Procedural foliage won't spawn on landscape

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I’m running into a strange problem where I can spawn foliage on a static mesh (like the default floor in a level) just fine, but when I try to put some on a landscape nothing happens. I can literally just move the spawner over a few inches from the mesh to the landscape and bam, foliage gone won’t spawn there.

What gives? This happens regardless of importing a heightmap, or just generating landscape without one.

Can happen when trying to paint foliage too.

Thanks for any suggestions

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Solved my own problem. The landscape needs to be painted before the foliage will spawn there. It won’t work on just a plain, untouched landscape freshly made. Had no idea. So if anyone else runs across this question with the same problem paint your landscape and see if that helps.