How to set up which parts of my mesh should be affected by wind?

[buoyant edge]

anything with the foliage shader is affected by wind. Anything without; isnt

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but I mean how do I do the vertex/weight paint properly so that the root of my plant is in the ground and the rest is affected by wind
cus currently my whole plant is flying around

[buoyant edge]

you separate the root into a different model with less/no wind on it

the wind shader doesnt work off of vertex weights

it just moves your texture

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wait, so how does the vanilla one work then

cus its 1 model

[buoyant edge]

it works quite alright from what i can tell

and if you set up the values in the shader correctly, yours should work too

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oh

so my shader values are probably wrong

[civic veldt]

You can have all in one mesh, just mess with the strenght in vertex paint

But you'll need to use another one of the shaders, as Zoli said, I am pretty sure foliage shaders isn't affected by vertex weights