fab

[undone estuary]

is it possible they took the assets down, then on appeal the person proved they were their own and let them re upload? it doesnt make sense especially with the creature pack but... technically its not epic's responsibility to stop copyright infringement, only enforce takedowns from holders

[strong seal]

I am updating some of my projects on Fab, and I am trying to get it as nicely formatted as some of you have it. Some of you also include emojis for visualizing categories and I don't see that in Fab's text formatting panel, so I am curious where you all go to add your formatting and emojis

[untold bay]

You can generally copy and paste emojis from anywhere. Like you could type them in discord using the emoji keyboard and copy them

[untold bay]

🌈 it's a wonderful time to be alive 🌠

[green seal]

This is what a lot of people do not understand. «Verified» doesnt mean anything aside from the seller having submitted business information in compliance with EU guidelines. It takes all of 5 minutes to do. It doesn’t mean they are a trustworthy person, it doesn’t mean their products are reliable, quality, well-made. It means basically nothing.

[gusty bear]

Windowskey + period
For windows users

[undone estuary]

❤️ https://emojipedia.org/ is also nice since you can copy/paste and you can see how the emojis look on alternate platforms/browsers. usefull if not on windows, mac has their stupid popup keyboard as well which I hate

[dire meteor]

It does mean they are who they say they are. Or at least have the documentation saying so 😛

[drowsy plaza]

There are buttons on the top bar in the text editor for coloring, quoting(the white vertical bar), header styles, and bullet pointing.

Emojis can be accessed on windows by typing windows key + period key.

[strong seal]

Nice, thanks. Just figured out the white bar is technically a quote but they look very nice for category separation. I have also been using a website to find emojis, the shortcut is much appreciated

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah it took me a while to figure that out too. Sales have been better I think since I added the sleeker descriptions

[marsh escarp]

Has anyone had the md-0011-0 error when installing Metahuman Plugin?

[undone valve]

I personally use a browser extension that allows me to paste emojis but I just now learned you can press Windows + period key. I also figured you can press Windows + comma to temporarily hide all windows to easily access the desktop. Like wtf a dream came true

[calm yoke]

There have been a couple of cases. The team are looking into it! Which version are you getting the error for?

[marsh escarp]

5.5.1 🙂

[drowsy plaza]

How do you have 5.5.1? I thought 5.5.0 was the latest release

[drowsy plaza]

You also can hide windows by clicking the far right side of the start bar

They made it smaller in windows 11 but in windows 7-10 it worked better

[marsh escarp]

Updated today

[drowsy plaza]

Oh I’ll have to check it then

[undone valve]

Lol I thought they removed it but it’s just that small

[dire meteor]

That's what she said.

[young flare]

Does anyone know if the assets in the "Project Titan" project are commercially usable? I know some of their past tech demo's have allowed use of the assets for UE projects, but I don't know about this one https://www.fab.com/listings/c05aac82-4c1a-4e42-96b3-be668dc40fca

[untold bay]

License terms
Standard License

[young flare]

Is it the same as the Unreal Marketplace terms? I haven't used Fab at all since they switched over...

[drowsy plaza]

Yes you can use them in your stuff, all epic games provided samples can be used commercially

[cursive chasm]

They specifically said that 100x times that anybody is free to use the assets however they wish.

[undone estuary]

Can you give us a timestamp on a video or blog post or web or anything that says this specifically?

[cursive chasm]

https://youtu.be/dw6Ha48HGdc?t=931

Listen for about 30 seconds.

[chilly wraith]

can anyone who has gotten the newest humble bundle confirm if the assets are redeemable in Fab?

[steel patio]

It works just like before fab launched. You go into your epic account and go into "redeem code". Just tested this myself 😁

[rose lagoon]

it isn't such a silly question. most Humble bundles were redeemed to your Unreal library prior to Fab

[polar python]

so how is the new design of my project ?
old :

new : https://www.fab.com/listings/64f5b099-6b2d-4641-ad43-6f5031370fa7

[calm yoke]

This should now be fixed 🙂

[undone valve]

I didn’t know that. Sorry my bad

[undone valve]

Guys make sure to also claim the legacy megascans:

[untold bay]

i can't read all the words in your thumbnail and neither can you!
keep the thumbnail simple. hero image, a name and maybe subtitle, big font

[polar python]

🫡

[untold bay]

your goal is just to get someone curious enough to click on it, no more

[polar python]

and everything else good, i mean images/gallery ?

[polar python]

i think the previous thumbnail was good right ?
it got eyes very easily

what do you think ?

[untold bay]

it's confusing because you say "slow motion gameplay" as one of twelve bullets the first slide and never explain or talk about ut again

demo is good but people will want a video first

[polar python]

yes i am working on video, my goal is to upload it before december sale

[polar python]

oh yes now i got it, i think because i know what it is and my brain preassumed that everyone else will also get it but now i have to assume that people don't know anything and explain it

[untold bay]

yes!! assume no knowledge of superhot

[waxen sentinel]

Upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4 or 5.5 replication broken
Any idea why?

[undone valve]

No need to write this in every channel

[waxen sentinel]

Okay

[undone valve]

Also it would help to know what broke. The more specific you are the higher the probability of someone helping

[waxen sentinel]

Gameplay logic

Wow you are a popular youtuber.. nice to meet you

[undone valve]

I wouldn’t consider myself popular 😄

[undone valve]

Are you talking about just standard replication using events and so on?

[waxen sentinel]

Let me confirm with my dev now

[waxen sentinel]

Mixture of almost all replication methods. RPCs, Rep Notifies, etc..

[cedar bone]

u are still using fake cover image

[polar python]

yes

because i didn't find other way to represent slow motion mechanic

[rustic whale]

@waxen sentinel this channel is not a fit for your question. Please move it to #multiplayer

[waxen sentinel]

Ok

[cedar bone]

so u thought showing a model not included in the product is a good way to represent slow motion mechanic?
well it is not and it discourages potential buyers at the start, not only cuz u show an asset that is not there
and trust me, i was looking for it
but also u start the relation using a lie and an image representing a very similar model from a know slow motion game superhot
so many would not trust such seller with other thing if thats the start
this is not the way, and it can be done better

[polar python]

what should i do, a pic of AI with a gun ?

[cedar bone]

it depend how much and if u care about the cover image and buyer relations, as most seems do not care in regrds of cover at least
truth is u cant show slow motion in an static image, its not possible most of the times
but lets start with the cover image, covers are small, they need to have minimum, yet eye catchy design and be readable
look at the image, what do u think are the best covers here?

