I have four plants and four textures for this plants. I make a actors that you can change the mesh and the color easily, but I want to instanced this plants all around the world. I see that the foliage tool only allow to instanced static mesh. So is posible to instance actors instead of static mesh with foliage? It will be fastest than put plants one by one.
Thanks.
i dont believe it is possible at this time i use 4.17 and havent seen any way to do so yet. a few options in your case is to have duplicates of the mesh and use different materials or use one material that randomly selects the different textures.
if your going about it that way i would probably create a master material and then have a material instance for each texture set. this will give you back a little bit of the performance lost. when i say performance lost i mean now that your using 16 meshes instead of one it should be 16 draw calls which is a negligible difference from the original but we try to get every little bit of performance we can right.
Finally, I duplicated all the meshes and put differentes textures each. so I have 16 static mesh…
and how can I create a master material? I have no idea to do this