Shadow artifacts on translucent objects when using the setting Cast Dynamic Shadows As Masked

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 20, 2025

Flickering shadow artifacts can be seen with translucent mateirals with "Cast Dynamic Shadows As Masked" enabled. Please note that the artifacts disappear when switching from virtual shadow maps to ...

Moving a saved duplicate of an OpenWorld level crashes the Editor

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Mar 19, 2025

Moving a saved duplicate of an OpenWorld level crashes the Editor. The act of moving the duplicated OpenWorld level crashes the Editor the moment the engine tries to delete the original level, so it ...

FSkeletalMeshComponentInstanceData subclasses FSceneComponentInstanceData instead of FPrimitiveComponentInstanceData

UE - Anim - Rigging - Mar 19, 2025

FSkeletalMeshComponentInstanceData subclasses FSceneComponentInstanceData instead of FPrimitiveComponentInstanceData. When calling ApplyToComponent() the SceneComponentInstanceData version will be c ...

HDR (eye adaptation) visualization has incorrect output when Allow static lighting is disabled

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 19, 2025

Licensees have reported that this issue occurs in UE 5.5 and does not appear to occur in UE 5.4 or with Substrate enabled. ...

Legacy HLOD Nanite Meshes Always Rendering in 5.5

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Mar 17, 2025

From licensee: We are using the legacy HLOD system in our game. With 5.5 there was a change to FSceneProxyBase::DrawStaticElementsInternal() where the implementation was removed (https://github.com ...

Plugin template WP map missing actors

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Mar 17, 2025

Packed level actors and Level instances are sometimes not included in HLOD build on a World Partition Level

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Mar 14, 2025

Context World Partition - Hierarchical Level of Detail (HLOD) system uses custom HLOD Layers to organize large amounts of Static Mesh Actors and generate a single proxy mesh and Material. Problem T ...

FJsonObjectConverter::ExportCallback_WriteISO8601Dates allows for writing FDateTime that does not have ticks

UE - CoreTech - Mar 12, 2025

Context: `FJsonObjectConverter` is a built-in UE class that makes it easy to convert JSON objects to and from UStructs, including `FDateTime`, which implements a date and time. Problem: An uniniti ...

GPU crash accessing Scene_GPUScene_GPUScenePrimitiveSceneData

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Mar 11, 2025

Incorrect derivative ops detection when Add node is used with Nanite Pass Switch node in material graph

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 11, 2025

Plugging an Add node which adds a constant value into a Nanite Pass switch node results in derivative ops to be detected where there should be none (which show up as red in the No Derivative Ops deb ...