fab

[undone valve]

But I made another sale

[worldly flower]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/what-is-it-with-unreals-categories/2097594?u=bdc_patrick
1 Vote to go to fulfil the 10/10 Vote statistic.. maybe more visible to devs then

Me , too 😄

0.99$, but a Sale is a Sale!

[flat island]

now you see the sale immediately? or only the next day?

I don't have any sales

[worldly flower]

i think it's every 12 or 24 hours. my sale was 31/10/24

Can confirm - same here

[spare pewter]

I haven't checked FAB yet as I wanted the dust to settle first

How's purchasing stuff with a VAT number?

Is it simple?

[south sleet]

how can I acces my plugin when i have never downloaded it in my vault?

[silent mesa]

You think discounts may be available for the blackfriday sale, end of the month?

[south sleet]

people have deadlines and depend on the marketplace to work properly... it feels like they are forcing people to pirate assets they already bought

[worldly flower]

do you refreshed the Library in the Launcher and set the filter to show everything?

[south sleet]

tried all of that

[undone valve]

make sure to not have any categories selected

[worldly flower]

and maybe refresh multiple times if you installed the newly pushed Launcher update.. since it is async af

[lost venture]

getting this error when trying to add assets to my fresh project using FAB Plugin

[south sleet]

this also didn't work, i've acquired my purchased plugin the alternative way for the time being. These issues would be catastrophically on an actual virtual production shoot day. This is unacceptable

[lost venture]

yeah, they really messed up

[devout mountain]

It only shows owned for the things added to Library, not all of them

[azure crag]

The website doesn't load at all for me. Is anyone else having this issue or is it simply a problem on my end?

[arctic plover]

The weird part is things in the vaultcache are plain missing from launcher. Some are there, others are not. So even though I have them downloaded, I can't actually use them. I submitted a support request, but I'm not very hopeful they'll actually fix anything. Probably make things worse, with how messed up this launch is.

What's frustrating to me is that I primarily have time to work on UE stuff on my days off, and now I can't. This is just a total mess.

[drowsy plaza]

Same! My first sale on fab was yesterday, I feel a lot of relief. Given 3 people here made a sale yesterday maybe users are starting to buy stuff there more consistently

The hitbox for the button on mobile is the words “start date” and “end date” at least on first attempt

[undone valve]

Could be. I am also about to buy 10 products soon. Without a wishlists it is a bit annoying but I made screenshots of the things I need

[drowsy plaza]

Nice, it’s funny how the day they release the sales reports is the day people start spending money even though customers likely wouldn’t know

[undone valve]

I think a bunch of sellers are also customers

[drowsy plaza]

Well hopefully fab gets better, epic seems to be putting in the work releasing that feature at 8pm their time

[undone valve]

It is very cool that they work at the evening to get things done 😄

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah, are marketplace sales showing up for you on fab? I can’t see them and still have to use the old publisher portal.

[undone valve]

They show for me

The date is buggy in the month view though

[drowsy plaza]

Hmm? Are you on desktop?

[undone valve]

Yes

[drowsy plaza]

I’m doing it on iPhone

Let me try desktop

[undone valve]

On mobile they dont show

[drowsy plaza]

That’s weird

[distant juniper]

Hell yeah, upvoted 🔥
I was just ranting about this yesterday.

I don't expect the average shopper has any idea what the difference is between a Smart Asset and a Game System. Heck, my Smart Asset includes a Game System, but more appropriately fits in the Smart Asset category, where I expect less visibility. (If anything, it belongs in both categories, but that's not allowed)
I'd like to have words with the Smart Asset who came up with these categories 😤

[chrome plank]

Hey I have a question, probably has been asked a couple of times before:
When claiming the Quixel Megascans on Fab now, will they still be owned and available for download after 2024 or do they ALL have to be downloaded now?

Oh wait, I just read when they are claimed now they are owned with the Fab license

phew

[plain elm]

Howdy folks, quick question. Is there a way to change to download location in the Unreal Engine Fab download window? Right now it's downloading all the assets to my temp assets folder in my C drive, which is less than ideal for my machine

[gentle light]

does anyone have a link with the diferent kind of licenses on fab?

[distant juniper]

Oh dear, it's not just the one asset. I wonder how much this is happening with other sellers

[tame compass]

understood thanks

[tame compass]

did this duplicated

[distant juniper]

No, they're identical assets from different sellers.

(sorry for all the bumps, I'm scrolling way up to get caught up)

[tardy charm]

This makes me believe this is intentional by the author and it's not an unauthorized reupload

and thats just fraud

Everything on "MOOB Music" seems to be replicated on "moonlight2024"

[tame compass]

prob from sketchfab and UE combined into 1

💀

[tardy charm]

sketchfab does not support music

these are audio packs

[distant juniper]

No. They are both for "Unreal Engine" and only Unreal Engine.

They both offer the same license options, just for different prices. Somebody stole from somebody, there's no two ways about it.
Since Fab is so new, I don't even feel like I can assume the older one is legit.

[gentle light]

can you guys tell me, wich of these license allows for comercial use?

[untold bay]

I have no idea what's going on with UEFN but all the others do

[gentle light]

so i have no risk downloading megascan at all?

thnx so much

[tardy charm]

considering this happened on 2 separate occasions, and on the same accounts on the both occasions, I would not trust either one of them, their other packs are probably full of copyright or something

[drowsy plaza]

epic listened, fab listing now embed in discord properly

https://www.fab.com/listings/98209de4-75ff-4078-9b42-f6acaf9441bd

[untold bay]

Credit to the team. They really are rapidly improving things and along the dimensions we've asked for.

I am hopeful for what it looks like a few months from now

(And yet still horribly demotivated to actually wrap up and launch my products given the current state)

[vestal sluice]

Seeing that there is an inhumanly amount of assets listed in both accounts, very high chance its all unmarked AI slop.

99.9% chance it is lol

I really wish epic gave us a creator block button. I want to completely remove such creators from my search permanently

[drowsy plaza]

Given they are listening to feedback if you leave it on the forums they may add it

[drowsy plaza]

Same, the other day someone said that this was likely a MVP for them on launch

[vestal sluice]

Do we create a separate forum thread or is there a central thread where we discuss about possible ideas ?

[drowsy plaza]

Just go to the fab forums and leave it under the feedback category. Staff will likely see it even if they don’t respond

[vestal sluice]

Posted it. Hopefully they make it someday.

[weary pebble]

hey there does anyone else have an issue with the fab plugin not being available for unreal and most of your library content missing? I'm completely unable to use fab or get my content. If I go to fab.com and try grab some content I've paid for then it just sends me to the EGL which does nothing. I've tried reinstalling EGL and all of my engine versions

[arctic plover]

It's the new launcher update. It broke everything.

[weary pebble]

great stuff

[arctic plover]

It's wonderful not having access to a significant percentage of my purchased content.

[weary pebble]

yeah I'm overjoyed

[arctic plover]

https://support.fab.com/s/?ProductOrigin=FabSupport

Make a support ticket

That's what I did. Although I'm not expecting much over the weekend, and who knows how long it'll take them once they even see it

[weary pebble]

Thanks for the link, just sent mine in, its a great way to launch the marketplace

[pulsar nova]

that's how it's always been with epic, except for the marketplace. You report something, someone looks at it and can't find the reason why you reported it.

and that's that

[limpid shard]

I have the same issue

[limpid shard]

Any solution?

[weary pebble]

nope, just file a support request, I tried a few other things and even uninstalled, nothing seems to fix it, seems like a friend could send you the plugin however

[spice wing]

So, I get on this afternoon to find almost 80% of my library comepletely missing in the epic games launcher. It still shows all of my assets in fab, however, and I can't redownloaad them, as doing so jsut does nothing, even when refreshing in the launcher. What's going on?
(copy pasted from general)

I relzie i'm not the only one

if you guys want to, ignore me

I see stuff up above

[arctic plover]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/fab-ue-plugin-no-longer-available-90-of-fab-epic-marketplace-items-missing-from-the-launcher/2099103/27

[cloud creek]

I had this problem (one of my purchased assets was unavailable) but was able to download my asset if I first selected "My Library" and then did the search.

[arctic plover]

Contact Fab support: https://support.fab.com/s/?ProductOrigin=FabSupport

more people speak up, more likely they are to fix it

[weary pebble]

tried this, the search doesn't find the missing assets of the fab plugin

[cloud creek]

Sorry to hear that. I'm accessing Fab via the web browser - I had to uninstall the plugin as I can't read the text when using it and there doesn't seem to be any way to upscale it.

[weary pebble]

I see, well at least it exists for you, like I said before I can't get it or the any content

[frosty nymph]

God damn this UI terrible and is like Hulu, this needs a rework. Plus everything was in one place but now its.... on a webpage, and you no longer can just click on add to cart in the marketplace viewer and now have to individually click go in and then add it and then for any of the other ones you need to repeat it. It was so much better in the epic games launcher

[untold bay]

i wanted to see the saucy mature content of these radial menus but sadly the product page doesn't open

[rare timber]

Trying to apply for Publishing on Fab but i keep getting stuck with this warning "An error occurred while trying to process the response from server. Please retry later or contact an admin for help.". Doesn't let me continue to the next steps. Anyone also faced this issue?

[weary pebble]

that's fixed it for me, thanks for the heads up, just refreshed and there it is!

[drowsy plaza]

I would try another browser, restarting your PC, and if none of that works contacting fab support. Could be an account permission issue or something

[turbid gulch]

Anyone else having screen flickering will scrolling resulting in the computer overheating issues with the fab website

Or assets refusing to show up on fab or the unreal vault until you purchase something even the same exact asset every single time

[undone valve]

Can someone please send me the Discord of the Scale XYZ products

[gentle light]

lol dont worry. now they are ewmerging new web payd service

made to label all your assets. they might expect us to use those

lool is very temtpting making business of this

the mspowertoys could be a great free solution

[azure crag]

Surely I'm not the only person getting this screen on the whole site

[tepid niche]

do you guys feel that the search has improved?

[drowsy plaza]

Yes

[drowsy plaza]

It loads for me

[tepid niche]

I'm for example looking for some gathering sounds, mining, chopping wood and stuff like that, the only thing i find is mining, but maybe there is not that many sounds for it on the marketplace anyway

but looking for "chopping" the first result is chopper sounds, i mean they tagged it with chop but still 😅

[drowsy plaza]

Well fab went back to marketplace style search where it’s more focused on titles rather than concepts, that’s good for sales but it’s bad if trying to find something being natural language.

Try “forestry sounds” or “axe chopping sounds” you also can just sample from places like artlist.io if you have money

[tepid niche]

kitchen sounds if you look for forestry sounds 😅

[drowsy plaza]

Maybe try breaking the sound down further, do wood breaking and axe hit sounds then combine them in a sound cue

[tepid niche]

yea i think there isn't that much sounds out there

btw does this mean the author didn't migrate his assets and they might get removed?

[tepid niche]

because at some point there was some discussion about, some assets getting automatically migrated, but if the author does interact after a certain amount of time, they will get removed or something?

[hasty kraken]

No freebies this month?

[trail heron]

tuesday.

