Hello,
When using DFAO the foliage that are painted with foliage painter receive proper amount of AO.
But when foliage are placed as static meshes they receive too much AO and look much darker.
Comparison:
Is there any way to fix this?
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Did you specifically go enable DFAO on the foliage that was painted? it is off by default. My guess is only the hand placed meshes above are showing DFAO.
Having smaller foliage affect DFAO may get expensive and probably won’t look good. It was meant more to be used on larger foliage like trees for overall soft occlusion.