Landscape - Feb 12, 2026

In UE 5.7.2, when moving a Landscape Component to a sub-level using Landscape Mode > Manage > Move to Level, the proxy transform is not synchronized with the root Landscape when the KeepWorldTransfo ...

Division by zero causing NaN/Inf on USkeletalMeshComponent::UpdateRigidBodyScaling() when setting scale to zero and back

UE - Anim - Rigging - Feb 11, 2026

Up to UE 5.5, skeletal mesh physics did not get updated when the component's scale changed. This was improved on January 2025 with CL 39190335, which addressed [Link Removed] ...

Enum Compare Condition causes crash when resetting default value of right field in State Tree's Enter Conditions

UE - AI - StateTree - Feb 11, 2026

In FStateTreeCompareEnumCondition::GetDescription, the Left.Enum value is mistakingly used when setting the RightValue. This causes crashes when resetting the default value of the Right field in an ...

FDetailGroup::AddGroup does not correctly apply the default expansion state for DetailGroups

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Feb 10, 2026

There is a bug affecting DetailGroups in the engine. When adding child DetailGroups to a parent DetailGroup, the expansion state does not behave as expected and ignores the flags intended to control ...

Directly opening a modified map asset of a streaming sublevel does not always force it to be reloaded (inconsistent with other map open behaviors)

UE - Editor - Feb 10, 2026

When the level currently being edited has unsaved changes and the user opens a new one, the Editor asks if the changes should be saved. If the user answers negatively, the level asset is reverted to ...

Using VSM and Distance Field Shadows on the same scene results in missing shadows

UE - Rendering - Graphics Features - Shadows - Feb 9, 2026

Nanite geometry does not cast Distance Field Shadows outside of the clipmap range for Virtual Shadow Maps. Non-Nanite geometry does cast these shadows. ...

MRG - Additional Post Process Render have a black alpha channel

UE - Virtual Production - Tools - MRQ - Feb 7, 2026

Additional Post Process renders always have a black alpha channel ...

Landscape HLODs are broken in 5.7.2 (Github Release branch)

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Feb 6, 2026

Landscape HLODs are broke when build from Editor. See repro steps above. I have not provided a repro project as it uses the open world starter map. Note that current Main has additional bugs that o ...