A fairly innocent post pointing out a strange bug in Fortnite revealed one of the other interesting artifacts of the old engines.
Player M1das shared a screenshot from the game on his X account, which shows what the user himself claims is a strange photo of mold. It should have appeared instead of the news list, without any error message. What the user probably did not expect was the answer from the founder Epic Games Tima Sweeney.
He revealed that the “mold” photo was not actually mold, but a picture of “cave pearls”. Sweeney had to upload this to the very first version of Unreal Engine in 1995, which he worked on with a 90 MHz Pentium processor. So the texture has been in the game for almost 30 years and appears when the developer forgets to specify the texture.
Even though it’s a simple and straightforward reason in the end, it’s an interesting developer gem. Many of you will surely be familiar with the story of the photo of a coconut in the Team Fortress 2 source code, which, when deleted, causes the game to completely crash and become inoperable.
Source: pctuning.cz
