DASH 1.7.0 - MASSIVE UE5 WORLD BUILDING TOOL

The wait is over, Dash 1.7 is out! UE5.4 support, new vines tool, improved AI tagging, the best blend material you've used, a massive IES library for your light profiles, landscape layer masking, and so much more!
Dash 1.7.0 Release Notes: bit.ly/Dash170Notes
Download Dash 1.7.0: bit.ly/DashLatestInstaller
Try Dash for FREE: www.polygonflow.io/
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0:00 Vines Tool
0:37 GPT4o Asset Tagging
0:54 Property References
1:22 IES Library Support
1:37 Image to Grading
1:51 Fog Cards 2.0
2:07 Blend Material
2:34 Landscape Layer Masking
2:48 Instance Color Variation 2.0
3:07 Volume Scatter
3:22 Batch Edit Tags
3:37 Curve Masking
3:53 Border Masking
4:06 Mesh Borders to Curve
4:14 Tool Presets
4:34 Saving Improvements
4:47 Export Assets

[@NOI2Z]

This should be integrated into base UE6 whenever it comes out. this is insane.

[@vin7524]

what exactly? I just see wrapped UE5.4 features into more separated ui

[@NOI2Z]

@@vin7524 its easier to access tbh, which makes level design/ environment art a bit easier

[@davidconde3882]

That's enough guys, you win. This is HUGE 🤯

[@polygonflow]

haha love it!

[@perryharovas]

@@polygonflow Just to be clear, it is NEVER enough, but totally agree this is HUUUUGE and you guys do in fact win!

[@polygonflow]

@@perryharovas We are never satiesfied of course! Lots of exciting things in the work for Dash 2.0!

[@CloudyGamingCG]

Nice, I found dash now a good tool for a hell time saving and making cool environment! gonna get it.😄

[@polygonflow]

Awesome! Thank you for the support!

[@castlej]

Thank, you for listening to the feedback. Good work, this plugin is getting better and better :).

[@polygonflow]

Of course, all the feedback we get is invaluable!

[@y2kmady]

this gives more excitment for 2.0 :)

[@Travisb238]

Absolutely incredible work! Keep it up.

[@designbyKwik]

Top notch work brother. I'll sound like a broken record, but you guys are killing it.

[@ShengJin-ji5pz]

Awesome update! Add to cart!

[@dbcontre]

you guys are unreal! always love your videos, can't wait to try this

[@polygonflow]

Please do! And come to the Discord with any feedback!

[@JosephWraith]

Awesome works!

[@dddharmesh]

Making a life easier more n more.... Excited to try Dash❤

[@esteban_ama]

great work!Thanks!

[@duxart]

Amazing! very good work!

[@johnronald5960]

Always Awesome 😊

[@tovermoran4360]

This looks fantastic.

[@ExuviumRecords]

Are you kiddddddding?? Yes!!!

[@ashlykotze]

Absolutely love this!

[@bolbolegypttuber]

Dash is now starting to be Monster of this market Thank you guys for every feature you add it

[@polygonflow]

Thank you for all the great suggestions so far!

[@masterod1]

Incredible work. will have to get this for sure.

[@polygonflow]

Thank you! Let us know what you think after you tried it! :)

[@chosenonemedia8337]

Looks Great!

[@romang4227]

So exited about this. Keep up the great work guys, this is some bleeding edge shit!

[@RenderRite]

Love it!

[@uimoos]

wow, thats great!

[@ArazStudio-op4cg]

this is incredible definitely worth it

[@polygonflow]

Thank you so much!!

[@ThePrimordialArts]

You just keep making my life easier at making Horror Games. You wanna get married 🤣

[@king124kine]

Didn’t expect that last bit Lol

[@polygonflow]

😁Would to follow the progress, feel free to share it in our Discord 😀

[@michaelolasanya4135]

😂

[@designwiththeoptimist1546]

Sweeeet, version 1.7

[@deutsche-schule]

Toll, was waiting for this update to work with 5.4, cause downloading old version was causing only problems with my projects .. Hope there will be Tutorials about new updates soon :)

[@polygonflow]

Hope this will work better! If it does not, please let us know in our Discord and we get you the help needed! There will of course come new tutorials! And we are also planning a live stream about 1.7 as well, so keep a look out for that! :)

[@fallingsaints8493]

beautiful!

[@polygonflow]

It means a lot, thank you!

[@Lootboy3000]

omg nice update

[@polygonflow]

Thank you. Hope you have a chance to try it out!

