fab

[solemn girder]

lol no they aren't

show me some comparisons of what looks amazing

they make a badass game engine, best in the world, but they can't build a desktop ui to save their life

[drowsy plaza]

I’m not gonna argue with you, on an objective design standard they are better.

Design is a science

[solemn girder]

they have great design principals and practices as a whole

but they still suck at ui

[minor tulip]

the theft has gotten so bad

[warm knot]

PPFFFFT, BAHAHAHA. They aren't even trying to hide it!

[hollow basin]

You would think they would check their own store to see if a product is being copied. Hopefully, because there is a seller verification process, they should be perma-banned, right? I don't think anybody is falsifying ID's so that they can keep the scam going

[frigid steeple]

Does anyone have this project? It can't be downloaded anymore 😭

[undone estuary]

even if we did we wouldnt be allowed to share it

[frigid steeple]

Like yeah, but who cares about that anyway

It's their fault

I already hate fab

[solemn girder]

its pretty lackluster. I hope they move their ass on getting it up to par

[stoic tulip]

So i got this asset, but i can't find it in my vault, and I can't add it through the fab plugin,
anyone know what i should do?

https://www.fab.com/listings/74c2618d-4efa-4355-8126-11cd050e14f2

[solemn girder]

Do you have a supported engine version installed?

shows 5.0 - 5.4 as supported

[stoic tulip]

yeah even rolled back to a 5.4 to try and grab it

so like
i can't see it in my epic vault,
and if i roll back to 5.3 i can't add the fab plugin

how do i access this?

[solemn girder]

did you hit the little refresh doohickey?

the thingamabob

[stoic tulip]

cool that actually worked

thanks

[undone valve]

FAB plugin only for UE5.4 and above

[rigid lotus]

ok serious question. How do I update a plugin when the link to the files stays the same?

I tried twice but it didnt work

on the old MP youd submit a file update and itd pick the change properly but its gone now

[untold bay]

you could probably add a nonsense URL parameter

http://www.myfiles.com/myplugin.zip?wakka=1234567

https://tenor.com/view/hacker-hackerman-kung-fury-gif-7953536

[rigid lotus]

lol, ok Ill try this

[lime relic]

Hi, how do you setup your item that you sell on fab to be "on sale" with 50% discount?
Did not found any tab that can do that?

[untold bay]

there's currently no way to go on sale beyond being invited for the seasonal sales
self-serve sale UI is on their roadmap but isn't here yet

[lime relic]

Ok, so they are making the 50% sale UI on Fab. Got it.

[drowsy plaza]

Click the refresh button in the vault when you buy new stuff

[stoic tulip]

yeah that worked

[drowsy plaza]

I use google drive so I basically just delete the old version and upload the file again, that generates a new link each time

[drowsy plaza]

Can you link to the roadmap? I can’t find it on the forums website when on mobile

[untold bay]

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/fab/roadmap?ref=unrealsource.com

[drowsy plaza]

Thank you, I’m gonna save that link

[drowsy plaza]

I don’t know how I feel about the user initiated refunds unless they keep the same policy where once you download it you can’t refund it. I don’t want it to turn into a asset demoing system like steam has

The video player will be nice but I really hope it’s not a auto embed, I want the tutorial how to not to be embedded but a showcase to be able to be embedded

[untold bay]

could be a net win due to marketplace comfort and trust. likely depends on policies. i'm not sweating it too much

[drowsy plaza]

The way steam does it is only a win for consumers, it’s a detriment to developers. Don’t buy my game if your intent is to refund it after you play it.

[untold bay]

i'm unconvinced. people like steam so much many gamers dismiss titles that come out on other stores

[drowsy plaza]

The data I have doesn’t suggest that when it’s between epic and steam, epic also said their data shows the general public doesn’t care what store they get games from as long as the price is good

Epic has less users for me but makes up more revenue share because their users don’t abuse refunds. I think on epic my games have a 3-5% refund rate and 20% less sales than steam but steam had a ridiculous refund rate so the extra 20% sales or so you get don’t matter + they took more cut so that deepens the divide even more

I’ll always defend epic unless they royally screw up, they have been very good to me. My only gripe with them is they tend to prioritize AAA games too much, I guess that’s because third party sales were down in 2023 so they tried to make up for it in 2024 by pushing big games. Once they add the discovery options they talked about like their fyp feature I think it will be better for smaller studios there

[drowsy plaza]

Fab updated the sales reports page today, it now shows vat tax and had a slightly clearer layout with more information compacted together

They also autofill the month dates in and auto submit the report when the page loads which is nice

[rigid girder]

If only anyone could find my asset in Fab 😛

[tepid niche]

@drowsy plaza just out of curiosity, if you want to share, what games have you made? 🙂 (just if you want to share it here, totally understand if not)

[drowsy plaza]

I’ll dm them to you

[mellow vigil]

Super weird

[drowsy plaza]

They probably discontinued that site

That site is just for legacy stuff now

[mellow vigil]

Ah yes your right, its on fab now

Thanks

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah they shutdown reports on that site, use the one on fab

[rigid girder]

Day four of waiting for someone at Fab to push my store page tag update without doing a full review of the new version of the asset I didn't submit....

[vestal sluice]

It's so satisfying they finally auto fill the sales report. Picking the dates manually is so painful with that UI/UX design especially in mobile.

[fossil dune]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/1h25oti/fab_horror_story_our_hard_work_got_stolen_and/

[vestal sluice]

That's so disheartening. The lack of written reviews and questions only emboldens scammers and repels honest creators.

[fossil dune]

What's dissapointing is they tried reporting 3 times and each time, epic restored the scammers page/product...
Amazing

[hollow zephyr]

Id rather have 70% instead of 88% if it means solving all these issues

[thorny compass]

Reverse Uno: Copy and distribute their variant. Forward all links and support to them. They can't sue you either.

[undone valve]

Pro tip. Add an spacebar to your description and remove it again if you only change the thumbnail for example. When I do that it works

[green seal]

Its gonna be 100% until january ☺️

[agile shadow]

100% of 0 is still 0

[rigid lotus]

😆
I should use new links then

[green seal]

Is it? I have the fab plugin on my 5.3 projects right here now

[green seal]

Are you still getting 0 sales despite black friday and things having stabilized a bit?

[agile shadow]

Ofc not it's hyperbole, but getting 100% of all the FAB sales doesn't make me feel all that better about FAB.

[green seal]

I hear ya, definitely a bit of a bumpy start. Hoping things improve quickly though. How have sales been for you the last few weeks?

[agile shadow]

the only words to describe is mid. Black friday is fine, but very bumpy compared to the old one

a lot of highs and lows

probably due to the algorithm discoverability is more random

[vestal sluice]

Mid is an apt description for me as well. It's not terrible, but it's far from the peaks I had this year.

[green seal]

Yeah and it's really hard to find things you're looking for since you need to type things perfectly. For example just putting a space in the wrong place, like "Easy Rain" instead of "EasyRain" makes it so products don't show up at all

This WAS the case with the UEM as well, but the workaround was easy, I could add a custom tag in the product page and that solved it.

I know better SEO is on the way so just gotta sit tight for the time being but yeah, it's an adjustment. I'm really glad to see Black Friday is doing well though.

I'll gladly take the additional 12% in revenue though, that's a nice boost

[rigid lotus]

in 5.5 I managed to install my plugin twice 🫠

[vale prawn]

Yeah, that's cause you now can install individual plugin version (V5 and V6 in your case). I still don't know if it's a bug or intended, but I'm leaning towards bug.

[rigid lotus]

ah I see, well the launcher doesnt support it too well at least

[spark panther]

I cannot submitt for review anything, press the submitt for review it thinks and nothing happens, tried changing browser, submitting from android etc

[worldly flower]

Reviews are only visible after reaching at least 5 reviews.. Text reviews are not existing yet - will come back near march '25

[spark panther]

I mean my product submit for review , to FAB support so they publish my product

it worked 2 days ago

[hollow zephyr]

maybe there's a missing field or something?

[spark panther]

nope, the same page worked 2 days ago

[spark panther]

turns out that after a couple of sending back for fixing from FAB support (each time they added a new pdf with a new field for the problems which is doubtedly professional, instead of listing all the issues they kept adding more issues to fix after I corrected the previous ones) the submit for review stopped working, so I've duplicated the listing and send for review and now it works. My experience so far is bad. When you send an email to support there is no ticket created and an acknowledgement they have received your email

[undone valve]

They ignore any email. You have to use the support website

[spark panther]

ok so info for you guys, it may be that after 3-4 corrections (2 from link not working, they told me to use filesharing.com for file hosting then the website did not work at all) the submit for review stops working, so dont panic make a new listing (duplicate), lost 5 hours of my life

[raven ferry]

Hello guys, I've made a simple wishlist addon for firefox. Don't know when the chrome extension will be ready.
Right now I'm just battle testing, so no new features at sight, I will probably focus on the design atm. All the data is stored in your browser, remember to backup before uninstalling. I hope it helps everyone

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fab-wishlist/

btw since I'm not accessing any private data, the button will show on assets that you already own. after you buy it, it will remain on your wishlist, so you need to delete manually

[undone valve]

Hey this is a great tool! I just want to let you know that someone else already created such a system but integrated into fab.

[raven ferry]

yeah. I was using unrealsales.io (which is awesome) but decided to make my own thing 😜

[slender moth]

If the personal and professional tiers are priced the same, does it make sense to just grab the professional tier as an indie? It's a little unclear regarding eligibility.

[rigid girder]

Tried that. They still seem to think I've added a new version of the asset even though I haven't.

I literally am trying to change one thing in the store page and its now day 5. why does fab require approval for page updates anyways!!!!

[undone estuary]

because the people who use fab are not the peple who created it

[vale prawn]

I don't think it makes any difference whatsoever.

[vale prawn]

why does fab require approval for page updates anyways!!!!
I mean, when you see what managed to get through within descriptions on the MP (which was unmoderated), you kind of understand why it was added.

However, the MP had a kinda working product approval process, which apparently got thrown out the window with Fab. So 🤷

[rigid girder]

Oh ya, Fab is a mess of junk. Stolen content, copyrighted content, spams of AI content.

Whatever they were doing before vs now was better 😂

If I look at sales since Fab launched and sales in the same period before Fab launched, 70% of my sales were from Marketplace, 30% from Fab.

[cedar bone]

this is what i was talking recently here
epic is not doing enough
and they could absolutely do more

[warm knot]

They will do more if you sue them. Should be an easy DMCA case, but I'm not lawyer. If it's an easy enough case then the lawyer might do the case pro bono for you.

[cedar bone]

u realise there are a lot of sellers that are not US based?
besides GG to suing epic lol
u have no idea how hard it is if epic does nothing in the case

[warm knot]

OK then, do nothing.

[undone estuary]

welp this is a weird one, figured I would ask first and I also dont see anything in search. Two machines side by side, same network. Windows machine can download the electric dreams sample project no issues from the launcher. Macos Machine cannot, i get a could not find any manifest download" error in the log. The manifest its looking for on both machines is the same according to the log. This isnt just that one sample, 90% of the ones I tried (create and add to project) all fail the same way. any ideas?

[drowsy plaza]

Anyone know of any assets that can do snow in a level? I want to add snow to my game for Christmas update

https://youtu.be/p_vr5ZxfeSA?si=fkxWPG_FPyFyEvT7

It looks like UDS can do it, I will add that to my level then

[untold bay]

UDS, Sky Creator, EasySnow

[drowsy plaza]

thank you, im using UDS since I already own it. I thought it just did rain

[untold bay]

all three on sale for black friday 😄

for wintery stuff, also consider Ice Cool

delicious ice

[drowsy plaza]

UDS also just helped me quickly fix up the lighting to look better. I was trying to adjust lighting based on tiktok comments before and that always made it look bad

[untold bay]

and Snow Blowing Landscape Effect

[untold bay]

i like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbMvkEITTmo for a principled approached to lighting

[pastel kindle]

Is UDS the best weather system? I've seen more expensive ones but I'm struggling to see what makes the ones that cost more better?

[drowsy plaza]

I dont think it has deformation but its pretty polished for what it is

UDS made it very easy to add snow to the game

[pastel kindle]

Yeah it does seem to be really good and it's on a 50% discount which is making me really tempted to get it.

[harsh coral]

I've used UDS on a project and was pretty satisfied with it, also seems to have good support.

[untold bay]

look up the example videos and see what your eye likes

IMO sky creator has the best clouds right now. UDS i find kind of annoying when you only want a couple of its features at a time because the list of properties is massive, while Sky Creator lets you easily enable/disable each feature individually and then hides the appropriate settings

[drowsy plaza]

honestly I would buy it

[untold bay]

sky creator has realistic cloud types, multiple cloud layers. UDS clouds are pretty but all look kind of samey to me

that said UDS still does look great, and at what, $20 right now? absurd value for dollar

$20 to make a third of your screen look good without too much trouble

[pastel kindle]

Can you use Sky creator with UDS?

[untold bay]

each of them is using the normal Unreal atmosphere components: directional light, sky light, sky atmosphere, volumetric clouds, exponential height fog, volumetric fog materials, etc

so there's no reason you can't mix and match the parts. like i said this is a bit easier in sky creator than UDS but it's achievable either way

the main value adds from the systems are:

• great cloud materials (both much nicer than the built-in UE clouds, including the 5.5 clouds)
• automating the atmosphere components to work well together
• good default exposure (which people tend to struggle with at first)
• weather systems, with particles, sound, and material integration

[pastel kindle]

Have you tried any other of the Weather plugins you can get?

[untold bay]

nope

[harsh coral]

... was deciding between two assets and again bought the "wrong" one .. product page says compatible with 5.4, when I open the project there's a ton of deprecated errors.. oh well

wish there was some kind of 'vetted by staff' program more premium creators could try and submit their assets to get a badge of approval, similar to how some other content marketplaces do it

[untold bay]

is it using features that are deprecated but still work?

epic is at least consistent, as its own projects often use deprecated stuff

[harsh coral]

No, it does not work anymore, forgot the exact function, something related to skeletal meshes

[untold bay]

fab products -- at least the unreal-specific ones -- get vetted, but new version compatibility isn't part of that process (yet)

[harsh coral]

Old marketplace had more options to gauge the quality from reviews and questions

[untold bay]

deprecation warnings are something they could conceivably automate

[untold bay]

yes, it really hurts that those ar emissing

slated to return but in the meantime it's tough to be a buyer

[harsh coral]

I'm guessing refunds are gone too?

