Models (foliage) turning into boxes from a distance

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Hey there,

I am new with Unreal Engine 4 and have run into a problem when looking at models (foliage) from a distance. Any idea what is causing this? I did try change the culling distance but that made them disappear at a ridiculously short distance.

Thanks in advance.

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After a certain distance foliage starts to use billboards, since rendering foliage is expensive and this is an optimization.

You’ll probably have to provide some billboard textures for it. Been ages since I worked with Foliage so somebody else may be able to help more there.

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Yeah, you have just forgot to set up the materials for the LOD models of the mesh.

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Thanks for the replies, really appreciate it! Going to tinker with that now. Gotta say, UE 4 is by millennials the best modern engine I’ve worked with.