I had deleted my other topic before figuring out the answer myself. My wind effects do not work properly or even on the same axis as the object position that the plants are generated in. I built my wind to have a sway and instead it is moving everything up and down by the entire length of the plant…

Did you try using transform location nodes? ( I seem to recall that’s the answer ).

I did have the bottom transform position already but apparently it needed an instanced position after the world position node. In other methods I only needed the lower transform position to make it work. I made my wind with 2 output functions. A part that controls the basic wind movement and a sway…

You’re on the right track, you just have to watch that any node could be misinterpreted gets transformed. For instance ( no pun ) ‘object local bounds’ might refer to the foliage actor, and would need transforming, etc… :slight_smile:

I can always have it connect from just the world position before it goes into the rest.

Tell me how it goes :slight_smile:

It worked alright. I had to move a few things around. I figured out that the World Position can connect directly to the Position input which simplifies it a bit. The pivot point is the calculation of the object positions relative to the world position. The randomness gets built into the NormalizeRo…

I think the object radius node is messing me up still. The blueprint works without it. But when I apply it the wind stops functioning properly in the InstancedFoliageActor. The issue with this node is that you cannot apply a transform position to it because it’s a different float value. I tried to …

This answer seems to be related ( I didn’t check in detail ): [image] Object Radius doesn't work with foliage painting World Creation You might be misunderstanding how object radius is calculated, which is based on the Static Meshes scale set within the Static…

I think their issue is with an older version. I’m going to see about finding a way to manually calculate it or a different way to get a similar effect. I have multiple tutorials that I’m following so one of them probably explains it in better detail. I could also mask the plants and trees based on …

This was my initial world and object position mask. It turns out I already had the answer and all I needed to do was to multiply this into the end of the equation to mask it. It can also be lerped but it’s a static effect. Both transform positions are required when working with instances so the ori…

How do I get object world position with an instanced foliage actor?

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ClockworkOcean (ClockworkOcean) May 20, 2026, 11:56am 11

This answer seems to be related ( I didn’t check in detail ):