[fresh sphinx]

Is anyone else's FAB sales reports not updating correctly? I made sales yesterday, and its displaying it correctly on the old publisher portal, but not on FAB's sales report

[serene escarp]

Can't allow fab to my EG account: 403 (Forbidden)

[undone valve]

Yes

[undone valve]

Try a different browser

[azure crag]

happens on all browsers I try

[undone valve]

Try to clear cache and cookies

[undone valve]

Yessir. I made another 2 sales yesterday. I think it is back to normal again. How about you?

And everyone who bought rated my product without me asking. Very cool

[worn cliff]

anyone alse had probles packaging with fab plugin on?

[lost venture]

Fab is a disaster man

[tepid niche]

Does this mean they eventually get removed?

[undone valve]

Yes. In 5 months or something if the developer hadn’t migrated yet

But you will be able to download them forever as far as I know. Just there won’t be any updates to never versions

[cursive chasm]

I'm curious how Fab will handle deleted/removed assets.

[tepid niche]

So if 5.5 drops I might have to migrate them myself?

I mean if I'm able to download them forever it's fine its just audio assets that I like

So it probably should be fine right?

[hasty kraken]

I had like 400 usd in my budget for halloween sales 😄 ended up buying kitchen appliances instead because there wasn't any sales 😄

[undone valve]

Yes. It it is just audio

[tepid niche]

sweet thx! 🙂

[tepid niche]

I'm also really missing the sales!

Also I first reading it, I thought you where buying kitchen appliance assets for 400 usd 😅

[ebon kelp]

Shall we make a petition to bring the old Unreal Marketplace back?

Losing all your wishlists is ridiculous. I emailed them and got a scrappy .pdf with what I had in my wishlist before. But still....

[trail heron]

would be a pointless waste of effort. better to petition for the changes you want to see in fab.

[arctic plover]

Are we sure about this? I was somewhat alarmed that server issues caused downloaded VaultCache items to not show up in launcher.

[drowsy plaza]

Nah I didn’t sell anything on the first, we’ll see about the rest of this week

My itch analytics seem to be back to normal though, hopefully sales return to normal for me and everyone else soon

[drowsy plaza]

I really hope they do a Black Friday sale, I feel like the code for doing sales is not finished yet which is why there have been none

[undone valve]

If you want to be on the safe side then backup UE marketplace licensed products that are important to you.

[undone valve]

Yeah probably

[ebon kelp]

Yeah, if Fab let us see the actual reviews and they revived our old wishlists then it would be OK to stay in it.

[tepid niche]

why are there some assets missing on fab?

Got some mocap animations a while ago, now it appears they are missing on fab, not sure if this guy just didn't migrate them or it's buggy

[undone valve]

Some people migrated but haven’t published yet.

[tepid niche]

other assets are already published, so I'm not sure

[wild hill]

wait who did you email? lol

[undone valve]

Could also be that the seller discontinued it and dont want to migrate it. Just ask the seller 😄

[bright hinge]

is there now a fab engine?

[white rune]

When will FAB give SALE discounts?

[tidal moss]

Haven't had a notification for it. No idea @white rune

[white rune]

Will we miss Halloween SALE?

[tidal moss]

I messaged them a month before the announced fab and asked why I didn't get any sale invitations. Apparently they were on hold. It seems fab isn't managed by epic games so no idea how it works.
Personally fab is a much worse version of the epic marketplace and that says a lot...

[eager flower]

Fight the System ! https://www.change.org/unrealmarketplace

[drowsy plaza]

Probably for Black Friday or Christmas will be the next big sale, I think their discount code wasn’t setup at launch.

Missing Black Friday will be a huge mistake so hopefully they get a sale going by then

[undone valve]

I think it would be cool if there was a personalized section on the home page. So if you search for a specific topic you get shown similar topic fitting things

we got embeds now on fab!

[hollow basin]

I think bringing the old marketplace back would be a step in the wrong direction. I agree with the sentiment and frustration, but it would take them even more time to bring back the old system, which is the same amount of time that'll it take to fix some issues in Fab. A more reasonable step I would say is that they should extend the 100% revenue split for however long as it takes for them to bring back the old features (written reviews, q&a, wishlists, etc). Since it's been a week and some days already it would be nice to for it to get extended that amount of time to make up for revenue lost due to Fab's missed promises on launch

[cursive chasm]

They dumped too much money into FAB to go back on it.

way too much money

[drowsy plaza]

It goes until January which is 60 days away, they could bring back wishlists, discounts, and written reviews by that time. Questions will be replaced by a FAQs page but I don’t know if users will be able to submit questions or not

I think it would be smart for the fab team to try to release one new feature every month, probably start with reviews or wishlists first since that’s the most requested one

[agile slate]

Any suggestions for a well optimezed big map for a soulds like game

[dire meteor]

Which is why it shouldn't be in the state it's in...

[undone valve]

This is cool though:

[drowsy plaza]

What is that?

[undone valve]

When you buy something you get a nice screen that shows you the products you purchased. + they are on top of your library which is very useful

[drowsy plaza]

Oh cool

[undone valve]

Do you know at what time the sales report updates?

[pliant shard]

4:40 AM GMT +3

[undone valve]

Thank you

[drowsy plaza]

845pm for me in central time

[undone valve]

2:40 AM Berlin Time

for me

[drowsy plaza]

Interesting, I would have thought they would have kept it consistent across time zones

[undone valve]

Nah. Their system is probably set up to gather all the sale info every 24 hours to keep things simple

[drowsy plaza]

I hate the concept of time zones, we don’t need 8am to 8pm to be during the daylight in every country

[undone valve]

True but It is weird if you say. I am waking up at 18 PM or something

I think it is actually quite important to have em

[drowsy plaza]

I’d just assume you are a league of legends player

[undone valve]

If I say I wake up at 5 am every day then you know I am dedicated independent of where I live 😄

[drowsy plaza]

It makes premieres and live events confusing though

[undone valve]

I always ask Chat GPT to convert it to my time 😄

[drowsy plaza]

It also confuses a lot of young people because they think time zones are actually different time. I’ve heard people talk like those in Australia are ahead of others in time since they can do stuff like play games early and stuff

[drowsy plaza]

When iPhones get chargpt integrated in Siri it’s over

I’ll be making my first purchases in fab next month, I’m gonna be porting my game to PS5 and I want to add a zombie mode to it for new content.

[undone valve]

Nice!

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah I’m thinking of getting a zombie model pack, some animations for them, and maybe a sound pack if it’s better than what artlist has

Also want to get a horror skybox for the mood

[tidal moss]

@eager flower they won't being it back since they changed their api. At best they could reinstate those features but even then, the tag system for instance is so broken finding an asset is impossible and it won't be solved.

[arctic plover]

I don't think you're understanding exactly what happened. Fab servers screwed up and we could no longer access our locally downloaded VaultCache content. Based on how that played out, it's unclear to me that content will still be available in launcher, even locally, if they sunset it from the Fab servers. So backing it up wouldn't do much good, short of backing up your entire Launcher, ProgramData, AppData, and VaultCache, which maybe is something worthwhile to do shortly before the cutoff, to be safe.

[tardy patrol]

Bought an asset that costed 63usd personal licence got charged 83usd the asset was a scam ,the refund link search was tedious

[slender topaz]

Will Fab work with unreal 5.1?

[jaunty dagger]

Sure it wasnt just taxes added after?

[jaunty dagger]

So it begins,

[bright hinge]

anyone know after is as many update as possible still can not find the Fab plugin That now we need to have our assets show up in our projects

[split iron]

Bit of an issue that I've heard nothing regarding sales. Xmas is approaching and associated sales days

[hasty kraken]

does fab support discounts?

I don't see any

[undone valve]

Don’t filter for categories

[slender topaz]

I bought animations off fab but can't download them cause I'm using ue 5.1. Will fab work for 5.1?

[undone valve]

There is no characters category?

[undone valve]

You can download them using the Epic Games launcher

[slender topaz]

The animation i bought doesn't appear on the launcher

[slender topaz]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/feral-zombie-animations - this animation right here

[raw lion]

Hey everyone! How do you delete a listing on fab? I cant seem to delete it from the listings page? Kind of weird. Delete listing is grayed out for everything

[undone valve]

You can. Press on the 3 dots when you are in your listings overview and press unlist listing

@raw lion

[raw lion]

yes, unlist is possible. but not deleting?

[undone valve]

Ouh sry. I dont know about deleting.

[raw lion]

there is a grayed out delete listing button

[charred mica]

You can't delete a live product, unlist it and then you can delete it.

[drowsy plaza]

Click the refresh button

[fresh sphinx]

Seems like they have fixed the fab link embed's

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah, I saw that.

[undone valve]

What is this?

[still basin]

Epic starting to do some cleanup?

[bright hinge]

following Smart Poly video fab plugin not found?

[undone valve]

Idk what smart poly did in his video but you need to search it in the epic games launcher

[bright hinge]

That photo is my epic game lancher

when i google ue5 this is what pops up

[drowsy plaza]

The photo above is from a web browser

[bright hinge]

I found it the drop down for looking for it had all the check marks unmarked thanks for any and all help

[undone valve]

This is not your epic games launcher bro

[bright hinge]

I found that out in my epic launcher the search drop down have many of the check marks not on. once i enable all the plugin showed up but thanks everyone for all the help

[undone valve]

For new code plugins you must use FABURL instead of amrketplaceURL. Kinda stupid as both work perfectly fine as they accept them for older version updates

Even more stupid as it auto generates with MarketplaceURL in UE5.4

[charred mica]

Yup, they accepted mine without it, but gave a error in technical details missing, I fixed it and resubmitted and then they remembered about Fab URL xd, and gave me error there. I think they changed the stuff recently.

[undone valve]

They at least could have made an engine fix then so it auto-generates correctly.

[jaunty dagger]

Not sure anymore just showed up after fab migration.

[drowsy plaza]

Rider doesn’t recognize it either, hopefully in 5.5 it does

5.5 will be a worthy upgrade for most projects with megalights and nanite skeletal meshes

[lavish steppe]

is fab going to continue the free for the month?

[jaunty dagger]

Yes

#unreal-news message

[velvet sequoia]

uh. how do i actually download things from fab? it says i own the item, but i have no way to actually download it. the marketplace only contains a link to Fab now, and idk how to get this Fab plugin

[drowsy plaza]

same way you installed content on the marketplace, the vault

go to the library tab of the launcher and search for the asset. you might need to refresh for ownership verification to occur

[velvet sequoia]

oh i never saw the vault before tbh

i see it now

thanks for telling me about that

so i have the fab plugin now, but how do i download the other plugin

omg i had to go to a different library page to find it for some reason

thats so confusing

wait wth its not even in that page

im missing the UI lab one

ok nvm i had to exit the launcher and relaunch

cancer

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1299795112859013250/1302754599039533136/image.png?ex=67294444&is=6727f2c4&hm=6b3f3015792c955d3b3b298c7aeaa79a8657c5d0b84bc7840eb967c2654a2637&

anyone know whats going on here?

ok i had to put it outside the engine folder

annoying

[sturdy hawk]

I'm starting to update the scrapping of Orbital Market for Fab, it should be available in the upcoming days with new features for discovery!
Small note while I'm trying to get the new uid for every product, it seems like there are about 4k products (out of 55k) that did not migrate to Fab.

