lol man i don’t know whether to simply thank you or write a novel how hacky and hard this was…and still is 
EDIT: the UDK project was hacky as hell but thanks to Blueprints things are going much smoother with mars police. still, everything here from art assets to BPs went thru at least two iterations and some of it just didn’t make it; i had a huge chunk of menu systems for mission selection done but i just wasn’t feeling it so i had to delete it after working on it for months. in 4.15 a new tonemapper ruined the environment colors i was tweaking for a looong time and the only thing i could do is to rebuild my day/night cycle. now it looks better and it’s more optimized but it was a nightmare! soon i’ll have to overhaul the entire player controller as i see all the faults i made when i was starting this thing.
anyway, it’s a PAIN but i love working on it and it’s nowhere near the straight up depression i felt when all i had was a grey temp level and a starter pack character. waking up and seeing that for months was sooo defeating ( or disheartening ) but as soon as i made my first functioning health bar with variables and everything, things started looking up. later i deleted it because it sucked lol.
keep at it!