[untold bay]

refund policy is unchanged afaik

[harsh coral]

Ironically, I get more use out of free assets then the ones I bought specifically

well, there's no way to contact the author if he does not have contacts set up in his profile or report bugs directly for fab listings (unless i'm missing it)

[drowsy plaza]

Report that to epic(and the seller) if a product does not work as advertised you can get a refund

[proper dew]

Yeah that works, tried it out myself. You can disable all the components in sky creator. But in UDS its not that easy.

[harsh coral]

I did not find a clear way to do that on fab, report button seems to be about legal issues only, author profile has non working webpage and yt and fb - not keen on using either

[proper dew]

The new Sky Creator 2.0 update will bring even better clouds then there already are.

[proper dew]

I think in UDS you can only really disable the volumetric clouds. But everything else you cant, or at least i havent figured it out yet.

[proper dew]

UDS has snow deformation.

If thats what you mean.

[drowsy plaza]

Does it? Like footsteps deform the snow?

[proper dew]

Yeah

[drowsy plaza]

Oh, I’ll have to look into how to use it for that then

[harsh coral]

Yes, it has snow deformation (easy to setup), also has snow accumulation

[proper dew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENMuqbNSLTs

At the end he shows the deformable snow and interactive puddles.

[drowsy plaza]

Thank you

[proper dew]

No problem

[untold bay]

yeah they look gorgeous but i didn't want to be in the business of recommending a product for promised future features 😄

[proper dew]

Yeah thats true. I think the main advantages of UDS are that it has a bit more features, is more fleshed out (which makes sense because it got released multiple years before sky creator) and of course a lot more affordable. But sky creator also works really well and it gets better with every update. Especially, as i already said, the (upcoming) clouds, which are by far better than UDS. This was also the main reason why I bought sky creator and i think you cant really go wrong with either of them. And if you feel like it, you can combine the two systems and get the best of both worlds. But you probably have to trick here and there to make it work properly.

[pastel kindle]

Well so far I've found there is Sky creator and UDS as we've mentioned there's also Easy Sky V2 which looks interesting too?

[proper dew]

There is also Dynamic Volumetric Sky which was a free for the month pack once.

[pastel kindle]

Yeah I missed that one sadly

Don't think I was looking into making a game then and didn't know about the epic free monthly stuff for UE

Oh and there's infinity weather aswell and I have no idea which one is the best?

Because I know price isn't always an indicator of quality

[untold bay]

you can also go a totally different direction with velarion's animated skyboxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Indn8Naato

[rare helm]

How do i convert my assets license to fab? Apparently my assets wont sell unless or go on sales unless i do that

[untold bay]

i don't have the link handy but marketplace assets convert to fab assets pretty straightforwardly. basically just need to fill out a couple of new fields, set the professional tier price, and submit

[drowsy plaza]

I’m using this in my game for a spooky theme, this is just a skybox it doesn’t have any programmable features to it besides a animated flow map for the clouds to spin in a circle

[untold bay]

and yes anything not ported can't sell. you're agreeing to license your product under new terms so it requires new agreement

[proper dew]

Do you have a link to Easy Sky? Fabs amazing (not) search wont let me find it.

[pastel kindle]

https://www.fab.com/listings/4c3fd1ef-71a3-46e8-9736-ae3d8f4dc7fe

[proper dew]

Thanks

[rare helm]

So if i fill new fields and add the prices thats it? Theres no actual word that says convert or fab license right?

[untold bay]

don't remember, did it months ago at this point. but marketplace is closed, and everything sold on fab has one of the new licenses

(people who already bought it still have the old license)

[proper dew]

If clouds are not that important for you, i would say UDS is the best.

[rare helm]

Thank you will check that out

[untold bay]

it was basically as easy as reasonably possible. they did a good job on making it easy to bring the assets over

full credit on that front imo

[pastel kindle]

Well I'm making a game that will have a range of different environments so having good looking clouds will matter to some extent

[proper dew]

Well then i would either look for a separate asset pack which includes a variety of volumetric clouds/skyboxes or i would go for sky creator (if you have that much money). Especially considering the next update will bring extremely customizable and complex clouds. But sky creator currently doesnt have features like snow deformation. There is a roadmap which you can look at.

But thats just my amateur opinion.

[pastel kindle]

Well I already have Ultra Volumetrics for fog, do you have any experience with it?

[proper dew]

No i dont, sorry. But the screenshots on fab actually look nice.

[pastel kindle]

Yeah I think I got it either from a bundle or from a monthly freebie. But it's only really for fog, so it's abit limiting in that sense

[tepid niche]

how do they not have a "open fab plugin" button on fab.com 😅

[drowsy plaza]

Because the fab plugin is a window in the unreal editor, they would have to open unreal then run a script on startup to open fab then run another script to link to the product within the plugin

[tepid niche]

but the fab plugin is so janky 😦

also how can i search quixel asssets in the fab plugin?

[drowsy plaza]

What they should do is make one of those “do you want to open link in app” in the epic games launcher that opens the install button for the asset

[tepid niche]

Yea something like that I wish!

[drowsy plaza]

I think they said you select the quixel creator filter then search what you want.

[tepid niche]

ohh okk i see thanks! 🙂

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah anchor point does that with their login system, it’s nice but I’m guessing it would be hard to code for fab.

[tepid niche]

Yea, especially since I go into the fab plugin, scroll down and then i lags behind 5 seconds already I scroll up and have to wait another 5 seconds till it scrolls up 😅

But it is just in fullscreen like that

[cursive chasm]

The fab plugin can't even be scaled on my 4k monitor. Its SO TINY.

[tepid niche]

Also the results for the same search query are completely different in web compared to the plugin.

[cursive chasm]

I have to sit 0.5 inches from the monitor to read things. 😄

[tepid niche]

Yea a open in engine or what ever button would be awesome.

now I'm scrolling to the bottom and all of a sudden it scroll up to the top

now i scrolled down a little bit and it's doing a 30 second scroll hmm

also the sorting of my library by newest is not right

• added a quixel asset to my library in web in the plugin it does not show up

😅

also is it right that they are not available there?

[hollow basin]

Did anybody else get paid out a lot less on Fab than what the sales report showed for November. I am looking at almost exactly 30% less than what my sales report for the month shown. Even if that amount disparity was refunds that is extremely high and not shown in the sales report. Never had more than one product refund per month

[warm knot]

Goodness, this Fab sounds like more and more of a disaster every day.

[stuck fractal]

Is anyone else having this problem, or am I being targeted? I ask because this is not the first time my account has been arbitrarily shut down by epic.

[sturdy hawk]

The payout you received now is for the month of October. You get pay on the end of the Nth month for your revenue of the month N-1.

[stuck fractal]

Well you are lucky. They still have not paid me out. At 11:30am EST this morning they decided to close my account, and have not paid me the outstanding amount that should have come today.

[drowsy plaza]

Payments for November don’t go out until December 30th, you are seeing marketplace sales on that payout from today

[drowsy plaza]

Send them a support ticket with those images attached, that sounds like an automation error

[hollow basin]

I am still being shorted then. And I feel like it was caught up but my sales have been similar every month so maybe that's why I thought it was for the previous. But let me check

[drowsy plaza]

I was gonna setup trader verification but now I’m scared too, I’ve been operating without it since I’m US based and don’t technically need it as a sole member LLC

[drowsy plaza]

What were the sales from October 1st to October 22nd on the marketplace?

Remember to subtract 12%

[stuck fractal]

If this was the first time my account had been suspended over arbitrary issues like this I might consider that. I also have put in a support ticket. It was hours before the payout today, which I have also have not received. If the email is an indication they are holding it over till the next pay cycle.
Amazing news for a father of 7 at christmas, am I right.

[drowsy plaza]

My amount on the payout was accurate

[stuck fractal]

Thankfully it's only around C$600 and this is not my primary source of income, or I would be really screwed for the holidays.

[hollow basin]

That may have been it, I may not have accounted for part of October to still have the 12% fee, thanks

[warm knot]

Use a P.O. box address so they can't dox you? Maybe that will work.

Because you can use a PO box for an LLC, at least in Florida you can.

[drowsy plaza]

No I meant for like my account getting shut down for some reason, I rent a virtual business address for privacy with my LLC

[rustic finch]

fab plugin doesn't have any of my assets and when I click my icon to see if I am logged in, ue crashes 🥲

Display      LogFab                    Logging in using account portal
Warning      LogOutputDevice           Script Stack (1 frames) :
Warning      LogOutputDevice           /Script/Fab.FabBrowserApi.Login
Error        LogWindows                appError called: Assertion failed: IsValid() [File:D:\build\++UE5\Sync\LocalInstall\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Templates\SharedPointer.h] [Line: 1102] 
Log          LogWindows                Windows GetLastError: The operation completed successfully. (0)

Rider log

[mellow vigil]

Yes exactly that for me, I was paid out 50% less than what I made

[hardy kettle]

Hello guys. I have an active listing on Fab and now I've added all the other UE version and I want to send it for review. But nothing is happening after I submit for review (It should turn in in to "In review" as I know?).
Or this is how it shows, after updating a live listing?

[stuck fractal]

As of this morning, I have still received 0% of the payments from October due to yet another arbitrary closure of my account. It is now abundantly clear that they have chosen to intentionally withhold my payment for an additional 30 days without any justification.

From what I can see in Discord and other forums, others have already received their payouts yesterday, as expected. I was well over the threshold for payout, and my payment reports confirm the amount listed as pending. Yet, mere hours before the payout, my account was closed—timed in such a way as to cause the maximum disruption to me. The "deadline" they cite was 30 days ago so if I was in breach why was the account not shut down on the deadline?

This is not an isolated incident. This same pattern of mistreatment has happened before, and the odds of multiple “bugs” occurring repeatedly across different systems and over several years are astronomically low. Either their system is entirely broken, and they keep designing in the same bugs to all their new backends, or this is a deliberate and targeted effort against me.

To further support my concerns, I have not seen similar issues reported by any other users. If this were a widespread problem, I would expect to see more evidence of others encountering the same kinds of disruptions. The lack of such reports only adds to my belief that I am being unfairly singled out.

I have already submitted support tickets regarding this matter, yet I have not currently received any response. Based on past experience, I fully expect that I won’t hear anything until the middle of next week—only to receive a generic, canned reply that fails to address the real issue. This situation is beyond unacceptable.

[cursive chasm]

Start tweeting at Sweeney. He'll forward you to someone who can handle it. He's responded to me on twitter and I'm a nobody.

[stuck fractal]

I don't use X, but I suppose I could dust off my account.

[vale prawn]

Number of days since that guy posted stolen products on Fab: 0
https://www.fab.com/listings/6e788af3-43d6-4eda-a414-d474d0729509
https://www.fab.com/listings/915d0485-6048-4a9a-9471-ebaa83abcf0b

[hasty kraken]

is this normal?

Fab is naming plugins like this in my UE_5_5 folder

[vale prawn]

We don't know if it's intended or a bug, but that's how it's done since 5.5

[mellow dagger]

Oh cool! Megascans on quixel.com for free! Let me just log in and—

[drowsy plaza]

That’s how folder names are generated in the epic games store unless the publisher changes it, that’s probably intentional.

[green seal]

I have to ask, did you submit all the trader verification documents/forms? We all had until like october or so to do it. It doesn't seem like mistreatment or an arbitrary closure, they clearly state why they closed down your account.

[stuck fractal]

Yes. You can see the verification in the photo dated October 1 2024.

To provide some additional context regarding the ongoing challenges with my account. This is not the first time I’ve faced these types of issues with the platform.

Back in 2021, during the forced transition from PayPal to Hyperwallet, I attempted multiple times to submit the required verification documents, only to be rejected each time. Eventually, on June 16, 2021, I gave up, as all of my assets were free, and it simply wasn’t worth the fight. My account was subsequently closed, and I moved on.

However, 11 months later, out of the blue, I received an email stating that my profile needed to be verified. This came as a complete surprise, as my account had been closed for nearly a year. I decided to resubmit my documents, only to be rejected yet again. Frustrated, I reached out to support, asking why they would contact me after all that time just to reject me again. Without any explanation, they approved the account.

At the time, I had no intention of reopening my seller account, so I ignored it. I only submitted the documents out of curiosity, it had been 11 months since I abandoned the process and was contacted out of the blue. This was very strange to me and I needed to know the "why" behind it. It wasn’t until January of this year that I reached out to support to reactivate the account after I was asked to take over a project that was live on the marketplace. Everything was fine until the platform announced another forced transition—this time to FAB.

Knowing what I’d been through before, I anticipated issues, so I submitted my documents on October 1st to allow for any potential problems to be addressed before the deadline. To my surprise, my documents were verified without issue, and I even received confirmation. However, nearly two months later, my account was abruptly closed, with the platform claiming they never received the documents I had submitted and they had already approved.

This repeated pattern of poor communication and arbitrary decisions has left me deeply frustrated.

[green seal]

Weird, your stuff is still listed as available on FAB. The email you got from your confirmation of trader verification also does not match Epic's email address

[green seal]

If I look at my own confirmation email, the email address is different. [e-mail] looks suuuper fishy, not gonna lie.

[green seal]

It's weird to me that you got a "Fab trader verification" at a date before FAB was even announced public

[stuck fractal]

It was annouced to sellers in advance.

[green seal]

Yeah I know, I think I did mine in June

I'd contact support, something seems quite off. Don't know anyone who has experienced the same

[stuck fractal]

This is my point. Along with my past experience which was also very unique it leads me to believe there is something very off. Both are very similar problems.

[green seal]

Sorry man that sucks

[stuck fractal]

I reached out to support and fully expected next week to get a canned reply. There were a bit faster and have sent me a canned reply this morning around 08:40EST. So the canned replies at least are a bit faster then they were last time.

[dire meteor]

That sounds reassuring?

At least it's been noticed.

