Editor crash while saving asset during cook operation

UE - Editor - Apr 2, 2025

It is possible to experience an editor crash in 5.5.4 when the cook process generates a warning that references an asset while the editor is saving. It seems that during a save operation, the code t ...

Sky Atmosphere Material Nodes not Correctly Represented in the Surface Cache for Nanite Enabled Static Meshes

UE - Graphics Features - Apr 1, 2025

When nanite is enabled on a static mesh, lighting contributions from Sky Atmosphere material nodes are not incident on the static mesh and no longer present in the overall lighting of the scene. Th ...

Masked material using virtual textures covering a decal will result in black pixels

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Mar 31, 2025

Depth Passes for Masked Materials using Virtual Textures does not work correctly when it is in front of a Nanite Mesh and a Decal, resulting in black artifacts. Also tested on //UE5/Main, CL: 41024 ...

Opcode shader compilation error when using a TextureSampleParameterCubeArray node with hardware ray tracing enabled

UE - Graphics Features - Ray Tracing - Mar 31, 2025

Materials containing a cube array texture sampling node will not compile when hardware ray tracing is enabled. The shader compilation error indicates that an invalid op code was used: "Opcode Sample ...

Excessive RVT page updates with Nanite and ClearCoat or Cloth shading model applied

UE - Rendering Architecture - Mar 31, 2025

There is an excessive number of page updates when a Nanite landscape has a runtime virtual texture material applied to it with a shading model set to ClearCoat or Cloth (instead of Default Lit). The ...

Light function does not work with volumetric fog when not compatible with light atlas

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 28, 2025

Light functions do not work as intended with volumetric fog when using clamped mask textures which are not compatible with the light function atlas. In light functions materials, when using any UV ...

Skeleton mesh with hair strands material will lead to unnecessary draw call submissions

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 27, 2025

Materials with "Used With Hair Strands" enabled will cause Skeletal Meshes to draw twice in the Base Pass. ...

Some features have not yet been supported when using AmbientCubemap as IBL

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 26, 2025

Translucent materials do not receive specular highlights and reflections from Ambient Cubemaps set in Post-Process settings. There is a pass"InjectTranslucencyLightingVolumeAmbientCubemap" that sho ...

Scenecapturecomponent not including Niagara effect if custom renderpass is used

UE - Graphics Features - Mar 20, 2025

When using an "FSceneRenderer::CustomRenderPasses", the View never has Distance Field textures assigned. Can it instead reuse the Distance Field clipmap from the main view? ...

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 ...