If I understand you correctly, you suggest to use the foliage tools instead of my own HISM component / implementation, is that correct? At least I don’t know how else I would use the brush tool as you suggest.
Out of curiosity I worked with the procedural foliage component today and it seems to offer a lot of the functionality I want (age, growth and spread parameters). But I couldn’t find a way to access (add or remove) instances through blueprint and I also could not find any actual API documentation, except for the little walkthrough I included in my first post (is there really no documentation on the class?).
Is there a way to access, add and remove the foliage instances that were created with the procedural foliage tool? If yes this should allow me to build everything I want, without worrying about several HISM layers for different models. Ideally I could just “step” the procedual foliage simulation to grow my forest, no?
Thanks in advance