few issue i had trying to load this up and the fixes

[shawkab]

Issue 1: 39-45% freeze. Have this issue all the time with the DefaultEngine.ini inside Config folder (Config/DefaultEngine.ini) on a lot of UE4 projects too because of updates to the engine I guess but..

[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
r.AllowStaticLighting=False
r.SupportSkyAtmosphereAffectsHeightFog=True

To get it to pass 45% gotta delete these lines or change them to opposite values.. Dunno why but I always have issues starting up project for first time because of RenderSettings.. Always something different but anytime I freeze around 45% its because of RenderSettings.

Issue 2: Freeze at 89% 91% 92% because of KiteDemo, in particular HillTree_02 - So basically the tree in the provided Content folder (\Content\KiteDemo\Environments\Trees\HillTree_02.uasset) You gotta either remove the tree or bring it to a different project to just load the thing. If you have a beast PC you probably won't have this issue but on low end or medium range PCs KiteDemo is an absolute abhorrent that will freeze your PC because the textures/materials/shaders etc in it are gigantic. Maybe use a different tree. I remember this tree use to work fine but since a few updates to UE4 ago it became broken.

Issue 3: Plugins folder is empty on first download of master file for me, So that will cause issues too, go UnrealSandboxToolkit and UnrealSandboxTerrain

Issue 4: Generating Project Files.. issue people have that I had are just not able to load after they do it because of this KiteDemo, so they may be fixing the project file issue but the KiteDemo isn't allowing that first load, and is also causing issues building so I build without the Content folder first, then put the Content folder in then removed the KiteDemo HillTree_02 and worked fine.