I would love to have control more like this on the landscape shaping. So not only height, but limit

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)•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)•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)•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)•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)•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

arabinowitzOP•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)•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!

arabinowitzOP•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)•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🙌

arabinowitzOP•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.

Aarabinowitz I would love to have control more like this on the landscape shaping. So not onl...

Dark•12/4/24, 12:21 AM

for something like that, you better off, using third party terrain software, exporting to stamps/LandMass or Patches , or a brush. Making it more non destructive, then use Dash to handle the environment world building/level design. Just an FYI.

BBleak Ok got a fun one - could we use dash to turn a regular vehicle (city sample vehi...

Dark•12/4/24, 12:23 AM

regular vehicle would need to be remodeled in order for Dash to do that in pieces..

Dark•12/4/24, 12:23 AM

But not hard to do, for modeler artist/3d modelers ( just time consuming) compared to normal vehicle modeling..... I used Dash, to handle most of my level design spawning, and with my current project its all Post Apoc. Theme. with make shift vehicles. But Dash is alot of fun, to build levels with.

BBleak Ok got a fun one - could we use dash to turn a regular vehicle (city sample vehi...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•12/4/24, 8:06 AM

Will give this a go tomorrow when I am back at my PC

DDark regular vehicle would need to be remodeled in order for Dash to do that in piece...

Bleak•12/4/24, 8:07 AM

I’m jus talking about messing with the material

DDark for something like that, you better off, using third party terrain software, ex...

Bleak•12/4/24, 8:08 AM

You can do all this with edit layers you don’t need 3rd party software

BBleak You can do all this with edit layers you don’t need 3rd party software

Dark•12/4/24, 8:09 AM

of course, but its alot better/easier and more common with 3rd party.

DDark of course, but its alot better/easier and more common with 3rd party.

Bleak•12/4/24, 8:10 AM

Not really as I can do non destructive editing on a landscape and set layer height, et cetera, and also use PCG on the land on the edit layer so I’m not doing destructive editing, also I can use the landscape brush to have the same effect without having to mess with the third-party software

Dark•12/4/24, 8:21 AM

ok...

DDavide Prestino Hi guys I have this problem how can solve? I have sidewalk is a static mesh from...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•12/4/24, 9:16 AM

Hey hey!
I think perhaps that this could be due to some volumes/regions that you have in the scene that is making the curve tool not "see" the surface/object you are trying to paint over. Do you have some volumes/regions you can try hiding and seeing if the draw curve works better?

DDavide Prestino what you mean about Volumes/regions? I try to hiden the landscape, and have the...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•12/4/24, 9:47 AM

Could you share a pic of your outlier? On your first pic I guess that the red things in the background could be something like that. Could be pcg volume, world partition volume etc etc

DDavide Prestino to place on the sidewalk I draw a curve and I posizioned the point manually to b...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•12/4/24, 1:19 PM

Could you record a video? Not entirely sure what you mean by manually placing the point

idea is that you choose free or line mode and then just draw on top of your sidewalk. If there is nothing in the way it should see the surface under your cursor and align it.

If needed you could open the curve tool instead of the draw curve action and adjust more settings as well

And worth noting is that we have a Project curve action that you can use to project an existing curve. And path Scatter has a projection/surface setting so you can have the meshes align to the surface even if the curve is not perfect aligned to the surface

arabinowitzOP•12/4/24, 1:51 PM

When you start using the Dash Tools you see them everywhere.

Bleak•12/4/24, 2:02 PM

is it possible - could it be possible that as well as static meshes we could bring blueprints (like buildings) in from other projects?

arabinowitzOP•12/4/24, 5:49 PM

Is there a way to make plants bend out of the way as a character moves through them?

Aarabinowitz Is there a way to make plants bend out of the way as a character moves through t...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•12/5/24, 7:45 AM

It ain't something we cover in Dash no, but as we are creating HISMs with our scatter tools, you could proceed afterwards and add that in somehow I would assume. No experience with this though so can't give you much help unfortunately

GGrafix🎵 (André)Hi there. If i would buy the permanent access wit updates for 1 year for 230,-$....

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•12/5/24, 12:03 PM

Hey @craboom (André)

Actually, it has not been decided yet, but it will be similar to how others in our industry price it. Perhaps around 90-120 USD

I would love to have control more like this on the landscape shaping. So not only height, but limit

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