[stuck fractal]

The suspension email was in my junk which was strange, since the invite for the previous sale was in my inbox. I was only alerted when I had not received the payment I was expecting. I logged in to verify the amount to check the current exchange. Our dollar tanked after the election there so the few sales the project had would have been a bit more impactful. I noticed in my unreal sellers portal it had a red banner saying it had been suspended. I actually at first did not even think much of it. I assumed everyone had gotten it as part of the move to fab. I went to check thinking surly people would talk about this banner, but could not find anything so I started to dig deeper. I found the suspension in my junk mail folder. While I do have access to select parts of the FAB publisher portal, others are blocked off with the suspension notice, so it was not easily apparent looking only on FAB.

While it thankfully will not make or break our family holiday season, it would have eased the finical stress of the season. I am currently on parental leave from my work after the birth of our 7th just over 1 month ago so this comes at a very bad time.

[green seal]

assuming this is your page, everything is still up. I wouldn't be too worried about outstanding payments, you'll get them once support figures out what is going on, assuming everything you've done is above board

[stuck fractal]

It is. from a legal stand point we are a registered private corporation. I keep all my documents in order.
This I am not to worried about currently. If they choose not to reinstate my sellers account I already have a website for the project that sells addons. The previous project leadership had problems with Unreal accepting the addon style with assets. Though it was possible to release a few they met ongoing resistance to further addons to the main asset. To keep clear of conflicts anything listed on the marketplace is currently only available there.
This is also not my primary source of income, and the asset is out of date as I have not had the time to update a large asset myself while also working my full time job.
My frustration comes from the overall situation, not a single point.

[warm knot]

I plan to create and list a free 3D gun model as an example of what customers can expect from my future paid listings. Has this helped generate traffic for anyone here? I think that it's a great idea.

[cursive chasm]

"Our dollar tanked after the election"

I'm going to assume you are living in a country where Fab isn't allowed to operate?

I'd go through the TOS and double check you are even allowed to verify your account. You might need a legal entity in another country to continue using Fab entirely.

[dire meteor]

I'm gonna assume Canada and that Canada is probably okay.

But shrug

[cursive chasm]

Yeah Canada should be fine. Maybe something else about their legal entity is upsetting Fab/Epic.

[stuck fractal]

It's never been an issue, and I am sure other Canadians would have said something. I am certainly not the only developer in the country, despite what some might thinkk of our size, it's a pretty big place lol

Well OK my town has 750 people and I am the only developer, but it's remote lmao

[cursive chasm]

Sometimes names can trigger these things. A friend of mine had a spanish business name that bank of america hated. They'd shut him down every 3-4 months.

[stuck fractal]

I was moving from a verified business account PayPal payments to t, to Hyperwallet which is a PayPal owned service so at the time it made no sense at all to me. I could not put my finger on it but something felt off. I had only free assets at that time and it seemed crazy to fight to give stuff away for free.
Then the out of the blue email 11 months later really threw me for a loop and peaked my curiosity about what was really going on. I was providing them every document requested and in the final email before approving the account they asked for something more recent, I had been sending the most recent versions of documents we had all along.
After they rejected it I really was puzzled and sent this email back to them after asking what EXACTLY they wanted from me so I could send it to them.

I would not have returned to the marketplace if not for the unusual circumstances that lead to me taking over the AFC project.

As stated in that email back on 2022-07-14 I said that as soon as I return this would just happen again. They would force a move and say my documentation was not correct and it was all free so what is the point of it all.

Here we are in 2024 11 months after reactivating my account.

[cursive chasm]

Dunno man 😦 I wish you luck though.

[stuck fractal]

I do not know either. I have ADHD and my brain currently is in hyper-focus trying to solve what is behind this all.

I want to be working on my VR controlled robotics platform for a few days before I start into AFC updates, but this is all I can think of. I have only been back a position i can move the project forward for about 1 month since coming onto parental leave and it's been an adjustment period as we have 7 littles now not 6.. some not so little anymore but always my kids. My kids range in age from 16 to 1 month.

[marble egret]

Yep, one time my UK visa was delayed for months because of my name. I didn't know why it was delayed because I had no direct contact to the home office but I was told by "someone" that it's because of my name and he resolved the situation. the whole situation was way too ridiculous, I got it right before it expired too

Paypal told me once after they refused to verify my account after I gave them all papers they wanted that they won't do it and they were discriminating against me and you can sue us if you dont like it

[stuck fractal]

I would wonder why. Our legal company name is SSZ Canada Inc and the first part searches to some drug for I think arthritis, and a blimp from back in time, then my company. It has no meaning at all except I had a LLL (3 letter domain) that was using those letters. It made it only 5 keys or 6 characters to type the address in. Even the full name is just an expansion of the address lol.

Oh I guess a few new ones since my last search. Nothing that looks bad though.

[silver saddle]

i realize this chat is more of a complaint section for FAB, and trust, i agree, FAB is cheeks compared to the old way, BUT curious if anyone has any recommendations for no-brainer sales for this blackfriday before it ends... looking to capitalize on some good assets / plugins etc. all recs are welcome

[drowsy plaza]

I can confirm your stuff is still up for sale

[warm knot]

Anybody have a problem with Adobe still trying to charge your bank account despite having 6 months free?

[drowsy plaza]

did you have existing adobe subscriptions? the free trial was for a special bundle they made for this, if you already paid for substance then they likely would have that as a seperate product

[stuck fractal]

Thanks. This is not a huge issue. I doubt that I will lose many if any sales as they have been very slow. I also made a community announcement to let people know about the issues. I just want to get to the bottom of this. There are far to many coincidences for my mind to let it go. There is really no singialr part of this problem I will not recover from fairly quickly.

[warm knot]

I have an existing subscription. They still wanted my bank information even after getting 6 months free. I'm going to double check.

[cursive chasm]

I love Darker Nodes and I'm going to pickup Easy Multi Save on the 1st.

[drowsy plaza]

not trying to diminish your issues here but I dont think epic is intentionally trying to sabotage you, my guess is they have the trader stuff go through a third party service and for some reason it didnt register in time.

[undone valve]

I am not sure if all the names are right but must-haves for me are: Node Graph Assistent, Blueprint Assist, Advanced Node Commenting, Electronic Nodes, Functions Mega Pack (This is my own product jfyi). There are some more but I forgot their names

I also don’t know if all of them are in sale

[drowsy plaza]

can your functions mega pack be used in c++ too?

I might buy it

I should have read first nevermind

[stuck fractal]

Here are the facts. During the last forced move there was an issue with our documents. 11 months after I had given up attempting to jump through their hoops they messaged me out of the blue. I did not contact them in any way during those 11 months. I said this exact thing would happen if I reopened my account. Circumstances changed and I decided maybe it was all just random so I reopen my account. 11 months later after another forced move to a new system my account was closed again.
Again I like to believe that is all unrelated however my brain can not let it go. The same exact issue years apart using 2 different systems. A situation I said would happen if I did reopen the account. Either I have become psychic predicting events 2 years in advance, there is more at work here, or maybe that many things so similar really are all just a very improbable coincidence.

[undone valve]

Yessir

[drowsy plaza]

are they all under 1 library or is it multiple includes I would need to know?

those random nodes are stuff I would use a lot

[undone valve]

Just one library

So only one included to remember 🙂

[drowsy plaza]

sweet that makes it easy

[drowsy plaza]

just bought it

[undone valve]

Yeah. I don’t know it you also use blueprints but if you have my plugin you will start using my nodes without even knowing they are from this pack because they come in handy but are still not included in the native unreal nodes library. When using C++ my documentation comes in handy as I currently update it to also show the cpp names. 🙂

[undone valve]

Thank you 🙏 👍

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah I use both BP and CPP. mainly CPP for complex or heavy stuff

[drowsy plaza]

I thought that was a DM

[undone valve]

Ouh so you can scroll through maximized pictures on Fab using the arrow keys

[stuck fractal]

Senior agents are top notch. Clearly have identified the problem.....It's on my end lol "Works on my machine"
A probably 30 second search into yesterdays payment, which I mentioned to them had not been received, would show an error with the account.
Taking one second to access the account as the user would show the problems.
Who is designing these systems to not have key standard admin features?

Do they actually even spend any time reading the emails that are submitted.. with photos, to show the problem on my end?

I replied to the email saying it was escalated with all these photos within 12 mins of receiving it lol

These hoops you have to jump through over and over getting canned responses is wild.

[green seal]

Hey man, I really don’t mean to come across as a jerk here, as I completely understand your frustration at the situation. But based on your responses you wrote to the hyperwallet people earlier in the thread today, and what you’re writing here above to FAB support, you come across extremely passive aggressive without providing them relevant info they are asking. There’s no need to mention being a father of 7, it’s irrelevant to the situation, and just adds more text to an already complex issue. Earlier you just told them to check the government website, which wasnt what they asked for. I would send them screenshots of what your login page looks like, which email you use to log in, and work your way from there. I dont think anyone here understands what the problem you are facing is as none of us have experienced this before.

Just my 2 cents

[stuck fractal]

I copied across all the same relevant information that I posted here. I also provided them the screenshots I have posted here. I get where you are coming from but I have provided them as much information as I could at every single step.

A moment ago I got an email saying "We can't tell you why it failed, resubmit. However I can not resubmit because they have locked me out of that area of my account. WHICH I SHOWED IN THE LAST SCREENSHOTS I SENT AND SAID WITH WORDS THE SAME. The passive aggressive tone is the AI changing the actual aggression out of the words I am sure. I am very mad. Had this been a one time issue, or had they not have said it was approved, or really any number of other things this would not be an issue.

To say it was approved, then 2 months later suddenly say it was not approved. Which is it. Did they lie before, did they lie now, If there was an issue with it why was I allowed to operate for a month past the deadline essentially breaking the law?? Why was it announced to me a few hours before the payout was supposed to be sent. Why was this payment held until the next cycle?

so many questions and not a single anwser has made sense.

[stuck fractal]

The fact I said this exact thing 2 years ago would happen, and it suddenly happened. So I am sorry for being mad at a company that made 5.8 Billion last year not being able to design a system that works.

I took a second to walk away from my keyboard and I will apologies for anything that may have been directed in that last message. My frustration is not with anyone here, or even one single person but the situation and ongoing problems as a whole. The hyper-focus can really amplify things I am not intending to.

[green seal]

No offense taken, just saying that passive aggressive emails to customer service isn’t likely going to help your case at all. Best to explain in a clear and concise way and keep things to the point. As someone who’s been on the support side of tech support, keeping short and sweet with bulletpoints is the way to go. Step by step explanation of your issue.

[stuck fractal]

You are right and I had switched to using bullet points when I replied to this response. That lead to a quicker response and to them saying they could not tell me why it was rejected, but that it had been. So they now acknowledge there is an issue finally. Again strange since the email before that said "they could not see any problems on their end" Now to just solve how I can upload it when they upload page says I am suspended, and maybe find out why they said it was approved and did nothing about it until a month after the deadline.

Again though I will stand on the point that this is not an issue for other Canadian companies or there would be numerous posts all around talking about the issue. If there was a problem in the verification process it should effect more then just me. None of this makes any sort of sense from a systems standpoint. And yes you are also right that the past issues, from the agents standpoint, are irrelevant. they do however show an ongoing issue in the systems used for verification. One that has a very clear pattern. The agent should be passing along the information to the relevenat teams who can use that informaiton to ensure the problems don't persist for multiple years.

[undone valve]

I oftentimes receive emails that my product was declined, then 5 minutes later I get another saying changes needed and then another 5 minutes later it said approved.. so something is really wrong with their system

[undone valve]

Referring to this

[stuck fractal]

In another response if I read between the lines I know what the issue is. It's 100% their own systems fault.

I would guess they have defined that any address that contains a PO box is invalid and should be rejected for Canadians.
This does not account for towns of 750 people with no mail delivery. The entire town is considered "General Delivery" and as such we require a PO box be assinged to each physical address... which is listed on the government issued documents I submitted. Also appears on all government issued ID, and bank statements.

Our laws actually say that you can not have a corporate HQ without a physical address, but to HQ in my town there is no possible way not to have a PO Box assigned to the physical address, which does itself cause a paradox. But yes in fact my legal HQ for the corporation does in fact have a PO box in it.

So while this does narrow down in my own mind what the issue is, it still does not change that this should already have been corrected.

It still does not account for why I was sent an approval, to be shut down 2 month later without warning, but at least sheds some light.

And yes I am probably one of the few people in the world with this issue. Of the 950 some game studios in Canada like 75% of the people work for the top 6 studios. I am also the only gave dev around for a little ways anyways. Till you get to some of the larger towns around where there might be a few small studios. Most would be in the cities near the hubs in Vancouver and Montreal. Montreal is the closer one and is like 7.5 hours south east of me.

Doing a quick search and the nearest studio to me I could find is 200+ km south of me. They are manly a media company but did release a game in 2013 from the looks So I many very well be the northern most studio in all of Ontario.

Also one last side note that when I was dealing with the hyperwallet issue there was no way to glean the cause of the issue in any way. I was just told to submit the documents, which I did over and over. Me providing them the link to the government website more then likely confirmed that it was not an error in my documents, but in their system leading to the approval.

With this at least giving my brain a satisfactory answer to the why this happened I can move on. Regardless of the outcome now I know the reasons behind it, or think I do and that is all that matters to me lol.

[untold bay]

Assets I use and love that are on sale:

Gothic Mansion
Skeleton Ultimate Pack
Collision Disabler
Sky Creator
Screen Space Fog Scattering
Ultra Volumetrics
Brushify
FreshCan environments
Ultra Dynamic Sky

But you could also search Orbital Market for assets that are popular and on sale

[stuck fractal]

Electronic Nodes is on sale and that is the one plugin I personally can not live without.

[untold bay]

The current sale is absolutely massive. Almost every asset I use is on sale right now.

[stuck fractal]

Now that my brain is clear and I can think again, off to build a real world robot I can drive around using VR controls. Have another day or 2 until I can start start back into more serious stuff and think i can get the next version built to test.

[tardy charm]

the sheer amount of lag in the fab plugin is actually giving me a headcache

how the hell have they not improved their web browser module

[jaunty dagger]

What about the visual glitch? Lol

If you pause mid scroll you can trigger a scrolling glitch that makes the fab website glitch out. Unless it's fixed now experienced it last week.

[halcyon dragon]

Is there any way in the FAB store settings to automatically hide content that uses AI generated assets?

