What is the max custom landscape size (created not with Dash)? It seems that anything above those se

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...

angel777OP•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...

angel777OP•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.

arabinowitz•11/19/24, 4:39 PM

I would love to be able to doc the interface. Also there's a weird UI drag behavior that I keep coming up against. I tend to hold down the left mouse button when I go through menus. And Unreal allows for that. But the Dash UI gets pulled with the mouse when I do that - while ALSO opening the menu - which is really strange UI/UX behavior.

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)Hey @angel777 @Seyfettin Dincturk We actually found the bug here, so we will shi...

angel777OP•11/19/24, 10:14 PM

I've tried your workarounds: even with global density mode and scatter density = 10 scatter is very rarified.
All works just if I create landscape with dash tool (the size is quite small indeed)
I'll wait for a fix

arabinowitz•11/19/24, 10:41 PM

Where does the Dash Content manager save assets. Or does it only reference assets already on your hard drive?

Aarabinowitz I would love to be able to doc the interface. Also there's a weird UI drag behav...

Jhosep Chevarria•11/20/24, 4:59 AM

+1 I'd also love to doc the interface

Aangel777 I've tried your workarounds: even with global density mode and scatter density =...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/20/24, 9:26 AM

Aha. Actually, we shipped the fix in the 1.8.5 beta yesterday! So you can try it out straight away!

Here you can see me using a fairly big Landscape and if I set the rocks to nanite and increase the density to 10 and increase Max Count to 2M, I get fairly good density. (This PC is not great so pardon the bad performance in this clip)

Aarabinowitz Oh! I also noticed that the dash scene data actor is outside the folder as well....

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/20/24, 9:27 AM

Thanks for mentioning this! Noting it down to the todo list

Aarabinowitz I would love to be able to doc the interface. Also there's a weird UI drag behav...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/20/24, 9:32 AM

Thanks for the video, much easier to understand what you meant now! I actually think the idea was that Dash should only be movable when holding the Dash icon on the left. So adding this to the bug list!

Regarding the docking, we do have Left, Right and Center "docking" if you check the main Dash menu. But this does not dock it in your suggested places no, so noting down that we got 2 more requests for more docking options

33k guys whats the issue with this physics tool for me its completly random if it sp...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/20/24, 11:29 AM

Hey hey! @3k

This tutorial around 15:45 covers both physics drop and physics paint: https://youtu.be/RA3yGbCvxIU?si=D3apSdWajPlDTvPn&t=947

Regarding the issues:

When you say not spawning meshes at all, could you record a video of this?
Regarding falling through, it might be related to the scaling, we got another similar report about this here: Landscape Physics falling through
Other possible thing that could affect physics is if you have some UE Volume, pcg, world partition volume etc etc. THiese and other things being at the location could affect physics. To solve, just hide volume in question while doing physics and then un-hide.
Other thing that could affect is if you have the surface/object set to Complex or Simple Collision, quick video about this here: dash-general

If these tips don't help, please record video to show the details of any issues, thanks!

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DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/20/24, 12:11 PM

Thanks, it for sure looks like you are inside of something (these red lines in the sky when in the paint mode), I would guess that is the problem here

Dash does not touch world partition at all, so if you have that on, it's not due to Dash

33k the volumes now i get it thx so much

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/20/24, 12:14 PM

No worries! Glad you found the issue

Samulacra•11/20/24, 2:23 PM

Couple Questions about the perpetual license - It says it updates for 12 months, but what happens after that? Will I only be able to use it on older versions of UE?

And then.. Do I have to buy another license to update, or is there some kind of update package available?

SSamulacra Couple Questions about the perpetual license - It says it updates for 12 months,...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/20/24, 2:28 PM

Hey hey! @Scindo

After the 12 months, you will be able to keep using whatever Dash version was the latest one at date X (12 months after purchase). Let's say this maybe is Dash 2.2 with UE 6.1 support. Then you will be able to use Dash 2.2 forever. But if UE updates to 6.2, Dash 2.2 won't work there, as we would have to ship Dash 2.3, to support UE 6.2.