[drowsy plaza]

@undone valve I just checked the sales reports today for fab and I sold 3 units in one day at full price. I don’t think I ever did that on marketplace. My sales for less popular products seem to be a little bit better on fab than the marketplace now that they fixed search

So far since fab launched I have sold 5 units for 130 dollars, most of that has been in the last 5 days too

[sturdy hawk]

Did you check on the Fab sales report or the Unreal sales report? It feels like the Fab one is buggy and missing sales.

[drowsy plaza]

The fab says it updates before bed time for me. It lines up with the old one, I’ve had no issues since its release

It being the sales report, fab had issues at release

They have not migrated over the marketplace sales though, so those are still missing from the fab sales reports

[arctic plover]

Orbital Market is probably helping sales more than anything on Fab. I made some purchases based on things I saw there, that I probably wouldn't have even seen with the terrible discovery that Fab has by default.

[split iron]

Does anyone think that fab is positive overall

[worldly flower]

Depends on the Point.

In terms of overall look - absolutely nice
In terms of speed - AWESOME
In terms of compatibility - aweful
In terms of accessibility - undecided - pages > endless lists.. Categories are aweful
In terms of the Plugin - Way to slow, to many clicking, not EOS-Plugin compatible..etc

Honestly, pushing this back by another 6 months into 2025, with an open beta phase and thorough bug tracking, would likely have yielded a far better product.

While Epic has once again labeled this as a “released” feature, in reality, it’s more of a beta — nothing more.
Epic is quick to mark things as released, even when they're far from stable. Just look at the initial release of CommonUI for comparison.

Things one gets used to after 10+ Years of working with products of that Company 😅

[undone valve]

I literally see you products everywhere now 😁

[undone valve]

For me the order is not sorted by date for some reason

[worldly flower]

maybe they sort in a Fibonacci algorithm?

[grand stratus]

Heya folks, reaching out cuz I have no idea what I'm doing wrong :p

I automatically moved over a plugin from the marketplace to FAB when that became available, but I'm now having some issues with users not being able to find the plugin in the plugins tab of the engine. My best guess as to what's causing this is the Distribution Method option in FAB, which is set to "Asset Package", which... isn't right, but the only other option is "Complete Project"? I feel like I must be missing something obvious - how do you distribute plugins with FAB??

[worldly flower]

Categories in FAB are way off.. even in the Launcher and the Plugin.

Can your plugin be found when all Categories are activated?

[grand stratus]

Nope, I can see it in the plugin and download it from there, but it never shows up in the engine's plugins tab

Thought weirdly, it does show up in the Project's plugins directory now that I look into it?

It's going into Engine/Plugins/Marketplace/... inside the project instead of the engine?? 😭

[undone valve]

They need to remove it and install it again. I had the same issue

And also they need to double check that they don’t have it twice

[summer cloud]

Can't even get past step 1 since yesterday

[granite moth]

fab is depressing

it's such a mess of everything.. am i the only one to think like this ?

[hasty kraken]

agreed

[fervent plinth]

not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but, i just claimed all the megascans on fab and was trying to download one and it sent me to the epic games launcher so how do i get to it from there? ive clicked around on a couple things and it is seemingly just taking me to fab .com

[peak widget]

Agreed.
I've made at least 90% of my decisions based on what Orbital provided me with, absolutely love that site!

[drowsy plaza]

Wait really?

[undone valve]

Yes.

[arctic plover]

And it's not because you keep hitting refresh on his seller page, right? 😛

[drowsy plaza]

That’s cool, where are you seeing them?

[undone valve]

Nah. ;D Maybe they introduced a bit of personalisation. Some sellers appear over and over again for me

[undone valve]

In search. Even when I search for unrelated things. I for example searched for Cinema recently and I got 2 products from you there 😄

[hollow garden]

Anyone having issue when using Fab then click "Add to Project" ? but after DL no content or static mesh was put under my UE project. 🤔

Only set of folders because i tried to add "Saloon Interior" from Fab inside UE under -> window

[drowsy plaza]

Interesting, I wonder if that is why the past 4 days have had more sales and why yesterday had 3 full price sales at once

[undone valve]

Could be the reason, yes. I sent you a DM btw. 😄

[hollow garden]

I get it now LOL, I just need to update my Fab plugin and some youtube tuts 😁

[turbid cliff]

Guys I don't get it. Why can other people drag fab items straight into their landscape for them to show? For me its not doing anything

[coral vault]

How is fab

[undone valve]

3/10

UE Marketplace was 7/10

[hasty kraken]

they released it too soon

honestly person who made that decision should be fired

[vale prawn]

You mean promoted to head of Unreal? Because that's what actually happened.

[hasty kraken]

what a joke

[dim fable]

7/10??

[undone valve]

Maybe an 8/10

[dim fable]

8?!!

My god, you're much more generous than I am

[last matrix]

Since it’s been a bit since launch. What’s everyone’s opinion with the new pro license option?

Has setting a higher price tier for your products gotten you better sales?

Or has it had a chilling effect on sales for you?

[undone valve]

I sold much. Thats why it is an 8 😄

[undone valve]

I overall got less sales but about the same revenue due to the professional price 😄

[last matrix]

so far I have only made 3 sales toward the end of October. I have yet to make a sale this month.

I am wondering if I should stick it out through to a full month to really see how it does or get rid of the higher price tier

side note: invitations to Fab's first black friday sale have just gone out

[undone valve]

OMG FAB SALE

I GOT INVITED

@drowsy plaza

You too?

[last matrix]

everyone who sells on the asset store should get invites to the big sales every year

[drowsy plaza]

I didnt, not yet at least

is it a storewide sale?

[undone valve]

In the email it says that only people get invited that have Fab Marketing email notifications enabled.

[drowsy plaza]

also im trying out your emoji description style with my new product, if it helps I will update the other products to have emojis too

[drowsy plaza]

let me check that

yeah I have fab emails, ill check it out in a bit. maybe they didnt send it to everyone yet or not everyone is included

is it for black friday?

[undone valve]

Yes

It probably takes some time to reach everyone

[drowsy plaza]

hmm, maybe its because of my post on the forums

I made a post about sales drying up last week.

[drowsy plaza]

maybe, ill check it again later tonight

[drowsy plaza]

could be, with apex I always get their email announcements 3 days after its released

[undone valve]

I meant they probably have a big mailing list. I often get mails from Epic on on account first and on the other hours later

[drowsy plaza]

true, with black friday I would expect them to invite most sellers

black friday is the one sale a year where customers expect everything in a store to be on discount

heres to hoping I get an invite

[crude owl]

Rotation and Tiling x/y removed from Material instance after fab?

This one is before Fab

I want to tile it in x direction, please help if possible

[drowsy plaza]

Your gonna need to go in the master material and setup X and Y tiling

[crude owl]

It means they really removed these options?

[drowsy plaza]

It means they simplified the material slightly, just go add it back. They didn’t remove tiling in unreal

[crude owl]

I just know the basics of texturing in Unreal engine 5 because I do most of my texturing in Substance painter. That's why it was a big deal for me, but I'll try

thanks for the help bro

[drowsy plaza]

You can tile the texture in substance if that’s easier for you, there are tutorials on tiling textures in unreal materials

Matt Ashland probably has one. Basically you multiply the texture coordinate node by two constants appended together that represent X and Y.

[median jackal]

Hey everyone i'm a solo dev that took a long break from his project but upon returing to working on it i saw something about epic switching to fab. My question is do i need fab to work inside unreal engine or even for assets for my project? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

[ornate crane]

I one hundred percent agree with this.

[ornate crane]

Ya, I do like the search, I wouldn't have been able to come across the following product on the marketplace. https://www.fab.com/listings/c9eaf851-4b3d-4066-9ab4-4019b40b25a4

---

But looking through the browsing is really bad.

[drowsy plaza]

I do find search in its current state to be better than the marketplace search was

[drowsy plaza]

Fab is just the replacement for the unreal marketplace

[median jackal]

Ok so I don’t have to change over. Thank you

[drowsy plaza]

You have to use fab to buy assets but it’s not a engine just a store

[median jackal]

ok. thanks for the clarification

[hollow basin]

I didn't get invited either yet, and I usually am for the normal event sales (non-themed)

[drowsy plaza]

I’ve been in every sale including showcase, free for the month(twice), and custom publisher sales. I didn’t get this one yet, I don’t know if they didn’t send it out to everyone or what

My friend at betide studio didn’t get invited either and he makes really good sales on the marketplace and now fab

[undone valve]

The one I got was localized in German. They might be working on more localizations or something?

[drowsy plaza]

Possibly, maybe they are doing region based sales

[hollow basin]

Also if you could let me know about the emoji results. I feel like it's more informal and I am pandering to an audience younger than me, but hey if it works, I guess that's reason enough

[drowsy plaza]

It probably will be a week or two before I know but I’ll try to tag you and let you know the results. All of my others use the standard text/paragraph/feature list format

[drowsy plaza]

One thing I kinda miss from the marketplace was the short description

[hollow basin]

I have found that younger audiences are bigger audiences, around the age of 20 to 40 seems to be the largest in my findings. So it would make sense to target your description format for that age. The unreal engine videos I make are starting to be formatted for a younger audience as well. I change the camera focus every 5-15 seconds and never have a dull or filler moment and it's exhausting for editing since there are like 50 individual clips in a 10 minutes video. But my average viewer age range changed from 35-45 to 25-35. Which also increased my audience size. I miss the days of recording once with a single screen capture but it just doesn't perform as well on youtube anymore

[drowsy plaza]

I did find that using the emoji format was a bit easier to read given it focused more on digestible reading

Easier to write too since it was all very short writing

[pliant shard]

Sales are downed

not good sign

[sacred summit]

how to import from fab?

[undone estuary]

@sacred summitdownload the assets from the website, or install the fab plugin into the engine

[sacred summit]

thnx

[vestal sluice]

It's Nov5, and still no sale invitation. I dont think we are getting a sale this month 😦

[vestal sluice]

Seriously ? I didn't receive any mail.

[worldly flower]

lol.. after EasyMultiSave Update I realized, all my plugins are installed double xD

MAAAAAAN..
So.. reinstalling the whole engine now.. maybe faster than deinstalling all plugins and reinstalling again

[young flare]

Anyone know of a good asset pack of First Person Shooter hand and gun animations? Or a kit with a good Pawn class with FPS animations already? Even that would be cool so I could atleast use it as reference.

[pliant shard]

Go to fab write fps animations than check yushfx store

hope you like it

[worldly flower]

or simply search for "FPS" in the unreal section..

https://www.fab.com/channels/unreal-engine?q=FPS

[young flare]

Yeah I did that, but I was looking for recommendations on which ones are good

I know how to use a search bar, but there's a lot of options.

[pliant shard]

What type of fps anims you want? SMG rifles?

[young flare]

Mostly rifles and pistols

[pliant shard]

I'm gonna release smg and rifle packs but

Still Work in Progress

[young flare]

best of luck

[pliant shard]

thanks

[flat island]

If they don't invite everyone to Black Friday, it's going to be really bad :/

[crude owl]

I think i can do it, I'll give it a try and thank you once again brother

[steel sky]

I like Project FPS, pretty cheap but it's a blueprint pack. Compared to like the other template projects that cost $120 to $300

There's also FPS Multiplayer Controller, FPS Toolkit Lite, and one more I'm missing that I could probably slightly recommend?

