Inconsistent texture loading issue within material editor

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Jul 16, 2025

A licensee has reached out via EPS about a texture loading issue they are having in-editor. I summarized the most important points below:The issue relates to texture load failure associated with mat ...

Bake Pose is not applied correctly when using LODSettings asset

UE - Anim - Rigging - Jul 16, 2025

The Bake Pose setting does not work when using a SkeletalMesh LODSettings asset. After the change in CL22878911, the BasePose in the LODSettings asset is no longer copied to the BakePose in the skel ...

URuntimeVirtualTextureComponent::RequestPreload not working for some edge cases

UE - Rendering Architecture - Jul 15, 2025

A licensee has reached out to us to inform us that the logic for preloading at times fails to account for adaptive virtual textures when the requested mip level is not in the shared AllocatedVirtual ...

Conflict between sequencer transform track and Parent Constraint from the Animation Mode breaks temporary pivot translation on any actor

UE - Anim - Anim in Engine - Jul 15, 2025

Note: This affects all versions from at least UE 5.3, including mainline latest. The "Animation" Editor Mode allows creating constraints for level actors. One of these, the "Parent" constraint, con ...

Crash in PCGComponent during file load for file with vegetation from placement tools

TM - Rendering - Jul 14, 2025

Reported in SF [Link Removed] Client has a file that consistently crashes during loading in the PCGComponent.cpp that appears to be linked to placed vegetation. Crash occurs during file open and m ...

When moving actors to the current level, their label is reset and displayed incorrectly on the Scene Outliner until the next time it is refreshed

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Jul 14, 2025

This is a regression, it worked correctly up to UE 5.4, but repros on UE 5.5 and 5.6. Also, this seems related to [Link Removed], which was fixed by CL 40649716/40649749 and integrated into UE 5.6, ...

Bindless Textures in active use are able to be garbage collected

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jul 9, 2025

It is possible for textures referenced in the bindless texture data assets that are actively used in materials being rendered in the active viewport to be garbage collected. This results in the mat ...

Editor crash when adding mesh renderer elements in Niagara

UE - Niagara - Jul 8, 2025

When adding multiple meshes to a Niagara Mesh Renderer Module, a check() will be triggered due to a mismatch in the number of Widgets and the number of Tooltip Widgets. ...

Channel Mask Parameter does not correctly pull through the Alpha channel from

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Jul 8, 2025

The ChannelMaskParameter node in the Material Graph works in most cases, but unusually does not work when extracting the value of the Alpha channel only for Vertex Color input data. ...