Can I import the City Sample set without downloading it again if it's already on my drive?

I downloaded the City Sample aka Matrix city set. But when I clicked Create Project with it, I used 5.2. I have since found out it will not work, unless I use version 5.0.3. So I installed that now. But when I try to open the City Sample project, it won’t open because it was created with the newer 5.2 version. How can I import or open the City Sample set in 5.0.3? Do I need to re-download it? It took a couple of days to download the almost 100GB. It’s in the my vault, so I thought I wouldn’t need to download it again every time I start a new project with it. But I’m not sure how to import it or open it in 5.0.3. It doesn’t seem to work the same way it does for importing a fbx file for example.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Can you still click ‘create project’ in the launcher?

Hi @ ClockworkOcean!

Yes, I can. But then it starts downloading the whole 100GB project again.

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Ah, ok, that means there’s a different version of the files for that engine version. Sorry, you have to download ( but you can remove the local cache first - ‘remove local content’ button )

Thanks @ ClockworkOcean!

I read somewhere that I can right click the 5.2 project file and choose switch version and choose 5.0.3 and open it this way?

By the way, is it true the City Sample only works with version 5.0?

I’m also confused what the vaultcache is for, if I need to download all the assets again. I thought the point of the vault was exactly to store the content so you don’t need to download every time. Otherwise why keep the files in double? It takes 100GB in the project folder and another 100GB in the vault.

You can go forward, but not backward.

In this case, the vault cache is not the same for each engine version.

Thanks @ ClockworkOcean!

I see. But do I really need version 5? If so, I wonder why the launcher let me create the City Sample project with 5.2. It took me 3 days to download it.

I know nothing about that, I’m afraid. It says 5-5.3 on the page…

Yeah, but apparently it doesn’t work. Thanks for the help anyways. At the moment I don’t have the time to leave my PC busy downloading for 3 days again. Eventually I will get back to it and try the City Sample.

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