[undone valve]

We do get a sale this month!

It can’t be that I am the only one who got invited?

[violet drift]

Probably you are not the only one, but I didn't get invite either (and by the sound of it majority didn't - you are the only one I seen here and there admitting to getting the invite)

[charred mica]

Seems like multiple of them got the invite but majority didn't, but it's a large seller base so it may take time to get to everyone 🤞

[vestal sluice]

That's awesome. Maybe there is some technical issue causing the email to not send to every seller. I checked my spam, but nothing.

[glossy idol]

Hey peeps,
I noticed that fab now has a sales report page which is great but its only displaying sales from last month and won't display anything from this month however if I go onto the old sales portal on unrealengine.com, it shows me sales reports for both last month and this month. I was wondering if anyone else is having this issue where its not showing this months?

[undone valve]

Set a day range instead of selecting a month. That should work

[tame tundra]

Monthly free stuff still happening on fab or is that done? 👀😹

[pulsar nova]

I heard something about every two weeks but the authors get paid a bit less

[thick gazelle]

No haloween sale, any black friday sale expected?
Honestly, me personally im spending much less time on fab, and definately less interrested with a deal silence on sales...especially since the holidays.

[floral depot]

free for the month (2 weeks now) is bugged)

[lament flame]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/fabfreecontent
the old ones are still free for some reason

[drowsy plaza]

im pretty sure it updates at 10am

[floral depot]

10 am ET

[tepid niche]

is there any free for the month now?

can somebody give me the TLDR; ?

[floral depot]

It's every two weeks now

[drowsy plaza]

the sponsored free content is gone for me, did they not get any applicants for it?

[tepid niche]

But is there some new content today?

[floral depot]

Yes, they are bugged. Just saw them took them down #fab message

[tepid niche]

ohh okk

was ist 3 or 5? ^^

[floral depot]

Only saw 3

[tepid niche]

ohh ok

[tepid niche]

thx btw 🙂

[neon stump]

Ah I see, have the freebies not been updated yet then, I assume?

[glossy idol]

Thanks

[drowsy plaza]

If nothing shows up after using specific date list then that means you didn’t make any sales

[glossy idol]

Yeah I know that but I thought when selecting the month, it would just show everything for the month so far.

[drowsy plaza]

Oh okay, monthly reports are generated after it ends, so you should see a monthly report for November in December

[glossy idol]

Ah ok. Kinda annoying in my opinion but ok.

[drowsy plaza]

yeah it would be nice if we could see the monthly summary before the month ends

[pliant forum]

So how do you even find the bi-weekly free rotation? Nothing on FAB front page

[faint nexus]

Epic bungled the free content for the month as well? Sigh...

[hoary kettle]

it is unclear how to get the free monthly(or ever two weeks right now) assets. can someone explain?

can't seem to Hide Owned Assets either.. i knew this was going to be a shitstorm, but this is absurd.

[vale prawn]

Free for the month next two weeks might be broken, but at least we got patch notes: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/fab-release-notes/2106369

[hoary kettle]

ok i think this may be it.. if you scroll down on the fab home page, you eventually get to:

[drowsy plaza]

Is it normal for web products to have their versions not start with 1.xxxx?

[hoary kettle]

they love to say these things, but i am not sure that this 'contract' is anywhere near binding in the US, or elsewhere.

in that case.. by existing, Epic waves the right to charge use anything for any assets we desire to own, and therefore must make them freely available to all.
see how easy that is!

[quasi ether]

Where can I buy a bunch of ArchViz ready 3d scenes for Unreal? I am doing some plugin R&D and I need a ton of 3d environments to test out my logic.

[drowsy plaza]

Are you planning on suing them? That has nothing to do with giving away IP they don’t own for free.

[hoary kettle]

it is an absurdity i stated, as absurd as thinking they can just basically say, 'if you want to interact with us, you can't sue us in the way that is your right in the US.' it is meant as an absurd statement to an absurd 'agreement'

[drowsy plaza]

Every product has this contract, it prevents frivolous lawsuits from people who want to get rich by exploiting the legal system.

You don’t have to sign it and use fab, that’s always an option

[hoary kettle]

until it isn't.

[drowsy plaza]

Epic games isn’t the government bro, they can’t force you to use their products and Tim Sweeney doesn’t seem to be using the government to create monopolies

[hoary kettle]

fred didn't do that, so george won't either..

[thick gazelle]

3 items on the whole Unreal section on sale...and its 0% discount... welcome to the future 🤷‍♂️

[pliant shard]

ACtaully i wanna see new releases and speacial offers on the main page

Couse in that case fab doesn't support customers.

New releases have to be visible on the main page.Quixel is good and only few markets makes scanned assets(it's overhard and requires moneh even 5K equipments making garbages trust me)

[hoary kettle]

lol, i saw that too @ Ber*

[drowsy plaza]

It’s every 2 weeks now, so we get 6 items a month instead of the previous 5.

[drowsy plaza]

I hope they add that. What’s weird is on their promo website before release, they add a demo video and it had new releases on the front page, so maybe they disabled it for the time being until new releases become more common.

[hoary kettle]

you are not understanding @drowsy plaza there are 3 items, marked as on sale. their discount is 0% discount, meaning full price (unless something odd happens when you add to cart)

[unreal stratus]

if you go through checkout or click "buy now", they'll show the proper 100% discount, it's just a visual bug

[drowsy plaza]

aside from the bug showing 0% I really like how discounts show up on fab, its very noticable when searching

[tidal crown]

Im not understanding where the monthly (now bi weekly) free content exists? It shows a cost for me

[violet drift]

it will show 0 during checkout

[thick gazelle]

Is this issue being addressed?

[hoary kettle]

no idea

[lavish steppe]

is there a link to this free stuff, or do i need to just hunt the market

[tardy charm]

Discover > Unreal Engine and turn on the sale filter

You used to be able to go to the free for the month half a month page directly from the home page but it seems they got rid of it. Perhaps a temporary thing to fix the visual-only bug with sale being 0%

[candid rivet]

also, can't find the free for month, when i discover->unreal->sales i only see one of them

[modest finch]

Same for me

[undone oxide]

It was 3 earlier, now I only see 1, it's likely something they are working on

[cloud creek]

They seem to be testing code changes on the live system 😦

[hoary kettle]

no surprise, they've been doing that for years, in the engine itself :/

[drowsy plaza]

does epic care if you submit 1 new product a day? I am working on making cheaper lite versions of my existing products and that means submitting 6 "new" products with each version taking me about a day to convert to lite

[south sinew]

why do you need to submit one product a day?

[still basin]

I saw some AI publisher releasing 360 assets in a year

So I guess you're safe with 6

[drowsy plaza]

Because it takes roughly 1 day to make each lite version and get the fab page ready to submit

[drowsy plaza]

These AI guys work weekends and holidays lol

[faint nexus]

*AI generation is working weekends and holidays. I don't give them any credit.

[drowsy plaza]

I mean someone has to do the prompt, file saving/organizing, and setup fab store page.

[still basin]

Definitely haha

[last matrix]

Well, one of my $20 sold yesterday, combined with the other sales in the last week of Oct, at least for me, it looks like things are probably at least the same as the old asset store for sales frequency

[drowsy plaza]

One thing that is annoying me about fab is the reviewers don’t read the documentation, they failed my product because the character won’t move but at the top of the documentation I say you need to setup action input events

I’m pretty sure I put it on the store page description too

What’s weird is they approved the lite version, so whoever reviewed the pro version didn’t read the documentation

I guess what I have to do is add the note to the product description for the review to read the documentation and then after I can delete that

[sturdy hawk]

Orbital Market now pulls items from Fab 🥳 ! (https://orbital-market.com/)

• Items pull are ONLY Unreal Engine items
• AI stuff is hidden (maybe I'll add a button to show them later)
• The landing page show the most popular items from last month and all time

Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/1gklx43/orbital_market_a_search_engine_for_the/

[lofty musk]

is there a filter i can filter rigged or not? trying to find some clothing

[undone valve]

Great. What happens to products that aren’t available on Fab anymore but were on UE marketplace?

[warm knot]

UE marketplace had a strict copyright ruleset for publishers to follow, but with Fab I'm seeing a lot of gun assets that break those rules. I'm seeing real life brand names being used, and the gun model geometry is nearly true to life. Is Epic being lax on the rules now, or are these gun assets just carry-overs from Sketchfab?

[jaunty dagger]

Some were carry-overs for sure not sure about others. Some guns are able to be made without licensing but list is very small iirc.

[warm knot]

You can make guns with expired patents, like an Uzi for example. But I'm seeing names like Smith & Wesson and Taurus, and it's for their newer gun models.

[jaunty dagger]

Seems like something to avoid

Although from what I read online if it is slightly different in shape, and uses different name it's fine

🤷

[last matrix]

Def a lot of that came from sketchfab. I’m pretty sure epic moderation is starting to remove those offenders. There’s just a lot for them to work through

[solar nacelle]

Hi guys!
Can someone please explain on how to add metahumans to a scene via fab launch?

[worldly flower]

Still no Update for EOS compatibility with the FAB plugin.. damn..

i now even got Code Plugins that get installed to the project Folder as
ProjectFolder/Engine/Plugins/Marketplace/

Absolutely silly..

[hardy kettle]

Hi. A short question. I have some assets I want to publish on Fab.
If I want to have UE5+ compatibility, It's enough to send to Fab only from UE5.0 for should I send from all versions?

[worldly flower]

For Code/BP Plugins:
Each Major version needs its own compiled/packaged Plugin version
5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and soon 5.5

Subversion like 5.4.4 are normally working with the major ones.

[last matrix]

whenever you submit a product to sell on the store, you need at least one version of your package that supports the latest version of the engine.

[hardy kettle]

Thank you!

[last matrix]

If I want a product I'm working on to support older versions, I usually build it in the oldest version I want to support. When I'm all done I progressivly move it up to the newest version, saving off builds of the package as I go.

After your product is approved and up on the store, you can add in the rest of copies of your package for each older version of the engine you want to support

[hardy kettle]

Thank you 🙏
I'm installing now, also the older versions I want to support. Hope I don't need a new hard 😆

I have a new question though. I've submitted my assets and got rejected multiple times. I don't understand some things tho..

This means, if I have inside Content -> MyProject -> Rock (Inside I need to have Materials and Static Meshes folder?) Or inside the rock folder, all the files? from SM, MI, Textures?

[last matrix]

typically most users stay up to date on engine versions, so when I make a new pack I usually only support 3 or 4 older builds of the engine from the newest one

[hardy kettle]

This is the complete line ☺️

[last matrix]

you will have 1 folder in the content folder that will hold everything in your package, named with the name of your product, and inside that folder you can organize it however you want

[hardy kettle]

That's my structure

[last matrix]

I typlically have folders labled: Maps, Materials, Meshes, Textures

[hardy kettle]

I had in that way, but first rejected it, because told me, to put everything in one folder (their respective asset)

Now, I need to change it back

[last matrix]

yeah it will be a lot cleaner when that is all sorted into folders for the type of asset it is like what I described above

[little mantle]

Any trick to getting fab purchases to show up in launcher Library? Just wait x hours?
EDIT : Force closed launcher in task manager, now refreshed

[sturdy hawk]

I don't think so, your best bet would be to filter by category (only smart-asset) 🤔 ?
https://orbital-market.com/search?searchText=clothing&categories=smart-asset

[sturdy hawk]

They're hidden, I didn't find a good reason to keep them... (There are about 2000 products that did not migrate, most of which are either Unreal content like "Shooter Game" or product with zero reviews)

[thorny compass]

Our Hero ❤️

Of Brine 🤔

[undone valve]

The issue I am facing is that I own some products that aren't on Fab anymore and now I cant access a products documentation as there is no shop site for it. It would be amazing if we had a section somewhere with the "deprecated" products or a way to download a list of them somehow 😄

[sturdy hawk]

Ooooh, I'll add them back! Do you have a product name so I can test it?

