I’m trying to incorporate 2d trees in my scenes to make more realistic images but I can’t find how or where to quickly place a bunch of billboard instances. It must be possible.
Here’s a picture that Koola did with billboards :
I may have found how he did it. Check out this tutorial http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/graphics-programming-and-theory/billboarded-foliage-in-unreal-engine-4-r4246
I’m using the imposterUV material function with landscape grass output…
Looks interesting man, I’ll look into it. Nice grass by the way and your 2015 reel is very impressive 
These techniques could open new doors for architecture movies I think. For aerial shots. Because 3d vegetation for aerial shots with speedtree it’s too expensive right now and trees with LODS are not acceptable imo.
I’m starting to think that it ‘‘could’’ be possible to do these kind of movies all within Unreal and billboards are going to be one huge step to help it.