a confused fort night A player noticed something while playing the popular free-to-play battle royale shooter and posted a screenshot on Twitter. In the image shared, a strange image of mold appears to have suddenly appeared in the game. Why is there mold in there? fort night? As it turns out, you can blame Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and the decisions he made decades ago.
November 14, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney replied To a player who posted the following image on X (formerly Twitter) fort night It looks like something moldy in the game feed. The man was confused until Sweeney gave an interesting explanation.
“This is the default texture for Unreal Engine,” Sweeney tweeted. “In 1995, when I was developing on a 90 MHz Pentium, I imported it into Unreal Engine 1. When the programmer forgot to specify a texture, it was still there and showing up.
When another user asked if the image was moldy, Sweeney The answer was no and the origin of the strange texture was explained.
“This is a stock photo of cave pearls, which are calcium carbonate deposits that form in limestone caves,” Sweeney says.
When someone asks the all-important question: “Can I eat it?” the CEO replies, “Actually yes” and shared a link Tums’ Wikipedia pagea heartburn medicine containing calcium carbonate.
If you look around the web you can find people Ask a question about mold fort night Long before this Twitter interaction. People back in 2015 The original source of the image has even been figured out. But get a straight answer from Sweeney and discover this mold-like image—like this The Powerpuff Girls or Dexter’s laboratory——A strange, nostalgic piece of art from the 1990s.
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