How to get the PhysMaterial of a Foliage Type

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I’m using a Procedural Foliage Spawner to spawn trees.

I have assigned a PhysMaterial to the Foliage Type definition.

However, when I run a line trace against objects and find an instance of this tree, the PhysMaterial that comes back from the collision is the DefaultPhysicalMaterial.

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What am I doing wrong? Or has this never worked?

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Hi, that override is for the simple collision, for complex collision you need to set the physical material inside the materials of the tree.

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Thanks! I actually are using these meshes for other things too where I want a different physical material, so I need to think of something else. Currently consider a lookup map from “foliage mesh object” to “material to use.”