Hey @otsoa Definitely the right channel, and yes you can! I tried to record a little showcase video,

Hey @otsoa Definitely the right channel, and yes you can! I tried to record a little showcase video, not very artistic maybe, but I hope it helps you understand how to do it

So you can combine Vertex Paint through the Mesh Paint Mode with the Blend Material settings in Dash

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)Hey @otsoa Definitely the right channel, and yes you can! I tried to record a li...

otsoa•12/19/24, 10:35 AM

Exactly what I thought ! Thanks !

otsoa•12/19/24, 10:44 AM

I tried yesterday but doesn’t work, I’ll se why but seems to work on your side so should be an on-my-side problem

Ootsoa I tried yesterday but doesn’t work, I’ll se why but seems to work on your side s...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/19/24, 12:04 PM

aha that's strange! Ye give it a try and let me know, maybe we can figure it out together if you record a video

KKancha Hi again. Just testing this out - how to drop the HDRI Resolution 4k, 8k directl...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/19/24, 1:59 PM

Hey @Kancha If you hold CTRL and zoom in the CB, you will see 3 selection buttons, 1k, 2k and 4K

FYI, this zoom ability works on all tabs/views in the CB

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)aha that's strange! Ye give it a try and let me know, maybe we can figure it out...

otsoa•12/19/24, 3:38 PM

ok that was because i was using nanite tesselation wich is not compatible with vertex paint

Ootsoa ok that was because i was using nanite tesselation wich is not compatible with v...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/19/24, 3:41 PM

ah shit that's true, did not think of that, even though I can see I experienced it in my own video

Sitta•12/19/24, 8:43 PM

Hi. Are there any updates regarding support for blueprints in the content browser? It would be great if we could use the content browser for more complex assets as well, such as vehicles or light fixtures

DDafar I should honestly say something here: Despite the fact that my first trial wasn...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 7:36 AM

Thanks a bunch for saying this, it means the world

And glad you did not got scared away with your initial issues!

Tthis_is_dbo I'm also having issues with Physics Paint, The brush size is a bit buggy, doesn'...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 7:42 AM

Hey @this_is_dbo

Regarding your selection issue, did you manage to sort it out with the guidance Dafar gave you? If not, if you can record a video showing the issue, I can surely find the problem and help you out!

Regarding Physics Paint, yep the Brush and the other settings have a known bug, it only works the first time after opening UE, and then they are broken.. super annoying I know!
It will be solved in next Dash release at least!

Can you perhaps share some details about your deformed mesh (how you created it), so I can try it myself? I know we have had some reports of physics falling through a landscape when using very small objects and I think that has been solved in the next Dash version as well, so maybe your problem has already been fixed internally as well

DDafar https://youtu.be/Ib4YqF3jib8 I know I've recorded a different "problem", but he...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 7:48 AM

Yee this is a little bit confusing in the beginning for sure. Material Edit (and Blend Material) are transient tools, meaning there can exist several Material Edit tools in one level (depending on if you have surfaces/objects with materials from Megascans/Poly Haven in Dash CB). So in order to make sure one adjusts the material of the correct asset/surface, one has to select the asset and then open Material Edit. If you had a material edit open for another tool, you need to re-open it to get it to work for the newly selected asset

I hope this clarifies it a bit!

SSitta Hi. Are there any updates regarding support for blueprints in the content browse...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 7:51 AM

Hey

I hope you are doing good!
Sadly not, but I know we are making some big improvements to the CB in Dash 1.9 so perhaps we might be able to squeeze it in there, but can't promise anything unfortunately!
But yes I agree, it would be really good!

TThey_Dont_Fw_Mikey can someone help me. when i click on dash in the ue5 engine and i click on start...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 7:52 AM

Hey! @They_Dont_Fw_Mikey, sorry about this! But it is an easy fix 99% of the time!
You can find the solution in this FAQ post: faqLicense Manager Problems

Tthis_is_dbo Hi Daniel, I haven't had the issue re-occur since Dafar's guidance, but will lo...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 10:13 AM

Thanks for the details and project!

