A lesser man would have given up by now.
Plants weren't visible. I followed the instructions, but they didn't appear at all. So I took them out again with the X-key, didn't change or touch anything else, and now my grass patch has one sharp edge that flickers as I move around.
This couldn't be more like Age Writing if it had been deliberately designed that way. Is there anything I can do that won't mess up something else?
EDIT: well, yes, but only if it's totally ineffective. Followed the instructions for the sky dome and putting in diffuse lighting. Nothing. I assume Control and Shift and N does actually "flip the normals" (is that like freaking the mundanes?) and I have pressed it an odd number of times, so if they weren't flipped before they should be flipped now, but I can't tell because it does nothing visible and I don't know if it should. But the nice blue cloud-wrapped sphere I have put around my island, like the stone walls in Age Two, like the plants here before I deleted them, is completely invisible.
Please, I want to learn this, but there is something missing from these instructions.