[vestal sluice]

For real, it's really uncomfortable. I avoid it entirely after trying it once.

anyone can list me the most bang for our buck VFX packs ?

[old leaf]

another one: https://www.fab.com/listings/01f0c4c9-9ad2-4ad3-93f2-b415b9df49cc
how Epic staff review this?

[vestal sluice]

I already reported this a few days back but it seems they aren't doing anything regarding this seller

[old leaf]

yea, its strange. He should be just kicked out.

but looks like it starting to be common thing https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-assets-are-stolen/2158783/7

[loud dome]

Why spend time making one thing, when you can spend time copying 10-20 things? 🤔

[flat island]

https://www.fab.com/listings/6e788af3-43d6-4eda-a414-d474d0729509

https://www.fab.com/listings/915d0485-6048-4a9a-9471-ebaa83abcf0b

He steals everything

[old leaf]

and cant even report this user :/

[vestal sluice]

I reported around 5 of his listings right now. Gotta make sure this cheater is kicked out of the store.

For all we know, he might have multiple accounts

[old leaf]

@vestal sluice try to report user https://www.fab.com/sellers/GhoostLines Studio/about

[vestal sluice]

It doesn't work, I tried as well

[old leaf]

damn 😅

[vestal sluice]

I tried reporting this user a few days ago as well, same error

[old leaf]

it is so so so bad, how Epic handle simple things.

[vestal sluice]

I think they are still severely understaffing their web development division

[old leaf]

it is not just that, it is the whole Fab thing. It is unfinished, unprepared for release.
It is so strange to me because they have so many years of experience and still did not implement basic functionality on the top of that bugs with reporting stolen content does not work.

@vestal sluice btw, is your DragonIK channel down? I cant find it 🤔

nvm, got it, its under EternalMonke

[vestal sluice]

Yeah 👍

[fossil summit]

Hello my friends,
What's the FAB support email address?

[worldly flower]

There is none.
Only the support Page:
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/fab

Or the Fab Forums. Beside the Unreal forums.

[fossil summit]

How do they get back to people since the support page doesn't ask for email address? 🥲

[worldly flower]

You are logged in with your account to write a message on the support page.. with a registered mail address..

[fossil summit]

Ah great.

[fossil summit]

Thank you very much. 💐

[hardy kettle]

How do you really update a listing on fab?
I don't get anything after pressing Submit for review. The listing is still in draft 🥹

[worldly flower]

Submit to review is submitting any change in the listing/new listing to epic games for approval.. this can take some time.

Meanwhile, this listing can remain in drafts.

You can see the current status in short under the thumbnail in the listing page.

[hardy kettle]

I can see this, like it's not sent to review

When submitting for the first time, I saw, waiting for review, or something like that 🤔

So, the button 'Submit for review' is not broken!? I thought, it needed to be blocked, after I sent it once

[split iron]

Someone spammed literally hundreds of unusable assets in a category I need to search, any way I can block their profile?

[thorny compass]

I know only of OrbitalMP being able to banlist authors, very, very, useful.

The fab even can't filter out categories, the new spam nowadays is Audio and some bullshit single shoes, bags and whatnot.

[worldly flower]

A seller blacklist is requested.. but no response to that from epic

[worldly flower]

Yes.. the update is in draft.. whenever epic decides to reciew it.. it goes to update - review.. after that either to not approved or approved

[vestal sluice]

It's so silly that Orbital search is so much superior than Fab's.

I was able to find the useful assets much more easily on Orbital

[still basin]

That should be a priority. Both for their sales but also in respect for the current publisher that took the time to create and polish good assets.

[buoyant plinth]

Error LogClass BoolProperty FFabAssetMetadata::IsQuixel is not initialized properly. Module:Fab File:Private/FabBrowserApi.h hmmh my rider says this

even tho my fab browser works inside editor

[tardy charm]

nice ordering, love it

[tardy charm]

ah yes, that seller, he's gonna be reselling every asset in the marketplace by next week

[drowsy plaza]

I actually own the original of that pack

I reported that asset, I wish epic would offer a “stolen content” reporting option with you providing a link to the original

[misty crag]

Lol who has time to browse thru the sale.... RIP Sale... bring back wishlists

[untold bay]

search orbital market by popularity and filter by sale
exclude categories you don't care about

[misty crag]

is there a category for sketchfab?

if i cant filter that out.. there's no point

[warm knot]

Have you guys thought that maybe Epic stopped vetting their listings because they want more stuff to train AI with? It's all free shit for them to use.

[untold bay]

afaik orbital only indexes unreal assets

[untold bay]

they already had this data in sketchfab if they wanted it

[warm knot]

You're right...

[untold bay]

fab lets people attempt to opt out of generative AI training, which almost everyone does, which would only make epic's job harder than the previous status quo of sketchfab

[warm knot]

All of the stuff on sale is low quality, lol. Does Epic decide what goes on sale? I might have to invest time in posting low poly models, haha!

[untold bay]

many creators (most?) were invited to add their assets to the black friday sale
frankly, most active creators are on sale. so you're just looking at a sample of products
this is where orbital helps. its sort-by-popularity brings the cream to the top

[warm knot]

Or a pack of these models would more attractive.

[untold bay]

many (most?) of the best assets are on sale right now

[warm knot]

Ah ok, nice. I'm pretty new to this so please forgive me, lol.

[untold bay]

Some examples of excellent assets I use that are on sale right now: #fab message

[warm knot]

Oooh, that gothic mansion looks like it's to die for. 🤩

Reminds me of resident evil

[untold bay]

yeah it's absurd value
there are lots of gems on fab. it's crazy that you can buy a year of someone's skilled labor for a few $20 bills

there has never been a better time to make games

[warm knot]

Yeah, that's definitely appealing to the Indy devs and hobbyists. And the bigger studios could pay the premium for it, which sounds fair to me.

[untold bay]

it's hard to find what's good using fab right now. IMO anyone who wants to search should be using orbital market

which is doubly tragic because orbital relies on pre-fab metrics, which biases it against new assets (despite its efforts to do otherwise)

fab's roadmap includes a lot more quality signals. hoping the situation is better a year from now

[misty crag]

yeah voting with my wallet... not buying anything .. worst sale ever

[untold bay]

??? this is probably the best sale fab/marketplace has ever had. no ability to have sales for months means almost every popular asset is on sale rn

like to go orbital market, sort by popular, then toggle the "sale" filter and observe how many are on both

[drowsy plaza]

They finally updated the ratings viewer, it now shows the actual star rating and not just whole numbers.

[green seal]

Yeah how is it the worst sale ever? This sale is pretty bananas

[pastel kindle]

UDS at half price is really good for example

[untold bay]

UDS is absurd value at full price, much less half-off

[undone valve]

This might even be the biggest sale that ever existed. There are so many products in sale it is crazy

[rigid girder]

Anyone else having issues with "Verify Orders"?

Every order number is returning invalid, even ones I know are valid 100%.

[mellow vigil]

Caps sensitive

[rigid girder]

A and a both return invalid.

[mellow vigil]

Not too sure then sry

[still basin]

A research like Orbital market would really make a huge difference

[drowsy plaza]

If you copied it from a photo on iOS you need to retype the string out exactly as it’s copied. I don’t know why copy paste breaks it

It may do the same on windows

[rigid girder]

Even manually entering it doesn't work anymore. It did awhile ago, but all of them show as invalid now.

🤷‍♂️

[drowsy plaza]

Weird, that sales verifying tool is bugged

The fact it can’t even ready copied text is wild

[vestal sluice]

I ended up buying 3 of your packs yesterday, really good value for money.

[cursive chasm]

Picked up Easy Multi Save. Any other MUST HAVE plugins/etc?

I don't really need blueprint function packs. Just looking for prebuilt systems that should generally be plug and play.

[vestal sluice]

I haven't yet tried it, but I did buy "Easy Game UI" from Nerwy yesterday. It feels like a great value for money in case you need a prebuilt game UI system.

[cursive chasm]

This is fancy, I'll look through the documentation. ty

[foggy edge]

how do I download the things I got from fab???

I can't see it in my epic launcher

Is this a scam

[vestal sluice]

Try clicking on the refresh button in the launcher library

[midnight arch]

Hi guys. Since FAB came out I'm facing some problems. I have the city sample project downloaded for UE 5.4
Now I want to download a separate project for 5.5, but it is not letting me choose a version! What to do. I feel like it's just gonna ovewrite the files i already have. What to do?
I want to keep the 5.4 project as a back up

[midnight arch]

This is a very big problem

if I want to download 5.5 version, I have to delete all 5.4 files first. Then it works

what the hell

[viral zinc]

I had a today a batch of plugins updates for 4.27

is Epic allowing the update of old plugins now ?

[fossil dune]

Any update on that guy that keeps ripping off other sellers…?

Or we should all resort to copyright infringement now…

Also it would be cool if FAB had some kind of API where you can query sales and products… i doubt that will happen though

Well so far the update is he has uploaded new stolen stuff,
but the stuff reported last week or so seems to be removed, although it might be restored.

Wondering why anyone should try to be original now, as you can easily reupload other sellers stuff and make money without any risk of temporary/permanent bans

[fossil dune]

he’s uploading new stuff and epic is approving them, latest publish is just yesterday.

It’s like wack a mole,
by the time they really decide to remove him he will have made bank and everyone who bought from him might be liable if they use that stuff

[vale prawn]

I see some of their new stolen stuff release everyday. Everytime I have a notification for a new product release and it's them, it just makes me mad.

[vale prawn]

It seems like no?
https://support.fab.com/s/article/FAB-TECHNICAL-REQUIREMENTS

4.3.6.2.d Epic will only build publishers’ plugins against the three latest major engine versions by default. Builds for older engine versions can be accommodated per request.

The rule on the MP was

2.6.3.d Epic will only build sellers’ plugins against the three latest major engine versions available.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/marketplace-guidelines#263d

So at least you can ask. In the same way you can ask for a thief to be removed from Fab I guess.

[slender estuary]

fab definitely working as intended yayaya ...

[worldly flower]

still get some of my owned Code plugins being only available to Add to a project, instead of install to Engine..
Funny 🙂

[viral zinc]

Maybe they updated the FAB package

so get an update with metadata or so

[green seal]

Can confirm that the devs are on the case 😉

[warm knot]

Yeah, just make sure that they send Inspector Clouseau to solve this mystery.

[vestal sluice]

All the reports I submitted since 28th are still open. It feels as if nobody is there. That’s so frustrating.

[meager dust]

accidentally better

[worldly flower]

At least you can correct it manually by copy & pasting the plugin into the engine folder... or directly into the project's plugins..

cause right now, the path often is:
ProjectRootFolder/Engine/Plugins/Marketplace/Pluginname

[dense ruin]

guys

how to get megascan into fab? i did added all of them in my library in quixel

but can't see them in fab

[tardy charm]

What's with the "Invalid Manifest" issue when installing certain packs from the fab plugin. I don't want to use the epic launcher because they broke the categories and it's shit now but I can't download stuff from the fab plugin either. So now I need to like, do the filtering in fab and manually look up the name in the epic games vault to download through the launcher

[tardy charm]

I believe they don't transfer over. You need to claim them in FAB before 2025 if you want to get them for free. They added a claim button to claim all of them. Now the issue is, that button only claims them. You will own it but not have it in your vault so to add them in the vault, you need to go to the pack you want and manually add it to the vault.

[vapid crow]

fab's always got what i need

[untold bay]

why would they use a photo of johnny depp instead of showing their model?

how did they get a photo of him t posing?

[drowsy plaza]

I think that’s the model, they probably used AI to generate a 3d model from a portrait image

[drowsy plaza]

I want to make a update for my fighting game where you play as Johnny depp fighting amber heard now

Probably will get taken down by amber heard if I do that though

[cursive chasm]

Just use a clown instead. That'll do. 🙂

[flat island]

https://www.fab.com/listings/345fe1f2-b61c-4e31-b737-dca2c63e043f

https://www.fab.com/listings/f975eba6-afab-444f-973e-ff2008604094

[fresh sphinx]

How is this guy still on Fab. He's been blatantly stealing, and I'm sure multiple people have reported his assets by this point

[drowsy plaza]

That’s is his only product available as of today. I guess fab is taking down his products when reported but not his account, maybe they have a multi strike policy before they ban accounts

https://onemanstudioforgames.com

He is an asset flipper apparently

Wait I think this is him actually

https://youtube.com/@ghoostlinesstudio?si=uobAyMkQzMURR5n4

Maybe he has two companies or something, his email is a Gmail with the one man games studio name but his trader info is the ghoostlines studio

[fresh sphinx]

I can't even imagine how it must feel for the people he's stealing from. I know I would be quite pissed off if I saw someone selling something I worked countless hours on, and essentially claiming its theirs

[mild garden]

Hopefully epic cleans house, I just want fab to be successful 🙏 I can only hope

[drowsy plaza]

I had a couple foreign people steal my footstep solution, it sucked but in my case since I didn’t patent the design and they technically made their own code I could not do anything but in this case it’s a easy fix, just report it and it will be taken down so I would not be too concerned if it happened to me since it won’t be up for long.

I bought the stolen footstep plugin because it looked exactly like mine just with some variable renames, he used a little different code. Mine is still better though but he did price his at like 5 bucks so he probably takes a lot from me

[fresh sphinx]

I'm not sure how it would work with functionality, but surely you can claim that there are way too many similarities in how it's functioning if say, 90% of it is basically a copy and paste?

[cursive chasm]

He probably takes your crappy customers. 🙂 Don't stress on it too much.

[drowsy plaza]

True, mine is still better, it has more features so it still sells some. Oddly enough it’s selling more on fab than it did the marketplace.

[drowsy plaza]

I would need ownership of the design though and I don’t, I ended up finding some obscure Reddit post 3 years before I published that did something similar with blueprints though. So I guess the idea is not exclusively mine and others have had it. Mine was still the first on the marketplace to implement that solution though.

Basically it tracks feet without needing notifies on your animations, so it’s plug and play and works with any animation.

Mine supports camera shakes, particles with Niagara, decals with slope adjustment and foot inversion, and sounds with multiplayer support and lots of optimization so you can use it on NPCs and such.

