Missing submenus in material tool - UE 5.5 Dash 1.8.5
I have two different projects newly created and migrated some levels from older but different UE 5.4 projects. In both 5.5 projects I created a terrain and placed a material on it. In project 1 everything seems good, all submenus are there (see attachment 1) In project 2 were many submenus missing (attachment 2).
The only difference between the two projects: I created project 1 with the "Third person" - Games template and project 2 with the "blank" - Film/Video & Live Events template.
In attachment 3 you found the DashSceneData from both projects.
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Here I think the propblem is that the Dash material that gives the settings to Material Edit has not been updated properly.
Can you restart UE and launch that project again, but make sure to open it into a empty level (or a level without anything created with Dash). In this empty level, click Dash, then you will see an popup mentioning update to materials, do that update. If you don't see an error, you should be good to then open any level with Dash in it
Reason being that we can't update materials when they are loaded, so must do it before opening a Dash level in the project 🙂
Unfortunately the popup doesn't open. I remember it was there the first time I opened the project. Unfortunately it opened in a Dash level and after i cklicked "Ok" for updating the materials I've got the error message "materials couldn't be updated...".
So I deleted all scene materials in the UE content folder and applied a new one from the dash browser to the terrain. And - taddaaa - this did it.
Do you mean taddaa as this solved it?😁
yep. Solved. But I would appreciate it if you have a look at my other problem I mentioned in the "Dash" channel.
Good!
Answered now, but as I am not at my proper PC (with UE), I can't give very good help during the weekends mostly 😕