New to UE

Hey and Hello UE-Pro’s,

I am working around since a week in Unreal Engine. I am the typical CryEngine boy and just want to make something with UE, to see why it is so popular.
And while I was working, I discovered a LOT of things where I was asking myself “how could this engine become so unbelievable popular??”
I mean… I think for the most of my Problems, a pro developer will have a smooth workaround. But unless I become good enough to develope a workflow, it just feels horrible.

But for now, I want to ask how do you paint textures on the Ground?
I was looking tons of tutorials about that, but they just explain how to paint the landscape.
I have already a landscape material, but that features just 6 different Textures (well or materials… in UE this seems to be pretty much the same. So forgive me if I use not the correct term.)
And I need just 3 of it.

What I need is a gravel texture for the driveway, a concrete texture for the road, a grass texture (without 3D grass) for the boarders between the 3D grass and walls (so the 3D grass dont hang into the wall and clip in rooms), I need a sand texture to make a more beach’y-looking around the pond. I need rough sand for the kids sandbox AND SO ON.

And I have all those textures. Spend lots of Money for it (well… my companie did… but anyway)… how can i Paint them?
in CryEngine I would just pick it, choose a brush and start over.
But in Unreal, I couldn’t get the paint tool (the SHIFT+2 one) to work. I can select a texture (and for some reason not the one I want, just 3 other) and then? how can i Paint? I don’t get a brush or something else.

Could someone please help me out with this?

Hi, there is a quick start guide explaining how to do it: Landscape Quick Start Guide | Unreal Engine Documentation
You must create one material with the Used with Landscape Usage flag set and adds your textures in a layer blend node.
Then you can paint your landscape using this material and selecting the layer that you want.