His was just Niagara, sounds, and decals but he didn’t have foot inversion I don’t think, first person support, camera shakes, or physical material support.

Ultra dynamic sky helped boost playtime a little bit by using it for a Christmas update. I guess people like events in games a couple times a year.

[untold bay]

my bet is that between two halfway similar products, the one with better presentation will outsell the one with more features
and ripoff artists are surely going to be bad at presenting their own products

[warm knot]

That's one of the reasons that I have my one and only asset priced so high. To gatekeep people like him. 😆

[untold bay]

stuff like showcase video, tutorial video -- especially with audio narration by the author, and especially with face -- playable demo, documentation, screenshots of things like shader complexity, mesh tris, etc

that builds trust that "this will work for me" way better than any list of features will

[warm knot]

But can you actually patent code?

[drowsy plaza]

You can patent designs and code is designed

Nemesis system is patented

[warm knot]

Ah yes, I forgot about LOTR Nemesis system.

That kind of kills innovation, if you ask me. We'll never see another Nemesis system in games for at least 25 years. LAAAAAAAAME. But the ripoff artists aren't even able to make a good game to begin with.

They can steal code all they want; it won't matter if their products are still shit.

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah his product was kinda confusing, it used some type of special asset he made just to assign effects to the footsteps. Mine just used a enum TMap

[warm knot]

That makes me wonder if he even understood the original design.

[drowsy plaza]

The store page was in Chinese I think, so idk. It reminded me of like those alibaba products you find sold on Amazon that are cheap knockoffs of brand name products

Like scorch marker is the brand name product and “wood fire burning 4 pack marker with free included wood sample starter kit, 6 inches long and lasts 3 months of use” as the cheap knockoff

[echo egret]

Hello sourcers... it's 4:53AM for me in Italy, in how long is the sale closing exactly!??

Just in a few minutes or still about a hour?

[untold bay]

54 minutes left

[echo egret]

Thanks!

[velvet bison]

why does the fab limited time free not actually show up as free in checkout?

can i please get some help as i have to go to bed for school tomorrow soon and the sale will be gone when i wake up

[rustic whale]

These are the current ones

The one you are showing above were in the previous pack

[untold bay]

😢

[undone valve]

Its stressful getting assets every 2 weeks

[jaunty dagger]

Yeah too many now

[untold bay]

a. License Tiers. Content may be offered at different license tiers, and before completing a Transaction you may be required to select between a Personal - Reference Only tier, a Personal tier, and a Professional tier (each a "License Tier"). You are only eligible for a Personal - Reference Only tier or Personal tier if, at the time of the Transaction you, together with any controlling entity and other entities under common control with you, have not generated more than $100,000 USD in gross revenue from your commercial activity in the digital content industry in the last 12 months.

tldr yes

no restrictions on buying pro

[drowsy plaza]

Feel free to buy pro if you want, the requirement is checked at time of purchase not retroactively.

[thorny vault]

Hey, so uh, I'm a bit concerned here.

The UE marketplace has been my livelihood keeping me afloat for the last couple of years essentially. Now with the move to fab, I checked the sales report and... if I'm reading this right, I usually got 0.5 to 3 sales per day, with more during special sales. It's been like this for years. And then I got a single sale on Fab October 28, and that's it. Nothing after that.

I'm not sure, I thought that maybe the sales report on publish.unrealengine.com was bugged from moving over the systems to Fab and that's why it hasn't reported anything after October 28?

Or could it really be that way? That my sales just drove straight off a cliff into the abyss? I thought for sure at least I'd sell something with the special sale on Fab where I set my products to be 70% off.

Could any of you please let me know if you can see sales after October 28 on your sales report?

[drowsy plaza]

Are you charging more for the professional tier? Most sellers(outside the famous ones) are reporting a loss of sales after changing pricing from how the marketplace was. I’ve been selling really well on fab with almost 90 units for November because I have price parity.

[untold bay]

Are you checking the Fab sales report, and not the old Marketplace Publishing Portal report?
Sales after 11/1 or something only show up on the Fab sales report

[thorny vault]

I'm trying to find the Fab seller pages to see all that but I thought it didn't even exist

[untold bay]

https://www.fab.com/portal/reports/sales

[thorny vault]

If I go into Marketplace Seller it shows me "Get Started"

Ah thank god (and Dan) for that, I thought I was done for a second there. I'm still getting sales 😄

@drowsy plaza I had no real thought or strategy when I updated the products to Fab, so I set Personal price and Professional price both to the same as I had before on UE MP

[drowsy plaza]

oh okay, thats good. there are a lot of people online who changed their pricing and are reporting very limited sales compared to before

[thorny vault]

I might try lowering personal price slightly now though, only seems fair!

But I still haven't recieved a payment from Hyperwallet for last month though, which is strange.

I'll give it a couple more days though, they might just be late on it

I checked, and it's always been the 29th or 30th on the month before though, so it's rather late

Another unrelated question, do you have to submit and wait for review just for updating metadata that indicates that the product works on the latest engine version?

All of my products I've removed from my FTP I used for file link, and I can't even press confirm after selecting 5.5 in the list of Supported Engine Versions unless the file link is valid. It's the same file as before, so they shouldn't need to download it again...

[untold bay]

did you hit the minimum payment threshold? ($100?)

[untold bay]

this has been a recurring complaint. you can add a cachebusting fake URL argument at the end if you need to resubmit from the same URL

myurl/asset.zip?bust=123456789

[thorny vault]

@untold bay Yes, although I read on the forums now that it seems like the payments come in one month later now. So sales for Nov come in at Dec 30 for example

Okay, hmm I see. I wish I could just checkmark "This is not a file update, just a metadata update" and then they wouldn't even have to go through and verify the actual content files etc.

[drowsy plaza]

It’s always had a 30 day delay

[thorny vault]

@drowsy plaza you're right, my bad. But it is confusing. On the UE MP publisher page, "Payment Report" page, the top payout reads:

In Progress
SELLER Payout - INT - Nov 2024
2024-11-29
$263.69

But I see the amount corresponds to the Oct period in the "Payout Report" tab.

I've never had it be this delayed though, like it says 29th november, and the others have all been showing up on Hyperwallet on the same date as they're listed on that payment report page, while this one hasn't shown up now 5 days later but yeah I'll give it some more time I suppose.

[warm knot]

If you set the professional tier license higher than the personal, and you don't see any sales, then why doesn't Epic just get rid of that license? They don't verify your income, so anybody can just click Personal license. And does anybody know if the Fab search algorithm will place your stuff lower than others if your prices vary? I'd like to know.

[drowsy plaza]

Well sellers can sue if you purposely buy the wrong one, so epic may not verify but it allows for legal action.

The reason they have it is because sellers kept asking epic for tiered pricing but customers don’t like it. It’s gonna become one of those things were you either have hubris and die of no income or you serve your customers and continue to make money. I think in some cases like dekogon where the pricing is only a 10-20 dollar difference it’s fine but there are sellers charging 2-10x the personal price for it and those will have trouble selling unless they have a marketing machine.

And no epic does not lower your search rankings but I’m pretty sure it shows both prices in search so customers may avoid clicking if they see exorbitant pricing.

[warm knot]

lol, how many buyers make over 100k? I'd looooove to know. I was under the impression that most buyers aren't in that income bracket, so they could just click the Personal button. Easy as pie! But as long as there is no official data from Epic then everything we talk about here is just speculation. I'll try setting equal prices on my next project just to test it out but I'm not holding my breath. Nobody knows that I even exist, lol.

[drowsy plaza]

not very many fab users make a lot of money but that doesnt prevent confusion, my products have price parity and its a 50-50 split on whether someone buys the professional tier even if they dont need it.

its also just a bad look to have unfair pricing even if it doesnt directly affect the person, most entrepenuers would like to be making over 100k a year and if they see someone being unfair to their goals then they wont want to support you

[split iron]

So much mass low quality spam, until I can block seller profiles on fab its basically unusable for me when searching 😦

[warm knot]

I'm going to try different pricing patterns to see what works for me.

[warm knot]

What kind of stuff do you consider spam? Would like to know for research purposes. 😋

[hollow basin]

I am curious would you all think it would be easier and less confusing if before you enter fab it asks the user if they make over 100k, and then only show the professional license if yes and only show personal if no. It may help with the confusion and would show accurate prices for the license you want while browsing

[mild garden]

the percentage of people choosing a professional license over a personal one depends on the type of content you're selling (assuming there are different prices for each). If both licenses are priced the same, I would have assumed 100% of buyers would opt for the professional license, like you said, only Epic can provide that kind of info.

[drowsy plaza]

That would probably be a good way to do it

[drowsy plaza]

Just use the unreal engine filter, I never have problems with search

I guess fab doesn’t tell you if they are gonna promote your product on the front page because one of plugins is on there and they didn’t tell me

[untold bay]

i peek in at fab using this URL:
https://www.fab.com/channels/unreal-engine?is_ai_generated=0&listing_types=3d-model,atlas,brush,decal,education-tutorial,environment,game-system,game-template,hdri,material,smart-asset,tool-and-plugin,ui,vfx&sort_by=-publishedAt

• skips ai generated
• skips categories i'll never be interested l ike audio, 2d
• sorts by reverse publish date, so i see all the new stuff as it's released

[tardy charm]

holy shit you can use commas to list multiple categories??

[untold bay]

for searching, i still use orbital market

[tardy charm]

I've been writing janky tampermonkey scripts to remove categories I don't want from the listings lol. This is so much easier and less prone to the site straight up dying because the script removed too much

[warm knot]

I really like those models that you made, so beautiful!

[still cairn]

When we getting FAB straight up in epic launcher like old store was 😐

[undone estuary]

not likely?

[drowsy plaza]

They are not gonna do that sadly, their roadmap says they are gonna build a desktop app for it like quixel bridge though

[tardy charm]

hopefully something that runs smoother than the epic launcher or the fab plugin lol

[drowsy plaza]

Building a separate app is a bad idea, getting people to use it regularly if it only serves one purpose will be difficult

[drowsy plaza]

Epic launcher is smooth for me

Fab plugin is also relatively smooth though I rarely use it since the launcher + website is easier

[still cairn]

Ew

[tardy charm]

well, i mean when marketplace used to be embedded in the launcher

the vault became pretty smooth after fab

[drowsy plaza]

I never had issues with that either

[tardy charm]

i guess the launcher hates me

[still cairn]

Need the marketplace embedded in launcher 💔

[drowsy plaza]

Do you have a modern PC and are you using the latest version? Epic did major overhauls to the codebase for it in 2023 to make it faster and use less resources

[tardy charm]

I have an i9-14900f (no issues so far thankfully), 32gigs of ram, a 4070. I'd say that's pretty modern

[drowsy plaza]

One thing I wish fab had was account switching, my seller account and personal account with assets and unreal engine licenses are different. I have to logout and login every time. It’s annoying

That’s why I liked the launcher version because it keeps me logged in as my personal account

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah that’s way better than my PC except the ram amount, I’ve got 80 gigs of ram. That’s weird you have performance issues

[tardy charm]

yeah and the vault was especially buggy before fab came and they added that refresh button. Sometimes, it just doesn't load and I can't download anything. On the off chance that it does, I still won't be able to download anything, the buttons won't do anything.
I had to open the product I want to install in the browser, then use the "Open In Launcher" button to force it to load in epic games, then install it

and the embedded unreal marketplace was just horrendous in performance

[vestal sluice]

https://www.fab.com/sellers/GhoostLines Studio

Fab delisted this thief finally 🎉

[last matrix]

I wonder when Epic will fix the issue of Fab sales reports seeming to be a day off with each sale listed

[silent mesa]

Was there an asset that you can easily merge two animations and then bake them?

Like i just place an attacking animation and then a running animation, then i can have an option to setup which bone to blend them in like spine 01, so upper body attacking and then lower running.

[silent mesa]

Im seeing this one unless you other have recommendations thanks
https://www.fab.com/listings/dd857017-f935-48e4-bd00-8625f0bc56cd

[silent mesa]

This is also good
https://www.fab.com/listings/73fc9f34-56ec-43a3-a3bd-256be3639971

[oblique minnow]

would architecture sell?

[green seal]

What do you mean fix? It has always been that way.

[mild garden]

Thank you so much! Glad you like them ❤️

[untold bay]

indicators whether a product category sells:

• How many ratings the most popular items in that category have
• Creators exist who continue making high quality assets in the category over the course of years

[oblique minnow]

what you think

will it

[untold bay]

i dunno i haven't done any research in that category and know nothing about it

[oblique minnow]

damn the ratings are kinda fucked rn

not a single one has a rating thats on sale

[untold bay]

there are probably zero products on sale, period, right now

black friday sale just ended and there's no other way to put a product on sale right now

[green seal]

There is no review system in place at the moment. Products that do have a review score are simply ported over from the original marketplace ratings.

It kinda sucks that epic wasn’t able to somehow migrate the data from UEM, i am sure they had a reason (might simply be that fab didnt even have a system in place to migrate the data to yet), but man it seems like such an oversight

[untold bay]

it's a rough experience for buyers. there are so few signals to sort out the noise

[zenith elk]

Hope they can get to feature parity to Unity Marketplace soon.

I can appreciate my assets on FAB better than on EGL Vault. And its loads faster too. But not sure what was the rush to release it?

[hollow zephyr]

1+ years is not rushed 😅

[solemn girder]

ugh scrubs

their cdn was timing out

and up again

specifically it timed out on the cdn when authenticating, which makes zero sense

[orchid eagle]

https://status.epicgames.com/

[solemn girder]

nice

Hey Epic bought Fallguys?

neat had no idea

[floral depot]

Anyone able to use orbital marketplace right now?

[untold bay]

it's been down for me all day

[last matrix]

While sales report updates every night at midnight.

Even thought you made a product sale that previous day, the sales report lists it as having happened two days ago.

It was more obvious the difference when the old publisher sales report was still updating. The dates it lists for when a product had sold would be different than what FAB reported.

[undone valve]

What is the difference?

