Not super good here, but perhaps you could use Megascans and the Blend Material. It has a layer for

Not super good here, but perhaps you could use Megascans and the Blend Material. It has a layer for Puddle and for Snow (and rain) which you could use to create a frozen lake, ish

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)Not super good here, but perhaps you could use Megascans and the Blend Material....

Bleak•11/26/24, 9:51 AM

not bad sire!!!

Bleak•11/26/24, 9:52 AM

you do need an Ultrad Dynamic Weather Integration!!

BBleak not bad sire!!!

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•11/26/24, 10:01 AM

Thanks

That would be cool yee! We do have some plans for further weather/material/atmospheric tools :xddtanec:

Aaxisphere Any Black Friday deal?

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•11/26/24, 3:19 PM

Nothing planned no

We do have our 50% discount for the first 3 months on the freelance plan though

ББлагой I am having some difficulty understanding how to bend scattered meshes along a c...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•11/27/24, 8:37 AM

Not entirely sure what you mean, but if you need to "project/align" the path scatter to the surface beneth, we have Projection Mask down in the Feature Maskin section. And regarding the Fit mode, it is an option under the Density Mode at the top

I hope this helps!

angel777•11/27/24, 6:20 PM

I'm trying to do some test with your "blend material" master material. In the attached screenshot you can see an instance I've created.
As your blend material works with displacement map from quixel surfaces (quixel old) I was expecting the ORD slot.
Where to load AO and Displacement textures?

EDIT: the roughness channel is the ORD? I've opened the material instance created with Dash tools and it seems to be there, right?

angel777•11/27/24, 7:34 PM

The same material applied with single material (on the left) and with blend material (on the right, is the same as the base one of the 3, no changes applied).
Why they look slightly different? (the one on the right is darker and greenish)

otsoa•11/28/24, 12:29 AM

Hi ! I'm very interested by the perpetual license ! But i do have one last question : it's a lifetime license but you don't have any update after 1 year ? If so, is the tool still available and usable ?
Thanks for your answers and for this amazing tool

Ootsoa Hi ! I'm very interested by the perpetual license ! But i do have one last quest...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•11/28/24, 7:30 AM

Hey hey @otsoa

Happy to hear you are interested in Dash

The perpetual license comes with 12 months of updates, after that, you can either buy another 12 months of updates (price undecided right now, but it will be in line with how others in the industry price it) or you can continue using whatever version of Dash was the latest when your 12 months run out. Perhaps it will be Dash 2.5, then you have forever access to Dash 2.5 yes!

SSCC STUDIOS I have a question, I already have my landscape made with material and everything...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•11/28/24, 7:36 AM

I ain't that good with landscape workflows, but I think you could use Landscape Layers and paint that path perhaps. A bit like we did in this video: https://docs.polygonflow.io/advanced/release-notes/dash-1.7.0#landscape-layer-masking

Otherwise, you could scatter decals (Decal Scatter), or some ground meshes (Path Scatter), or use the Road Tool in Dash. For me that would be easier, but ofc this also means you are adding assets which you maybe don't want

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Aangel777 I'm trying to do some test with your "blend material" master material. In the at...

Roger_•11/28/24, 7:48 AM

Hi,
Yes the Roughness channel is the ORD

Bleak•11/28/24, 10:37 AM

Why when i do a physics drop do things fall through the landscape?

BBleak Why when i do a physics drop do things fall through the landscape?

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•11/28/24, 11:36 AM

We had a convo about this with another user before, and the conclusion there was that most likely it is due to the objects being scattered being so small so they don't work well with the landscape collision and we have not found a solution yet to this

dash-generalLandscape Physics falling through

Do you think it may be a similar issue for you?

Bleak•11/28/24, 12:18 PM

well it was a boat!

Bleak•11/28/24, 12:18 PM

so not tiny

Bleak•11/28/24, 12:18 PM

@Daniel - COO

Bleak•11/29/24, 11:41 AM

Ok funkiest way to make dash your complete asset manager!
I have a huge project using lots of assets from different asset packs - so dash took a little bit of time to load. I came up with this process - time consuming and uses disk space but in long term a lifesaver.

Create a Folder for all of your Assets Packs from FAB to live in
Install each Asset pack into a seperate project - Categorize Sub folders if you wish in the project and shuffle things in this project to match your way of working (eg move Static Meshes into a particular folder etc according to your general way of working)
Open Each Project and Scan and Tag with Dash after you have done this
Now in main project you can open dash preferences and choose which asset pack you want to work with and bring in any assets which will have the folder structure from the asset pack you set up

This means in any project your working on you have a full digital asset system, where you can just choose the external Asset packs your working on and bring in what you need without bloating your project!

