Polygonflow has released Dash 1.11, an update to its world-building tool for Unreal Engine 5. The new feature allows artists and designers to draw saved settings directly onto the environment preview, bypassing menus and windows. This accelerates the creation of video games, animations, and architectural visualizations, reducing prototyping time and production costs for studios and independent developers.
How real-time configuration drawing works 🎨
The main feature of Dash 1.11 is its parametric brush system. The user can assign assets, materials, or sets of procedural rules to strokes drawn in the viewport. When painting, the tool interprets the shape and spatial context to place elements such as trees, rocks, or buildings. This eliminates the need to manually drag objects or adjust parameters in side panels. Dash's engine processes height, slope, and density information in real time, offering a more direct workflow for designing terrains and urban scenes.
Goodbye to two-hour tutorials for planting a tree 🌳
If you ever spent an entire afternoon searching for the right slider to place a lamppost in the exact spot, Dash 1.11 will make you feel like an abstract painter with a coffee-stained smock. Now you can draw an entire city with the same gesture you use to doodle on a napkin. Sure, your boss still expects the result to be a functional metropolis and not a polygon spaghetti, but at least now you get to the point of explaining that yes, the chaos is an artistic decision faster.