Wind Studio Overview

Plugin v1.2.1 - Turns any Static Mesh (trees, plants, grass, banners, flags, cables, props) into a wind-animated asset for Epic's GPU Dynamic Wind, Pivot Painter 2 materials or the plugin's CPU Physics solver.

This guide is the text of the Studio's DOCS tab. In the Studio, hover any control for its tooltip, hold Ctrl+Alt for the extended tooltip, and press F1 over a control to jump to its entry in the Settings Reference.

---

Runtime tiers

Tier	What is built	Best for
GPU	Nanite skinned mesh driven by Epic Dynamic Wind (Instanced Skinned Mesh + DA_DynamicWindProvider). Only Epic data is exported: groups (Core / Mid / Outer = Simulation Group 0 / 1 / 2), influences, trunk flag, gust attenuation, ground cover.	Large amounts of foliage
Pivot Paint	Static Mesh with Pivot Painter 2 data (UV and two textures) animated by MF_CAAPivotPaint; 100 % compatible with Epic's Pivot Painter 2.	Instanced foliage, material-driven wind
CPU Physics	Skeletal Mesh driven by the plugin's chain solver (trees use a modal core), solved on worker threads.	Hero assets, cloth, cables, character contact

The Motion card (WIND tab) drives Pivot Paint and the CPU tree mode, never the GPU tier.

Workflow at a glance

1. PARTS (Shift+1): split the mesh into parts. Unassigned triangles never move.
2. BONES (Shift+2): Auto Bones per part, or place bones by hand; paint weights where needed.
3. WIND (Shift+3): choose Asset Type and Runtime Tier, preview with Simulate Wind (Space).
4. INTERACTION (Shift+4): how characters push or block the asset.
5. BUILD (Shift+5): build the mesh (F7), optimise it, place it with a Level Wind Manager.
6. DOCS (Shift+6): this guide and the Settings Reference.

Studio layout

• Left rail: the six tabs. Each tab is a column of cards; settings are saved with the rig.
• Viewport: the mesh, bones, gizmos, grid and scale ruler. Unreal's navigation is unchanged: RMB + W A S D Q E to fly, Alt + mouse to orbit, dolly and pan, MMB to pan, mouse wheel to zoom.
• Top bar: pick mode, selection tools, part creation, tools, wind preview, paint brush values.
• Right bar: display modes (Lit, Parts, Clay, Weights, Wind), bones, grid, scale ruler, backdrop, VIEW window, camera views.
• Floating windows (Pivot, Wind, Build, Skin Weights, View, Grid, Scale...): pin to keep them open; Esc closes unpinned windows.
• Autosave: the rig is saved 3 s after every edit (Ctrl+S saves immediately). Load Latest brings it back.