[drowsy plaza]

I guess the epic games launcher had some changes, hopefully big. i have never seen this popup before

okay nope nothing really changed, weird

[undone valve]

If you log out and in again it is also ultra modern but nothing else is

[hollow basin]

If I were to guess, I would say that button or key re-binding would be a gameplay feature, but not a gameplay mechanic. I assume a mechanic is an ability or system that a player can use to progress in a game. And a feature is something that helps indirectly. That's just my guess though

Or like proximity voice chat is a feature and not really a mechanic. A time rewind system would definitely a mechanic

[vale prawn]

Interesting... the login page seems to have a slight new design. Maybe the New and Improved launcher is coming after all? There's a "surprise stream" this friday, so... maybe?

Or we get to keep our beloved launcher, which reminds me I have an orange dot to find right now...

[drowsy plaza]

their trello says it just fixed some bugs

there is no reason to redesign the launcher

[vale prawn]

I mean even their 2021 Trello card would like to disagree with you on that

[drowsy plaza]

I dont care what something from 4 years ago says, they have done a ton of updates since then. You dont need to reinvent the wheel ever 4 years

[marsh salmon]

ux designers can't fix bugs, they need something to do

[trail heron]

aside from that heir current wheel sucks, and has sucked on many levels for many years now.

[tepid niche]

Is it planned, that there will be sales like on the marketplace, or are they only to special occasions?

[drowsy plaza]

That will be a feature in a few months

[tepid niche]

I hope it coms soon, I really liked skimming through the current deals and I kind of missed the black fridaydeals so now I'm deprived 😂

[drowsy plaza]

I think they are building a self service discount tool so we don’t have to email them, that’s probably why it’s taking so long

[tepid niche]

Ohh ok thats crazy doing it via E-mail

[polar python]

It boggles my mind that this first template has nothing to offer, it is just lyra with first person camera and charges 200$ and people still buy it

i tried to test demo and it is barren, it has nothing just few enemy with hit react animation and thats it

[cursive chasm]

If it sells I mean who cares? 😄

[polar python]

i care because my hard worked template is doing no sales its barren and people who do nothing gets fruit

[cursive chasm]

Spruce up your images, text, and pay for some promotion on ue dev twitter accounts/youtube channels.

A single x post should be like $50 - $100. Easy peasy.

[polar python]

have you done it or you are just saying anything ?

[cursive chasm]

I've published several iOS games and managed over $100k in fb ad spend. Lots of growth hacking/marketing since 2012.

[polar python]

ok now i can trust

[cursive chasm]

Take it slow, watch your sales, and don't overextend.

[polar python]

thank you:)

[polar python]

are these not clean ? https://www.fab.com/listings/64f5b099-6b2d-4641-ad43-6f5031370fa7
i am working on improving description and images

[cursive chasm]

Let me look at a couple other listings.

Looks clean and on par with everyone else. I bet its just a matter of luck and possible external marketing.

He also could of gotten those ratings from several years ago. Not having dated text reviews kind of makes it shooting in the dark.

[undone estuary]

and you dont know what the price was

[polar python]

are you real mathew ?

[polar python]

ye it makes sense

[undone estuary]

or am I just fantasy?

[polar python]

tomato

[polar python]

people said that different price for tiers is the reason because people get confused and just don't buy it, is it the case ?
either way i am going to set same price after december sale

[vestal sluice]

Cant do much about assets that can’t be proved as a direct ripoff sadly. It’s why we need the QA tab asap for every asset, to warn others of what they are getting.

[cursive chasm]

Thats outside of my knowledge. Others in here can make better judgement calls on that.

[jagged otter]

Hey man , thats something a begginer dev would say. Yeah its 200$ , but your paying for a solid foundation , uncrowded with clutter and ready for you to expand upon. Please understand this can help you build the game of your dreams. There is also so much more in store for this asset in the future , get it now before the price increases ! you really think Epic would let someone sell an asset that is not complete ? come on , channel your creativity. You expect someone to build a whole game for you ?

[polar python]

what ! are you understanding what i am saying ?
what foundation is it providing ? it is just a copy of lyra, it is providing nothing new, it is already there, he is just scamming people and ye people are dumb enough to get into it
i am saying the price to content ratio is way off. it would be acceptable if it was 15$ or something
(if anyone can make it in 3 days, why is it even on marketplace)

[jagged otter]

O, i didnt think i needed the /s but ok /s🤣

[polar python]

btw here is my old post for more context #fab message
i think it is marketing issue and i am not representing my template properly thorugh images and description
so i am working on it

[jagged otter]

Thats so many assets you wouldnt beleive it. I hope one day the law steps in. A product should still have to be a product that works.

[polar python]

ye i suspected it to be joke but when you said that it is foundation then thats where i though you were being serious

[jagged otter]

Yup , because that how they will try to get you most of the time

[rigid lotus]

Can I still apply for the holiday sale somehow? I totally forgot about it

[polar python]

it is closed, maybe try to contact fab team, if they can submit on your behalf

you can make a ticket here https://support.fab.com/s/

btw guys is it only me that in chrome it is glitched out

damn it was working fine on edge but now it also shows this

[rigid lotus]

ill try, we'll see

[sturdy hawk]

Don't hesitate to ping me when it happens, looking into it!

[sturdy hawk]

Fixed 🥳

[forest portal]

Does anyone have problem , or had problem with SAVE your BIO , its greyed out

[warm knot]

I have trouble believing that computer wizards are confused about pricing. It's written in plain English. 🤨

I mean, we're not talking about Walmart employees here. 😆

[polar python]

it is not kinda confusion but this #fab message

and i think he is kinda right because even after fab launched i got 3 sales in oct month but i changed price of pro to 120 and after that it is not making any only made 1 sale on 9th Nov

it can be coincidence idk

[warm knot]

Yeah, everybody has had different results with that approach. Until Epic Games gives official numbers and data about this then it's just speculation.

For me, I literally just started a week ago so all I can say is what others have done and written on Reddit, Epic forums, and Discord.

The experience and opinions of everybody varies.

[jagged otter]

Took a look at your asset and the main issue I see is the presentation. If you went from 3 sales to 1 sale , it kind of hints at that. Its already a pretty niche category of asset , and having it under shooter wont help much with that. You should 1. price it lower. 2. Change all of those thumbnails 3. Make a video to demonstrate what you asset offers ( as soon as you get your parts ) 4. It looks cheap how the Melee character holds his bat for example , tighten all of that stuff up. ( photo included for example) and 5, consider changing the category you have it currently lised under and 6. If you want to keep the price the same especially , after the cleanup add more. Then you might get more sales IF there are people still buying this type of asset at this point. Currently I wouldn't buy it as it is , looks very cheap honestly .

[molten forge]

Hey, we're starting to sell assets on FAB but unsure of what a good price point is.. or more importantly how much it actually converts too after all fees are taken into account, anyone got any ideas of what kind of payment they expect per single asset sold?

We're focusing on realistic looking assets and provide high, mid & low poly versions with every assets, right now we're charging $6.99 but after fees and conversion from USD to GBP it works out around £4.75(ish).. is it too low/too high? what's a good way to gauge what an asset is worth? any ideas?

[jagged otter]

Thats kind of open ended , what kind of assets ? chairs ? windows ? a whole city ?

[untold bay]

epic takes a flat 12%
taxes/vat are charged on top of the price so they don't affect your revenue per sale
look at what alternatives your buyers would consider:

• if there are no alternatives, charge more
• if there are alternatives, maybe make something different!

orbital market can help you find what the most popular items in your category are, which gives you a sense of what quality/price people expect

[molten forge]

Its a range on things but rn we're doing a lot of WW2 explosives

[untold bay]

a large percentage of overall marketplace sales happen when items are on sale, so consider leaving some room in your price to lower it further

[molten forge]

not trying to advertise here lol but you can see what we've got up so far here - https://www.fab.com/sellers/Lab Leak

[molten forge]

Yeah we haven't taken into account the sales stuff yet since FAB hasn't got the functionality yet, also notice that almost every asset similar to ours doesn't offer a high, mid & low poly versions and almost all of them are quite low poly in general

[jagged otter]

o , ok , well 6.99 is a good price point. I can find a lot of that that's included in 1 pack and some even free. Leave it at 6.99.

[untold bay]

looking briefly, you have the only tellermines on fab (i know nothing about this subject). so if someone wants one, you are the only choice!
at the same time, how many people will want a specific version of a specific mine? what's the size of that market?
and you may need to charge accordingly

if you sell at $6.99 to literally everyone who wants a Tellermine-29 Anti-Tank Mine, what does that multiply out to?

you may also want to offer a bundle product, all your mines together for some discount on the total individual prices

[loud dome]

Would always offer a bundle. Adds a second option that can make the first option better for some.

[jagged otter]

Exactly , bundle it up and then you could charge more.]

[loud dome]

Maybe nitpick. But I would try to create higher quality images. Try using sequencer and offline rendering?
I think the initial image has a ton to say for if a person clicks on it or not.

Like the individual image on this one looks really nice (and are clearly path traced) https://www.fab.com/listings/8f9ac3c0-8950-4f60-aec2-fbd450f2905b

[molten forge]

We actually do have a bundle of those mines lol thats priced at $27.99 which is 5x$6.99-20%(roughly)

What do you all think about having the thumbnail as a 'scene' image VS a normal 'grey background' image as well?

[jagged otter]

What i mean is a realistic war pack in general. Including all of the parts you offer.

[untold bay]

I have no idea. I would look at what the best-selling comparable products are doing

this may be hard to determine for models which tend to have fewer signals of what's selling than other categories

[floral depot]

Will do, thank you!!!

[molten forge]

I wish fab offered more analytics lol I personally think the scene image thumbnail stands out more in a sea of 'x colour background' images but i dont know if that means anything or whether buyers actually prefer the 'x colour background' images over scene image as the thumbnail

[untold bay]

these are the only grenade models with any number of reviews/ratings on them

[untold bay]

yes it is a big problem for both buyers and sellers that there are not enough signals of what's good and what's selling

hopefully this gets better but given their roadmap it looks like it'll be most of a year to get going

[molten forge]

I know which i think is nuts lol like even number of views/clicks on a listing would be great.. hard to tell whats working and whats not and even when a sale is made the sales report doesn't tell you much either

[loud dome]

Look at your competition.
Which do you want to click on, and why? Which do you not care for, and why?
Then aim for making an image you feel you want to click on more than the competition.

Doesn't matter if you have a good product if no one is ever clicking into the details page

[polar python]

1. i think for what it offers 60$ in good enough
2. what you exactly mean by changing ? (i am working on them and making them represent the template more better )
3. yes i will soon make it after completing work on thumbnails
4. yes it doesn't look good, i will change that
5. it is under "Game Template" > "Shooter" ( what should i change it to ?)
   Thanks

[loud dome]

Just look at the gaming industry, etc. Some AAA games spend 30%+ of their budget on marketing alone.
You should at least allocate 20-30% of the time spent making your product, on "packaging it" (making it sell)

[polar python]

just wondering, why not make a whole pack instead selling separately ?

[molten forge]

We likely will, we started with those construction assets but then pivoted too WW2 explosives, we've got a plan to make a shit load more WW2 stuff but we'll likely put those in a pack when we add more construction assets

[polar python]

good

[forest portal]

When you uploaded assets on fab,where do you find the FABURL?

[polar python]

how is this new thumbnail ?
this is the only one of this type i will not make more because i know people hate texts. will use ingame screenshots for the rest with some editing magic.
@jagged otter @cursive chasm @vestal sluice @drowsy plaza @warm knot @undone valve
Sorry for pings

[polar python]

work in progress

and also this which is ingame

[warm knot]

You need a picture of a bikini model or it won't sell! (JK)

I see this thumbnail as something that would sell to someone who already knows what they want. Usually a tech expert. Have you seen advertising by AWS, for example? Their thumbnails are boring as hell, but that's a completely different industry and they make billions. In this industry, however, I honestly don't know yet because Fab doesn't give you much information to look at. I mean, we don't even who's looking at our pages ffs!

[warm knot]

I can say for sure though that Pickup Weapons animation looks kind of wonky. Perhaps you should have the mannequin squatting down instead of bending over like that?

[polar python]

how much dumb should i make it ?

i have followed perfection https://www.artstation.com/alexjr977

but i really don't know how to make them very simple

can you give example like what should i write ?

[undone valve]

The thumbnails aren’t very big, remember that. You can think about it as a YouTube thumbnail. It must be easy to understand and should only contain very few text. The current text ist way to small to read. The thumbnail just should put attention towards your product.

It shouldn’t explain the whole thing at one sight

If you have a feature other products don’t have then you can put it in the thumbnail

[polar python]

yes thats why i made it like that so people get attracted to it by seeing only logos on left side instead of reading text

[polar python]

first people said i am not representing my template but now i am giving them idea of what it is in one sight, you are saying that i should not explain it once.
i really don't know what is wrong and what right

[undone valve]

Looking at this thumbnail I only see „Slow Motion FPS Template“. The rest is to small and unnecessary. People just need to know what it is about an through your gallery pics they can learn more

[fresh sphinx]

Your asset I'm sure is inspired by games like Superhot, so take reference of how they create their thumbnails. The selling point of your product is the slo-mo mechanic, this would be harder to depict in an image, but at its core your product is a shooter, so I would recommend playing into that when you create your thumbnail

Like mentioned by other people, your product is rather niche.
Good quality screenshots, decriptions, and thumbnails may result in it appealing to an audience that isn't only looking for a "slo-mo shooter template". Increasing your chance of a sale

[polar python]

yes thanks, it is not thumbnail i am thinking of placing it in gallery on first no. and use existing thumbnail but do some changes in it because it looks good and recognizable from far away

[jagged otter]

I would still say 60 is to much , For example , Check this assets price and features ( replicated at that ) where you special sauce is slow mo and his is turn based https://www.fab.com/listings/c7f01cef-c2e9-4c65-a4ba-7ca7b300efb0

[vestal sluice]

I’m personally fine with it. I’d just add a manny doing a cool pose in the right empty space of this screenshot and call it a day.

But reading those little texts are a pain and unnecessary.

[polar python]

#fab message

[vestal sluice]

Yeah it should be fine if such a text focused screen is just 1.

[jagged otter]

and while code hawk is right that the text is to small , I do think that looks a bit more professional as an added image , but not for the main image

[undone valve]

Ahh so this isn’t the thumbnail…

[polar python]

as i mentioned above i am not using it as thumbnail instead 1st image in gallery. and when image will be in gallery mode it will be more zoomed so texts will be readable

[vestal sluice]

I’d add it at the very end of the screenshots. So that it kinda feels like a summary of all previous screenshots.