[@xjuliussx]

great tool!

[@polygonflow]

Thank you so much!

[@vizworld3d]

Amazing work guys, is the blending material options blending also displacements ?. Will try this as soon as i Can :D

[@polygonflow]

Yes we have a slider for that in the tool as well! 💪

[@atlanteum]

Are you telling me at 02:07 that Mixer [for all intents and purposes] is now available inside of UE? How did Epic not integrate these features natively? All Hail PolygonFlow -

[@Native_Creation]

Same thoughts, extremely powerful in itself

[@polygonflow]

We hope you will find it useful! Let us know if you have any feedback to share later! 👏

[@atlanteum]

@@polygonflow I have spent the last month or so learning PCG workflows, and what I see here is everything I have learned - only under a single roof, with all the controls right at my fingertips. I don't even own DASH, and I already love it -

[@polygonflow]

@@atlanteum Sorry that you did not find it a month ago! 😁Let us know if you have any questions once you have actually tried it! We are very active in our Discord, so that's the best place to be! :)

[@atlanteum]

@@polygonflow I've actually had DASH on my radar for a long while. I just wanted to know what it was like working with "under the hood" so I had a frame of reference when comparing it to a custom tool that would essentially be doing the same thing. Well... let's just say - I'm convinced!

[@mattempyre]

Wish epic would buy you and have you work of the engine

[@1insp3ru16]

wow you are amazing

[@polygonflow]

Give it a try and let us know what you think! All feedback is very welcome!

[@BongbokCG]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@thetriangleforge]

still: best plugin money can buy. future of ue5. right here.

[@polygonflow]

😍

[@OliSavageBeatz]

Just 1 Step and Dash is King off all Just for Mac🙏🥺

[@tonnynderitu1504]

🔥🔥🔥

[@polygonflow]

😍🤩

[@deutsche-schule]

when adding blended material, cant modify the material from Dash, its not changing what i am doing instantly, untill for example i enable snow and remove it again, then i see the difference. can modify it from the material outside dash normally, can you check that please!

[@polygonflow]

Hmm, that sounds strange! Could you perhaps send a message in our Discord or send us an email? We might need to go some back and forth in order to figure out the reason here. [e-mail], or bit.ly/DashDiscord.

[@deutsche-schule]

@@polygonflow have sent on discord

[@aleksei7479]

so amazing!! is it possible to include displacement in the material blend?? would be super cool if u guys create advanced material shader when its possible to change al PBR settings, RGB masks etc

[@polygonflow]

Displacement is actually already included, give it a try and see if you like it! :) Thanks for the suggestion!

[@LORENZOCOLALONGO]

fantastic work! Congratulations ! for archiz I would be interested if you could insert a quick and easy way like you know how to turn on lights, fires or open and close windows, animate curtains etc... it would be even more fantastic! good

[@polygonflow]

Great suggestion Lorenzo! We're just now starting to work on more UE-centric features like that, and I'll make sure to move those up the priority list! :)

[@LORENZOCOLALONGO]

@@polygonflow Fantastic !! 😍😍😍

[@LORENZOCOLALONGO]

@@polygonflow Hi, sometimes in Archiviz I find it difficult to have a clean straight line of Grass near the edges....

[@polygonflow]

@@LORENZOCOLALONGO Have you tried the new feature, Border Maskin in Surface Scatter? If you have straight grass, this feature should be able to help you get a good result!

[@bangzoel7974]

wow blender style inside unreal engine now

[@polygonflow]

Oh yes!

[@ReinhardtBuhr]

any plan for Mac support?

[@polygonflow]

Not in the near future no, but we have gotten a few requests for it, so maybe maybe at some point in the future!

[@ReinhardtBuhr]

Thank you looks amazing !

[@rlb1968able]

I've tried using a landscape feature but for some reason it lags don't know if I'm doing anything wrong I'm not talking about the dash plug and I just mean in general for the landscape and unreal 5 I'm not sure how to optimize it

[@OrezEdit]

how to get image to color gradian to work

[@armannasr3681]

Do you guys have a feature on your roadmap to array metahuman/cars along a path? this is one huge feature that unreal lacks for archviz

[@polygonflow]

We have a tool called Path Scatter actually, with that you can place meshes along a spline. Have you checked it out? 🙂

[@damohr69]

Is this 3D meditation? :D

[@polygonflow]

haha 😄

[@shaunramkelawon]

WOW! amazing!

[@polygonflow]

Thank you!

