It seems you have two choices when painting instances. Either allow random rotations constrained to a selected degree or don't allow any rotation. It’s surprising that you can’t choose the direction that an instance will face. My work-around was to save versions of the huts facing in various directions. These can be loaded into the ecosystem painter and selected for an orderly creation of instances provided that the rotation is set at 0.

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