Unreal Engine Issues

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

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

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

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 ...

Distance Field AO from Moveable Skylight (non-Lumen) invalidates AO incorrectly with a screenspace offset to the right of moving objects

When Global Illumination is set to “None” in the project settings the ambient occlusion does not correctly render shadows for moving objects. This has been observed in versions 5.4 and above. ...

Scenecapturecomponent not including Niagara effect if custom renderpass is used

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Importing static mesh while a PIE session is running permanently breaks nanite on the asset

Importing a Static Mesh during PIE can cause it to never enable Nanite, even if it reports that Nanite is enabled. To re-enable Nanite on the mesh, the asset needs to be deleted and imported again ...