When exporting a level sequence (with its associated level) to USD, the asset paths for the reference are different from 5.5 and older

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - USD - Jul 21, 2025

In 5.6, a referenced asset path looks something like         prepend references = @../../../../../Data/USD/Exports/FN-Main/ExportFolder/Assets/Sphere.usda@ instead of         prepend references = ...

The Geometry Collection Dataflow node CreateGeometryCollectionFromSources is breaking Material Assignment

UE - Simulation - Visual - Jul 21, 2025

The Geometry Collection Dataflow node CreateGeometryCollectionFromSources is breaking Material Assignment. As the licensee has pointed out, this previously worked in 5.5. The most probably cause fo ...

Montage Editor: Mouse Wheel Cannot Scroll to the Bottom of notify section when there are many track.

UE - Anim - Runtime - Jul 21, 2025

When a large number of notify tracks are added in the Montage Editor, the mouse wheel scroll does not allow the user to reach the bottom-most tracks. Only by manually dragging the scrollbar can the ...

Cascade Shadow Map octree not handling new max world size

UE - Graphics Features - Jul 21, 2025

Cascaded Shadow Maps do not use the proper world size for octree culling. At far distances, the shadows are always culled. ...

UE5.6+ - Mutable - IDPrefix crash when combining Child Objects, Add to Mesh Component and Extend Mesh Section.

UE - Anim - Mutable - Jul 21, 2025

So the issue seems to be a combination of Add To Mesh Component and Extend Mesh Section. I've tried this in Epic Launcher 5.6, 5.6 in-house modified engine as well as ue5-main 5.7 from git (editor ...

Regression with RecomputeTangents on SkeletalMeshes in 5.6

UE - Graphics Features - Jul 21, 2025

Licensee noticed a regression in 5.6 where the non-masked recompute tangents option doesn't work anymore. The option is called "Enabled with no mask" in 5.6 but "All" in 5.5. Under the hood, this se ...

UMaterialFunctionInterface not being tagged as BlueprintType makes some editor scripting scenarios difficult

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Jul 21, 2025

UMaterialInterface is BlueprintType, but UMaterialFunctionInterface is not. This makes it difficult to port some BP logic that works with materials to the material layer system. Crystal Dynamics wou ...

Unable to change Actor Coloration View Modes in PIE

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Jul 20, 2025

When in PIE changing Actor Coloration view modes from the viewport visualisation mode [Liit] -> [Actor Coloration] -> ... Does not update correctly when switching view mode and sometimes isn't corr ...

Enabling Strip Source Data On Cook on Geometry Collection is also stripping the Anchor flag of cooked assets

UE - Simulation - Physics - Jul 20, 2025

Enabling Strip Source Data On Cook on Geometry Collection (GC) is also stripping the Anchor flag of cooked assets. The licensee has reported that once they do a build the Anchors disappear and GCs t ...

Crashes after destroying a skeletal mesh attached via socket name (not bone name), the destroyed mesh remains welded.

UE - Simulation - Physics - Jul 18, 2025

On welding physics bodies during primitive component attachment, UPrimitiveComponent::WeldToImplementation() calls GetRootWelded() and then GetBodyInstance() on the returned root. This searches by b ...