Does the water still crash the editor in big worlds?

[4bstrakt]

I had a similar (possibly same) issue.
In my case, it was the Landscape_WaterBrush. I don’t think it’s so much the water actors themselves as the dynamic landscape editing they can do (managed by the WaterBrush and associated EditLayer).
It breaks some WorldPartition functionality (load/unload).

I did sort out a bit of a work-around, though the water actors will lose the ability to edit the landscape:

WorldPartition Proxies Stuck Loaded After Adding Water Body

In a world partition level, after adding a water body actor from the UE Water system, exiting, and re-opening the level in the editor, my entire landscape is loaded in, even though it was saved with all regions unloaded and the minimap shows ‘no regions loaded.’ Load/Unload Selected Regions affects everything it’s supposed to BUT the landscape proxies. While this isn’t a huge issue on smaller maps, my 16x16km level could not be opened (out of video memory crash) despite having no issues until t…