[polar python]

cozy life,rpg engine, multiplaye shooter

i know i again fked with cover image

just wanted to test this out

will soon change it with bigger text

[polar python]

but the question remains, how can i show slow motion mechanic ?
i also don't want to show fake image or cheat buyers but i had created it with AI and still could not find anything to replace it
so i just slap it everywhere

[drowsy plaza]

Is that the superhot character? It looks way too similar, you might want to change that out so you don’t get taken down by the studio that owns that IP

[cedar bone]

u see, u already know what is the best and why

clean view image with big single readable title, even half or more of the image space is fine, maybe some design accents to this to make it more unique, eye catchy, like the contrasting stripe bars with title in find the npc, rpg engine assets or diagonal stripe in multiplayer shooter, or like cozy life, colourful big title, depends on the asset

no one can read or see anything small on those covers, so that the best way

[drowsy plaza]

Usually slow motion is done by showing fast moving objects as stuck in mid air like bullets or chairs or water while the character doing the slow motion is in a sprinting pose or other normal speed poses

It will be very hard to show slow motion with just characters though, you will need debris or other objects. Superhot used bullets a lot

[cedar bone]

now about how to show the slow motion mechanic if it is your main asset feature
i actually did play your asset demo and its in the demo
u need to make what i call a dynamic still image

[cedar bone]

its in your game
while u dont have that cover model
u have breakable weapons, enemies
throwable weapons
projectile rays, shooting effects
and other effects

buyers want to see that

make a dynamic still cover, where u compose those elements into one
its a still image u know something dynamic is happening, an action is in progress

like attacking enemies with throwed breaking gun somewhere in air already, but having another one in hand, like breaking pistol mid air but shotgun in hand
show the projectiles bullet traces from shotgun and the combustion effects
show a bunch of enemies u fight with, at least one of them in the middle of breaking apart like in the demo
u can put some other effects from the asset in the background view if needed, like those portals

just make it dynamic, interesting, showing what u have, dont rush, try many times, have some fun, compare, choose the best
add the big fat title, maybe with some additional accents, title does not need to be white, it can have color, to be better balanced with rest

if thats not enough, u can always add little some kind of "slow mo" effect that does not need to be in your asset, just for the cover to emphasize that it about the slowmo, some kind of blurs, smudges, ghosts, very nuanced, just adding that very little extra on top

[polar python]

thank you soo much for your time, in todays world people hardly give shit to somebody

[polar python]

thank you

[chilly wraith]

I have purchased a few humble bundles that were redeemed via third party websites (like Yarrawah, not that id use those anyway), which was annoying, even though it said 'for unreal'

this was mostly my question, that this specific bundle was indeed redeemable via FAB

thanks!

[nocturne panther]

Guys,Is there anyone from FAB team in here to help me?
FAB has emailed me and mentioned one of my products has a broken file which was reported by a buyer!
They did not mention which file was broken!!!
Also, the product was approved 3 days ago after a small change request by FAB team that I applied!
I don't understand why they would send me an email and claim a file is broken, without mentioning the file name!!! Also,All the files are working fine on my PC!!!

[vale prawn]

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

[tardy charm]

Oh yeah, i dont think anyone has mentioned this but there's a new Humble Bundle happening. It got 106 items, probably the biggest one they have made so far

Ok, im blind, i think someone did mention it

[untold bay]

wow, that bundle is INCREDIBLE value. lots of goodies from absolutely top-notch creators. i have some of the items in there and they're excellent

[tardy charm]

Yeah, quite a lot of Dekogon and FreshCan3D assets as well

[drowsy plaza]

Finally, only took him 30 theft attempts

Hopefully they ban his trader stuff too so he doesn’t just make an alt account and keep trying

[vestal sluice]

I hope he has given up by this point. If not, I can commend his tenacity at least.

I have no problem in reporting him forever. I want to disincentivise all scammers just by principle.

[spiral jacinth]

I've added a hidden parameter to enable this mode in the next version, it isn't on by default as I think the app should only count vault items that have actual data in them. But I'm not opposed to adding minor features to help people out. https://github.com/master-technology/AssetManagerStudio/wiki/Notes-Hidden-Settings

[undone valve]

Download csv now exists again

[vital island]

FAB Searchs are uptaded i think.

looking good now.

[merry field]

Do we really need to re-submit a product for review to add support for a new engine version now?

[hollow zephyr]

Yes but its automatic, AI powered presumably

[coral pollen]

finally :')!

[split egret]

is the "Game Animation Sample" from fab a good base for a game or is it some weird stuff in it?

like not scalable or skeleton that doesnt exist on the market or anything really

[drowsy plaza]

What did they change?

[vital island]

Results

[icy lance]

Does anyone know why am I required to provide the unity asset store url when adding a unity package?

[warm knot]

I am pleasantly surprised to see that I made my first sale today, w00t! But I have no idea who bought it... I just really hope that they like what I've made. 😟

Based on everyone else's experience here, do you guys usually get feedback right away? Or is this like Amazon, where 95% of buyers don't write a review?

[untold bay]

more than 95%

[warm knot]

I'll be honest, I never write reviews either. 😄

[untold bay]

i ask every chance i get, how is it going, what aree ou using it for, have any screenshots

but

very very little feedback

[untold bay]

there's no system for soliciting them

like 1mo email "want to review?" or a prmpt in fab

[undone valve]

99.9% don’t give feedback

[undone valve]

It would be soooo good to have an „How has your experience been so far“ message

[tepid niche]

I don't understand why they removed the questions & reviews.

[drowsy plaza]

90% of people who don’t like your product for whatever reason do though, that’s the annoying part. Fab needs a review reminder

[undone valve]

True

[drowsy plaza]

People were abusing them especially on free products it seems

I really hope that when they implement review overhaul they setup a reminder email, even if it’s sent out once I’m fine with that. I know epic has the systems in place to send out emails for transactions already or they can implement it on the website when logged in

[tepid niche]

I really dislike how it is now, there is just a Star, don't know what it means, no insights.
Once I read "5 stars - not triple A but really good for the price"

[untold bay]

since it's on the roadmap, just seems like a feature they never got around to reimplementing for fab

[tepid niche]

That's awesome, I feel like this is really important.
Also sometimes I like somethin. and it "only" has 3 stars, then you see the issue was that the guys was unable to use it in UE4, thats all good with me then.
Otherwise it's just 3 stars

[untold bay]

yeah

• buyers need better quality signals!
• creators need better demand signals!

both need more reviews & ratings

[tepid niche]

100% yes!

[warm knot]

This same thing happened with Uber, and now you can't write reviews anymore. The passengers would write weird stuff when rating me like, "he let me sniff cocaine in the car 10/10 would ride again!"

[tepid niche]

But do you think a 1 star rating or a weird review hurts more?

Also a Uber drive, he gets you from point A to B ofc. there are things ... but in comparison, assets have so much more depth, which is quite hard to convey in a 1-5 star rating.

[warm knot]

1 star would hurt more if you don't already have a good amount of ratings.

Yeah, I get that. I'm not trying to compare Uber to Fab.

[tepid niche]

Yea I also get your point, but this would just be a fab/moderation issue.

But idk, currently it feels weird anyway, most of the time when I'm looking for things, I have to browse everything, there so no just looking around for good stuff anymore, but this might be just mainly an issue with the "relevant" sort.

Did things for you (sellers) change, for the better or the worse?

[scarlet mountain]

For updates on plugins since the launch of FAB do we need to update the Marketplace URL field in the uplugin file?

[robust trench]

Hey Guys making asset still worth it bcz i made one from past 1 year now i published it it has no sale also i cant see how many people visited me no question answer and reviews tab i am also seeing people who published their asset 1 week before me and after me they also didnt made any sale is asset fliping genre has been dead now

[fossil dune]

Yes, and its no longer "MarketplaceURL" its "FabURL" now...

[scarlet mountain]

awesome, thanks for that!

