When I tried to export the map from Blender, I have encountered some issues with the texture and collisions. To fix the texture, I had to go to the export menu, then toggle the copy texture and check the texture button. I have also checked the "Export selected" checkbox to make sure nothing extra gets exported. When the map got exported and then imported to Unreal Engine, I have tried to go to edit mode and apply convex collision to the maximum. because the map got exported into 100 different pieces, I thought that the collisions would match perfectly. However I was incorrect. The collisions took hours to generate, often causing crashes and blue screen of death sometimes on the computer. I have decided to use a different computer at home but also encountered the same issues. After a few hours, the collisions were able to generate. I have tried to move around and test the collisions. The map had uneven and unmatched collisions with sometimes being able to go through the floor. Because I didn't have much time left, I decided to find a simple forest-looking map on a built in plugin called FAB in Unreal Engine. With the map I have found, I have removed all of the built in nature assets and replaced them with our models instead.

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Technical Achievement: Through this exercise I learned two important lessons about importing geometry into Unreal engine from external applications. The first is that generating convex collision can be extremely computationally expensive for complex meshes. The way my map came in was as 100 individual Blender objects, each attempting to compute a convex hull which, at 100 complex objects, takes far too much time and is incredibly unstable and often crashes the engine. For a walkable environment you should never try to generate a convex hull on any complex meshes; instead, the methods to approach this issue are either to create a simplified invisible mesh in Blender that approximates the geometry and has few enough polygons or to create a convex collision mesh that approximates the geometry of the visible object. It is often better to create the collision mesh separately, since using automatic methods can easily result in a highly inefficient or "blocky" collision. Another method for walkable environments, terrain, can be handled directly within UE5's landscape tool (which can generate walkable collision automatically) or through use of pre-built asset that may include walkable collision, which is what I ended up doing. The second thing that this exercise taught me was the necessity of technical experimentation early in a project and ideally in a throwaway prototype; I ended up spending several days developing an approach to generating collision which ultimately didn't work but a few hours testing this approach in week 1 would have allowed me to plan around this technical limitation.