Unreal Engine 5.6 – Nanite Trees Painted with Foliage Tool Don't Cast Shadows When WPO Is Enabled

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You have to disable Ray traced shadows from directional lights, a small price to pay :confused:

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Yes, it’s either disabling the Raytraced Shadows overall or WPO Evaluation setting inside the Foliage mode (which disables the wind animations of trees).

I am picking the first option, if I do care about the foliage in the scene.

UE 5.6.1

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does anyone know if this issue persist in Unreal 5.7?

it been fixed?

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Of course it’s still not resolved, this is Epic Games. Shame, shame, shame! Although they claimed to have fixed this issue in UE-314241, that’s not true. Shadows with WPO don’t work in instant static mesh in 5.7.4.

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This worked like a charm.