UE 5.8 primary sources

Checked against Epic's Unreal Engine 5.8 documentation on 2026-07-19.

Landscape core

• Landscape Overview
• Creating Landscapes
• Landscape Technical Guide
• Importing and Exporting Landscape Heightmaps
• Editing Landscapes
• Landscape Edit Layers
• Landscape Patch System
• Landscape Splines

Shading and population

• Landscape Materials
• Landscape Paint Mode
• Foliage Mode
• Procedural Foliage Tool
• Runtime Virtual Texturing
• Water System

Runtime and performance

• Using Nanite with Landscapes
• Landscape Collision Guide
• World Partition
• UE 5.8 Release Notes

Maturity notes

• Core Landscape, Edit Layers, materials, splines, foliage, collision, and World Partition integration are documented production workflows.
• Landscape.Nanite.LiveRebuildOnModification is Experimental.
• Procedural Foliage remains under Experimental editor settings in the current guide.
• Procedural Vegetation Editor is Experimental and is intentionally not a default workflow in this skill.

Prefer the current 5.8 page and installed-engine console help over remembered behavior from earlier releases.