If you want to watch detailed tutorials on the different tools in Dash, you should give this playlist a look: kzread.info/head/PLA8x6Gryv9C-YSeyME9uey5Q94SGzQWxX We always welcome any questions or feedback about Dash, ask away in the comments!

love your work guys, keep it up and i hope you realise only positive things in your business plans! Communications with community and build a community are keys!

@polygonflow

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

This tool Convert UE to next level of workflow .. Thanks for tutorial

@polygonflow

8 ай бұрын

You are welcome!

looks amazing! Performance wise, what do you use to make sure everything runs smoothly. I find when I add a lot of grass things start to slow down quite a bit.

@polygonflow

8 ай бұрын

Using Nanite as a first step on your grass definitely reduces the performance overload! The rest mostly pertains to shader complexity. Our current shaders are fairly lightweight, and we're working on simplifying them even further :) They all ship with Dash, btw.

wow that looks very realistic, btw does dash has its own procedual generation feature? just making sure because that might speed up alot of work

@polygonflow

8 ай бұрын

Happy to hear that you're liking what you see! Could you clarify what you mean specifically?

@m1rd

8 ай бұрын

@@polygonflow when placing the grass for example it just procedurally generate on all the landscape in one click

@danielfreden1205

8 ай бұрын

@@m1rd Yes that is what is happening at 4:18 in the video 👍

after you create the terrain, can you still use the terrain sculpting tools without breaking link with your terrain tool? also can it handle sublevels without getting confused which scatter belongs to which sublevel? thank you in advance

@polygonflow

5 ай бұрын

That's something we're planning. Thanks for the idea though!

I was going to ask can you also apply wind direction or would that affect performance too much? Cuz whenever I make scenes I want to be able to make it with great performance on lower GPUs

@polygonflow

8 ай бұрын

Wind certainly has its cost, but shouldn't be a deal breaker in such a scene! Yes, you can apply wind on it. In our upcoming 1.2 update, we'll be shipping wind support in our foliage materials, actually.

is there any way to "stamp" the meshes like you do it with pcg forrests for performance ? or is this even necesery with dash ?

@polygonflow

5 ай бұрын

It's not necessary as by default we use Hierarchical Instanced Static Meshes which is what PCG does after stamping. So you are all good! :)

pretty cool stuff!, but I've been wondering, what advantage does this have over the new pcg tools in unreal right now?

@polygonflow

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! I would say the main advantage is that it is much easier to get started as you never need to touch any nodes/graphs, the tools are just there, ready to be used. And then in general our tools are easier to use even after you have gone through the hassle of setting up the PCG graph. Dash just exists there and your tools are just a search, or a drag-and-drop away (if you use our Content Library with your Megascans assets). And you also get more tool types in Dash in one way. We have our Content Library, our camera tools, our grading tools, and easy access to change your materials. To be fair, the main disadvantage is that Dash is not as great as PCG when it comes to larger-scale environments. But I think they can work great together, using Dash for the more detailed parts of your environments for example. Feel free to join our Discord if you have any more questions or want help with learning the basics of Dash! :)

@chinchillaturtle7121

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, i really appreciate the info, I'm just starting to get into this sort of stuff. I looked into the pcg stuff last night and it didn't seem awefully hard to set up. I would consider this if it was a 1 time payment, do you guys have any plans to switch over to pay to own at any point in time by chance? Thanks again!@@polygonflow

@polygonflow

8 ай бұрын

@@chinchillaturtle7121 Maybe, nothing decided yet. But it won't happen soon if it does happen. For the time being, we think our current business model makes the most sense since we will keep updating it with new tools/features and also offer support for all the updates that come to Unreal. However, I can promise you this, if you get a license, and after one year you find that the updates were not worth the subscription price, please ping me and I’ll give you one year's worth of subscription for free to compensate you. /Daniel

How did you transfer your blender assets to unreal is it a free or paid plugin? Or did you just export as a fbx and bake the textures to the assets and send them to unreal? Trying to find a good workflow to transfer my assets to blender to UE5

@polygonflow

7 ай бұрын

No plugin was used actually. I just laid out the UVs to work with a couple of Megascan surfaces. I then animated it in Blender and exported it as an FBX with the bones and geometry. I hope that helps! :)

@twistedjourney

7 ай бұрын

@@polygonflow oh ok. When you say “laid out the uvs to work with the mega scan surfaces” do you mean when you took the blender assets to Unreal you used blender textures or the mega scan ones over the blender uvs to fit the scene?

@polygonflow

7 ай бұрын

@@twistedjourney I applied the Megascans textures to my model in Blender, I unwrapped the model with those textures applied and just adjusted the UVs until I was happy with the way the Megascans were applied. I hope I understood your question correctly :)

@twistedjourney

7 ай бұрын

Gotcha. Thank you! I look forward to creating with Dash, and can’t wait for the next big updates!

@polygonflow

7 ай бұрын

@@twistedjourney Sounds great! Remember to share your creations/questions in our Discord :)

Hi guys, are you able to give an idea of how long it will be before I can buy a perpetual license please?

@polygonflow

8 ай бұрын

I can’t give you a timeline on that, unfortunately. For the time being, we think our current business model makes the most sense since we will keep updating it with new tools/features and also offer support for all the updates that come to Unreal. However, I can promise you this, if you get a license, and after one year you find that the updates were not worth the subscription price, please ping me and I’ll give you one year's worth of subscription for free to compensate you. /Daniel

@leobyrne4671

8 ай бұрын

Thanks alot, I appreciate your kindness but the subscription model just isn't right for me. I'll wait for the perpetual or find an alternative. @@polygonflow

@polygonflow

7 ай бұрын

Hey, not sure if you have seen but we are now offering a perpetual license on our website, polygonflow.io :)

Is your product not geared toward making playable games? would love to see one of these videos about making playable maps

@polygonflow

8 ай бұрын

You can use Dash to create environments for games. The only limitation is your imagination.

@importon

8 ай бұрын

@@polygonflow "would love to see one of these videos about making playable maps"

@polygonflow

8 ай бұрын

@@importon Thanks for the suggestion, we will try to do that in one of our upcoming videos! :)

@polygonflow

8 ай бұрын

​@@importonAlso wanted to add, that in general all the environments we create are playable, but we usually don't showcase it. You could for example watch our Underground video, which is more FPS-focused. kzread.info/dash/bejne/rKyKp5iuqaWreNY.htmlsi=fKTwwD0sTNbX1H9T

HI,I don't have a choice for a new camera....

@polygonflow

5 ай бұрын

Don't you see anything regarding Camera when you search for "camera" in Dash? 🤔🤔

$20/mth after 3 months. Is Dash for studios? Def not for hobbiest. I suppose we'll wait for a free or cheap alternative. In the future please consider a business model of quantity of sales at a low price, no more than $5 per month. There are thousands of people in third world countries who may be willing to pay up to $5, that may bring an exponentially higher profit than targeting studios at $20 P/M.

@polygonflow

5 ай бұрын

We have both freelance and studio licenses. And we have yet to find our perfect pricing no, it is a hard balance to find a price that works for us, for the business to survive, and also works for the majority of our possible users. Getting feedback like this is very appreciated as we are always thinking of what price is the right now. If I may ask, where are you based?