So much for the pristine fresh start… I’ve added a few of Unreal Engine’s free asset collections to try out some ideas:
- VisAI Modern AI Framework (to try adding some bots)
- Basic Pickups VFX Set (to try adding some game elements)
- Advanced Cel Shader Lite (to try non-photorealistic stylistic rendering)
- 4K Materials: Wood Flooring (I mean. The TI has so much wood, it’d be a shame to just use “wood” as the material…)
And then Unreal Engine had an update, from 5.3 to 5.31, apparently? Regardless. Always apply updates, so hopefully the project works now that I’ve added a couple GB of materials and some complexity.
- turns out, it was updated to 5.3.1 even though Epic Launcher said 5.3 was the latest version and that I should definitely update to 5.3 from my current version. Which was 5.3 ↩︎