Summary
The negative z offset in the foliage tool is not working properly.
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Unreal Editor for Fortnite
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
World Building
Steps to Reproduce
To Make sure that my custom made stones are not the cause of this problem I recreated the effect with a default cube:
-In modeling mode create a 20 cm big cube.
-Center it’s pivot
-Add it as foliage
-In the foliage tool, paint it with a density of 300 and a random pitch angle of 259 ( Random Jaw checked on). Minimum scale set to 0.5, max scale to 1. These settings are appropriate to paint small pebbles.
-Notice that a z offset of zero works as expected.
-Set the z offset to negative values. In the second image attached the z offset is minus 10. Some cubes arfe embedded down, others begin to rise up.
-Set the z offset to -30. Now the cubes start to fly above the landscape.
Expected Result
The cubes should be deeper embedded into the landscape when the negative z offset is set higher.
Observed Result
The cubes get raised higher with higher negative z offset values.
Platform(s)
Windows 11
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Additional Notes
I have documented this bug a few months ago, unfortunately it has not been addressed yet. I think this is a crucial feature in UEFN and hope that this detailed post will help the dev team at Epic. Thanks so much folks!