Polygonflow Dash•12mo ago

Hi team ! How to get back to edit my path scatter ? it doesn't show the existing scatter propertie

Hi team !

How to get back to edit my path scatter ? it doesn't show the existing scatter properties in the pannel.

XXavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 Albert Hi team ! How to get back to edit my path scatter ? it doesn't show the existi...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/30/25, 11:01 AM

Hey

Here you have 2 possible problems (most likely 1 is the answer):
1. You are not looking at the correct Path Scatter in the Tools Panel. You can see the Pin icon is blue, which means that Path Scatter is pinned and therefore you don't see the Path Scatter you actually selected in the viewport. So you can try to un-pin the PS in the Tools Panel, and then de-select and then re-select your Scatter in your scene
2. Or this Path Scatter has lost its connections to the Curve and the rock you scattered. So if it is the right one displayed in the Tools Panel, you can see it says 0 at Curves and Scatter, so you need to assign the Curve and Scatter again. Then when you change the settings such as Density, you will see changes happening in the viewport

Xavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 AlbertOP•1/30/25, 11:03 AM

Thank you I will try.

Xavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 AlbertOP•1/30/25, 11:04 AM

Is it possible to enable collision with the path scatter ?

Xavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 AlbertOP•1/30/25, 11:04 AM

i'd like my rocks to not overlap each other

XXavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 Albert Is it possible to enable collision with the path scatter ?

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/30/25, 11:05 AM

You can change the Density Mode to Fit Mode, that should give you more or less what you need

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)Hey 🙂 Here you have 2 possible problems (most likely 1 is the answer): 1. You a...

Xavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 AlbertOP•1/30/25, 2:53 PM

For some reason none of the solutions work. The 2nd solutioin is just creating a new scatter of objects and is not modifying the current one

XXavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 Albert For some reason none of the solutions work. The 2nd solutioin is just creating a...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/30/25, 3:11 PM

If you click here to open the list of active tools, are you able to find this specific Path Scatter?
If solution 1 above did not work, most likely the tool connection is broken, and the way to automatically open it in the Tools Panel by selecting is thus not working

If you are lucky, you can find the right path scatter in this list and then re-assign the curve and rocks to make it work again. If not, I am afraid you have to re-do it with a new Path Scatter

XXavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 Albert For some reason none of the solutions work. The 2nd solutioin is just creating a...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/30/25, 3:12 PM

And the most common issue that this happens (broken tool connection) is if one accidently deletes the curve or the original scattered object

Brudzilla•1/30/25, 9:07 PM

Hei! following the documentation and I wonder... the UVs are on the mesh we are suppose to scatter the texture on or? mmm i#m quite new to 3D but how to give textures UVs?

EDIT: ok the mesh that is the object surface of the scatter needs UVs i just tested apologies for slow thinking... BUT HOLY MOLY THIS TEXTURE MASKING IS JUST A BEAUTY MY GOD!

DDanielFreden (Dash for UE5)If you click here to open the list of active tools, are you able to find this sp...

Xavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 AlbertOP•1/31/25, 4:33 AM

Hi Daniel - I tried to select it with this buttonyes, but didn't work

BBrudzilla Hei! following the documentation and I wonder... the UVs are on the mesh we are ...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/31/25, 7:42 AM

No worries! Love your enthusiasm!

BBeholderVision I'm wondering about Dash for my project. I'm using Dungeon Architect. Has anyone...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/31/25, 7:49 AM

I don't think I have heard any mention of Dungeon Architect in here no, and no experience with it myself sadly. So I would say, you can grab the free trial and test it they work well together

XXavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 Albert Hi Daniel - I tried to select it with this buttonyes, but didn't work

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/31/25, 7:50 AM

Alright, then I am afraid you have to start over most likely, if you want to make adjustments to that Path Scatter

Aalex r w hey hey! I know it was asked some time ago, but anyone got it running ok on linu...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/31/25, 7:50 AM

Not that I have heard about no

NNikita Tugarov HI, I use a dash camera to create a video, and in the sequencer I can’t set the ...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/31/25, 10:17 AM

Hey!

We have some camera bugs actually, it does not work very well when trying to render out with the Dash camera. It is something we are looking into, but no ETA on a fix I am afraid.
So for now, probably best to use a normal CINE camera and not the Dash camera, sorry!

NNikita Tugarov it turns out that even if I use it, it’s better not to play with the focus but t...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•1/31/25, 10:26 AM

Maybe ye. Honestly, since it has some bugs when rendering out, I haven't used it in a while so not an expert on it right now.

You can either experiment with it, or for now use a non-Dash camera instead

Brudzilla•1/31/25, 9:47 PM

mmm exactly how to bake the terrain into a landscape? I did use this one this button the first time but didn't work
and later one I used the bake from the search bar but not showing up in the landscape... what am i doing wrong?