[hollow zephyr]

You dont sell assets on fab for asset flipping, you sell great assets that save studios (big or small) time

[robust trench]

yeah we sell assets for that purpose only but most of the time in my case i have seen that asset just becoma an asset flip either i am making a wrong asset or my audience is not correct but thats not the case right now the thing is when i was on epic marketplace i was able to sell more asset but now on fab i didnt sell any from past 2 weeks which is suprising as my asset is also not visible in few category if i am searching it

[glad holly]

fab is not taking my url to update the plugin...

anyone knows about this?

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/plugin-update-is-not-taking-new-files-from-the-provided-url/2193271

[drowsy plaza]

Are you clicking the refresh button in the vault when you test if it’s updated?

[rigid girder]

Is there a way to download plugin files manually?

I purchased a plugin and the launcher pretends it's installing it, but it's not installing anything (Nothing appears in plugins/marketplace).

[glad holly]

Do you need to do that if you have the plugin uninstalled and install it again

[rigid girder]

It's really frustrating just how much of a downgrade Fab has been. Everything from awful searching, things not appearing, listings taking forever to go through, no wishlists, no questions, no comments on reviews. Half the time you can't even see reviews.

You can only open it in a browser but if you select download it tells you to go to the launcher. But if you just bought it, you have to restart the launcher for it to appear, etc, etc, etc.

I really hope this system improves soon.

[drowsy plaza]

If you are expecting a change in your vault you should do it

[drowsy plaza]

You don’t have to restart the launcher to update the vault, there is a refresh button for it

[warm knot]

Search is horrendous. You can type the name of an asset exactly and it still gets buried deep in the results. I get better search results by typing "Fab," followed by name of asset into Google.

[drowsy plaza]

I can find my assets at the top of search with a direct search result

I’ve never had an issue with their search after the first week

[tardy charm]

Chances are fab is sorting by newest instead of relevance. If the dropbox shows nothing or default, it's being defaulted to newest which will skew the results and fail to prioritize what you're actually looking for

I've never had any issue with the search either

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah fab saves filters across multiple sessions so they likely had something other than relevance on and didn’t realize

I just leave it on relevance, I don’t care about new releases or the other filters like rating

[vapid crow]

hmmmmm

[tardy charm]

I've had this before, launcher issue, just wait like a little bit and see if it works again

[timber mica]

Can i produce discount coupon code for my asset?

[untold bay]

presently no

[vestal sluice]

I think even if fab introduces personal discounts as an option, they might put limitations such as an asset that recently got discounted cannot take part in the monthly sales.

[drowsy plaza]

I hope they don’t do that, that will be disastrous as sellers only know about sales 2-4 weeks before and they will need to decide between doing personal discounts or event discounts since doing both would conflict too much

There is probably some EU law forcing it though

[tepid niche]

do we know, if there will be a new sale soon?

[timber mica]

Then there is no way to gift my asset to a friend?

[drowsy plaza]

The Christmas sale is this month

[drowsy plaza]

Nope just give them money for it

[tepid niche]

Uhhh nice, do we know when it starts? 🙂

Then I'll wait a little bit

[tame compass]

can we apply personal sales now ?

[drowsy plaza]

I forgot the date, it’s around Christmas. People who did Black Friday can’t be in it though so it won’t be as big as that one thanks to the crappy EU

[tepid niche]

thats sad, but I'm still excited for it! 🙂

[undone valve]

Nope

[drowsy plaza]

Products that launched in November or December will likely be on sale so it could be good even if Black Friday participants don’t show up

[sour mauve]

I gotta ask to know. Is the built in fab in unreal slow for anyone else?

Huge downgrade from the marketplace so far tbh

[tardy charm]

Its a little laggy for like a minute or two after you open it

but then its smooth again

the only issue so far is the invalid manifest issue so you can't install certain packs which are using some form of old manifest i presume (im not a seller so idk)

the epic launcher can install everything but as we all know the categories are fucked

[tame compass]

you guys get invitation ?

[sick prairie]

Hi, i have 4 plugins that requires another plugin dependency i made but it's not allowed by Fab except for Asset Packs and Complete Projects.
Any ideas what are the solutions in this case ? Can i use a complete project instead and have a dependency to a marketplace plugin ?

[undone valve]

If you actually create a code plugin it can have a dependency towards pre installed plugins or your own ones that already exist on fab. It must be stated in the product description if you have a dependency towards your own plugins. From what it sounds like you do not create a plugin but an asset pack that depends on another asset pack. Am I right?

[sick prairie]

Are you sure ? I received this mail :

we have decided not to approve your product due to the following reason/s:

4.3.6.d Plugins can depend on Unreal Engine plugins distributed with the engine, but must not depend on other user-made Unreal Engine plugins.

From what it sounds like you do not create a plugin but an asset pack
I made 4 plugins and they all use a plugin dependency i made

[undone valve]

I received this mail after asking it specifically:

[undone valve]

My bad I read your message wrong

[sick prairie]

Oh i will explain them why i need it then, thanks !

[polar python]

hey how is this ? it is under work maybe 30% completed.

[polar python]

any suggestion

[warm knot]

What is it?

[polar python]

i will make it thumbnail for my project with a cinematic camera angle and look, and add more things and remove some things that doesnt fit

like camera behind player

with enemy attacking and other objects midair

[warm knot]

What if you made a reenactment of one of The Matrix bullet times scenes? That would make the purpose of your asset look more obvious, if you ask me.

[polar python]

ok i will try

[untold bay]

shot is overexposed but i think this is a big improvement on communicating what your asset does

[sacred peak]

Is there any tool to bulk download files form FAB?

I have to manually download each asset 😭

[untold bay]

like i think this plus the text "SLOW MOTION FPS TEMPLATE" does most of your work for you. so so much better

[glad holly]

that fixed the issue apparently, thanks

[cedar bone]

yeah, this is what u are looking for more or less
there is even place in the background to put other things to show
u want some of the weapons and enemies shattered like in the game demo
i would not make it so bright, there is also visible aliasing, so remember to make the final shot with max settings
not sure why third person when the demo game is first person, i was thinking about first person view
then u can be a little closer to all those enemies so they fill the view better and a way to show the weapon trace/effects
as a matter of fact u can basically make a sequence and put everything as u want manually

[drowsy plaza]

That’s weird they allow experimental but not beta

[digital agate]

yeah surely it's the other way around? Otherwise you could include PCG Core, but not PCG etc

[hollow basin]

I would think other way around is correct because experimental implies that it could removed if the unreal team decides it's not worth development and beta implies they have committed to working on the plugin but it hasn't reached production ready yet. I would understand if they didn't want code being sold depending on a dependency that could be taken away at anytime outside of the sellers control

[ebon leaf]

does anyone have this pack in their library? it isn't available on fab and pretty sure it was a free pack
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/concrete-decals/reviews

[drowsy plaza]

I think they make an exception for PCG because I see a lot of new assets use it

PCG is the future of environment art and level design in unreal I feel like

[digital agate]

Yeah I agree - I can't see PCG disappearing any time soon - I've seen a lot of products using the PCG framework, but are they also linking with the PCG Core (experimental) as well?

[drowsy plaza]

It was never update for 5+, you can make that pretty easily with substance designer and a noise mask in a material

[rare helm]

For publishers, do you increase your price for professional vs personal? Do you actually get sales from professional license?

