# Vertex Painting on Landscape **URL:** \ **Category:** World Creation\ **Tags:** landscape-painting, landscape-grass-type, landscape-lod, unreal-engine, Landscape, question\ **Created:** [February 26, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/vertex-painting-on-landscape/461787 "2020-02-26T04:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_4b8558d3](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_4b8558d3](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_4b8558d3)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/vertex-painting-on-landscape/461787/1 "2020-02-26T04:38:57Z")
So I have a screenshot here of my blueprint set up, I know its a lot and hard to see but it is the same set up that Quixel used for their UE4 Forest video. When I go over to Vertex Painting and I try to paint different layers on my landscape, nothing is coming up, not even the brush icon on my landscape. Am I suppose to press a key then paint? or hold down a key to paint? Or perhaps I have the wrong materials and textures in my blueprint? I need help and guide (Btw I am using Quixel materials and textures including displacement, normal and roughness). ---
**Author:** ![ClockworkOcean](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/clockworkocean/32/1169999_2.png) [@ClockworkOcean](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/ClockworkOcean)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/vertex-painting-on-landscape/461787/2 "2020-02-26T16:50:23Z")
I don’t think you can vertex paint the landscape, you have to paint it with the landscape mode brushes… ---
**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_4b8558d3](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_4b8558d3](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_4b8558d3)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/vertex-painting-on-landscape/461787/3 "2020-02-26T17:14:54Z")
[Create a Forest in UE4 in 1 Hour - YouTube](https://youtu.be/FzoY062kY1s) - I got the idea of the blueprint from this video, I made sure the blueprint is set up just like it is shown and when I try to vertex paint like this it doesn’t work for me. ---
**Author:** ![ClockworkOcean](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/clockworkocean/32/1169999_2.png) [@ClockworkOcean](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/ClockworkOcean)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/vertex-painting-on-landscape/461787/4 "2020-02-26T19:07:29Z")
Ok, but the guy in the vid is vertex painting on a mesh, not the landscape. Are you trying on a mesh or the landscape?.. ---
**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_4b8558d3](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_4b8558d3](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_4b8558d3)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/vertex-painting-on-landscape/461787/5 "2020-02-26T23:16:16Z")
I’m trying it on a landscape and I understand that he used a mesh, the problem is that Quixel materials and textures won’t work any other way then using vertex coloring. I tried a simple blueprint with Landscape Layer Blends but the whole material either comes out black or crystal clear. ---
**Author:** ![ClockworkOcean](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/clockworkocean/32/1169999_2.png) [@ClockworkOcean](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/ClockworkOcean)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/vertex-painting-on-landscape/461787/6 "2020-02-26T23:31:25Z")
Sorry to not be helpful. I’ll have to bail at that point, as I know nothing about vertex on landscape. It might be a good idea to repost, and get a fresh start. ---
**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_4b8558d3](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_4b8558d3](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_4b8558d3)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/vertex-painting-on-landscape/461787/7 "2020-02-27T01:36:01Z")
No its completely understandable, vertex painting on landscape with its material is extremely rare and I apprentice you trying so ill give it to you. ---
**Author:** ![Galentine41](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Galentine41](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Galentine41)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/vertex-painting-on-landscape/461787/8 "2025-02-22T17:06:37Z")
I know it’s been a long time but did you ever find a solution to this?