[undone valve]

Yes. For example "SetupUEr"

Maybe you can add a little thing symbolizing that it is not available or something. Or a separate section

[silent mesa]

I wanted to buy the Kriss vector look a like, creator assured me its not the same as the original one.

[silent mesa]

Epic should hire you or pay you at least for helping them out with an alternative hehe

[warm knot]

I guess if he changed little details here and there, like the trigger or grip pattern, then he could argue that it's technically not the same. Question is, will Epic risk allowing it?

[sturdy hawk]

That would awesome, because Orbital Market is kind of a money sink, but one can dream I guess 😂

[cedar bone]

whats with the trello FAB list?
how do u add to this?

i would want a way to filter UE assets that are C++ assets

[cursive chasm]

bummer they can't offer you an affiliate commission. Even if 1-2%.

[glossy idol]

Hey peeps,
I was just wondering, has epic said anything about implimenting a system encouraging buyers to leave reviews for purchased products? Kind of like a "Hey you purchased this a month ago. What did you think of it?" kind of thing? I find I'm making sales by the amount of reviews I get in return are slim to none and though Epic might be able to encourage it a bit more.

[worldly flower]

Uh - nice.. seems like a Ticket for the EOS compatibility has been created 🙂

[charred mica]

Yea, good to see them taking steps for this, didn't expect this quick of a solution.

[ivory aspen]

Having a separate category for "Characters" would be nice, side by side with the regular "Smart Assets"
Or at least a sub category to them

Also, does adding a link to the description helps with the ranking on Orbital like it used to?

[sturdy hawk]

Well, that's on fab, I just scrapped the available categories 😕 ... But I'll add tag filtering too.

[ivory aspen]

They have these annoying sub categories also, which I suspect, very few people use

[sturdy hawk]

Ooooh! I'll scrap it too then!

[split iron]

Still haven't received anything regarding sales, esp. black friday
Assume its same for other sellers?

[pliant forum]

Yupp, no email yet.

[drowsy plaza]

No email for me either

Nikolas got a invite though, so I guess this year Black Friday is for select users, maybe they are using it as a beta test for their sales code

[hoary kettle]

for anyone still looking, here is a link to the free content for the month/every two weeks right now
~~https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/fabfreecontent~~
#ue5-general message
Edit: Link to free assets on the fab homepage is now present and working (for the time being, at least)

[dire meteor]

Except it's wrong or the website is bad.
I opened one of the assets and it's still listed as costing $50.

(Should have put that here)

[tame compass]

3d model previewer always stuck saving your scene dont close tab

its been 20 minutes

what do i do

[proper dew]

Does anyone know if fab stores your assets the same way bridge/launcher vault does, in a folder somewhere on the computer or are the assets directly added to your project?

[vale prawn]

Well look at that: https://www.fab.com/listings/e60b963a-1302-4289-9158-f6cfcaa9c001
Some people might remember that it got live in the MP before being taken down for being a ripoff from The Crew. A few years later, and it's once again published live. Great work, Epic. Just great.

[flat island]

I didn't receive either, it's a bit unfair

[meager dust]

Did they get rid of a lot of the very obviously infringing IP models yet either?

[flat island]

Everyone should get an invitation to Black Friday

[split iron]

Well that's some BS lol

[drowsy plaza]

Are you sure that’s a direct rip from the crew? They used a custom engine with custom tooling and most of it was procedural tooling

They could rip the model but not the tooling from the custom engine that built the environment into unreal, at least not with ease

[pliant forum]

Just got the sale invitation. Check the spam/junk folders guys

[undone valve]

Yessir. I am not the only one

[undone valve]

I literally just used that haha. But there literally is no human bundle. I need some variety so I got a ton of different NPCs

[pliant shard]

Sales reports are uptaded right?

[drowsy plaza]

Try mixing daz3d and using metatailor to dresss them

Then put their textures in substance designer to get a consistent look

[undone valve]

Looks promising, Thank you!

[drowsy plaza]

For daz you might need to buy some hair styles but for the most part they have free male and female types with changeable skin color

Anyone else getting a “sorry you are visiting our service too frequently” when trying to sign into fab?

[glossy idol]

I've not had any invite to any sale yet.

[narrow wave]

As someone who has played The Crew, that is without a doubt ripped from The Crew. I'll jump in the game and try to recreate all those screenshots

[drowsy plaza]

The crew servers went offline, so you can’t.

How did they setup the map? I presume the crew used procedural generation tools from the disrupt engine

[narrow wave]

Not The Crew 2 which is basically the same, and I'm not sure it's ripped from 1 or 2

[drowsy plaza]

Oh wait it ran on the babel engine

It’s weird how ubisoft has like 5 or 6 different game engines they use

[narrow wave]

I'm aware people have worked on tools to do that stuff to The Crew, so it's not that surprising

[narrow wave]

Can't get the sun in the same place, but here's my recreation of the first image from the fab listing

[drowsy plaza]

Hmm yeah those are the same places and models, I wonder how the seller managed to migrate the tools to unreal that were in the babel engine, that map looks proc genes

Unless he manually placed stuff

[undone valve]

He probably had access to the source files and therefore had every position of every model.

[drowsy plaza]

That’s true, he could just input the vectors

Fab really needs a report button where users can report fraud

[narrow wave]

I'm thinking it's from The Crew 1 since there are some differences like lower quality models from what I'm seeing in The Crew 2

[drowsy plaza]

Oh they did add it, that’s good

[tawny hinge]

did anyone report it yet?

i haven't played the crew so i would prefer if someone who knows whats up does it

[undone valve]

This was since day 1 but the options are not very good when you try to report something. And for copyright stuff and fraud only the copyright holder can report it so it seems

[vestal sluice]

Sales report already got updated right ?

[drowsy plaza]

It is now, it updates every day as of 3 minutes ago your time zone

I’ve noticed something odd about fab compared to the marketplace, when I sell on fab I sell multiple products in a day but then it settles down for a couple days then repeats, on the marketplace I sold 1 product once a day or 1 product 3-5 times a week

So it comes out to a similar sales amount but fab has more users on specific days I guess

[daring bridge]

has anyone had problems as a seller updating their fab/ue marketplace assets? I've just released an update, had it approved and released, deleted local content and the new version isn't being deployed.
the updated asset was supposedly released 15 hours ago

[drowsy plaza]

I have not had that issue, I would for sure contact epic games fab support about that. Maybe a glitch on their CDN stuff happened

[daring bridge]

yeah, done that. I was just wondering if I missed something obvious

[narrow wave]

And here's my recreation of the other images

[vestal sluice]

Damn so no sales today either. Wished the report just said 0 sales instead of not reporting anything. Makes it feel as if the system isn’t updating.

[drowsy plaza]

It does say “no sales reported” but yeah showing a 0 dollars would be better

[strange thicket]

hey guys, is there a way to use Fab with Blender? I wanna create meshes for UE in Blender using textures from Fab

[vestal sluice]

day 16 of fab, and searching for rocks still gives us rocking chair lol

[last matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/tmnt-all-right-lets-rock-n-roll-dudes-lets-rock-and-roll-lets-roll-tmnt-iii-gif-23483446

[loud dome]

My last sale was the 30 according to marketplace report. Fab says last was the 28th..
Went from 1-2 sales per day to 0 last week with fab 🥲

[vestal sluice]

I am guessing the single biggest culprit to poor sales can be blamed on the broken search alone

[cursive chasm]

I already bookmarked your meshpacker. Will be buying it next month. 🙂

[white rune]

When Halloween SALE?

[rigid kernel]

is epic going to continue giving away free monthly assets on fab?

[vale prawn]

In approx 51 weeks

[vale prawn]

Yes, but it's every two weeks now

[ancient badge]

Each time fewer contents? Like it has 3 this time

[vale prawn]

I'm guessing they went from 4~6 every months to ~3 every two weeks, which would average the same

[white rune]

I do not like a single thing about FAB it just sucks the current state it is in

[cursive chasm]

I much prefer fab over the old UE marketplace. UX needs some polish but it has a lot more upward movement it can make over the old marketplace being stuck in the epic games launcher. It needed to be exclusively in a browser.

[meager dust]

I'll bite, what's actually better about it?

[tawny hinge]

it's still kind of stuck in the EGS eco-system

it most likely was a meeting like "How can we make UE MP more generic" instead of "How would we make an MP which doesn't have the flaws of UE MP"

and i'm kinda salty that linux users still don't have any official way to download the plugins they bought...

[thick sluice]

Anyone elses fab.com redirecting them to fab.com/fr ???

Why am i getting the redirected to french fab

[undone valve]

You can change the language on the top right.

[thick sluice]

yeah im jus wondering why its getting redirecting to the /fr/ version on desktop and mobile now

[steel sky]

Well Tim Sweeney said Linux is the Canada of OSes sooo I doubt there will be any linux support

[tawny hinge]

that sounds like a compliment to linux

[drowsy plaza]

https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-chad-gif-20773266

That’s Tim Sweeney, I guess windows is the America and Mac is the Europe

[glossy idol]

Hey peeps,
Sometimes when I hover over Publish on Fab, I don't get the drop down option that's meant to appear. Does anyone else get this? I have to refresh the page in order to get it work. Tried on both chrome and firefox, same issue.

[drowsy plaza]

Anyone else having trouble reaching fabs website?

Never mind, just got in

[lapis spindle]

Fab down?

[drowsy plaza]

check to make sure you are signed in with your seller account

[drowsy plaza]

I was having issues too but it seems to be working again

[glossy idol]

Yeah I'm signed in.

[meager dust]

affects all users building from source. adding a direct download button on Fab would be an easy solve

but not holding my breath for that

[drowsy plaza]

double check, the publish drop down only appears if you have a seller account logged in with those permissions. fab doesnt always retain your login info

is there a way to get the fab listing page before its published? I noticed the string in the publisher portal is different from the live version

[undone valve]

You can just put the developer one there. They will accept it

If you are asking about creating .uplugin files

[drowsy plaza]

but wouldnt I need to remember to change it after?

[undone valve]

I changed nothing.

