jdhart.
PDPolygonflow Dash
•Created by jdhart. on 12/7/2024 in #dash-feedback
General Feedback
My trial period for Dash is about to expire and I'm struggling to find a good reason to buy a license. I'm having so many problems with this tool that it's hard to pick one that is worse than the others. But probably the worst in my opinion is the lack of good quality documentation to help understand how these features work. There are pages, for example, just blank with no information. I tried the AI tool, but it lacks specifics and it took me six questions to get an answer to what I thought was a simple question.
Here is just one example. I wanted to use the Physics Paint tool to drop a number of utensils on a rather complex table object. But I never figured out how to do it. The first problem was that it would drop the utensils at the very top of the table. I figured it was using the simple collision, so I reset the table's collision to use complex collision for simple. That didn't help. I tried different settings and nothing helped. It kept dropping utensils and they would stop way above the table.
So I replaced the table with a simple box thinking that would do the trick. I set the scale and position of the box to match the table top and deleted the table. My next problem was that I couldn't get the brush to change size. I changed the default 1.5 down to 0.2, and in the display area the sphere shrank accordingly. But when I went to paint, it would paint at the large 1.5 size. Changing the brush size had NO effect on the painting.
I thought, okay, I'll just paint all over the place and then delete the created utensils that fall on the floor. But when I changed the brush from "Paint" to "Erase" IT KEPT PAINTING more utensils. I could NOT get it to stop painting. I tried the push and pull option. Nothing changed the painting. It was like the tool was stuck on default and changing any of the parameters had no effect.
I looked through the documentation and looked through the few YouTube videos that covered painting. But nothing helped.
Not likely renewing.
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