Foliage placement trouble

Development World Creation
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I am having a problem with my foliage where I have added a plane to my scene and ticked the static mesh filter when painting so that I could add my foliage to it which works fine, but when I try to delete the plane it deletes all of my foliage along with it.

Can’t seem to work out a fix I hope someone can help.

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this is just how the engine works, im pretty sure the engine treats it as the “Parent” of the foliage, so deleting it deletes the foliage