Or should i price my assets the same for both license

[still basin]

its weird I had tool declined because it was using an experimental plugin.
Experimental would make sense to not be allowed, but Beta would be ok in my opinion

[hollow basin]

You are going to get varying answers about pricing here. Some are very vocally for and against the professional tier pricing. I am personally for it and I charge a little over 3x the price and expect somewhere between 1-5% of sales to be professional. But your type of product also significantly changes that figure

[rare helm]

Why would an organization choose professional if they can choose personal, is it just ethical? Would anyone find out if its organization?

[hollow basin]

They are opening themselves up to a lawsuit if an organization purposely chooses the wrong license. You're right in that I don't know how unreal would catch it. But if a disgruntled employee reports it, then it would be easy to prove. I am hoping that UE will check for store bought assets upon packaging projects in the future. It would be good to make sure all products are properly licensed and if they wanted or needed to they could include it in the credits of their project

[vestal sluice]

To me its overwhelmingly personal license sales. Only a couple of professional licenses got sold and that was during the black friday sale. I ended up decreasing the professional license tier to 80$ compared to the personal license of 60$ to see if that does anything. I'll likely make both the personal and professional tier the same price after a month of observation.

[digital agate]

6% of sales have been professional for me

[undone valve]

Exactly my opinion too. No clue why they have a rule like this

[undone valve]

Right now I am running a test.
Until after Black Friday I had the professional prices 2.5x the personal price. I now put half my products to just have equal prices and for the other half I set the professional price to be 5-15 dollars more. I am still testing it and I will need a couple of more days for it but I think I have a pretty clear result coming up

[dire meteor]

Experimental plugins are free to change their public api, meaning your plugin based on it might break. Non-experimental ones are harder to get permission to do that with.

[vestal sluice]

Anyone else notice a trend where sundays are when marketplace activity is the lowest ? I'm seeing that based on what I see my youtube analytics.

[ebon leaf]

i dont need it for UE5 anyways

[warm knot]

That's true for most industries.

[vestal sluice]

Yeah but it's almost like a complete off switch, and I assumed most indies might work even on sundays.

I guess not

[warm knot]

I wish I didn't have to work Sundays. 😭

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah I don’t work sundays

[vapid crow]

itd be nice if fab logged me in while opening up the browser lmao

[tepid niche]

is it just me, maybe I'm looking for the wrong keywords, but why is there so little body armor on fab?

[untold bay]

search orbital market if you aren't already

[tepid niche]

it's a little bit better, but I would have thought, that there will be so many body armors and sets 😅

[thorny compass]

No armor. Only AI pics.

[tepid niche]

yea, if there was even half the armor you can have as pics in 3d 😂

[tardy charm]

Featured free content got updated

[thorny compass]

Nice.

Should I take the Pro license despite being with 0$ profit 🤔

3 years ago it seems I have bought that Newtonian Falling system (made my own later) for $2... Dammit.

I screwed myself.

[sick prairie]

Hi, can i ask you who you contacted to have this answer ? I still have no answer from the support and they still decline my plugin.

I can make a standalone build to pass the validation but that's stupid because the plugins will just not work togethers ..

[undone valve]

Make sure to reach out to fab support using the form on their support website. If you write them directly they will ignore you.

[sick prairie]

Oh ok, i will try the website thanks !

[vale prawn]

Congratulations to https://www.fab.com/sellers/MOOB MUSIC for publishing exactly 100 products in the last 3 hours 🤷

[untold bay]

their YT channel is incredible, hundreds and hundreds of tracks with 0-20 views. averaging multiple uploads per day over the last year

i think they've uploaded more than one minute of music per minute for a year

presumably Suno's best customer

fab should really have a listing fee just to ensure sellers have some skin in the game

[sick prairie]

This is a limitation of our build pipeline; we can't support plugins that have dependencies on other plugins
Well they don't care, i will just build a plugin that pass the validation but does not work .. :p

[warm knot]

And to gatekeep the asset thieves.

CS:GO used to have almost no hackers at all. Then they made the game free and BOOM, hackers everywhere.

[sick prairie]

Well let's hope someone will make an alternative marketplace

[tepid niche]

is there already a date for the christmas sale?

[tardy charm]

Seems like the Townscape Essentials, a massive bundle with 52 dekogon assets is making a round 2 on humble bundle. This one appeared a few months ago but now its back

just a little notice if anyone wants a bunch of high quality dekogon assets

[distant juniper]

Has anyone here tried putting their assets on Gumroad? I'm deeply underwhelmed with Fab so far.

[delicate haven]

I feel a bit stupid asking this but I can't find the answer I'm looking for... With the limited-Time free assets on fab. does it make any difference to purchase the personal or professional? I'm just a solo developer right now. but both are free so if the professional also covers a personal licence I might as well get that, no? The wording for professional seems to suggest it is for studios over $100k revenue, but doesn't say if it covers less than that.

[distant juniper]

On this thread, I'm tempted to go with Payhip since they have better rates and payment policies, but Gumroad is still a consideration since they have discover features: https://gumroad.com/?query=unreal 🤔

[tardy charm]

As far as im aware, the licenses only matter at the time of purchase. If you're not making 100k from your game in the past year, just get personal. They're not gonna retroactively come back and charge you extra if your next game is a big hit. You don't really get anything extra from professional.

[delicate haven]

Thanks for the reply. I think I'm more confused than I was before now though. Are you saying that the licence is void for any future use? Are you saying that you can't use a professional licence asset if you aren't making at least $100k?

[tardy charm]

1. No. What im saying is that the 100k threshold between personal and professional will only be considered at the time of purchase. For instance, if you or your company is making less than 100k in the past 12 months. You will only need to get a personal license. If you ever break that 100k threshold in the future, you do NOT need to come back and "upgrade" your license because you were below that threshold when you bought it. You'll be able to continue using the asset as you wish.

2. You can get a professional license if you're under 100k if you want. There's not really anything that states you can not, but what's really the point if you're making under 100k?

[delicate haven]

AHH thanks that makes sense. So really it seems like the sensible thing to do is whatever is easiest.. whichever it has defaulted to at time of purchasing.

It's strange they added this. We never had this option with the good old marketplace.

[tardy charm]

In summary, I feel like this is just a way for people to charge more on companies with bigger revenues without hurting the small indies

[delicate haven]

I suppose that makes sense. Thanks for the help!

[untold bay]

The buyer-centric perspective: It's helping established studios sponsor great assets for indies

[fossil dune]

You can sell pretty much anywhere. I’ve sold a few on gumroad, sold a few on my site, sold a few on other sites.

Before Fab.com , one thing was for sure, the marketplace sold better. Now there’s been a shift. Also its always great to diversify, what if fab kicks you of their platform…,
need to be ready…

The shift isn’t huge, but you can feel it, people are more willing to pay elsewhere… b4 they would ask why something isn’t on the marketplace. never had “why is this not on fab”… sales just happen…

[echo egret]

Hello fabulous sourcers... I have a question about VAT... when completing a purchase, whenever is a FAB UE asset rather than a game on Epic Store, I read VAT are included/calculated when applicable but it looks to me they are not. basically it looks like no VAT are applicable even if my purchase is happening in Italy, where VAT are usually applied. Have I to assume VAT in digital products like UE assets rather than games do not apply, which sounds someway strange to me or at least not clear at all, or they actually do apply and I'm noticing that?

[green seal]

It should be applied at checkout.

