is there a way to bake this surface scatter in one single object with instanced meshes inside? When

is there a way to bake this surface scatter in one single object with instanced meshes inside? When I hit "bake", it creates a ton of these single meshes, it would be much nicer to just ditch the parametrization and just have a HISM actor with thousands of instances, kind of like when you bake a PCG. Is that possible?

AAndrei Ivanescu is there a way to bake this surface scatter in one single object with instanced ...

Adnan Chaumette•1/15/25, 5:31 AM

You could delete the tool (from the panel's dots menu on the to right) and basically have a non-editable HISM, which is what the tool outputs by default

AAdnan Chaumette You could delete the tool (*from the panel's dots menu on the to right*) and bas...

Andrei IvanescuOP•1/15/25, 8:51 AM

oh, since you put it that way, i guess as long as I don't try to edit it, there's no computational strain, then, right? I wasn't sure how it works (the problem with this specific one is that i've used the whole landscape to generate on, then masked with proximity to a bunch of curves - so density was up at 5 - so i wanted to get rid of the computational evidence of my ham-handedness :)) now i realize i could've just used a ghost plane to spawn these, then project onto the landscape inside the tool )

AAndrei Ivanescu oh, since you put it that way, i guess as long as I don't try to edit it, there'...

Adnan Chaumette•1/15/25, 7:31 PM

yeah there's no compute process on the object unless it changes. The change does include subtle things like transform updates and so on though, but even then you can just select the Freeze option in the tool's menu, and that should be it. You can unfreeze it later if you want, the tool won't have any compute cost until then.

Ddefinitely_Raven Hello. I have an issue with ending of Bridge and existing of FAB. How can I down...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/16/25, 1:01 PM

Hey

Yee it seems right now you can only use already downloaded assets from Bridge, and not download new ones. Regarding FAB, we will ship an integration in Dash 1.8.5 which we are working to push as soon as possible!
If you want, you could grab a beta of Dash 1.8.5 right now: https://docs.polygonflow.io/advanced/release-notes/dash-1.8.5

Dash 1.8.5 (Beta) | Dash Documentation

Luciano Daluz•1/16/25, 5:54 PM

Question: I created this road yesterday, and today it is "flying" like this:

Luciano Daluz•1/16/25, 5:56 PM

I want to edit it, but how do I edit something alread created? If I select the mesh and go to edit nothing happens, If I go to "Create Road" nothing happens...

Luciano Daluz•1/16/25, 6:03 PM

Actually the same goes to everything created in Dash, how can I come back and edit it? Whatever Dash tool I select in the outliner, doesnt make any difference to Dash Edit, it always show "Road"...

AABITCRAZY瘋子 Hi Dash Team, I need help to deactivate a license which I am now unable to deact...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/16/25, 6:43 PM

Hey! If you send me your email in a DM I can unlock it for you

the way to do it yourself is through the license manager inside of Dash, but that would have needed to be done before the Windows installation as that impacted the license logic I am afraid

LLuciano Daluz Actually the same goes to everything created in Dash, how can I come back and ed...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/16/25, 6:45 PM

Heyo, regarding the flying, no idea

Regarding editing the problem is that you have the new empty road tool pinned in the Tools Panel, so that's why it ain't updating when you select another tool

And btw, you can use the icon on top left left of the tools panel to open an list of all active tools as well

Screenshot_2025-01-16-19-45-14-44_572064f74bd5f9fa804b05334aa4f912.jpg

Luciano Daluz•1/16/25, 8:12 PM

The one I have selected is not what appears in edit even without the pin

Luciano Daluz•1/16/25, 8:13 PM

And all the roads has the same name different from the names on the outline

ちちょさん Dear team, I am a Japanese user, and I would like to use Dash in Japanese. Could...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/18/25, 8:09 AM

Hey!
Right now we don't have any other version than English I am afraid. Hopefully we will be able to look into other languages down the line

ちちょさん Sorry to bother you again, but I'm currently studying the tutorial and having tr...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/18/25, 12:14 PM

If I understand your video correctly, you want to create an extra road (for roadlines or something). The step you are missing is opening up a new road tool from Dash and then apply your preset to that.

When you are applying the preset now, you do it to the same road tool instead of a new one. Alternatively you could use the road tool menu to duplicate the first road tool

LLucas Gaspio Good evening, I am unable to view my license key. I have already looked everywhe...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/19/25, 9:50 AM

Heyo @Lucas Gaspio it should have been sent to your email upon purchase. But if you send me your email address in a DM, I can see if I can find it for you

Jim H.•1/19/25, 9:33 PM

Any clue how to get thumbnail images to load in Dash Content Browser? About half the time it appears like the following. I've checked CPU, memory, and GPU memory. All seem to have plenty of room to handle the processing. I'm using a Windows 11 system.

TTigrikGamingStudio Good morning everyone, real quick question. I have been able to figure out scatt...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/21/25, 8:09 AM

Hey

As I am not sure if you mean as simple as the player etc should collide with them when they walk or if you mean I should be able to shoot them away. I covered both cases in a short video here

ArtDiffuser•1/22/25, 7:06 PM

Adnan or anyone one Dash team, how is Dash 2.0 progressing, any sneak previews for us, any new features teases? I've not been checking Discord channel so frequently, so if I missed something please point me

AArtDiffuser Adnan or anyone one Dash team, how is Dash 2.0 progressing, any sneak previews f...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/23/25, 8:43 AM

Hey Hey!

It is still in RnD stage I would say, so not much shareable right now, but it is moving forward definitely! And it is gonna be a blast when we have some teasers to share! :xddtanec:

HHobolee is it better to uninstall dash completely before installing the new 1.8.5 ? or j...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/23/25, 4:38 PM

Always safer to un-install as with most windows programs, but 99% of the time it works fine with just installing over

aoshi11•1/23/25, 7:33 PM

I think the new update can easily make a mesh landscape like this one in my country hehe
I always had the problem with using terrace on the landscape as it has jagged edges or even using terraces via high res height maps.

I am thinking of having multiple splines and also a deformation that depresses the area where the rice is being planted with the water

arabinowitz•1/23/25, 10:58 PM

Congrats on the release! In the video you show this where the instanced objects grow bigger the further away from the spine they get. How did you do that?

arabinowitz•1/24/25, 2:12 AM

What is the process of enabling displacement through Dash?

Aarabinowitz Congrats on the release! In the video you show this where the instanced objects ...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/24/25, 4:58 AM

Thanks man

We are using Proximity Mask and Falloff in Surface Scatter

Aarabinowitz What is the process of enabling displacement through Dash?

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/24/25, 5:00 AM

1. Run the tesselation command in Dash
2. Select your plain etc, run nanite command in Dash (make sure to convert/bake a Dash mesh to static mesh first if you are using any Dash mesh)
3. Then you can adjust displacement for your MS assets

IIgor Is there a way to use Dash to overcome texture repetition, also known as tiling?

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/24/25, 9:12 AM

Hey @Igor & @jalol just wanted to let you know that we have included a way to break up texture repetition in the latest version of Dash now if you are still interested!

https://docs.polygonflow.io/advanced/release-notes/dash-1.8.5#texture-repetition-breakup

Dash 1.8.5 (Official) | Dash Documentation

der_urig•1/25/25, 7:40 AM

@Daniel - COO

I have two problems with the road tool, I'm struggeling with.
First is the width. Are this centimeters? If I compare it to a cube, both set at 12 meters (cube) and 1200 (centimeters? road), the road has twice the width. See Attachment 1.

Second problem: How can I adjust the UV so the texture stays in the middle of the road when I change the tiling? See attachments 2 & 3.

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