Foliage always black or incredibly dark

Here the weird solution, I’m on 5.5.2 … if you tried everything mentioned and nothing worked, do the following: go to the textures folder and open the textures, and try open the meshes also if possible … or right click on the folder and choose validate assets in the folder , yes … it is often a streaming issue. wait until it finished preparing the shaders and on my side this is only what solved the issue.