Regarding the naming
1. Yee this is the way it is supposed to be, so we will look into a fix. P.S., you can try to rename them within the tools panel by double-clicking on its blue name. It may or may not work in current Dash version.

2. Aha, never noticed, thanks for letting me know!

Regarding the physics, when I tried to set the landscape/surface to complex, it actually worked, not sure if it is because I am using an internal version of upcoming Dash or if you did something different when you tried?

Regarding next Dash, it will sadly come sometime in January, we were hoping to push it before Christmas, but were not able to unfortunately.

Tthis_is_dbo If I understand correctly you selected the landscape object before setting the c...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 10:18 AM

Yes exactly! You decide on an per object basis

Tthis_is_dbo Ahh ok, that is where I was going wrong, thanks for the guidance! Is there a wa...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 10:41 AM

Happy to help!

Not exactly, but there's two options:

1. You can paint vertex colors on the surface and use the vertex mask in Surface Scatter
2. Once you are 99% happy with the scatter, we have a Dash to UE foligae painter converter so you can do the last 1% with that tool. You can select the scatter and search for "foliage" and you should find it

Bonus: we have a mask for Landcape layers, if you are using those

Tthis_is_dbo Thanks, is there any plan to develop this, seems like it's a really useful tool ...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 11:03 AM

Not really actually, our logic has been that UEs are quite good so we did not see the need. But perhaps we are mistaken!

What would you say are the main problems with it that we could do better?

Tthis_is_dbo Some thoughts: 1 - Having multiple instanced foliage actors in the same level, ...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 1:03 PM

Thanks! Noting down the request of a foliage painting tool along with your details!

Tthis_is_dbo On your point about renaming, I can rename in the tool panel, which modifies the...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 1:05 PM

ah yes yes, it is annoyingly not connected, I reminded the team to look into this now! No idea how hard it is to fix

DDafar https://youtu.be/T1YmU_EPgfY Can't make atlas to work. Or they crash UE5, or th...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 1:05 PM

Answered you in a thread instead: https://discord.com/channels/826908885024636989/1319632539111002134

Tthis_is_dbo I've been having similar problems with Atlases from Mega scans, from what I can ...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 1:07 PM

For atlases you have to get the Bridge Standalone software, https://quixel.com/bridge
It should work, at least for now!

Regarding FAB, we do have beta support for FAB in 1.8.5 beta in case you are interested in trying --> ttps://discord.com/channels/826908885024636989/826910278561169418/1308474264554573895. But this beta don't have the physics fixes discussed above just so you know

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KKancha Hi Daniel, sorry to be a pain again but I could not get my head around the cable...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 3:00 PM

Hey, no worries at all, happy to help, always!

I hope these videos help a bit!
The main problem, at least with poles, is that usually the pivot point is not ideal for the cables to spawn from, so probably easiest to do as I did in the video, adjust the height in the cable tool so that they spawn in a good place.

Alternative 2 is to create an empty actor and place it on a good spot, and then use those instead in the Cable tool.

P.S. you can't use the cable tool on the result of Surface Scatter or Path Scatter etc, in those cases you need to bake down the scatters into individual meshes

KKancha Thanks a lot, Daniel for your help. The poles pulsed through the wires. A few cr...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/20/24, 4:00 PM

Nice!
Feel free to do that! But I will be very slow to answer in Discord and email during the next 2 weeks, just so you know

KKancha 👍copied, Daniel! I wish I could have the Official links to follow along for the...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/21/24, 10:06 AM

Right now I would say the most important links/help are our documentation (work in progress) and our YouTube channel (it has a lot of videos, most, besides the newest ones, has our old UI but can still be helpful)

https://docs.polygonflow.io/
https://www.youtube.com/@polygonflow

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Learn more: https://www.polygonflow.io/

angel777•12/22/24, 1:54 AM

Is there a way to bake a decal permanently onto a mesh?

Aangel777 Is there a way to bake a decal permanently onto a mesh?

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)OP•12/22/24, 2:07 PM

We have this "merge actors" but not sure if it works for this or not, can't try right now either

Hey @otsoa Definitely the right channel, and yes you can! I tried to record a little showcase video,

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