BBleak Ok funkiest way to make dash your complete asset manager! I have a huge project ...

Adnan Chaumette•11/29/24, 12:49 PM

This is a fun trick!

the external content browser support is really underutilized, and it's by far one of the best features of Dash's content browser imho!
In the future, I hope we can just make the process of loading 10K-60K+ assets much more streamlined, without bloating your projects either.

arabinowitz•11/30/24, 2:55 AM

I would love to have control more like this on the landscape shaping. So not only height, but limiting how high it goes (so you get plateaus, and how low it can go so you get flat land. And them being able to control the Z lift to create craters.

aoshi11•11/30/24, 1:36 PM

I can imagine the terrain deformers to have another spline on the sides to spawn in rocks and cliffs hehe

Aaoshi11 I can imagine the terrain deformers to have another spline on the sides to spawn...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/1/24, 7:58 AM

100%! Combining terrain tool with path scatter in a compound like that would give cool results!

TTigrikGamingStudio Hi everyone. I am very new to Unreal and Dash I was wondering if someone could t...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/1/24, 8:04 AM

Hey! Welcome!

We don't have any Dash tutorial covering a really big world no, but here are two videos that can be worth checking and also our docs:

Getting started video: https://youtu.be/RA3yGbCvxIU?si=l7-kI26knfdLET3a
Our most detailed and biggest tutorial: (older UI though): https://youtu.be/kJhqc5_6usc?si=vZ-r5uMLDECD7ZTf
Docs: https://docs.polygonflow.io/getting-started/quickstart

Hope this helps a bit! Let us know if you need help!

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JJust Survive I'm not gonna do it right now, but could I theoretically put all of my unreal as...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/2/24, 7:56 AM

Almost like that yes! You would need all your assets added to a UE project, and then Dash can compute them in there, then you would have access to search and use them from other UE projects!

Nnolanlarsont Hey is there a way to use a local asset browser with dash? Think something like ...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/2/24, 8:21 AM

Hey @nolanlarsont

No not possible right now. In order for Dash to see and to be able to compute the assets, you need to add them to a UE project. But you could crease a "assets" UE project, add the assets there, compute them, and then you get a similar experience as you described as you can search and use those assets in other UE projects without manually importing them

SSergio Ayrosa Projection mask is cool, but the original curve still doesn't conform to the sur...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/2/24, 8:23 AM

With our "Draw Curve" tool, it does exactly this, you draw a curve that aligns to the surface below!

And if you already have curves, we have a "project curves" tool

Bleak•12/2/24, 7:44 PM

howdy all! Does anyone use Brushify as their landscape material - i am looking for a copy of the renderer settings from a config file - quality of my viewport is poo - yup its on epic

arabinowitz•12/2/24, 11:24 PM

What am I doing wrong with these vines? I can't spray paint them onto the object or place them there. According to the tools pannel I have it set to the correct surface, but as far as Origi8n ghoes it is creating an actor and Placing it far away.

I have used vines on this model before and it works, but there must be something in the environment that is causing this to happen.

SSergio Ayrosa Really depends on the angle you use “draw curves” usually if it’s in top down/or...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/3/24, 8:02 AM

Glad you sorted it out!
fyi, if the draw curve tool is creating wonky curves, it is probably cause the surface detection is blocked by some volumes/regions in your scene

Try hiding them when you draw and it may work better!

arabinowitz•12/3/24, 1:51 PM

Is thjere a way to change the material of the vines? I am talking about the brown vines and not the leaves.

Aarabinowitz Is thjere a way to change the material of the vines? I am talking about the brow...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/3/24, 2:01 PM

Yep yep! You can just zoom in and drag and drop a new material on them

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)Yep yep! You can just zoom in and drag and drop a new material on them🙌

arabinowitz•12/3/24, 2:02 PM

Ah but not through the dash material editor. Got it!

Bleak•12/3/24, 7:56 PM

Ok got a fun one - could we use dash to turn a regular vehicle (city sample vehicle etc) it a apocalyptic one using dash tools, mesh paint, material blend, decals - this challenge i give to @DanielFreden (Dash for UE5) since he showed off his skills with ice

Bajiru•12/3/24, 8:02 PM

Ayo squad! Was 1.8.5 released or is it still in Beta?

Daniel (Dash)•12/3/24, 11:29 PM

Still in Beta.

Not super good here, but perhaps you could use Megascans and the Blend Material. It has a layer for

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