[drowsy plaza]

oh no I meant for the store page, I am trying to do lite and pro versions with each offering a upgrade/check out link

[undone valve]

ahhh. I thought you were talking about .uplugin files

[undone valve]

I dont know about that :/

[drowsy plaza]

I guess I can just patch that in after its live, the description and store asset changes are automated for approval and approved within minutes

https://www.fab.com/listings/f3a3b7f8-4bad-40c3-87eb-8e942ef74936

I wanna know how this is free, this asset looks fantastic. so many use cases for it and it comes with the blender file

https://www.fab.com/listings/006dd3aa-9289-4173-869c-5170e83f6c13

This one is actually kinda cool, could be used for a control style game

[mint olive]

Uhm... I am migrating from the old marketplace and asks me to pick my "Creator Code"... but it doesn't explain what this 😐

[drowsy plaza]

its like a username for the platform

[mint olive]

I found something along the lines of:

Creator codes
Players can support a Fortnite creator by entering their code in the game through the "Support-A-Creator" button. Creators can also share referral links on their channels or promote their creator code to supporters to get credit for sales.
But I don't know if this is only for fortnite or applies to fab 😐

[drowsy plaza]

its used in UEFN

[split iron]

Oh I got a Black Friday sale invite. Seems invitations are very staggered (multiple days)

[vestal sluice]

Same here, finally got the mail 20 min ago 🙌

[drowsy plaza]

Betide just sent me the form link so I just filled it out, I got a confirmation email and no response about issues

I’ll know in the 25th if filling out the form worked

[glossy idol]

Hey peeps,
Got the sale invite but got a question. It says items must be listed for at least 30 days. In the signup sheet there's a question which says include all products or include specific products. If I select all products, will Epic automatically ignore the product that hasn't been listed for 30 days or do I need to add all my products myself to avoid an issue? It won't be 30 days by the start date of sale.

[tribal wave]

is the Fab plugin available now? I'm having a hard time finding where they hid it found it

[hollow basin]

Last time I selected all products. I only had one at the time I signed up but I uploaded another product right before the sale and it was discounted too. That was in the UE marketplace though, Fab may be different. Now I feel left out, not gotten the invite yet 😦

[flat island]

I didn't get an invitation to the sale either :/

[green seal]

Just give it some time, black friday isnt for another 2-3 weeks anyway 🙂 I didn't get it either but I'm sure it'll be on its way sooner or later

[charred mica]

You can use this : https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/black-friday-sale-invite/2109751

[green seal]

The admins in the FAB discord advise to not use someone elses link

They recommend waiting a bit

[dull solstice]

Does FAB have the ability to include a video with the product listing? I see images (png, jpg, jpeg) and 3d models but nothing about a video

[undone valve]

Nope

[charred mica]

Yes, but Abby (staff) posted the announcement and it's not user-specific, so you can.

[green seal]

dyou have a link?

[charred mica]

For the announcement? I shared above.

[hot peak]

You will also get a confirmation email if the signup to the sale was successful.

[green seal]

awesome thanks!

[drowsy plaza]

I’m surprised they posted it on the forums, I guess they were getting a lot of questions since the marketplace stopped doing public sales in June

And the email system was taking a while

[hollow basin]

I will say I appreciate the speed of them approving my product update on Fab. Only took 4 hours today. Before Fab, it averaged 2 day wait times for me

[drowsy plaza]

Mine was mixed, I think it depends on the type of asset. My cel shader took 6 hours to be approved but my plugin took a couple days

[solid girder]

Is there a script to add all to library? It says I own them but they aren't added to library yet

[hollow basin]

Mine was a blueprint so that makes sense

[zenith elk]

Why is Epic so good and yet so bad? 😅 Love the assets giveaways and the new fab marketplace look, much faster and easier to look through my library and the generous revenue share to creators.

However, why the lack of wishlists and written reviews?

[drowsy plaza]

They are coming either end of this year or early next year, this was a MVP launch I think so it wasn’t feature complete on day 1

Current limited data suggests that fab is actually better for my sales/revenue than the marketplace was after they fixed their discovery problems on launch. I’ve made about 180 dollars on fab in the first 7 days of this month with my average price being 30-40 dollars and a couple 5 dollar things, on the marketplace for September and October the first 7 days of the month were around 110-130

One thing that’s helping is the days I do sell stuff, multiple products are sold not just one thing per day

[zenith elk]

You have heard that written reviews are coming?

[drowsy plaza]

Yes it was on their announcement roadmap

[zenith elk]

They should have put it in the FAQ or in the introduction page.

I think a lot of people don't know this right?

[dusk ibex]

There's only 3 free contents per month now? And it's not for a whole month. Bruh this is a downgrade

[hollow basin]

Woo I made my first sale of a professional license on my biggest product. Tis a good month. I am starting like fab a lot more

[proper dew]

Yeah but the assets change every 2 weeks. So theoratically speaking you get 6 free assets per month.

[vale prawn]

It seems no new Unreal assets got published to Fab in ~20h, which is very weird. On average it's more like ~20min between new products. Either something's wrong on the publishing side, or on the display/sorting side.

[dull solstice]

This black friday sales link gives me 404 or private. Is anyone else able to access it?

[charred mica]

You need to be logged in with your Publisher account I think as it's in the Publisher's Hub.

[dull solstice]

Seems like my fab account and epic aren't properly synced. I'll have to look into it more 😐 Thanks for the response though!

[next badge]

wait fab have a discord?

[undone valve]

How is this a downgrade when we now get 6 assets a month instead of 5?

[undone valve]

The sorting for Newest doesnt work correctly

[undone valve]

Its not advised to use the link of someone else. Just wait for your invitation email

[drowsy plaza]

I think buyers trust in the platform is increasing now

[drowsy plaza]

Epic staff posted the link on the forums and said everyone can use it

[undone valve]

My sales are not completely back to normal but due to the professional pricing I make about the same money

[undone valve]

Ahh okay, interesting

[drowsy plaza]

I’ve made more this month in the first 7 days than I usually did on the marketplace, I priced my personal and professional tier the same though so I might have people more willing to buy my products more often

[vale prawn]

I know, I'm the one who reported that 😛 But still, nothing new published for >24h, that's a bug. Sellers are reporting their new published products aren't appearing

[charred mica]

Yup! I published a new plugin ~14 hours ago, and it's Live as per my dashboard, but it doesn't even show on my profile, let alone the search.

[drowsy plaza]

They really need a new release area of the store that’s dedicated to new releases

[mint olive]

They almost knew my name 😎

[sturdy hawk]

You can use the "Release Date" sorting of Orbital Market: https://orbital-market.com/search?sortField=releaseDate

[dire meteor]

Why they didn't just hire you to do fab I don't know.

[solar rapids]

Shouldn't this option be enabled by default in the search engine? My product was completely hidden and I wondered why the whole day, thought that there is a delay and they will fix it 😕

[floral depot]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Unreal+Engine+Free+for+the+month+Fab

[ivory aspen]

@sturdy hawk is there any way to update the publisher name on Orbital? I've had a bit of a rebranding of my shop with Fab release, but Orbital still has the old name

[sturdy hawk]

I've had a few issues with assets and seller changing name, as it was more difficult to link the new fab id with the previous fab id 😅... So there might be some bug on this. Feel free to DM me with your seller name 😉

[drowsy plaza]

anyone here have any free products on fab? I am curious how those are doing compared to the marketplace in terms of redemptions

[vale prawn]

I think free products are excluded from reports. Either that, or no one ever claimed my free product on Fab.

[drowsy plaza]

Weird, they should still tell you how many got redeemed

You should report that on the forums, that honestly sounds like a bug

[vale prawn]

I think I read it was a feature, I'll look it up

Apparently it's a known issue at the moment

[drowsy plaza]

Hopefully they fix that and also end up migrating the old marketplace reports over, having to use two portals for records is annoying and I honestly like the design of the fab one more since it’s designed for use on iPhone

[hollow zephyr]

Anyone encountered a bug where the personal price refuses to show up in the live version?

[drowsy plaza]

What’s the product, I can check and see if it shows up on mine

[drowsy plaza]

I finally got the fab Black Friday email, I already submitted the form through the link Abby promoted though. Do I fill it out again?

[tame compass]

can you do sales on fab now ?

i submit 2 new asset seems no luck anyways

[drowsy plaza]

I tried to fill out the form and they recognized my account and have a error saying they already received the sales request

[drowsy plaza]

This is for Black Friday

[tame compass]

so you can sales asset now ?

[drowsy plaza]

Personal sales are not a feature yet, I think they are trying to implement self service discount tools in the portal, that’s what a staff member said in a Reddit comment

[tame compass]

i didnt get invite for black friday

💀

[drowsy plaza]

Just go to the unreal forums and fill it out, look under announcements. Abby posted a link to it

It’s taking a while for the email invitation to reach everyone

[hollow basin]

I just got mine 15 minutes ago

[drowsy plaza]

I guess it’s being sent out in batches

That’s around the time I got mine too

What is filterplugin.ini? Fab rejected my plugin for not having that, I’ve never heard of it

This is what they sent me about filterplugin.ini. I’m gonna send a support ticket, this will be the 5th time I’ve had to submit this product because they keep failing it for issues I don’t have

[charred mica]

Basically you have a file in the folder, which is not packed by default.

[drowsy plaza]

everything in the plugin is a uasset in the plugin content folder a cpp header file in the source folder. The only thing I can think of is the resources folder which holds the plugin icon but ive not had other plugins fail for having a icon

[charred mica]

Ohh okay

[storm parrot]

theres not many fab assets as it

as is*

[drowsy plaza]

I see lots of stuff published today, including one of mine when sorting from new on unreal category. You posted this at 1am my time so most people especially Americans would likely be asleep at this point or done with work.

It’s possible some sellers are waiting for wishlist and reviews to be returned before adding new products or people are not releasing stuff on Friday

Unity likely will have more assets than unreal for a few months as unity asset store sellers migrate their products over to fab

[gaunt lake]

Question i seen today or yesterday a product with offical branding of Pepsi and some other brands they dont mention anything in the licence its just regular licence, can you really use that stuff in a game / product. I dont think so or since GTA would not use fake brands.

Usualy other websites write down as "editorial licence" if they use offical brands.

Because in this case i see, that i should not use it, but what if its more on the hidden side and i maybe dont see it so direct?

[drowsy plaza]

Fab is used for more than just games, there is nothing against a content creator using the 3d model in a animation render or something like that

[gaunt lake]

I think this is a dangerous answer.

So if i make a video for YouTube its fine but if i wanna make unreal game in a super market i get cooked?

The licence how it stays means i can do a super market game... but then i get punished?

I know what you mean but that means it needs a "editorial licence" not a regular one.

[undone valve]

Don’t use it in a Game.

Also, the guy selling the asset probably has no license for including the brand so the item could be removed from your vault at anytime which happened to me on the UE marketplace once before.

[undone valve]

I got an email in which they apologized

[gaunt lake]

did you got credits back or money back?

I only had it once where somone sold maximo poses on marketplace

its still in my vault as "removed"

[undone valve]

It was a product I received for free. So I don’t know what their policy is for such cases

[undone valve]

Mine completely vanished and they apologized via email

[tardy charm]

if a product got removed for whatever reason there may be, you don't get money back even if you paid for it

i once paid $30 for an sfx bundle, then it got removed because the guy the seller paid to record the sounds actually stole them

I never got my money back, just an email that can be summed up to "yo, don't use this"

but weirdly enough i can still download it, which is kinda dangerous

[drowsy plaza]

It’s up to you to make judgements on whether an asset is usable or not, Pepsi branding is obviously not usable so don’t use it in a game. Fab doesn’t need to censor this when it does have use cases

[hollow basin]

Don't use it for anything you plan to make money off of is the general rule for branded content. Also don't use it in anything that defames the company

[hollow zephyr]

but the guidelines always said you need to own all content you list. so by default every asset should be useable

[gaunt lake]

Yeah but usually this stuff like sports car and real brands are under "Editorial Licence" what means they can be used for videos or study but this one here is under "Standart License" what would mean i could use it to make money. I wonder why this never went through a check.

