ARK Dev Kit Update Notes! (Current: 222.6)

[anonymous_user_10f0ff50]

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Maybe I’m not understanding how a Total Conversion works. I’ve put an empty folder in the mods directory, cleared out the map name and selected cook total conversion. Ive made no changes to core files and its cooking over 197K shaders. At this rate it would be over a 2hr cook for a TC thats unedited. Is that normal? Cooking my mod, I never noticed it take this long or cook this much.

Edit: Reading is fundamental saw in the dev kit documentation that it will need to recompile shaders and that subsequent builds wont be as long as they will be cached. I guess updating to the latest dev kit cause shaders to recompile for anyone else wondering.

Yes, unfortunately everytime you update, you are “modifying” multiple files. Once you modify those files, the shaders have to re-compile. Currently, the epic launcher saves a backup and “re-creates” the core file list, so they’re all “new” files. So yes, they all have to be recompiled :(. You can save alot of time by opening the island map after updating though.