But yes, after the 12 months, you will be able to buy an upgrade/12 month package, price undecided right now, but it will be inline with how others in our industry structures theirs

I hope this make sense!

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)Hey hey! @Scindo 🙂 After the 12 months, you will be able to keep using whatever...

Samulacra•11/20/24, 2:59 PM

Interesting, good to know! Makes sense. Thanks.

SSamulacra Interesting, good to know! Makes sense. Thanks.

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/20/24, 3:00 PM

Your welcome!

Have you tried the free trial yet? You can try Dash for 30 days, before making a purchase decision in case you did not know

VVroomVroom88 @DanielFreden (Dash for UE5) Hi, I was recently charged for a subscription renew...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/20/24, 3:28 PM

Hey, for sure! Can you send me the email adress in a Discord DM?

arabinowitz•11/20/24, 3:54 PM

It would be awesome if there was a link to the docs page for the specific tool here so you can see what all the parameters are for.

Aarabinowitz It would be awesome if there was a link to the docs page for the specific tool ...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/21/24, 7:51 AM

Agreed! Right now the docs does not cover every single tool in great detail but ye when it does, we should have that link. For now you cant try asking the AI assistant about a specific tool and then it should give you some info and also link you to the most relevant documentation pages about your questions.

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)Agreed! Right now the docs does not cover every single tool in great detail but ...

arabinowitz•11/21/24, 2:42 PM

I did - which is Why I suggested this. It only showed me how to do a basic setup and did not explain what any of the parameters were for.

Aarabinowitz I did - which is Why I suggested this. It only showed me how to do a basic setup...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/21/24, 2:52 PM

Yep! We have each of the tools in the docs, but these tool pages just include the info from within the tooltips (when you hover over a setting in a tool). For example, here is the page for the cable tool which does not give much useful info. https://docs.polygonflow.io/dash-tools/cabletool

But we are expanding on proper pages in the docs continuously, for example, we recently added a first iteration on a page for our Blend Material, https://docs.polygonflow.io/how-it-works/material-authoring, or this one covers most of the settings in Surface Scatter, https://docs.polygonflow.io/how-it-works/scatter-masking-features

So yee getting links to these pages once we have more of them would be awesome!

Cable Tool | Dash Documentation

Scatter Masking Features | Dash Documentation

Scattering is the most used feature of Dash, and its masking capabilities is why. Let's dig into them!

arabinowitz•11/21/24, 3:51 PM

I absolutely love the phsycs painting system. One of my favorite things about Dash. It's super fun. But one thing I keep coming up against is that it isn't designed with very large objects in mind. If I want to paint just a few large objects (boulders, large broken pieces of a spacecraft in a small area, a count of 1 is still too many.

arabinowitz•11/22/24, 12:06 AM

I have not seen this before installing Dash. Any idea what this is?

Aarabinowitz I absolutely love the phsycs painting system. One of my favorite things about Da...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/22/24, 7:49 AM

Yee the problem here seems to be that to paint, you can't click, you have to hold left mouse and drag, making it hard to paint only 1 object

But in the case that you only need a few objects, I think the Physics Drop and Duplicate button might be better suited actually

It enables physics on the object and you can drag it around and let it drop down with physics instead

Aarabinowitz I have not seen this before installing Dash. Any idea what this is?

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•11/22/24, 8:05 AM

It is a new widget Epic added in UE 5.5 actually

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)Yee the problem here seems to be that to paint, you can't click, you have to hol...

arabinowitz•11/22/24, 1:07 PM

For clarity, I’m not trying to paint one object. I’m saying that the setting of 1 is still too high in some cases.

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)It is a new widget Epic added in UE 5.5 actually 👍

arabinowitz•11/22/24, 1:07 PM

Thanks!

Ssanjay943 Quixel is back

LaF•11/22/24, 4:44 PM

I saw that! Woke up with an early christmas present. @DanielFreden (Dash for UE5) does this mean that dash will work just fine?

LLaF I saw that! Woke up with an early christmas present. @DanielFreden (Dash for UE5...

Adnan Chaumette•11/22/24, 5:23 PM

yep!

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