Confused Fortnite A player noticed something while playing the popular free-to-play battle royale shooter and posted a screenshot on Twitter. In the image shared, it looked like there was a strange mold image in the game. Why did mold appear? Fortnite? Turns out you can blame Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and a decision he made decades ago.
November 14 The answer was provided by Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney to the player who posted the photo on X (formerly Twitter). Fortnite with what looks like mold in the game’s news. The person was confused until Sweeney replied with a humorous explanation.
“This is the default Unreal Engine texture,” Sweeney tweeted. “I imported it into Unreal Engine 1 in 1995 when I was working on a 90MHz Pentium. It’s still there and shows up when the developer forgets to specify a texture.
When another user asked if the image showed mold, Sweeney he replied no and explained the origin of the strange-looking texture.
“This is a stock photo of cave pearls, a type of calcium carbonate deposit that forms in limestone caves.” Sweeney said.
When someone asked the all-important question, “Can I eat this?” the director replied: “Actually yes” and shared the link to Wikipedia page for Tumsheartburn medicine containing calcium carbonate.
If you look around the internet you can find people asking about mold Fortnite long before this Twitter interaction. People in 2015 he has even already discovered the original source of the image. But it’s still cool to get a direct answer from Sweeney and find out that this mold-like image is… like The The Powerpuff Girls Or Dexter’s Laboratory –a strange, nostalgic artifact from the 90s.
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