Convert Actors to a foliage instance

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hello
im trying to make a city model based on some gis and cad data of that city.
the cad has data on the location of trees and poles in the city in the form of a small plane in the map.
after i replaced static mesh of the small planes in BP to a tree mesh is there a way to turn all those tree actors in a foliage instance?
also is there a way to do this in Dataprep? @ UE_FlavienP
any advice is appreciated
thanks

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You can select all the trees / poles and

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I know nothing about dataprep :wink:

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thanks for your response.
does this have the same efficiency as if you build it with foliage painter?
also i would like to have the option to turn off the trees in runtime is this doable with batch.
after creating it there is nothing to select in outliner or do i need use some thing else like merge?

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If you choose this option

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it’s exactly the same as foliage.

Can you elaborate? All of them, or just one or two?

Merge turns them into one big mesh, you don’t want that…

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i would like to turn them all off with a button in ui for optimization and also for a option to see the city block without the trees.

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After conversion, you have a single actor, which you can show/hide

foliage

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wow, thank u.
I cant believe I missed that, messy outliner…

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