Rendering of a Text Widget with Outline does not track LayerId correctly

UE - Editor - UI Systems - May 27, 2025

Text widget with Outline uses 2 LayerId levels to draw the outline and the text glyphs. This can be seen in function FSlateElementBatcher::AddShapedTextElement(), where lambda BuildFontGeometry() is ...

Virtual Shadow Maps on Spot Lights cause a blocky presentation similar to an incorrect mip level

UE - Graphics Features - Shadows - May 26, 2025

Spot Lights may present with very blocky shadow artefacts when a long attentuation radius is provided with a small cone angle. In extreme cases, this causes the VSMs to invalidate every frame. Notab ...

World Source in Take Recorder does not record auto-tracked actors properly

UE - Virtual Production - Tools - Take Recorder - May 23, 2025

The Take Recorder plugin allows for multiple sources to be recorded during gameplay. The World Source is expected to record everything in the level when the Autotrack Actors option is enabled. Once ...

Generated instances can not be cleaned up when PCGVolume is copied to a different level

UE - World Creation - Procedural Tools - May 19, 2025

Copying a PCGVolume beyond a level creates an instance that cannot be deleted. In UE5.5 or later, it is possible to delete the instance by pressing Cleanup button with Ctrl key (purge all components ...

Changes to Instanced Properties default value on BP not propagated to placed actors in the opened level

UE - Foundation - May 15, 2025

In UE versions 5.4 and onwards (as of CL 42589677 in Main), when an Instanced UObject property is defined in an Actor Blueprint, modifying the default value in the Blueprint does not propagate the c ...

Bug in CurveLinearColor makes colors of Diffraction material white outside curve range, causing rendering artifacts

UE - Texture - May 14, 2025

There seems to be a regression with linear textures (commonly for multi-channel masked textures) in UE5.4. Setting the "Encoding Override" (under Texture > Advanced > Source Color Settings) to "Line ...

Fracture Mode > "Remove-On-Break" setting: Cluster Crumbling causes flickering

UE - Simulation - Physics - Destruction - May 10, 2025

Fracture Mode > "Remove-On-Break" setting: Cluster Crumbling causes flickering. Once the Remove-On-Break Cluster Crumbling effect is activated, there is a small delay between the disappearance of th ...

InstancedStruct Local Variables do not work

UE - Foundation - May 7, 2025

The licensee has noticed that local variables of type InstancedStruct return nullptr. The setup is a verification of the behavior. Class variables work normally. I've tested this behavior on every v ...

Blueprint compiler doesn't always initialize struct consts correctly

UE - Framework - Blueprint Compiler - May 1, 2025

Blueprints currently don't support unsigned 64 bit ints, but they do support signed 64 bits. If a Blueprint uses a native struct variable that contains a uint64 property, it incorrectly assigns that ...

UEditorValidatorBase::ValidateLoadedAsset() is not using the K2_ValidateLoadedAsset() output, effectively ignoring the Blueprint validation

UE - Editor - May 1, 2025

UEditorValidatorBase::ValidateLoadedAsset() is not using the K2_ValidateLoadedAsset() output, effectively ignoring the Blueprint validation. The K2Result is not used later in the function, and this ...