[hollow zephyr]

it doesn't, I only found out because someone emailed me wanting to buy it 😔

[gaunt lake]

exactly i can understand if they bann the asset or make different license but currently i know pepsi but the other coffe brands or water brands i would not guessed if they real or fake ... i for sure dont start googling all the bottle brands on every asset i buy like thats nonsense...

[hollow zephyr]

it's just that epic doesn't enforce the guidelines and they should

[gaunt lake]

let me guess if i fab search lambo ... there will be still all the lambos? and the goku?

its one month almost and this 2 cases where on reddit i think even epic games saw them ...

they under standard license ... so yeah

i guess i wait another month maybe they need some more time.

I mind i dont mind the new store its fine but ... this stuff still makes me wait or only buy from artist i knew from the unreal store like dekagon etc.

[jaunty dagger]

Halo 😂 https://www.fab.com/listings/aaec1eb9-252d-4db2-a3cb-f4da74764474

[lilac mica]

I'm considering pulling all of my products from Fab. This new store is a mess. I've had 1 single sale since the store changed, while I was averaging ~30/month previously (50+ on a good month). Meanwhile the store is completely packed with all this ripped content as the posts above are showing + all the useless AI filler.

[drowsy plaza]

give it a month before you decide to do that, most sellers are reporting that sales have gone back to normal since a week ago. but if you feel thats best for your business then you should trust your gut

black friday is coming up which will likely increase sales and buyers trust in the platform

[agile slate]

how does this thing work? seems to be closely related to each other and is it all fully cpp?

[vestal sluice]

It's not like there are any good alternative markets for selling UE assets

[drowsy plaza]

thats just his branding, he puts the word ascent in front of most his products

[vestal sluice]

I think depending on the asset type, there would be minimal to extreme degradation of sales caused by the fab transition. I am guessing plugins might weather the store's mess, but art assets would be hit significantly hard.

[agile slate]

yeah but like how much cpp does it have and does the 700 euro one also has those other 4 things because i would say otherwise it is pretty expensive

[drowsy plaza]

I advise against using templates to build games, usually they limit your creativity and capabilities. thats usually what asset flippers do is just pack together different templates

[agile slate]

yeah i have my own game with cpp but feels like a lot of repition (like reinvetning the weel in a lot of parts too)

[drowsy plaza]

You might just need to use better search keywords and tags if selling 3d models. if selling a santa claus model say "Christmas santa pack" not "Holiday joy theme park"

as an example

[vestal sluice]

Nah, tags are still bullshit. When I type rock in the search, this rocking chair is the first result
https://www.fab.com/listings/a92b42b7-6b22-4001-b5cf-e73a55fe279b

and it isn't the fault of these artists either, as there is no mention of "rock" in either the asset title nor the tags.

[drowsy plaza]

as of the end of october, my sales on fab are better than the marketplace by a little bit

[agile slate]

blox what do you think of this? first gonna do some more things but if i evtually wanna build a serious game a template product could help to reduce a lot of uneeded time to be spent

[drowsy plaza]

im seeing a bunch of rock swhen I search that, even better than the marketplace because it gives me individual rocks first instead of large packs

[hollow zephyr]

my sales are also pretty normal

[drowsy plaza]

I built my first game off a template from the marketplace and I had to gut like 90% of it in order to build something unique, templates are on the rails meaning its very hard to deviate from them if your ideas go beyond the stock rpg

[hollow zephyr]

except the missing personal price bug...anyone have the email of a fab person and not just fab support that doesn't seem to get what's happening?

[drowsy plaza]

id say you will spend more time trying to modify the template than just building the systems from scratch

[agile slate]

but if it has a good gas system it is easy to expand on it and create something new and in every game you need to have the basic mechanics etc down?

[drowsy plaza]

I think they changed it to only show what your epic account is registered as, if you are registered as a individual and dont have sales reports of 100k then they show personal. a lot of people were saying they were getting confused

oh wait nevermind, maybe its because people left the pricing on personal or professional as N/A

[hollow zephyr]

What??

Oh

Well all my other products are fine

Just this one, that also happens to have the UEFN price

Maybe related

[drowsy plaza]

I remember on launch if you left it as N/A they made it free, so maybe they patched it to hide the N/A price

[agile slate]

because just setting up the basics of for example a souls game could take up 1 year when working fully on it

[drowsy plaza]

its ultimately up to you, if you are comfortable modifying templates and using other peoples code bases then you should have no problem, I like to have control over my codebase so I avoid templates and usually when I see people use them the games look assety

[vestal sluice]

Probably due to typing "rocks" instead of "rock". Rocks are giving me better results, but it is very poor search functionality for the site to assume rocking chairs and rocking toys are what we need when searching for rock.

[agile slate]

what is assety?

[drowsy plaza]

no I typed rock, it showed a couple rocking chairs but I just scrolled past them since they were irrelevant to me.

[vestal sluice]

orbital market is providing a far saner search functionality by comparison

[drowsy plaza]

its a word to describe janky, stock feeling games. usually comes from barebones/generic mechanics, poor game design, and inconsistent graphics.

with templates you run into the issues of generic mechanics and poor game design since you are limited by the template structure

[agile slate]

i have that when ppl only use bps for projects

[drowsy plaza]

templates also share UI a lot, so gamers who play a lot of indie games pick up on that easily

[drowsy plaza]

Blueprints is just c++ in the form of flow programming, I am not sure why the language format would cause that for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming

[agile slate]

because integrating a fully cpp project with fully bp is annoying

[agile slate]

i mean you can t expect from an indie dev to make a tripple a game on the side unless spending 5+ years on it

[drowsy plaza]

cpp stuff should be made into plugins for modularity

[drowsy plaza]

I dont expect indie devs to make AAA games, I expect them to make indie games

[vestal sluice]

ok I think this is due to orbital market not indexing the sketchfab assets. We will see the true test of that site's search functionality whenever the dev indexes in all of fab assets lol

[drowsy plaza]

now if they price like 30-60 bucks for their game then the bar for expectation goes up drastically

[agile slate]

but why just don t make a whole game in cpp and use abps etc or everything else where cpp is worse for

[agile slate]

but then most indie devs use unity ig

[ivory aspen]

how the heck you able to sell for UEFN?

[hollow zephyr]

Idk, I was part of a pre-fab campaign and epic setup the asset

[vestal sluice]

why ? unreal is great for most indie needs unless you are making a 2d game.

[ivory aspen]

I see, so epic need to do that themselves, thanks for the answer 🙂

[agile slate]

still most ppl use unity then cuz it is easier to create mid games with that

[drowsy plaza]

True, I still struggle with understanding how unity works. Like it doesn’t have simple stuff like debug camera in its PIE or any prebuilt classes such as pawns, characters, camera shakes, etc. As far as I can tell everything needs to be built from scratch or use an asset with unity. It’s weird how they have so much market share

Even Godot has prebuilt classes for stuff and that’s a open source software

I think that comes from the fact unity doesn’t make games, so they never had to make tools for games. Most the stuff in unreal comes from stuff that epic made for Fortnite and older games like most the components

[tribal wave]

no idea what this means, how do I download Lyra from Fab 😅

if I use the plugin my only options are View in Vault (but it's not in the vault) or View in library which just shows me my library

[warm knot]

Hey, guys, I just created a seller account on Fab and I want to customize the profile. But I can't see the option, maybe I'm blind 😔. I can't even update the profile picture for my store.

Where is the button to edit this stuff???

[fresh sphinx]

You should be able to customize your profile under the Publisher Settings section

[warm knot]

Actually, I think I see it now

[warm knot]

You beat me to it lol. Thanks

[warm knot]

One question, though, what is a Cover photo?

[fresh sphinx]

Its sort of like your icon and your banner. So icon on the left, and seller page background banner on the right

[warm knot]

Ah, nice. So it's like a backdrop for buyers to see behind your profile pic. I gotta make a good one lol.

[fresh sphinx]

Mhm :)

[warm knot]

One more thing, if anyone knows, do I send Epic the entire project folder for review? My first product is a gun that comes in 2 different caliber variations and with a whole bunch of accessories. Each asset is functional in that they come with Blueprints to activate their features, such as turning on a red dot sight or a flashlight.

As far as I know, this qualifies my product as being a Smart Asset, doesn't it? So I should also include a demo map to showcase what my product does, am I right?

[vestal sluice]

I've been using Unity longer than UE, so I am comfortable with both. Made multiple projects using them. That said, I just hate using Unity for anything because I got spoiled by the sheer volume of features and QoL provided by UE. Along with prebuilt advanced classes and blueprints, we have features like freely editing existing animations which are impossible in Unity but it's a nothingburger in UE using it's persona editor. The workflow is nothing short of enjoyable. I just loathe making anything using Unity unless it's a well paid client project lol

[drowsy plaza]

You send them the config, content, and uproject folders/file. they don’t accept any submission that has temp folders in it

[warm knot]

I'm looking through my project in the windows explorer. I see Config and Content but nothing named uproject.

Is uproject the whole thing or a separate folder?

[undone valve]

On what exact day did fab release?

[drowsy plaza]

It’s a file, it’s what opens your project

[drowsy plaza]

22nd

[undone valve]

Thank you

[fresh sphinx]

It should look something like (your project name).uproject

[warm knot]

OH! It's that file! I was confused because I'm the explorer it says Unreal Engine Project File, but when I view it in the Properties windows then it shows the . uproject file extension. Thanks.

[drowsy plaza]

Make sure you delete the developers and I think collections folder in your content folder too, a fab reviewer failed me for having that.

[warm knot]

It'd be nice if they just told everyone that in the first place. Their little guide for publishing is very vague. 😐

[drowsy plaza]

They have a technical requirements which should be in depth

[hoary kettle]

Login to Fab. sends me a verification code to my email. accepts verification code that i got, in my email. proceeds to ask me, after logging in successfully, if my email is correct :/ genius epic, genius.

[covert spire]

Are there any Training simulator templates out there? I see those cool projects where you can dismantle and assemble parts and equipment. I'm wondering if there is something out there that can get me started.

[drowsy plaza]

@undone valve Sold another unit today, this is 8 units in the first 9 days of the month, I’m glad fab was able to gain buyers trust and sales returned to normal

The first 1-2 weeks of fab was scary, I legit thought that sales were dead and my business might have to close

Hopefully Black Friday gets any people who were waiting for a sale to trust fab and start buying stuff there more regularly.

I’m wondering how unity devs are doing on fab

[hollow zephyr]

I just use the zip-up option and send that

[cloud creek]

Can anyone share the date the Black Friday sale starts? Based on previous years, I'm assuming it's the 26th...?

[drowsy plaza]

25th to December 2nd

If you didn’t get the email yet go to the forums and Abby posted the invite link with details

[cloud creek]

Ah, thanks! I'm a customer, not a vendor so I can't use that link.

