Placement tool

Spoon

Hi guys,

I seem to remember some easy ways to place objects back in unreal 3. Holding ALt+ S or something, while clicking, would spawn the selected static mesh and align it to the normal of the terrain. Does that exist in Unreal 4? Or is there a tool to mass place stuff, that is NOT the foliage system? I am sure there are, I just cant find it, and all searches seems to bring me to Unreal 3

What am I missing?

EDIT: On a completely unrelated note, are anyone aware why "Reimport" doesnt do anything? I have to click and drag the fbx from windows explorer to unreal and tell it to overwrite, as a simple right click and "reimport" does nothing. Anyone know the solution to this?

LMP

I'm sure something could be worked out with a Blueprint... I know there is a way to snap things to the "ground" in UE4, "End" key.

WarrenM

In the newer versions of UE4 there's a lesser version of that tool in the viewport toolbar. It will align meshes to surfaces as long as the mesh is authored flat on the ground. It's near the snapping drop downs...

Spoon

Ah, didnt see that new feature! Thanks a lot, Warren. Is there any software you cant help me out with?