[green seal]

I think its just a matter of time. Fab had a bumpy launch, total brand change will take a while for people to adapt to. It won’t be long before people realize (unreal users anyway) that buying on fab is wildly superior to buying anywhere else, just for the convenience of adding things to your project with ease. Whereas gumroad or other platforms need to be manually downloaded then added to your project, and needing to be sure you added the right version of the tool, not to mention version updates of a product.

Honestly if I am working on anything in Unreal, FAB is by far the best place to get your assets. I get so many emails from people who bought something on gumroad and asking if they can get the Marketplace/FAB version for free because it (gumroad) is so inconvenient.

I don’t even bother to sell on other marketplaces anymore because I don’t believe it’s in a buyers best interest. FAB is the way to go if you are using Unreal, without question. It was also a bit annoying to have to add version updates to a variety of other marketplaces every time I made a change to a tool.

[zenith elk]

Yes, I bought the Leartes Humble Bundle Pack for Cosmos ( their store ) , the download speed is 1 MBps vs up to 30 MBps ~ from the Unreal Vault.

[tame compass]

where to apple asset for sale in christmas ?

[undone valve]

There was a link on the forums. Now it’s too late already I think

[tame compass]

so nowdays to apply sales must go to forum ?

i guess i go to new year sales

if that exist

[polar python]

new one, whats your thoughts everyone ?

[untold bay]

looks fantastic. if this is for the thumbnail may want to leave a good space for FPS SLOW MOTION TEMPLATE which is tricky given the busy composition

thumbnail can probably omit the throwables and focus on the poses, if you need space

[polar python]

ye but i am thinking of overlaying text on image

[polar python]

thanks:)

[untold bay]

yeah i'm just asking where the text would go. maybe it fits in the background, actually

https://www.fab.com/listings/f3f22d93-9b63-4418-be60-c098bf7816e1
one of the better thumbnails i've seen

[polar python]

ye on the top between shotgun and pizza box

[polar python]

ye cool idea

[polar python]

should i just put text on top of them ?

[polar python]

or should i make effect like this ?

with some text in background and some front

[untold bay]

both are workable. i think the best options are either:

• big text, remove throwables, clip behind characters if needed
• big text, clip behind throwables and characters

it's kind of silly but having the text interleaved into the scene is a tiny high effort touch that suggests quality because it's so rare

eg it's less slapped together

Krystian Komisarek does high-effort text work to good effect
https://www.fab.com/sellers/ImaginaryBlend

[polar python]

i think : big text, infront of throwables and, clip behind characters

[untold bay]

sure, though i think you'll find if it's in front of throwables, either the throwables will be so illegible you'll want to ake them out, or the font will be too small. worth a try

[polar python]

ye lets make it first then see which fits better

ok gonna sleep now bye

[polar python]

until then i am open for feedback, if anyone wants to give

[undone parrot]

Anyone know what happened to the Infinity Blade environments? (Grass lands, Ice lands, etc) Seem to be MIA.

[untold bay]

they've been gradually uploading the old free stuff. the paragon characters only came back in the last day or two
that said i thought i saw the infinity blade stuff back up

[undone parrot]

Thanks! I assume the same issue with other learning content. For example the Northwood environment. I 'own' it but when I click it sends me in a circular loop to my library. No option to download or add to a project!

Boy do I miss the old Marketplace!

[undone estuary]

did you look for it in your vault?

[spiral jacinth]

Hey, I most certainly feel your pain. I have assets from all over the place. This is something I plan on addressing in future versions of my Asset Manager Studio. Making plugins for sites like Gumroad and other sites so that you still have the easy interface for dealing with everything, but the d/l source should be indistinguishable and the complexities hidden from the normal user .

[upbeat wedge]

Yo, how can I favorite something from the store?

[warm knot]

Put a bikini model in there and you're set.

jk

[untold bay]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont-invincible-gif-27194608

i keep a text file -_-
browser bookmark
i think orbital library has a mechanism
and i think someone here added a wishlist chrome extension

[upbeat wedge]

bookmarks it is then 🪦

[drowsy plaza]

I have a private discord server only I have access to. I use it for links, reminders, file storage, code storage, screenshot storage, etc.

That’s where I put fab links right now

[warm knot]

Why not just use a text file??? 🤨

It's crazy that people have to jump through all these hoops just for a wishlist.

[cedar bone]

yeah this is it, this is what im talking about
but i didn't think about as much as 7 enemies!
to be honest for that amount it doesn't look bad or too crowded
but i would still make more pronounced shattering effect visible on the enemies and at least one weapon so there is no doubt there is shattering enemy and weapon functionality in the asset, just shatter it more, even if i had to remove like 1-2 enemies to make more focused feature presentation
and at the back, against a wall i would put one of the portal u have, its a nice vfx to add some sf look on the top
u just need to add nice title at the end
i mean its great already, im just perfectionist, but its up to you how much over the top u want to take it

[drowsy plaza]

I recommend looking into scene composition, eye tracking , and the rule of threes in art principles.

My advice would be to focus the characters in the middle of the screen with the player and then have two enemies coming at you stuck in slow motion on the left and right for the rule of threes and then have a bright object flying towards the player to track the eyes my recommendation is a chaos destroyed baseball bat frozen in mid air then have a border made in photoshop around the edges with text at the top titling your product

it doesnt have to be first person but this is a good example of using those art principles I mentioned above

same with this but this one the title should be more visible

In both of those the eye is targeting towards specific spots in the image naturally, the scene is split up into 3 vertical slices, and they both signify slow motion well

[tawny hinge]

yea those are pretty damn good

[hybrid scaffold]

so I've been away a few months, and I see the marketplace now no longer exists and its all now third-party on Fab... is it widely known to be terrible?

I'm noticing everything seems to be stuck in USD, and you can't find (or they don't exist) the monthly free stuff anymore

[undone estuary]

usd on the store, local in the checkout. free stuff is bi weekly on the main page, scroll down a bit. and yes it is

[untold bay]

monthly free is now biweekly free. 3 every two weeks instaed of 5 per month

it's on the front page

[hybrid scaffold]

oh I see, it's not on the unreal engine page

its on the page which is also supposedly for unity stuff, except apparently not

great design lmao

[tardy charm]

oh wow yeah none of those are unity compatible lol

Sometimes packages that support unity do end up on the featured free so it's mostly just random but unreal biased

[polar python]

ye i am also perfectionist but i also have to take the time into account, dec sale is gonna start on 23 and i also have to make a trailer so i gonna give trailer 3 days, so for thumbnail will do everything i can today and call it a day lol, thanks for your thoughts

[polar python]

thanks for the idea

[vestal sluice]

https://www.fab.com/listings/1e8b4598-dc70-4fcb-98e3-af9b1ebfe828

It's amazing there is an animal crossing template in the store, unexpected find for me today. Good for anyone who wants to make something like that.

I think they should've just made a game for steam than make a high quality looking but niche template like this.

[agile slate]

Won t the get sued for this?

[vestal sluice]

If their game stands out on their own with it's own unique features, there is nothing the nintendo police can do

[azure shard]

tell that to palworld

[old wharf]

Hello everyone!