[@MinhHieuneh]

I want use this for large landscape project😊

[@polygonflow]

You should give it a try with the free trial! Let us know how it goes, we would love some feedback on some large landscape projects! :)

[@MinhHieuneh]

@@polygonflow yeh i’m use try 30days now, I have some suggestions like can dash sculpt or apply material to the engine's original landscape and heightmap from third party software like world creator or Gaea?

[@polygonflow]

@@MinhHieuneh There is no sculpt tools right now no. You should be able to apply material through Dash to UE landscape and third party landscapes. But right now it does not work to afterward edit the material with Material Edit tool, but we are working on it! :)

[@MinhHieuneh]

@@polygonflow thank u :)) i think that all i need about new version of dash

[@dsgndealer8866]

blend option doesn't seem to be working on current version or available for v1.7 anyone have same issue?

[@polygonflow]

Hi! What exactly isn't working? If you could drop a message on Discord, we'll be there to help you asap

[@christmworkflow2886]

stupid question , can we build a small game without any problem with this tools ?

[@polygonflow]

This is a world building tool, and you can use it to build your worlds in that game without any issues! :)

[@studium-]

I'm going to need to save up for a few months to afford a perpetual licence. Do you think it is likely that it will be available for that long?

[@polygonflow]

Yees, we have no plans of removing that option! :)

[@dsgndealer8866]

how to do you update the dash tool in unreal?

[@polygonflow]

Download and install it: bit.ly/DashLatestInstaller It'll update your UE tool :)

[@QuickPixls]

Optimaztion for a game would be a problem no?

[@polygonflow]

We have had that in mind when building the tools, so it works great for game dev! :) But, Dash is right now better for smaller environments or parts of bigger environments, than massive open worlds. I.e. scattering trees in a massive open world might be very heavy, depending on your PC. For each release we make we try to improve our optimization of course. It is free to try, so please do and let me know if you have any feedback, it is very very welcome!

[@Unreal_Tomy]

Does it work with ue 5.4?

[@polygonflow]

Yes it does👍

[@ericramberg]

First! (In your face Adnan)

[@samunderkhan1078]

I don't know man, 12 months of upgrades is good and all but you should provide a way for perpetual licenses to work with new versions of UE5 even after the 12 months periods (without new features of course).

[@polygonflow]

We'll try to do that, but it's very hard to do because sometimes we drastically change internal systems to work with newer UE versions, and at that point you can't just ship new UE versions support without also shipping new features. Dash 2.0 will be available for everyone who buys 1.X fyi, as it's a recent enough update that asking you to pay again so soon wouldn't make sense.

[@Birdscolony211]

Whats the price ?

[@polygonflow]

The ordinary freelance license is 20 USD/month (10 USD/m the first 3 months). And we have a perpetual license for 230 USD, it comes with 12 months of updates! :) Full pricing available here: www.polygonflow.io/pricing

[@Si-Toecutter]

How much?

[@polygonflow]

The ordinary freelance license is 20 USD/month (10 USD/m the first 3 months). And we have a perpetual license for 230 USD, it comes with 12 months of updates! :) Full pricing available here: www.polygonflow.io/pricing

[@Nynex]

UE 6

[@polygonflow]

😄

[@arash5550]

Can i try it for free?

[@polygonflow]

Yes Sir! There is a 30 day free trial

[@user-vg8zu3jw3r]

It is too expensive for beginners.

[@polygonflow]

Sorry to hear you think that! If you are not planning to use it for a commercial project, you can grab a student license, they are much cheaper :)

[@davidgarcia274]

too bad is subscription base 👎

[@polygonflow]

We offer both subscription and perpetual licensing options.

[@lukasie8720]

Unreal engine shoud need that ... in engine ... why this people who building engines don't think like scripts guys ... life will be easier! Engines are to busy too complicated and not logic at all !

[@mae2309]

FKN YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS,,, AMAZING!!!

[@polygonflow]

YESSSSS!!

[@ThinkingUkranian]

How much it is?

[@polygonflow]

We have several different licenses, you can find full info here: www.polygonflow.io/pricing The cheapest license, for students is 7 USD/month :)

[@dothex]

250$ for a perpetual license. 7$ plan makes sure you can't use it commercially. 10$ a month to do everything except use custom integrations. But if you want to use custom integrations then its 89$ a month. And yes that's per person. I suggest making your own tools because all these subscriptions will start to add up. Look up custom tool chains. PS: forgot to mention they make sure to charge you 20$ instead of 10$ after the first 3 months.

[@BongbokCG]

🔥🔥🔥🔥