Hi. I would like to spawn a lot of dense grass and then bake to foliage, but while I am working, performance slows to a crawl because I can't seem to cull by distance until I bake to foliage actors. Is there a workaround for this? One option I am considering is masking a small section of my landscape for prototyping purposes and creating a switch.

I would really like to just set cull distances while working but I'm not sure that is possible.

Thanks.

Have you looked into using the Unreal Engine Landscape foliage tool?
you could use houdini to place the landscape material and then have this spawn the grass on said material

That's exactly what I ended up doing. It works great.