Foliage Wind creating weird shadows on top of mesh

[Pietro_Bernardi]

Ok, I found a pretty nifty way to overcome this

instad of using static mesh foliage, I tried it on actor foliage and it worked with ray-tracing

Use actor foliage instead of static mesh foliage:

1.Make a new blueprint class that inherits from static mesh actor
2.Turn evaluate world position offset on in the static mesh component, set the mesh to your desired mesh
3.Create an Actor Foliage class that uses your new class as its base class
4.Use the actor foliage with the foliage tool

Just leaving this here in case someone stumble across the same issue as me

*courtesy of Arkiras:

4.24 - 26 RT shadows ignoring world position shader

2023 Update: There’s a much easier way to resolve this now, simply run the following command: r.RayTracing.Geometry.InstancedStaticMeshes.EvaluateWPO 1

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Use actor foliage instead of static mesh foliage: Make a new blueprint class that inherits from static mesh actor Turn evaluate world position offset on in the static mesh component, set the mesh to your desired mesh Create an Actor Foliage class that uses your new class as its base class Use the actor foliage with the foliage to…