Textures and Meshes Appear Black Until You Open the Textures

[LosesoIcanwin]

Summary

Meshes appear black in editor because the textures are black. Opening the textures in the content drawer fixes it temporarily, but when you re open the editor different meshes/textures appear black. You can find all the info about it in this UE5 forum

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I’m encountering an issue since I moved to Unreal Engine 5.5 (and higher) where textures and materials sometimes appear completely black. This affects both the previews in the Content Browser and the materials applied to meshes in the scene, causing the entire mesh to appear black. Strangely, the issue resolves itself temporarily when I manually open the texture in the editor, after which everything looks normal. Additional Information: Current Engine version: 5.5.1 The issue occurs sporadical…

All the issues talked about in that forum, are the same exact issues we are experiencing. A staff member mentions it being fixed in UE5’s upcoming 5.6 update, but UEFN is already on version 5.6. For whatever reason, at the moment no textures are black in my editor after reloading it several times, so I cant get a pic. There is a pic of a mesh with the black textures somewhere in the forum. That is what our meshes look like.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

I don’t believe theres really any steps. Just import a few meshes with textures and it may or may not appear black. You may have to re open the editor to see the issue

Expected Result

Meshes should look fine, not black, with its proper textures

Observed Result

Some textures for meshes are black until you open the textures in the content drawer

Platform(s)

Windows