BBrudzilla mmm exactly how to bake the terrain into a landscape? I did use this one this bu...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•2/1/25, 8:06 AM

Hey!
You can't actually convert it to a landscape. It is firstly a procedural terrain (similar to a landscape but smaller and easier to control) and then if you bake it, it becomes a normal Static mesh

Jim H.•2/2/25, 4:16 PM

I am having a problem getting the AI assistant window to come up. I open the Dash window and click the "3 stars" image, but nothing happens. I rebooted my computer, reinstalled 1.8.5, but still nothing.

Also, is there a way I can "save" the location where the menu comes up? Every time I click on the "A" dash icon, the menu comes up in the middle of both of my screens and I have to drag it so that it isn't split across screens. If I close the menu or restart UE, it pops back up across my screens.

And, for some reason, I can't drag-and-drop content from the content browser onto a viewport. When I attempt to drag an object into a level, I get a red circle with a line through it. I've tried dragging objects from PolyHaven, Fab, Quixel, or from other projects, and get the same result.

Jim H.•2/2/25, 4:26 PM

SSam Smith Hello, this might be a silly question but, I don't understand how to open the 'e...

Brudzilla•2/2/25, 6:56 PM

I believe you have to give the material to the object you want and select it. The edit material tab automatically opens.

At least this is how I get the window popping

JJim H.I am having a problem getting the AI assistant window to come up. I open the Das...

Bleak•2/2/25, 10:43 PM

Hi are you on multimonitor setup?

BBleak Hi are you on multimonitor setup?

Jim H.•2/3/25, 1:29 AM

I am. I just figured out that you can't drop objects into "Viewport 2" only the one in the main work area. Darn. That's unfortunate as I like working with a full screen.

Still haven't figured out how to get access to the AI assistant.

SSam Smith does it have to be a specific kind of material? The AI mentions a "Dash Material...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•2/3/25, 7:43 AM

Hey @Sam Smith

Yes the Material Edit and Blend Material only works when using Megascans from the Dash content Browser (The Quixel tab or the FAB tab), and when using Poly Haven from Dash Content Browser.

And here is a video showing you how to open Material Edit manually if it does not open automatically as Bruddash said

The important step here is selecting something in the viewport that has the right material and then you will see the Material Edit option within the active list of tools in the tools panel

SSam Smith Oh… is there no way to get it to work with my own materials?

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•2/3/25, 9:28 AM

Right now no, we use our own shader, so setting it up for another material would be a lot of work.

If you are dragging in a poly haven material from the Content Browser, you could open that material and explore for yourself self though!

We are planning on trying to look into general support for it, but it is down the line

SSam Smith and then I try to create an empty level and... it crashes the editor 🥲 if you h...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•2/3/25, 11:33 AM

Are you able to open the project directly into an level without anything Dash?
Maybe an empty level, and then click the Dash icon

It can't update the materials on objects used from Dash when those materials has been loaded

Xavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 AlbertOP•2/3/25, 3:15 PM

Hello Team! I hope you had a beautiful weekend

Is there a way to make curbs easily ? I tried the border curve tool it doesn't work on my road mesh.

So i did a simple 4 points curve but I can't get the mesh right in the corners. I tried with "fit", "count", ""relative" ...

XXavier 𝐖𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐁𝐘 Albert Hello Team! I hope you had a beautiful weekend 🙂 Is there a way to make curbs...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•2/3/25, 3:47 PM

Hey!
Hope the same with you!

Good question!
For me Borders to Curves worked, but Path Scatter still gave me similar result sadly..

Some ideas:
1. You could try to make another Road tool and use the width settings to create the side meshes, like in my quick shitty video 1. Would have to do something similar for the short edges as well I guess
2. Using 4 separate curves and Path scatter should help with the corners I think

Otherwise I don't got much good ideas right now

✿✿☽♱flStrawberri♥༄⁺⋆｡Hi; I hope this is the right place for this, I recently just got a student licen...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•2/4/25, 9:56 AM

Heeyo

Can you send me your email in a DM? Then I can see if I can find your sub!

NNinyan does anyone have the master blend material wired like this? it seems i dont'have...

Roger_•2/4/25, 2:25 PM

Hey!
Try creating a new Level, then open Dash and make sure to update the files when the pop-up appears.
It will allow the files and shaders to be updated with the new proper connexions to the nodes.

After creating the level and updating dash you can go back to your previous level. and check if the issue is still there.

Cheers!

NNinyan the pop up is not appearing when i click the dash icon, it opens the context men...

DanielFreden (Dash for UE5)•2/4/25, 2:37 PM

Just to clarify a little bit, please close Unreal, then open this project again, but open it into an empty level (don't open any level where you have used Dash). Then click Dash, that should give you this popup. Once you have updated the materials through this popup, you can open a level where you have used Dash.

Reason here is if you open an level with Dash things, the materials will load and then you can't update them

And make sure you have Dash 1.8.5: https://www.polygonflow.io/download-latest-dash

Hi team ! How to get back to edit my path scatter ? it doesn't show the existing scatter propertie

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