I have a question for asset authors, asked in another server too but just want to gather different opinions before deciding. Do you implement your assets in blueprints or C++ side, or both? I want to make a dialogue system in C++ and publish on unreal marketplace but if I make it in C++, it can't get modified easily by users. If I do it on blueprint side, it won't contribute much to my resume, I want to improve myself in C++. So should I do both versions and deliver to the customers? Or should I combine, like keeping core in the c++ and exposing the customizable parts to blueprints? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

[vale prawn]

Or should I combine, like keeping core in the c++ and exposing the customizable parts to blueprints
This. That's how any serious system is designed. C++ for the heavy lifting and core elements that's more intended for programmers to be touched by. And BP for final user/designer/artist, so that it's user friendly and has a quick iteration loop.

For dialogue, Flow is a pretty good example of this.

[old wharf]

Thanks a lot, I will take a look at it!

[rare coyote]

Jumping on the thread to report my issue.

Windows
POLYGON - Elven Realm asset pack ($199.99 dollar product)

After clicking “Create Project”, the asset is queued for download then immediately removed.

Ive made sure that the correct engine version is downloaded.
Ive been up and down multiple forum posts trying to find a solution. So far ive only found the issue partially solved for MAC users.

I dont really care that I cant make a base project. Id at least like a work around to be able to use the assets i purchased.

[untold bay]

blueprints are much easier for people to work with, for a variety of reasons. if i wanted to make my asset sell, blueprints. i don't think anyone else can evaluate the sales<->resume tradeoff for you

[old wharf]

Just for the first reason, I thought about making 2 versions, bp and c++ but the brifsttar's suggestion makes more sense imo. Resume is more important than the sales, I don't make it to sell, I make it to improve my resume but if I can make a few bucks, I won't say no to that.

[jovial gust]

just make sure you expose your C++ functions to BP and it shouldnt cause a big issue

[cedar bone]

sure, i get it, like i said its already great, just put nice clear fat title
u can always change things later, but u dont need much time i guess to just add some more shatter or and vfx
someone posted superhot screenshots here, its also a good inspiration, as u see they have some kind of blur/bloom effect on top to enhance the slow motion feeling

[cedar bone]

but is it really a full animal crossing like template, i dont think u can make a full animal crossing game like that out of template, at least most templates are not complete

[polar python]

tried to make better but it got more clustered shit
new :

old :

[sick prairie]

Hi, any ideas why i can't delete a (declined) listing ?
Got this error: Cannot delete instance of Listing

[cedar bone]

hah, more cluttered, how xD
the red guy from the portal on left is actually good idea, just put that under the wall, further
the shattered guy on right, good placement, just make it shattered more, so individual parts are visible
shattered shotgun, not sure this will be visible, maybe try to put it bigger, closer to the camera, on the right bottom part where there is place opening before the enemies, just little to the left of the shattered enemy and the one shooting, perfect place, and probably in forward pointing little angled pose or something like that
i would remove the not so important small objects from the top, the fab cover is small, wont be much visible, but they feel kinda too random and makes it too chaotic, and this would make a nice clean part for at least part of title
and after all that, u can try to apply a little boom in some software to see if its makes it even better

[hollow basin]

But palworld is being sued?

[vestal sluice]

I am guessing it would have the basic core ready, so that other unique features can be integrated into it. That will save months of development time.

[lapis isle]

will i get an email from someone requesting a refund for a marketplace item on my seller account, or do i have to email epic to tell them i approve?

[undone valve]

Only you can decide wether to refund something or not. So the customer will need to reach out to you for refunds. Then you can write an email to epic stating which user you want to refund. You can ask epic for more details like if the user already downloaded the product or not.

[hollow cloak]

https://www.fab.com/listings/21d91a5b-186b-42b2-8846-735380ee7862

[untold bay]

#1054845218723209226

[split iron]

Look at their profile
Clearly applied the same logic to channel description 😄

[undone valve]

This is forbidden here

[split iron]

The free asset quality has dropped a lot
Guess them paying less backfired

[untold bay]

#1054845218723209226

looks great tho

[jaunty dagger]

But also palworlds backed by Sony no? So basically Nintendo vs Sony.

https://www.ign.com/articles/palworld-dev-signs-deal-with-sony-to-form-palworld-entertainment-and-expand-the-ip

[drowsy plaza]

The game is basically dead at this point, I doubt they can catch lightning in a bottle twice. I guess the good that can come of this is Nintendo might upgrade the engine for Pokémon so it looks modern or use unreal

[jaunty dagger]

or another positive maybe nintendo will lose and realize its not worth it.

[warm knot]

Gee, who could have seen that coming!

[split iron]

IDK, one can only be so psychic...

[polar python]

new :

i think for now this is it

i will now edit it and send for approvel before sale, i hope they approve it today because tomorrow and next day will be off days for employees

[polar python]

should i write
"SLOW MOTION FPS TEMPLATE"
or
"FPS SLOW MOTION TEMPLATE"
?

[polar python]

how is it ?
does text look good ?

i think this looks more good

this is how it looks on fab

should i put space in between slow motion ?

btw i have submitted for approval

[flat pollen]

Let's keep this channel to discussions about Fab and not critique for your thumbnail iterations please, ty

[hasty kraken]

Any Christmas sales?

[shrewd ember]

I kept seeing a notification in the Launcher about a Holiday sale but I dont see anything

[drowsy plaza]

Monday

[ebon leaf]

🚨 UNREAL ENGINE CREATORS BEWARE 🚨

I am beyond furious with what FAB has done to my product. While they were authorized to list my product on the Unreal Engine Marketplace, they have NO RIGHT to distribute it for free!

My product, Master Materials and Layer System for Daz Imports, is supposed to sell for $45, yet FAB has listed it for FREE without my permission. This blatant disregard for the agreed-upon pricing not only devalues my hard work but also undermines the trust creators place in these platforms to handle our intellectual property properly.

What Happened:
My product was listed for $45—yet FAB is giving it away for free without authorization.
Repeated attempts to resolve this with them have been met with excuses, delays, and no resolution.
This impacts not just me, but the entire community of creators relying on platforms like FAB to support us.
Why This Matters:
If FAB can decide to give away our work without permission, what’s stopping them from doing it to you? Developers and creators deserve better than this kind of negligence.

🚨🚨 FAB IS FAILING CREATORS 🚨🚨

For WEEKS, I’ve been trying to update my product to show support for Unreal Engine 5.5, but FAB hasn’t done anything. Worse, they’ve locked me out of adding new versions myself.

This negligence is hurting my business and reputation. Creators, we deserve better!

[vale prawn]

Did you try to edit your listing? Why is that not possible? What's the error? What did Epic answer? etc.

[ebon leaf]

I no longer have access to edit. There is no listings on my Fab dashboard and clicking start creating takes me to my UEM dashboard where all my functionality has been removed. I have sent 20 emails over the past 3 weeks and opened numerous support tickets. At first they were telling to do things I already have done...submit new version..ect..none of which was needed or changed anything. I am resolved now to cummunity support and pressure. If its happenening to me it can happen to anyone.

[ebon leaf]

I even changed the price to something crazy and nothing....?

[warm knot]

Might as well start opening accounts on multiple platforms, just in case.

