That doesn’t really make sense to me, because I need to be able either adjust direction/strength directly in the material parameter collection and see changes to the wind in the Editor or update those from BP.
What I did was I got a rid of Niagara Parameter Collection and instead used User Parameters, which I set from BP (on BeginPlay, but can be on any event, instead of Tick). That worked well for this case.
Thanks a bunch anyway!