Release Notes

Released

Rig any Static Mesh from the Content Browser (Rig in Wind Studio) and re-edit any Skeletal Mesh (Edit in Wind Studio): third-party skeletons, bones and skin weights are imported; meshes built with the Studio restore their full rig.
Six-tab workflow: Parts, Bones, Wind, Interaction, Build, Docs.
Autosave 3 s after every edit, Load Latest, Save / Load Rig (.json), full undo / redo.

Pick modes: Island, Material, PolyGroup, Triangle, Smooth (angle), Brush; scopes Mesh / Part / Free; box selection.
Auto-split by islands, material slots or PolyGroups; Attached + and Orphans helpers; hide, isolate, unhide.
Part roles Rigid / Core / Mid / Outer, Follow parts for bone-less leaves, Grass clumps (one chain drives many blades), per-part wind scale.
Every part gets its own colour (never repeated), editable with a colour picker.
Pivot editing and mesh scale baked into all LODs, the Nanite source, sockets and collision.

Auto Bones: Adaptive, Chains or Branching fits; Bone Spacing (default 20 cm, like Epic's PVE trees) or a fixed count per chain; Resample All Chains to Spacing.
Manual bones and hierarchy tools: place, move, re-parent, weld, straighten, insert, chain bones - / +, snap, delete.
Wind weights: static / max / auto, ramp, arch, match same level, randomize, reset.
Weight painting: skin weight and Pin (stillness), Add / Subtract / Smooth / Set, cloth grid skinning, smoothing passes, skin weight scaling.

GPU: Epic Dynamic Wind on Nanite skinned meshes; exports only Epic data (Simulation Groups, influences, trunk flag, gust attenuation, ground cover); syncs with the source mesh's Epic settings.
Pivot Paint: Static Mesh with Pivot Painter 2 data, 100 % compatible with Epic's Pivot Painter 2; up to 30,719 elements with smart leaf grouping; one material instance per slot; works with foliage instancing.
CPU Physics: the plugin's chain solver on worker threads (modal core for trees): drag, turbulence, flutter, gravity, shape springs, inertia, cloth links, two-pinned cables.
Asset types and wind presets (tree, bush, ground cover, banner, flag, cable...) with motion controls: bend, turbulence, speed, flexibility, independence.

Block Characters or let pawns and the camera pass through and push the asset aside.
Push radius, trunk strength from plant height, push bend, contact bend for CPU Physics, character collision.
Test Character: a 180 cm capsule walks through the asset in the viewport preview.
Wind Manager: drives Epic's GPU wind, the CPU solver and MPC_GlobalWind (wind and character push with smooth springs); optional per-plant push for placed Pivot Paint meshes.

One-click Build Skeletal Mesh (with Skeleton and Physics Asset), Build + Place, Auto Rig + Build, Validate Rig, Build Pivot Paint Mesh.
Optimization for CPU Physics, applied per build: Reduce Bones, Limit Bones per Vertex, No Physics Asset, Distance LOD (solve every 2nd / 4th frame far away).
Export of Epic Dynamic Wind JSON and USD (Nanite Assembly).
Measured on the developer's test scene (SK_Bush_Aralia, 1,173 bones, Nanite): 36 CPU Physics plants at 58.6 FPS, about 0.33 ms solver time per plant on worker threads and 0.02 ms on the game thread.

Display modes Lit, Parts, Clay, Weights, Wind (influence heatmap) with smooth shading.
Anti-aliasing for the moving preview (FXAA, 200 % resolution), configurable lines, gizmos, grid, scale rulers, mannequin, backdrop and lights.
Industry-standard keyboard shortcuts (Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, Houdini, Photoshop, Unreal) that never touch Unreal's viewport navigation.
Extended tooltips (hold Ctrl+Alt), F1 contextual help, built-in Docs tab with the full Settings Reference.

See the Roadmap for work in progress, planned features and research.