[cedar bone]

hard to tell
grammar wise with space is proper usage i guess
but i think it looks better without
maybe even remove the FPS, is it really that needed?
also not sure why u used "out of the blue" he he, blue color
it breaks the composition focus, the asset style
i would use the image colors u have, so either, white, black, grey or red, or a mix between
not sure how this is done, but your asset black is a glassy like black, maybe use that for the outline and put some red light so it reflects into it a little, could be nice effect

[cedar bone]

well ok, but what would be the proper channel for fab content creation discussion?

[vale prawn]

#1054845120236757103?

[cedar bone]

im not sure, technically it is finished and the nature of what we are talking is a little different, more like post fab release changes to promotion materials, and im just a helpful soul 🙂 that discusses things, i don't decide where creators are posting things nor can i or should force anyone to post on channels maybe they dont want or need, so is there any other channel like that if #1054845120236757103 doesn't exactly fit?

[ebon leaf]

Yes, definately a space.

https://www.fab.com/distribution-agreement

[ebon leaf]

Violations Identified:
Unauthorized Pricing Changes
Under Section 1(d) of the FAB Distribution Agreement, Marketplace Operators are required to follow my instructions regarding the price of my product. Despite setting the price at $45, my product is currently being distributed for free, which I did not authorize. This constitutes a breach of the agreement and has resulted in financial losses and reputational harm.

Inability to Manage Product Listing
Per Section 10(a) of the agreement, I am entitled to withdraw my product from sale or modify its listing. However, I have been locked out of managing my own listing and am unable to update the supported versions or initiate a withdrawal. This directly violates the terms of the agreement regarding my control over the listing.

Watch yourselves friends.

[ebon leaf]

@polar python This one looks great!

[undone valve]

This one looking fire!

[digital agate]

Hi, has anyone else received an email saying their account tax details are expiring and have to re-do the interview?
On the website, there's no mention of it expiring, and specifically states only re-do the interview if any details have changed - which none have.

[high siren]

I got the mail, idk it looks weird, didn't update anything yet, keeping an eye on the forum and discord to see what epic staff will say

the description in the mail doesn't even reflect of what the seller portal actually looks like

[digital agate]

yeah, they were red flags for me too - 31st Dec's not even an end-of-tax year.
And most places just have a button "Nothing has Changed" kind of thing when things like that do need to be updated.

[split iron]

Really sorry to hear that happened to you
I know how I'd feel if they did that to Morpher, my product would never recover from it, many people wouldn't buy it after getting it for free
I think they need to compensate you for projected loss of sales (i.e. the financial damages you incurred)
You need a lawyer, they should be able to work for compensation and tack it onto the requested damages
You'll also need to prove that they made an error rather than you yourself -- hopefully they've admitted this in writing (email)

Even having a lawyer send them a letter of intent may be useful to make them actually do their job and prioritize it
But don't send it unless you'll follow through on suing them, its basically a "fix it or else" letter, but if you don't follow through it means they won't take you seriously anymore

[agile shadow]

you can go directly in fab and it will appear there

[digital agate]

Yeah that's where I was checking - there's no mention of anything expiring - also, In all the time I've operated a business, I've never had to do anything like this before - and it erases your current tax info if you do the interview again - none of those things are feeling right - if anything, there should just be a button stating "My tax information has not changed" - nothing more, no potential "submission errors and account closures" and such. Especially in the middle of a sale.

[tame compass]

i was told to retake interview on unreal engine marketplace.........

[drowsy plaza]

Take a breath man, you are really agitated over this everything will be alright. It looks like you never did the migration process so fab automatically transferred it over with the marketplace license. It’s showing up as costing money for me

[tame compass]

so i finished retake interview

[drowsy plaza]

I remember them saying any asset on the marketplace license will be removed from sale at some point in 2025 so I would update it to a fab product and take these marketplace ones down if you plan to continue supporting and selling these. The old marketplace portal is defunct, you need to create a seller account on fab and make fab products, they had a migration tool but I don’t know if it’s still available

[tame compass]

is that what they want ?

[undone valve]

I didnt find any product with that name that is for free. Are you sure it is not just free for you?

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah that might be the case if he is logged in with his epic account, the two products with those names and thumbnails on fab never got officially migrated over in September and if he owns them then they may show as free

[undone valve]

Yeah. Have you migrated your projects manually or did you wait for automatic migration?

[distant juniper]

This seems like a mistake.
So I have to disbale things like Fab, in-engine modeling tools, web video player, etc. etc. going over hundreds of plugins and leaving only the bare minimum.
How is this not incredibly inconvenient to the customer?

[drowsy plaza]

Go into your uproject file and see what plugins it’s referencing. That’s what they go off of

[distant juniper]

To be clear, I didn't add any plugins to the project. The project is a template. The only plugins there are the engine default plugins, minus a few that I already disabled.

[distant juniper]

My uproject file just had "disabled" flag for several, there were 0 enabled through it :\

[distant juniper]

Thanks for the tip tho!

[drowsy plaza]

Delete any plugin references in there unless there is one you need

[distant juniper]

Or maybe I missed one, I'll double check!

[drowsy plaza]

After that resubmit it with the new files and if they reject it again send in a support ticket asking for extra clarification on what plugins are causing it to fail the review process.

[distant juniper]

OK, thank you so much!

I really needed that sanity check. I was going thru disabling dozens of plugins through gritted teeth 😅

[drowsy plaza]

sometimes fab reviewers are contractors and not trained properly, I’ve had instances where after asking for clarification they told me it was a internal process error and not my fault

[distant juniper]

I'll just manually edit the uproject file to make sure it's good

[merry field]

I also got this email, it did look a little dodgy but I thought I may as will go to the publisher page and refill in that form

Though I opened the page myself directly instead of through links in the email just in case

Seems insanely unprofessional if it's legit

Telling you less then two weeks in advance, when most of that time isn't working days

[ebon leaf]

I did it a while ago. I had no way to know my product was offered as free because if you own it there is no price. Someone else was like...whaaaaa?

[ebon leaf]

Not the product.

[ebon leaf]

That's $45 a pop. Take a breath? Very easy to say when its not hurting you.

[drowsy plaza]

your products are not showing up as free for anyone else

I provided screenshots above

[ebon leaf]

False, they removed the free one. Its not available at all now.

I did not remove it.

And I have had no further corispondence

[drowsy plaza]

all of your products will be removed if you dont migrate them over, the marketplace auto transfer wasnt meant to be permanant.

[ebon leaf]

The migration button does nothing.

[drowsy plaza]

they probably disabled it, you were supposed to do this in september

[ebon leaf]

It redirects me to the live product page.

[drowsy plaza]

just make new products, that what it did anyways

[ebon leaf]

I cant do anything. I have no access to the Fab dashboard, it redirects me to the UEMarket dashboard but everything is disabled.

[drowsy plaza]

no it doesnt, you are just doing something wrong

no one else has this issue, you need to create a seller account then list your products

[ebon leaf]

You are hilarious and hard of hearing.

[drowsy plaza]

okay, keep running in circles I guess. when you calm down and are ready to figure it out let us know

[ebon leaf]

Been trying to get this resolved for 3 weeks. I have 12 support tickets in. https://youtu.be/l2BFDGoLKUk Tell me again how stuff works. @drowsy plaza

[undone valve]

Bruh

I dont understand the issue. Everything is working

You can btw also just press the "Publish" button to get to your fab dashboard

Look it says that all your listings are migrated

[warm knot]

I'm sorry to hear that, man. Hope it goes well for you because I sure wouldn't want that to happen to me!