[polar python]

will think about it thanks

[jagged otter]

weell that is step forward , consider pricing and get to work on a main image.

[polar python]

but wouldn't it be best to place it on first spot so people get idea and then see other images one by one ?

[jagged otter]

no , last , show them first expain last

the Decription has all that info

[polar python]

ok

[polar python]

thank you:)

thank you soo much everyone for feedback, will take everything into consideration.
if you have anything more to share then please do so

[warm knot]

Oh no, that comparison from Shoptop is apples to oranges; they're definitely two different things unless I missed something in the description.

For the price you could just experiment with different price ranges and then find the sweet spot. There are other guys on here who have said before that cheaper prices doesn't always mean more sales.

[jagged otter]

Hmm , i thought i was pretty clear they are not the same , but Replication is more work on the backend , Im not vouching for either of the assets as if they are correctly done or not because i dont own either. it was more a comparison if his costing 3x more than another template that offers replicated features in a template form. In short his current asset shouldn't be more than 40$ by that logic. Blueprint assets that are not replicated are extremely easy to make unless they are very complex. That was more my point.Most people would just do that themselves , so you have to make it a value. ]

[cedar bone]

ah, so u are selling the asset with fake cover

[undone valve]

Here are the results of me asking my community about Fab pricing on Discord and YouTube.

[cursive chasm]

Too small of a sample size imo. :/

We'd need this filled out by 1000-2000 developers to get a real idea.

The more I think on the tier system, I don't think its the price that freaks people out its more visually and UX.

That dropdown is kind of crap in terms of it feels like you are picking two bad options and need to take time and study to make sure you aren't overpaying.

CodeCanyon/ThemeForest has a similar system of having a Basic license and a more premium/commercial license. With varying price points and nobody really seems to mind it.

The first two are from CodeCanyon, WAY easier to understand and less scary. I KNOW how much I'm paying and what I'm receiving.

Fab, I really don't know what I'm buying, what is this scary word "license" why is it thrown at me. Do I need to read legalese???

[untold bay]

Agreed, the communication is the biggest issue.

• People worry if they're missing out by having a personal license
• Many (most?) think they may need to buy the asset twice if their game makes $100k

Really there should be a modal that pops up once a year to check which revenue category you're in
and then you never see mention of the other tier again

[cursive chasm]

100% on the modal/questionnaire. And I personally honestly thought I would have to buy the plugin(s) again if I crossed that $100k threshhold.

[drowsy plaza]

The problem is you can reach 100k at any point of the year

[untold bay]

Frankly, the market segmentation doesn't seem right either. The price you can charge the $100k tier is likely not that much more than at $0, but the price you can charge the $1mm tier should be much much higher
so right now it's not opening up that much more revenue potential, while also scaring off buyers

[drowsy plaza]

It’s not did you make 100k in January, it’s do you make 100k at time of purchase within a 12 month period including today

[untold bay]

then make it calendar year

[cursive chasm]

I thought it was crazy for them to not have a Indie Tier and a Studio tier.

Unity did a much better job of just having seats. Everybody understands seats. Its industry standard.

[drowsy plaza]

I know people here think Ubisoft is using fab but companies that have millions of dollars are not buying assets, they are making assets in house with their salaried employees they set their budget around.

[hollow basin]

I think the sample is too small as well, but you are also dividing people's options by having "i like it" and "there should be more tiers" and "other" because I agree with all three of those options

[cursive chasm]

Speaking for me personally if I didn't fully trust Tim/Epic in general I would be contacting plugin/asset devs directly to buy their assets. This site just really turns me off.

[hollow zephyr]

depends, smaller not-AAA companies might either outsource it or yes buy it. doesnt make that much sense to keep someone in-house occupied for days or a week when you can have someone else do it

[untold bay]

studios can and do buy assets. no, they are probably not buying "multiplayer shooter template" but they do buy props, textures, and sfx

a friend of mine who works at a studio says, basically "yeah we buy a bunch of dekogon"

there are a lot of AA studios that do not have big staffs that can make every little thing, and need to avoid too many technical deep dives

[dim fable]

megascans are used by practically every big studio, and they are on fab

[untold bay]

something like fluid flux is a massive time sink for an AA studio and i am sure they would much rather put down the dollars to get their water mostly solved

[drowsy plaza]

No way you actually believe a company with a staff of 30+ full time workers of various disciplines is using public assets

[dim fable]

scans from texturing.xyz are also ubiquitous in AAA film/game dev

[drowsy plaza]

I’ve never seen a AAA game use fluid flux and I play almost exclusively AA and AAA. All of them build in house water

[dim fable]

they aren't on fab though so, guess it doesn't count

[drowsy plaza]

I’ve talked with AA and AAA devs and they use proprietary tech and assets from what they have told me. If it’s something third party it’s something like a rendering engine from the forge or quixel for a render.

There are other reasons to build in house besides cost savings, you also get to design the thing specifically for your projects needs and have internal knowledge of how it works.

[untold bay]

Croteam: "We generally use MegaScan surface assets for terrain"
https://youtu.be/ds_jC_Nv380?t=769

[drowsy plaza]

I’m not talking about Epic Games products, I’m talking about the average Joe’s products like you or me.

[hollow basin]

Resident evil uses megascans assets. I know it's not fab directly but still it's not theirs

[drowsy plaza]

Quixel was originally for films and AAA use not for fab and indies, epic just tacked that on after.

Similar to my comment about the forge

[untold bay]

there are plenty of assets that are high quality and not megascans

[drowsy plaza]

But they are not using those

[hollow zephyr]

you dont know though, because they are actually well integrated with consistent art direction you can't tell easily

[drowsy plaza]

If you pay specialists to work for you, then those specialists will be expected to do their speciality. You don’t hire a team of people to just buy assets and have them twiddle their thumbs all day. I don’t understand why this is hard to grasp

[dim fable]

They have plenty of tasks to do without modeling the worlds millionth cardboard box or brick wall material

[untold bay]

my friend who works at a 200+ person studio says they buy marketplace props. i don't know what else to tell you

[drowsy plaza]

The modeler doesn’t make textures

[dim fable]

most of their expertise will be put into working on assets that need to be unique

[drowsy plaza]

And my uncle who works at Nintendo says the Nintendo switch 2 will use a rtx 4090

[dim fable]

Never said they did, please be serious

[digital agate]

Some studios have a full time employee to handle purchasing marketplace assets and collating them, others it's a fought-after task for people in the team

[dim fable]

Also materials are often baked from a sculpt so

you're incorrect anyway

[drowsy plaza]

Your company has to be horribly managed to have 200 people dedicated to a pipeline and have to use public assets. That’s wild, my modeler can make a cardboard box in less than 3 minutes

A company with 200+ team members has prop artists who all they do is model props

Usually they are juniors

[dim fable]

No one has to use public assets, its a matter of allocating valuable resources to tasks that are worthy of their time and not wasting their expertise on menial labor

[drowsy plaza]

I’m not gonna argue anymore, this is turning into a gang up. I’ll be muting this channel so I won’t see what you post

[untold bay]

my friend's company bought assets for a game with 14 million players. sometimes it just makes more sense. assets are much cheaper than wages. any time you can use an asset without compromising on your game, it's a big cost savings

[hollow zephyr]

is it an AAA box though

[dim fable]

Quad A

[polar python]

if you are comparing one asset from anywhere then it doesn't addup we have to look over on marketplace and then decide what our price should be. i think 60$ is good and i have heard that people should not undervalue their work and time that has gone into creating. i have spent not full time but part time of 1.5 years to make this and i value my time and i think it gonna save people same time i spend making

[hollow basin]

It's pretty common practice to buy assets and then those big companies have people that customize those assets to fit the theme. Companies like Two Star Games are pretty open about that process. The main lead is on multiple interviews going over his process of buying assets and then touching them up in gimp and then exporting back to unreal. They do make some of their own models but for most cases it isn't worth their time

[dim fable]

You lost me at Gimp, I refuse to believe anyone has ever launched that application

[untold bay]

lifelong gimp user. i agree

[hollow basin]

Fair enough. I use it but fair enough

[dim fable]

Admittedly it's been a long time since I tried it, I switched to Krita long ago and never looked back

[warm knot]

If your game needs an AK-47 then why bother modelling it. Just buy it.

[fossil dune]

go work for one and come back…

[hollow basin]

Never heard of krita before but i have considered photopea

[jaunty dagger]

Shouts out assets

[vestal sluice]

It's not unbelievable for me that a company would do stuff that prioritize profits and cost cutting.

[jaunty dagger]

I'm sure games like cod have even used assets

Let's be honest.

[vale prawn]

Guess who's back
https://www.fab.com/sellers/GhoostLines Studios

[vestal sluice]

There would be a gigantic difference in real cost between having an inhouse employee living in the US making something from scratch and just getting a pre-made one from Fab if they are both similar.

[fossil dune]

https://tenor.com/view/eminem-mask-robin-gif-2620599489105382922

Your friendly neighbourhood Robinhood

[vestal sluice]

That bum doesn't know when to give up. That god awful UI text on those assets is most likely going to be a good filter on it's own, stopping others from ever purchasing it.

I think that one environment asset is likely genuine because of looking so downright bad quality.

He uncreatively named it "ek order complete environment", maybe he made it for some client and reselling it here.

[cursive chasm]

I wonder how long until all of the Devs realize they can just rip any asset they want on Fab and relist it. 😄

[vestal sluice]

Maybe it’s an unpopular idea, but the store seriously might need a fee for each new asset listing similar to how publishing a game on steam works.

[hollow zephyr]

No, just hire more people to properly review assets

[hollow basin]

Is there not a strike system against profiles? It's pretty easy to ensure the profile won't be back because Fab makes you provide proof of identity. Unless they are really good at forging new identities or they are systematically asking all their friends and family for their ID's each time they are banned, I don't see how they can keep coming back

[vestal sluice]

Gotta be realistic, they are most likely using AI for doing most of their profile reviews. Human intervention might be only after a lot of visible public backlash on certain profiles like the above. At least a little fee will make stealing more costly for the scammers, and the fee can be refunded back to the seller if revenue cross a threshold.

[hollow zephyr]

probably. I submitted a clone of one of my packs (to fix a bug) on saturday and it was up the same day

who knows

[undone valve]

Gimp is underrated

[dire meteor]

I use gimp when when I can't do something easily in paint.

[undone valve]

If you want to have more tiers then you don’t fully like it

[warm knot]

Gimp got updated last I checked.

[agile slate]

all paragon charcters have been finally added !

[undone valve]

Is there a ways to download my sales report as csv?

[hollow basin]

It's better than what it was, and I am alright with it but if the seller was able to choose new tiers it would be better for us, although I understand why that would be more confusing to the customer. I think you are allowed to like something but also wish it was better, I dont think those are mutually exclusive options

[dim fable]

Krita is mainly for digital painting, I spent a long time doing illustrations so it's the type of thing I'm used to. For gamedev it has a couple of minor drawbacks such as the inability to directly edit alpha channels which can be annoying, on the other hand it has some neat features like a tileable canvas and flowmap/vector brushes

[hollow basin]

Hmm nice, I mainly do programming but I'll keep it in mind next time I have to model

[undone valve]

How would the options look like that you'd give to your community then?

[hollow basin]

The only objective poll I can think of isn't a multiple choice but asking people what a fair price rate increase should be. So they would comment 1x if it should be the same or 2x if it should be double and so on. But you should also remind them that a price increase for professional licenses also equate to price decreases for indie developers. A lot of sellers slightly lowered their prices when the personal tier was announced. So saying both license tiers should be equal cost will result in higher cost for personal tier prices but lower cost for professional. Otherwise it just sounds like you are asking your community if they want to pay less for a product, which is always skewed to yes. When you phrase it in such a way that the seller will be paid the same in the scenario but the proportion per group is the variable that's changing, I feel like you'll get different answers. But that's the thing about statistics is that they can often be misleading. In my example I am skewing it to have more answers be on the favor of higher professional tier prices, so disclosing the way the poll was conducted is just as important as the poll

[serene socket]

holy cow that's long

[hollow basin]

TLDR: poll results can be skewed. Informed audiences lead to more objective results

[undone valve]

But dont you want to have your "small" sample as close to the general public as possible? And the general public is uninformed

[hollow basin]

That's a good point, my reasoning assumes that by the time they use Fab they will be informed about licenses and the pricing implications. But public perception is always what is believed and not what is true. Thanks for doing the poll though, if I had a larger audience I would do my own poll as well and then compare

[vestal sluice]

Anyone ever tried using ads like YouTube to drive traffic towards your fab page ? I once tried it last year, but I’m not sure whether it worked.

Thinking of giving it another go with better creatives.

I sometimes see marketplace asset ads showing up in YouTube

[cursive chasm]

I’ve a lot of experience media buying on youtube and make sure you have the targeting down really tight. Otgerwise you’ll blow your money super quickly.

With $0 in returns

I would say it might better to sponsor a yt video or two on a couple youtubers channels.

Or even a game dev podcast if your asset is more broadly usable across unity and ue.

[undone valve]

Sure. I also do some testing right now with my prices and I will let you know how it affected sales

[vestal sluice]

True. I'll need to be more strict in my audience targeting. Good advice on the sponsorships of gamedev podcasts. I'll research more about it.

I can see that my plugin's baseline visibility is back to being low based on the main showcase trailer's youtube analytics. The same video showed high activity during black friday. Even though Fab doesn't show us any analytics, my youtube video seem to serve as a decent replacement at the moment.

[cursive chasm]

Yeah, It'll be a lot of research you'll have to do and contacting people directly for pricing.

It's very much cheaper then going the media buying route.

[cursive chasm]

Yeah, without the ability for wishlists you are kind of out of luck. People I bet would add a bunch of things, feel fomo of not having purchased it yet, and just buy it sale or no.

At least thats how I would go about it 😄

[vestal sluice]

True, we just gotta play with the cards we are dealt with. Currently it's not that bad though.