[drowsy plaza]

Ah okay, yeah it starts at 10am and then goes until midnight the 2nd

[drowsy plaza]

Did you use the wishlist feature on the marketplace much? When fab launched a lot of people were mad it didn’t have one but I never heard anyone really talk about wishlists until then

[warm knot]

Wait, does Unreal have that option to automate zipping the project? 😯

[drowsy plaza]

So fab doesn’t have analytics yet but going off the itch demo links, fab seems to have more traffic than the marketplace did. I showed the first of October until today. Initially fab sucked but now it’s better than the marketplace

[drowsy plaza]

I just use 7zip, it’s free and integrated with windows right click menu

[cloud creek]

Yeah, I did actually use the wishlist a lot. It was really handy for bookmarking assets that looked interesting but weren't required right away. I heard it wasn't being carried across to Fab so I took screenshots before they shut down the marketplace. Hopefully they bring it back in Fab...

[warm knot]

Oh, it almost sounded like Unreal streamlined and automated the process for you. Like deleting folders that you don't need, hehe.

[hollow zephyr]

Yes, file - zip-up project

And it does only keep what you need for the marketplace

Ive always done jt like that

[warm knot]

Oh, shit, that's nice!

[vestal sluice]

Nice to see sales are normalising for many. It seems normalising for me as well, but I am guessing it’s because I’m selling a plugin having an established reputation before the fab transition.

Might take a couple of months for art asset sellers to achieve similar levels of normalcy because of the rampant ip infringements. Will be interesting to see how new sellers fare in sales.

[tidal crown]

Still struggling to see the monthly free stuff...? anyone able to help there

[undone valve]

Glad to hear that! And it’s probably getting better when stuff like the wishlist are added

[undone valve]

FAB really needs more analytics

Things like click through rate, impressions and so on

[winter hollow]

hm, does fab not display sales stats for free plugins ?

usually on old marketplace reports it was displaying how many ppl got the item but the new reports/sales shows nothing (i do know that there were people who got the plugin recently on fab)

[hasty kraken]

Why nothing is on sale?

is it a bug?

[still basin]

There been no official sales since the release of FAB and as far as I know we can't do publisher sales ourselves like before

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah, I mainly want to see click through rate, impressions, and visits. View duration would be nice too but I doubt they will add that

[drowsy plaza]

Black Friday is coming up and I suspect after that they will release the ability to do custom sales

[still basin]

I didn't received an invitation but apparently some got an invite for the black friday sale

[drowsy plaza]

So maybe December or January we will be able to do that

[drowsy plaza]

Just go to the announcements page on the forums, Abby posted the invite link for everyone.

It took me like 3-4 days to get an invite

[still basin]

thanks i will check that

and yeah checking my emails every day including spams

[rustic whale]

Just found out that if you group the sales by month (e.g. November) nothing shows up. If you group by date range, then you can see them for the same month. Anyone else is experiencing this?

[sturdy hawk]

Same here

I mean nothing shows up for November, but I have some strange numbers for October

[drowsy plaza]

the monthly report is generated at the end of the month after it ends, you should be able to see octobers monthly report but not novembers

UE marketplace sales reports have not been transferred over to fab yet either, so only fab sales from the 22nd onwards wills how up

[rustic whale]

Exactly what I suspected, but that is a totally counterintuitive UX, also because the two options are side by side and there is no explanation about them being different. In that case November should be greyed out until December.

[rugged cargo]

Hello everyone
I just buy this asset https://www.fab.com/listings/196c70cd-1283-4249-bf6b-c3019d1cbe11
water is not simulating in this level flux waterfall map

[drowsy plaza]

You should join that products discord or email the seller for support if they don’t have a discord. This channel is just a general fab platform chat not support for specific products

[rugged cargo]

Okay thanks for replying ❤️

[woeful grail]

does anyone know of an Asset that has entry boxes similar to UE ones? where u can drag for it to go up/down

[cursive chasm]

re-english this please.

[woeful grail]

the numerical entry boxes that UE has for details panel, is there perhaps an asset with something similar?

where you can drag on it to fast increase it

[undone valve]

You can do that?

Or no nvm

You can do that with number inputs

[agile slate]

how does free of the month work with fab?

[woeful grail]

wdym

[tame tundra]

Does fab not have a wishlist? 👀

[drowsy plaza]

Same as it did before, just it lasts for 2 weeks not a month now.

[drowsy plaza]

Not yet no, it will likely arrive in the next 1-4 months

[crimson ruin]

Can you access custom metahumans from fab?

[tardy charm]

seems like a no so if you somehow still have the bridge plugin make sure to keep it somewhere safe since you can still use it as far as I'm aware

[agile slate]

Where can i find it?

[tardy charm]

https://www.fab.com/blade/0691ff19-b259-44e0-ad3b-093a53010f46?context=homepage

for future reference, if you're on the homepage, you can scroll down until you see "Limited-Time Free" that's your free for half-the-month content

[analog girder]

My customer purchased my asset and I checked it with verify order and it seems correct, but even though he purchased it 2 days ago, it still does not appear in the sales reports. Has anyone experienced this problem?

[solar rapids]

Try group by day not by month?

[vestal sluice]

Did you check in the old uem sales report ? That is still better than the fab report.

[analog girder]

I asked my customer for a full invoice and the date was November 8th but the verify section showed November 9th.

Sales data was not wrong, verify order showed the date section incorrectly.

[split iron]

This sales reports feature needs to auto-fill a reasonable range, having to enter data manually just to check recent sales is ridiculous

Also, its failing to report sales anywhere at all
I know because people are verifying purchases in my Discord that I cannot see any record of, including pro licenses (of which 0 records exist anywhere)

[next badge]

i thought i was the only ones..

one way it works for me is ilike vaei said need to manualy fill the date range and submit, then it will comes out

[split iron]

Does it work when you do it by month?

It shows total of 2 personal license sales for me

Wait. False alarm. It's showing pro license price but the sale was made a lot earlier -- its showing the user's local currency and not USD or my local currency without specifing the goddam currency -- who the hell did that?

And why doesn't it specify the license type in the order verification

Also, the dates are backwards, literally only 1 country on earth does mm/dd/yyyy, the bare minimum is compromising with yyyy/mm/dd, its an international service

The people working on this product don't think beyond their own country, invalid date format, not specifying currency, etc

[worldly flower]

is there any News about "Adding all megascans to the Library at once" ?

[potent wedge]

@worldly flower https://www.fab.com/megascans-free

[worldly flower]

This is only claiming them - but not adding them to the library

[potent wedge]

It seems that there is no option yet to include everything directly in the library, indeed that would be useful.

[worldly flower]

and is planned by epic - time runs out at the end of the year - < 2 Months left

[ebon leaf]

Hi, this may be the wrong place for this but are there any good city/town maps on fab, been looking for a while and havent found any good maps to use for my stupid game project

[vestal sluice]

The sales report date setter is showing me the standard dd/mm/yyyy though.

[narrow wave]

That still adds them to your account so you'll own them even after the end of the year. They didn't make them go to your library because that's 17000+ individually listed assets. Good luck finding which asset has update in the launcher if that were the case

[vale prawn]

Reviews are live it seems?

[undone valve]

What reviews?

[vale prawn]

The ability to leave reviews? Or was this always there? I'm always lost with Fab...

[vestal sluice]

Do you mean ratings ? I don’t see any options for reviews.

[vale prawn]

Yeah ratings, sorry for the confusion

[vestal sluice]

lol you had my hopes up for a few seconds there

[undone valve]

Mine too

[vale prawn]

Sorry 😦

[drowsy plaza]

If they do that they need to make a filter to show them for quick and hide it from the vault. That will get messy real quick

[agile slate]

where did sparrow go on fab?

[dire meteor]

Is the plugin linked to by anything else?

Game modules / uproject files?

[vagrant elbow]

Hi, can i have your opinion on Fab? Is it better than the marketplace? Or still not yet good enough?

[drowsy plaza]

I like it now that they did a lot of updates since launch, some people here don’t though. I guess it’s up to personal experience. Only thing I miss about the marketplace is you could use it from the epic games launcher

[untold bay]

worse for now. if you're just buying unreal assets the experience is roughly the same, except

• no wishlists
• no reviews
• no q&a
• no full-res screenshots

a bunch of missing quality-of-life features and not much in the way of improvements yet

[vagrant elbow]

😦

[drowsy plaza]

How has the sales been for your darkness asset since fab launched and did their updates? A lot of people including myself are reporting sales are returning to normal now

[untold bay]

my sample sizes are too small to draw much conclusion:

september was an incredibly slow month, then october was much better

maybe my smallest nitpick yet, but fab doesn't show the VAT/tax which provided some insight into where globally your sales were being made (you can work backwards from VAT to a small list of countries)

but also it would be nice if it autofilled the current date as the end date

and replaced any start date before 10/1/2024 with 10/1/2024, because why show an error when you can trivially fix it?

[drowsy plaza]

An okay, thanks for sharing. I think September was slow for everyone and october(until the 23rd) was good for everyone too.

[drowsy plaza]

Are you planning on releasing more products on fab now that sales are back to normal?

[untold bay]

my products are too far along the pipeline to not release them 😅 but i feel a strong urge to hold them back with the hope of wishlists returning

because wishlists/preorders/mailing lists are a valuable mechanism for converting launch interest into sales down the road, and launching without that mechanism feels like throwing sales away

[drowsy plaza]

Are you doing more shaders? My shader assets are some of my highest selling

[untold bay]

frankly, it makes me want to create sales funnels that are less tied to Fab itself, something off-platform

yeah all shaders i'm an addict i can't stop

[drowsy plaza]

I feel like there is a huge need for shaders since 99% of unreal indie devs don’t know how to do much in materials yet a lot of game stuff is done via materials

[untold bay]

i'm never gonna get a game out like this, i'm just gonna keep making shaders

yeah it's been a great experience coming here and answering people's shader questions because it's made clear to me how much they matter to people but how limited many people are in being able to create them

[drowsy plaza]

I released an occlusion shader the other day and it already sold. Usually it takes a sale to happen for a new product to start getting traction

[untold bay]

i saw the new release, congrats

[drowsy plaza]

Thanks, over now through 2025 I’m working exclusively on fab assets and plugins. The plan is sorta to build a framework for my own games with all the tech I would need for them and sell it on fab.

My next plugin will be Procedural NPC Swarms for dead rising/days gone style zombies and monsters AI

[split iron]

if you include a product in the Black Friday sale, that product will not be eligible to be included in the end of year sale that we’re planning to kick off on December 23rd.

What's up with this ridiculous email epic just sent

They sent it after already enlisted in black friday sale

[fresh sphinx]

That doesn't seem fair. especially if it was sent out after the invitation

I also just received that email. Very weird that this was not disclosed somewhere inside the product submission page

[fossil dune]

Would really like to know and interview/ask Questions to the Lead Person who makes or is in charge of some of these decisions...

[digital agate]

Yeah I just came here for that exact statement - that doesn't sound like a good way to go about it at all!

[drowsy plaza]

Likely because of the 30 day cooldown, I guess unlike the marketplace it applies to epic made sales too

[fresh sphinx]

I mean, after the harsh transition into Fab, the least they can offer is allowing us to list our products up for both sales

[fossil dune]

Just surprised by the "Gotcha!!" email you get right after you agree to Black friday