The easiest way to have dirt and other layers is through our Blend Material workflow. You can check

The easiest way to have dirt and other layers is through our Blend Material workflow. You can check this quick video on how to get it up and running: https://streamable.com/5bw2g5

We're also working on an extensive documentation page dedicated to materials, blending, displacement, etc... and it will be released alongside next week's update

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SSeyfettin Dincturk Hello people, I am having this error when I try to boot my UE5.5 project after f...

Adnan ChaumetteOP•11/14/24, 8:26 PM

Hi! Here's the solution:

dash-support

AAdnan Chaumette The easiest way to have dirt and other layers is through our Blend Material work...

arabinowitz•11/14/24, 8:32 PM

I am trying this - dragging a bunch of materials from the content browser (polyhaven) onto the terrain but it does not give me the option to create a compound material. ALso I only ghet the option to edit the material (not the compund material) which has controls for dirt and snow, but not what I see in this video.

Tritium•11/14/24, 8:50 PM

Hey, just subscribed for the month! I saw further up you’re adding support for megascans on FAB. Do you have a timeline for this and is there a workaround in the mean time?

TTritium Hey, just subscribed for the month! I saw further up you’re adding support for...

arabinowitz•11/14/24, 8:52 PM

Was literally going to ask this as I was trying to follow a tutorial and it's changed. Man they don't make it easy at Unreal with these frequent updates and big changes.

Adnan ChaumetteOP•11/14/24, 8:55 PM

We're going to ship 5.5 support as early as we can next week

AAdnan Chaumette We're going to ship 5.5 support as early as we can next week 🙏

Tritium•11/14/24, 8:58 PM

Great thanks!

arabinowitz•11/14/24, 10:32 PM

Is there an undo button? Regular CTRL+Z does not do it.

Aarabinowitz I am trying this - dragging a bunch of materials from the content browser (poly...

arabinowitz•11/14/24, 10:32 PM

OK. I see it now. Hold down CTRL while dropping it.

KKwintspiracy @Adnan - Founder/CEO Hi, any update on the FAB suppor ?

Adnan ChaumetteOP•11/15/24, 3:58 AM

Still hard at work on it :aniblobsweat: we'll share an internal build with you guys on monday, then we can hopefully ship it 1-3 days after.

Adnan ChaumetteOP•11/15/24, 3:58 AM

in the meantime, we're shipping a UE5.5 hotfix build later today

Bleak•11/15/24, 3:43 PM

@DanielFreden (Dash for UE5) Well done to the lads on a quick fix for 5.5

Bleak•11/15/24, 3:43 PM

(and ladies)

arabinowitz•11/15/24, 4:02 PM

FYI - I wanted to learn what all the parameters in Physics paint do, so I asked. It gave me instructions on how to use it that are not correct.

It says select the object you want to paint but that is not correct. It wants you to select the objects to paint onto a surface when you activate it. If you don't have those objects selected it tells you you need to select those objects before activating the tool. Also, if you look at the tool options they do not match the tool description.

I feel like there are 2 tools that use the name Physics paint. One that drops objects intoa scene and maybe somewhere else a tool for adding physics to objects?

arabinowitz•11/15/24, 5:40 PM

More question on the Physics paint tool:

PPaul Griswold I didn't see the answer to this in the FAQ, but is there an EDU license availabl...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/18/24, 7:43 AM

Hey! @Paul Griswold

We have student/teacher pricing on our website

If you don't mind, can we chat some in DM? Would be fun to hear more about your work/school.

Rrobertmorenom5736 Hi I encountered this issue when trying to use the place drop or the physics pai...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/18/24, 7:57 AM

Thanks for sharing this, we will check on our end!

RRickhard Is there a way to change the cameras focus to tracking in the tools panel? Tried...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/18/24, 3:28 PM

No focus tracking feature right now no, but we have it in our todo-list to look into it!

RRickhard Ok, thanks! I can't seem to change it to tracking in the outliner either for som...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/18/24, 3:36 PM

I think this is due to us overriding the focus settings so not sure if there exists a good of solving it right now actually

@Adnan - Founder/CEO would be the one that knows and he can get back to you when he is awake

Bleak•11/18/24, 5:57 PM

ok i have come to the conclusion dash needs more thumbnail cache size!

Bleak•11/18/24, 5:58 PM

its slow as a dog with my project and i have increased thumbnail cache to its max but its still loading some and when its doing that it grinds to a halt

angel777•11/18/24, 11:51 PM

What is the max custom landscape size (created not with Dash)? It seems that anything above those settings makes surface scatter tool not working (instead physic paint works)

XXera i was wondering, since we can use masks for scattering (like trees on tree distr...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/19/24, 8:44 AM

Our Blend Material is based on the RGB Vertex colors, so you could paint vertex colors and have that affect the Blend Material layers! And I guess perhaps there exists some way to add in a vertex color map or something to the surface

Right now my Dash version had a bug so I could not record a video of the painting vertex color workflow, but maybe you know how it works? Use the Mesh Paint Mode in UE on your surface

But, our Blend Material and Material Edit tools do not support Landscapes right now, so yee getting a way to do Landscape Material would be dope! And it is on our todo list!

SSeyfettin Dincturk hello people, I have a question, I am trying to create a terrain on 5.5, all goo...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/19/24, 8:48 AM

Hey

@Seyfettin Dincturk If you select the terrain that you have applied the material to, and in the tools panel, click the top left button, do you not see Material Edit?

Important to know, Material Edit and Blend Material only works for materials coming from the Megascan view and the Poly Haven view in the Dash Content Browser right now

And they don't work on UE Landscapes either right now.

SSeyfettin Dincturk ahhh yeah, my current size is 63x63 quads, it was created with magic map m4. I w...

angel777•11/19/24, 9:48 AM

I'm on M4 too but I don't think it is related to that. The same problem happens with an empty landscape before applying any material.

Aangel777 What is the max custom landscape size (created not with Dash)? It seems that any...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/19/24, 9:50 AM

I tried this myself and yee it did not work great, so we will check it. But in case you don't know, switching the Density Mode to Global is usually needed when working on bigger landscapes/surfaces. With that you can increase the density over 1

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)I tried this myself and yee it did not work great, so we will check it. But in c...

angel777•11/19/24, 9:51 AM

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

SSeyfettin Dincturk Hmmm, I see the issue. When I move the material from my Content Browser, then th...

Roger_•11/19/24, 11:16 AM

The resolution can be dealt with by enabling and disabling texture streaming.

SSeyfettin Dincturk yeeyy, thhanks a lot! that fixed my issue. I would say in this case the main iss...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/19/24, 12:35 PM

Yee the thing is that when dragging it from Dash CB, we apply our Master material thingy on it, which gives you the Material Edit support

So yee when we ship Fab support, you will be able to use Megascans from FAB, through Dash CB and get Material Edit

Aangel777 Thanks, I'll give it a try.

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/19/24, 1:23 PM

Hey @angel777 @Seyfettin Dincturk We actually found the bug here, so we will ship in the next Dash version!
In the meantime, enabling nanite on the stuff you are scattering might also make it work better along with the Global Density Mode

arabinowitz•11/19/24, 3:54 PM

I think this is a bug, but the Dash Leaf ends up outside the Dash Tools output Folder.

Aarabinowitz I think this is a bug, but the Dash Leaf ends up outside the Dash Tools output F...

arabinowitz•11/19/24, 3:57 PM

Oh! I also noticed that the dash scene data actor is outside the folder as well. It would probably make sense to have all dash related stuff contained.

The easiest way to have dirt and other layers is through our Blend Material workflow. You can check

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