How to achieve this sort of effect with foliage actors?

[ClockworkOcean]

The problem is, anything you do in the material will apply to all instances.

You might be able to get around that with ‘per instance custom data’

Micro-tutorial: Per instance foliage logic/effects using per instance custom data

This is an extension of the methods covered here: Individual Foliage Logic using Per-Instance Custom Data [UE4/UE5] - YouTube Problem: You want to do something to your foliage instances, but how do you get access to the individual instances? Demonstration: In this example I will show how I am fading trees that are between the camera and the player character in a top down game. [treesfade] Setup: On material that I want to fade, I add PerInstanceCustomData node [image] Note the assig…