Unable to paint foliage on mesh

Hi,

For some reason I’m having trouble painting foliage on to a mesh. The brush tool does not seam to be working. The fill/paint bucket tool works fine though. When I try to use the paint tool I see no red outline of the brush radius on the mesh like I usually would. Ived tried changing the radius but that does not make the brush visible.
The mesh I am trying to paint on is a sphere.

What could be the cause of this?

Thanks

There are checkboxes where the paint brush works on. Make sure you have static mesh or bsp checked active.

Ok I think it’s because the mesh I’m trying to paint on is within a blueprint. Is there any way I can get around this?

Thanks

Unless there is a way of using a landscape grass type on a static mesh? I’m not able to get that working either.