Had a good overall experience with black friday at least

[rare helm]

Hi what do u recommend for adding full screen google ads in my android game , i find two plugin in fab

• Admob Ads by (Lost dev) - 14.99$

• Admob Goodies (+Mediation) - 89.99$

I have no experience in adding ads and i hope its easy to add them

[cursive chasm]

I've not personally used this plugin yet but I would go with a mediation app like AppLovin. It costs nothing as well.

With it you'll be able to add in as many networks as you want.

https://www.fab.com/listings/8776e920-e574-4ea1-ba6b-71bb86f212b6

[rare helm]

Tbh i dont know what is mediation and what networks? But i will look them up thank you

[cursive chasm]

Read through the Applovin Documentation. It'll explain a lot of that. Let me grab it

[rare helm]

Oh, alright no worries i will check it

But dont u think these paid ones might provide better quality

[cursive chasm]

AppLovin is a huge company. They provide ad meditation to multi-billion dollar companies.

It's in their interest to provide a solid plugin.

[rare helm]

Oh great, thanks

[merry sage]

how to filter my library by supported engine version?

[drowsy plaza]

I used the unity ads plugin before because unity is easier than google in my opinion. I think google requires your game to be live to use ads so the first week likely won’t have income

Looking at the applovin that looks easy to use too. I think the unity ads plugin is easier though. You just set a ID from the web portal into project settings then use the load and show nodes for the ads you want and the plugin does the rest

https://www.fab.com/listings/ff52ed32-34a7-4ce5-b2fd-2c8d35f6f2c8

[rare helm]

Interesting will look that up

Now I'm confused on which to choose admob or unity ads

[quasi ether]

I have to admit, FAB SUCKS again. I'm trying to download Game Animation Sample Project for UE5.5 Project.

1. If I go to Fab website, it says Unreal Engine files are available in the Epic Games Launcher, or the Fab UE5 Plugin.

2. OK, now if I go to Epic Games Launcher then I don't see Game Animation Sample Project in my library...

3. OK, I go to Fab UE5 Plugin, I have two options: View in my Vault and View in my Library. Both options DON'T work.

Any solution?

[hollow zephyr]

restart the launcher? fab library is sketchy but if I search for game animation sample I can find it below

[tardy charm]

3 possibilities

1. Launcher requires a restart
2. Library is not refreshed
3. (most common) Your categories are messed up. Make sure "All" is selected

Also it's best not to search while the library refresh button is still spinning, the launcher kinda doesn't like that

[random turret]

Hey guys whenever i try to load a pbr in its not linking together...any idea? So far it was fine, now it's broken after a restart! (SwitchLight)

[untold bay]

what does "not linking together" mean?
what is SwitchLight?

[random turret]

SwitchLight is a software that creates various maps for you from 2D alpha videos. By importing these into Unreal Engine, you get a video that reacts to lights in the space as if it were a 3D file.

It doesn’t link, meaning a Python script is supposed to handle it, which has worked perfectly so far, but now all my materials are missing or black. Additionally, if I manually link them file by file, they end up misaligned! I’m attaching a video to show how it’s supposed to work.

https://youtu.be/xoFiVrbhQ84?si=jMnZX7m5ZZsiP9TI&t=635

[drowsy plaza]

I think admob pays a little more but unity ads are easier to work with, so you gotta weight the pros and cons of each. If you have the money you can try both for yourself

[raven ferry]

Fab Wishlist is now available for Chrome (not only firefox now 😜 )

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fab-wishlist/geankbcolahnhoabdhajedbpfpogbhhd

[undone valve]

No there is a script for that already. That’s what I was trying to say: How To Enable Fab Wishlists with a Script
https://youtu.be/D7QGzTbxWIg

[copper saffron]

im unable to add my library assets to project from the epic games launcher with version 5.3

is anyone else having the same issue?

ok it works if i download it from the fab plugin

[drowsy plaza]

Do any of y’all know of a good announcement popup plugin or blueprint asset on fab?

[ebon leaf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUTarWQGv4

Guys, i'm looking for an asset with this type of spell indicator? Can you guys help?

[molten forge]

Should we provide the substance painter files along with our assets as well? Figured it would give people an easier option of customising the asset if they want to?

[drowsy plaza]

It would be better you do customization in the unreal material but you can upload the substance file. Most people don’t know how to use the program though

[molten forge]

lol sure but for those that do know how to use it, does it provide a little more value to them by having the substance files as an option?

[warm knot]

If they know how to use it then they'll just do it themselves, well at least that's what I would do. But I guess it won't hurt to upload it anyway.

[hollow zephyr]

No, at most customization in UE but nothing fancy else its overwhelming

[undone valve]

I cant select engine versions anymore...

[drowsy plaza]

I see them, are you sure you’re on the unreal section of the store? If unity is enabled it may not show

They really should show the latest at the top of the list though, 4.0 is so old it should be at the bottom

This person needs to change their company acronym

[candid rivet]

is there a way to claim sketchfab purchases on fab?

[jaunty dagger]

Don't think that's a thing as of yet.

[drowsy plaza]

Sketchfab migrated on launch, you should have those assets purchased from sketchfab in your library

[candid rivet]

i don't have mine. do you have sketchfab purchases that came across?

[drowsy plaza]

I never purchased stuff on sketchfab since I found the site sketchy, you should have them though. I would contact fab support and ask them about that because sketchfab merged into fab

[candid rivet]

i forgot i had them, i'll check, thanks

[drowsy plaza]

Support.fab.com is the website to file a ticket

[hoary kettle]

i am just waiting for Epic/Tencent to start suing people left and right for using a Standard License asset in a project instead of knowing that there was a hidden fee associated with asset #289198237198223145887573gaw and they would have had to purchased the extended super mega deluxe version between 8:15, and 8:27 on friday the 13th, in order to be able to use it in their project

it is fascinating to me that the websites i opted not to use, because they seemed fully scammy, (ArtStation for example) are the ones that Epic owns now. go figure.

[spiral jacinth]

You can use my "https://assetmanager.studio" to download assets/plugins from UnrealMarketplace and FAB easily.

[hoary kettle]

A word of advice to Epic from a regular consumer/customer.. Stop trying to bait me. When i search for Free Standard License VDM Brush on ArtStation, do not tell me "there are 600 free brushes in this pack! Just hit download! Come on! You can do it!" when there is literally one sample brush, then a paid pack that i can use if my project is a failure, then another paid pack that i can get sued for not using if my project is a success.
I will simply not purchase a single thing from your company until you revamp the way you do things.

[desert panther]

Am I missing something or what's even the point of including assets like this in asset packs

These are three different static meshes, and the individual pieces of them don't exist separately. It's like.. yeah here's a nice box, which could be opened, but you're gonna have to export this as an FBX, rip it apart in Blender, import it back...

[thorny compass]

It could make sense for optimization prolly 🤔

[desert panther]

There's a fourth one in this which is opened slightly further, so it just makes it look like it's telling me "you can animate this to open, but figure it out yourself" lol

[thorny compass]

lol, maybe it is for spritesheet

[undone valve]

They won’t appear in the Epic games launcher. They are only available in fab.com

[undone valve]

Is this like a launcher just for unreal engine? This is amazing!

[vale prawn]

Just as an aside, Unreal's mesh editing capabilities are pretty good nowadays, and you can totally do that in engine with just a couple of clicks. For basic mesh editing, I haven't touched blender for quite some time.

Obviously if the seller hadn't merged all that, the point would be moot.

[desert panther]

Yeah good point, maybe I'll give that a go. I've been playing with them a bit but never tried to split a mesh :)

[warm knot]

I don't understand, did he make 4 different versions of the same thing? These are FBX files and he didn't include a packaged version that's already in Unreal?

[desert panther]

Yeah there's four different static meshes of this same box in different states of being opened but the lid, handle and box parts aren't there so you can't actually animate it

I've seen this in other packs too so I was wondering if I was missing something but I guess it's just the pack authors not really thinking about what they're doing :D

Or maybe there's some level of expectation of "they will probably modify the models anyway"

[warm knot]

I'm willing to bet that they didn't know what they were doing.

[spiral jacinth]

Yes, it is also a launcher. It does do most things the Epic Launcher does properly, plus several things I wanted (and several more being worked on). I'm also sure it has bugs 😉, since it is pretty early in its life.

[serene socket]

I tried it on a Linux Debian Trixie at work(which can't run UE itself) and everything worked great.

Absolutely stellar work.

[spiral jacinth]

Awesome, I like hearing that. It also has a Windows version, eventually I'll finish off and have time to test the mac version...

[undone valve]

Wow this sounds amazing! Gotta test it out 😄

Nah it cant be

This launcher is soooooo9oooooooooo much better

Like wtf

I will make a YouTube video abou this

[spiral jacinth]

It is also EXTREAMLY fast. I care a lot about speed. Starts up and is usable in less than a second. D/l's the Asset information in the background to update what it already knows with any new information and processes your local information in the background, so very few things get in the way of you doing things.

[marsh salmon]

do you have a link to this asset?

[spiral jacinth]

Lol, looks like you posted just before me. Yeah, speed is one of my things I care about immensily. 😄

[undone valve]

Yeah it is lightning fast and just works. Epic Games Launcher takes longer than a minute to load for me. It is already 100 times better than the EGL but one thing would make it 1000 times better. If you could filter for products that have an update available. Or is that already possible?

[spiral jacinth]

Yes the first parts are already in place

[undone valve]

I mean you can sort for Date Modified, right. Are these updated products?

Ahh nice!

Wait I overlooke this

Nice!

[spiral jacinth]

I have the "Project" info, so will be adding to the Project and eventually to the asset screen. Probably also put a yellow number next to those items. This is the first version that has it working, so still experimenting with it. 😄

I currently highlight any vault items that are out of date with yellow. (Or you can use the "Type" filter to show only updatable items)

[undone valve]

Download of updates fails for me but that is not a big issue and it might be because of my anti virus

You made my day sir

I didnt know life could be that simple

[desert panther]

Uh I think it was "Big Star Station [LUMEN]" if you look it up. It's something that was free at some point

[undone valve]

One question: What is the difference between "None" and "Name" sorting?

[spiral jacinth]

Strange, let me know if it continues. V0.0.26 was kinda rushed out, not as much testing as I normally do, really wanted to get FAB support into peoples hands. 😄

[spiral jacinth]

Uhm, none means basically ordered by how it came out of the db. "Name" means it sorts by the title name.

[undone valve]

I only had one asset that needed an update but I will let you know how this develops 😄

Do you have a Discord or something for this?

[undone valve]

Recorded the video 😄

[vale prawn]

Is it the same Vault as the launcher? Or does your app have its own?

Seems to be a different Vault, I just tried with my Epic Vault, and it sees it as empty 😦

[undone valve]

Have you selected the right path to your vault in the settings?

[vale prawn]

Yes. But I don't have actual assets in the vault, only the manifests. That's enough for the launcher to give update notifications.

[spare grotto]

Hi everyone. I want to start selling 3D assets. I’m not asking y’all how to do this or what to sell. BUT. I am asking. How would you sell Groom hair for metahumans. I noticed that there aren’t enough hair presets.

I am wondering even if I made a pack. The hairline and head of the buyer wouldn’t match my models head. How can I combat this? Or should I just sell it regardless and hope for the best

[flint plank]

Does anyone have an idea on how to remove a plugin from my fab library?

[undone valve]

This currently isnt supported

[spiral jacinth]

It can actually have unlimited numbers of vaults, however only the last one will new items be downloaded. And yes it works with the Epic Vault perfectly fine.

[spiral jacinth]

I'm pretty sure I check to verify if there is an actual asset in the folder. Never thought about supporting "bare" vaults. I'll add that ability in the future. 😄

[drowsy plaza]

You have to contact support to get a product removed from your account

[split iron]

Anyone know why I can't choose version for Lyra?
In fact it seems to be making a much earlier/outdated version

[tardy charm]

You might need to clear the cache. it's not letting you pick a new version because it was downloaded before with another version already

should be a small dropdown arrow next to the create project

[final lily]

Just wanna check in, will FAB ever work on Chrome? I have deleted all my cookies and all but its still giving me this

Works on Edge, but not Chrome

[dim fable]

I don't use chrome but I have a hard time imagining they launched this and it didn't work on Chrome, 60%+ of global internet users

[final lily]

Why does it not work on any chrome brower on multiple PCs I've tried on then 😅

[fresh sphinx]

That's strange. I use chrome myself and everything seems to be working.

[green seal]

Yeah sounds like just a bug because Edge is Chromium based, should work on both just fine.

[jaunty dagger]

Works on brave also chromium based

[undone valve]

I’ve heard that there might be issues based on where you are located. You can try to use a VPN

[vale prawn]

On a scale from 1 to 10, how stolen is this?
https://www.fab.com/listings/d475c736-f016-4b32-8af8-ff245abaf5cd
It looks stolen from all over. Biggest red flag is the claymore from
https://www.fab.com/listings/1528ef20-741c-40c3-820a-2675c0679fa2
Also C4 is from CSGO?

Anyway, we clearly could not have seen that coming, truly nothing Epic could have done about that 🫠

[polar python]

i am tired of it can someone make a ticket and ask fab team why they are not banning him ? after so much of his assets got removed cause they were copy pasta
https://support.fab.com/

[fresh sphinx]

probably 10. That seller is renown for stealing assets. Have no idea how they are still allowed to sell on Fab

[hollow zephyr]

But first a ticket and ask fab why support is so useless

[cursive chasm]

Dude has to be making good money.

[fossil dune]

wondering if they still pay him out even after removing stollen listings… shouldn’t buyers get a refund in that case

[cursive chasm]

Unity never refunds for stolen goods so I doubt it.

Unity/Epic don't want to lose out on that commission money.

[fossil dune]

hmm so without a strike system and until there is one..
People can just rotate around the thousands of assets and keep posting them and making money with virtually any repercussions...
wild...

[undone estuary]

this person makes new accounts, this isnt the first one that was already removed. this is a new one with an extra o that has nothing to do with the first one... seriously.. not the same guy.. definitely not.

[fossil dune]

I'm just surprised he's a "verified" trader...
Suggesting you can have multiple accounts and have them all verified using the same info or what does this verification mean

[agile shadow]

it's the same account

the original one had two o's as well 😄

[undone estuary]

verified just means the info is confirmed, not that its a good person

man I could swear that its a new since the older links dont work but.. did they just remove the other apps then let them reupload them again on the same account?