# Landscape paint brush pain rectangles only \[Unreal 5.2\]

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/landscape-paint-brush-pain-rectangles-only-unreal-5-2/1176279>\
**Category:** World Creation\
**Tags:** unreal-engine, question\
**Created:** [May 23, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/landscape-paint-brush-pain-rectangles-only-unreal-5-2/1176279 "2023-05-23T20:14:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![codeedward1](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@codeedward1](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/codeedward1)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/landscape-paint-brush-pain-rectangles-only-unreal-5-2/1176279/1 "2023-05-23T20:14:37Z")

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When I pain my landscape the paint brush only paints rectangles. I’ve never experienced this before. In my older project or youtube tutorials I can see everything works well. I do the same steps as in youtube but still getting this weird effect.

It’s very square’ish:

 ![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/1/a/a/1aad9b363f9f781b0983e5af88aab935761bba9b.jpeg)

My setup is as follows:

Standard Landscape Material

 ![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/9/a/9/9a9444c4138dad57ccb928c7a69d60d974601b75.jpeg)

I have two layers. Only pait sand on the Sand layer and SandRoad on SandRoads layer:  
 ![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/4/5/2/4528e861e84172bf205e1bec6cc6a9b705fdecff.png)

I gave 0.2 on alpha for the Sand layer as the sand road was very faint when Sand layer was set to 1.

I did it on two layers so you can see how the painting looks when I switch off the first layer:

 ![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/c/a/0/ca0e5e267744dc25b144d7c652cd6fa07c4c9a16.jpeg)

What I would like to paint is two lines next to each other with some gap between them so they resemble the sandy car road. Something like this:  
 ![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/5/3/2/53274fc510356803dec2cb2d66f0929c7b7d6323.png)

The closest I can do is, but the distance between them is to large:

 ![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/c/f/d/cfd08446551c4f57b0acae4e3642edcef4bd3beb.jpeg)

I would like it to be more like (modified in paint):

 ![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/b/5/3/b534a8e822c614de010c25fbc04c5de247ed0817.jpeg)

For some reason when I paint them they just join together and form these big squares. Do I do something wrong?

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**Author:** ![Xianese](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Xianese](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Xianese)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/landscape-paint-brush-pain-rectangles-only-unreal-5-2/1176279/2 "2023-10-01T06:27:43Z")

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Did you ever find a solution to this? I’m currently experiencing the same thing myself and I can’t figure out the cause.

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**Author:** ![codeedward1](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@codeedward1](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/codeedward1)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/landscape-paint-brush-pain-rectangles-only-unreal-5-2/1176279/3 "2023-10-03T06:57:41Z")

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@Xianese I ended up using ready made landscape auto material from Unreal Sensei and it looks much better for me. Link below:

[![](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/8/2/d/82d640ae1ca6729de89b94f5defd9e9b607653cf.jpeg "Unreal Engine Landscape Master Material Tutorial - UE4 Tutorial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hmRN8bXMM0)

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**Author:** ![meinvalley](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/meinvalley/32/882445_2.png) [@meinvalley](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/meinvalley)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/landscape-paint-brush-pain-rectangles-only-unreal-5-2/1176279/4 "2024-01-11T02:26:03Z")

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Have you solved this issue? I’m currently facing the same problem

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**Author:** ![codeedward1](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@codeedward1](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/codeedward1)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/landscape-paint-brush-pain-rectangles-only-unreal-5-2/1176279/5 "2024-01-28T23:21:42Z")

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@meinvalley Yes, I used AutoLandscape from the post above and it was working like a charm.