Creating a forest then wrapping it into a Blueprint

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Oh ok I think I get it,

but how do I take the Instanced Foliage Element,
the one I created by painting manually in the viewport, with the foliage tool,
then read the transforms from it via Blueprints?

Does it contain an array with all the transforms per element?

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It does, The actor contains a list of instances, like all other HISMC.
So while itā€™s odd that you canā€™t shift the actor, you can access itā€™s instances and shift them directly too (except computation time wise thatā€™s crazy so donā€™t).

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That would be a cool solution!
But how? which nodes access that array? normally Iā€™d create an array in Blueprints, but where is this array (or arrays since I used more than one element) stored and how do I access it?

I can even get by with way less elements for computation and just spawn 2-3 at each location with some randomization.

Thanks again !

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I have a plugin on the marketplace that uses most of the nodes youā€™d need (with a different purpose):

Still, you can probably dig into how to do it by searching nodes / docs or c++ like i did to create the plugin.
Itā€™s definitely not the best documented thing, the whole engine is actually quite the opposite, but its not impossible obviously.

From what i remeber, at a base level theres 2 collections.
One of meshes used, one of actual instances.
They two are linked togeter.

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