Yesterday I decided to download the engine, but alas, constantly gives an error message about connecting to the Internet. I tried options with and without VPN, but all attempts are in vain.

I would join the community discord and see about getting some help in the #support channel.

Its working!!!

There are some pre-built materials in the GameSDK project with river and water materials that you can play around with.

You add the actual "water" by setting the material in the `Properties` panel under General > Material.

I think you posted this also on Reddit - but from the sounds of it there is some manual memory allocation that isn't being properly cleaned up or managed. CryEngine manages memory in regards to entities, entity cleanup and its own environment - but anything custom you add on top of this or outside o...

Can you post a screenshot of your flowchart by any chance? Are you building this off of an existing project template or a blank project? Is there code elsewhere outside of flowgraph that may be affecting the spawn logic?