Something rather strange happened today.
I worked on my project until half past one in the morning, saved everything cleanly and then opened it again today.
Bad surprise:
I couldn’t move anything in the level anymore, I could select the transform tool but I couldn’t move meshes back and forth in the level. As if a snap from 9999999999999 had been set.
Also dragging new Static Meshes into the Level was strange. I could only drag and drop to the 0,0,0 relative location of the viewport camera, no matter where i drag and dropped into the level…
Furthermore, the light setting in the level was different. The sky looked completely different in the level and for me this was a death sentence for my project. Thank God I make regular backups.
The last backup was 3 days ago, so I copied the latest content from the bugged project and pasted it into the backup from 3 days ago. Everything is up to date again.
But have you ever experienced something like this?
Is it possible that a hacker is tracking the progress of my project and secretly changing things?
Is it technically possible? If you were on the watch list of some government agency (The Mossad Are After You!) then, technically, it might be possible. But they wouldn’t just mess with the project, they’d either do nothing, or do something much more sinister.
Is it at all probably that the problem is some third party connecting to your computer? Not at all. You either accidentally hit some key, or made some typo, or tickled some bug in the engine that caused that behavior. If you saved the corrupted version as well, it might be interesting to do a diff between the old and the new to see what changed, especially around project/editor settings, to see what the problem was.
