This week - snowballing code problems, so not much to show. Started with having to update world origin, but that meant custom logic for loading levels. Which led to player sometimes spawning outside of playable area..
Next up
Setting up the storage environment, with a cake as a centerpiece for one of the rooms.
Spent some time to fix metal containers' UVs. Here are before and afters. Gives the scenes a bit more cleaner look!
Ditched baked lighting, trying lumen now. Surprisingly, it doesn't seem like it takes up that much more performance compared to the previous setup - with a few tricks for optimization, at least.
Moved to version 5.6 of UE, had to adapt to some changes like the enhanced input system getting rid of some things. Still, there were also some changes to global illumination, which fixed a few details for me.
Not much to show, because I've been fighting with baked lighting again.. Thinking of turning to the dark side (using global illumination) 
Some more level design of the Depot level. Spreading the rubble, moving the boxes around, putting some lights up.
Polished the side project a bit more. Added sounds, fixed some ui things, added a movement sprite for the sword, made the enemies fade out on death.
More splines usage - this time to create a big room with walls and columns around it. Split it into ceiling/floor and walls for convenience.
A bit more design of the second part of the Depot level, now with lighting. Needs additional jellies..
A little side project - a game I've started during a game jam and decided to work on it a bit more. It is kind of a survivors-like, but every upgrade you pick up is a choice between two. And whatever you don't choose upgrades your enemies instead 
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