[ebon leaf]

Issue is my product was being given away. Its supposed to be $45 and they had it up for free up until about an hour or so ago, now they have taken it down. I did not authorize either which is a direct breach of the seller contract, Fab's and UnrealEngine's both. Also I have no access to the actual products, it appears I do but my changes are not live. This has been the case for 3 weeks ago. I have 12 support tickets in but I have received no return correspondence to my support request for the last 2 and nothing has changed besides removing my product without my permission. I am not sure why some want to minimize when corporations do things like this. I have lost several hundred dollars in revenue as of yet. Not a small issue to me and anyone else who cares and respects intellectual property.

So instead of fixing the issue this is now the product.

[undone valve]

Mhh okay. Have you update the princing and set a price for both the PErsonal and Professional tier?

[undone valve]

Also because of the support tickets: How have you tried to reach out to them?

[ebon leaf]

I dont have access to anything? So...no

[ebon leaf]

The forums, which they just removed over and over.

[undone valve]

Could you provide a video of you editing something on your live product and submitting it (you can cancel it afterward). I want to help you resolve this issue

[undone valve]

Ouh, they dont answer there. Make sure to create a support ticket here. They answer in like 1-2 days: https://support.fab.com/s/?ProductOrigin=FabSupport

[undone valve]

Or is that "Sorry, we couldnt find that page" happening when you try to edit a product?

[ebon leaf]

There isn't a solution to be had here. I have filed with the BBB. And our attorney has sent 3 Formal Legal Notices by email and certified mail.

[undone valve]

The Fab support team also doesnt answer mails. You must go trough the support system actually.

But I think you can always write the legal team via email but I am not sure

[ebon leaf]

Yes to initialize but all the correspondences are via email.

Like I said, there is no solution. Its on there end.

[undone valve]

The old seller portal is not functional anymore as it got replaced by fab. It is not connected to your fab listing in any way so changing stuff there wont do anything

You can try to unlist your listing and then list it again

[ebon leaf]

Yikes....it takes like a month to get approved.

[undone valve]

No? Maximum for me was 3 days

[ebon leaf]

Took 4 for my MMLS

No

I swear to you

[undone valve]

haha

[ebon leaf]

Want to see the emails

[undone valve]

And I swear to you that most of the time it is uploaded next day

[undone valve]

Sure

give me a second

[ebon leaf]

For what?

[undone valve]

I am talking about fab not UEM just to be clear

[ebon leaf]

My products have thousands os assets that have to go throught their thourough process, which is fine, Ensures quality stuff

[undone valve]

Ahh maybe this is why it takes so long

I just have plugins that are pretty straightforward

[undone valve]

But here is proof:

Uploaded on 17 december and took them less than 24 hours

[ebon leaf]

Oh man, that must be nice.

I'm also dealing with 2 different IPs that are kind of competitors so I have to go through some serious legal shit to make sure all is copesetic EULA and DMCA wise. Daz3d actually tried to sue me but I won.

[undone valve]

WTF? What was their reasoning behind suing you?

[ebon leaf]

Their EULA only is valid for "Finished" games and that assets or tools and plugins are not covered under it. They tried to come after me saying I was using 3rd party content (textures that can fit a Daz model) they claimed they had rights to my textures because they can fit on a Daz figure. This is wrong. There is no intellectual property or copyright law that supports this. If it was a Finished game it wouldn't matter if it did but I or anyone else is not protected unless they have a finished game. Luckily it didn't apply at all.

https://www.daz3d.com/eula?srsltid=AfmBOorO0-MoF5ikHMvpfBJv3x0xXCQ0zrYuK7T_mfMfvPBuOcTrLmBW This is there EULA

Prototypes, in-development games, or incomplete applications are not explicitly covered under this license.

Maybe not the spot for this but its important to know for anyone messing with Daz stuff.

[naive elk]

When I launch Epic launcher it says there is a fab sale going on via bottom right notification, but i go to fab and dont see the sale? Is there a sale or not?

[drowsy plaza]

It’s on Monday rhe 23rd, I guess they accident sent the notification out too early

[polar python]

@undone valve Thank you both:)

[polar python]

hey for now it looks fine i think, i will change it later once i finish making trailer, thank you sooo much for being with me and improving my project

[hollow zephyr]

and over the holidays. I resubmitted the interview (in my case details did change)

[hollow zephyr]

the support is pretty bad. I had an issue with one of my products where the personal price was missing from the live version. I made three tickets and they did not seem to get it and just told me to update it, I followed up on every one with no response aterwards. it was an bug on their part in the end but it took 2 months to fix

[hollow zephyr]

the bad part is the hyperwallet needs activation again, but it seems to be automatic, hopefully can get it done today

[agile shadow]

I've been selling things on unreal and unity for 8 years now and I've always had to retake the tax interview. Unity is the same, you have to complete it again, it doesn't leave information saved. I had to do both this month.

[covert mesa]

How am I able to choose the UE version when I'm downloading an Unreal Project from Fab like Lyra for 5.5?

[nocturne scaffold]

Either it only comes as the 1 engine or you dont have other engine versions installed.

[covert mesa]

I have 5.4 and 5.5 and when downloading Lyra it came as 5.2

[cursive chasm]

If its a fresh install of the engine(s), close and reopen the epic launcher. That might kick it in the pants.

[covert mesa]

doesn't work either. Thanks for the help though

[covert mesa]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I need the updated Project right away from Lyra. I wanna know what they have updated.

[sharp mortar]

paypal payment on fab broken for anyone else?

alright just a browser issue with vivaldi

[cedar bone]

sure, its still looks very good, way better than it was

[tardy charm]

Seems like a version of Lyra is already installed to your vault cache (indicated by the Cache Size: 5.1 GB text), which is why you cannot install a newer version. Click on the little down arrow next to the Create Project (before the screen you see in the image) and click on the Clear Cache, then click on Create Project again

This is the down arrow im talking about, it will be unlocked for you

[tranquil kraken]

I released my first environment pack on fab, but I couldn't find it in the newest sort. Does anyone know the reason?🥺

[undone valve]

Scroll a bit down. Other products that released on same day even before your product might be listed first

[tranquil kraken]

I have observed other products and they were already released a few days ago. We are not on the same day. 🤔

[digital agate]

Perhaps it's been different for US residents? I'm not sure, but I only had to take the tax interview after the MP started using Hyperwallet. I've been selling for around 6 years on here, and been in business since the early 90's. Like I said, I've only ever had to click on "My Details haven't changed" for other systems.

[drowsy plaza]

I’ve only had to take it once as well, they should only ask if changes are made to your tax status

[echo egret]

Hello sourcers. Two easy questions.... on, kinda essential matters... when is Epic going to add a "Hide owned assets" option for all gods of game development's sake!??? I ask that because Epic is gonna add that one indeed, right? Secondary, just in terms of question timing, question... has Epic planned to drastically reduce periodic 50 Off and 70% Off Sales perhaps? I hope you guys have any news about those two issues. Thanks in advance.

[drowsy plaza]

Given people own a lot of assets that they may forget about it would not be wise to hide assets you already own, it will just continue telling you that you own it so you know not to click it. They may add a filter but that would not be a priority for them.

What do you mean by “drastically reduce sales”?

[echo egret]

I was talking about an option to filter assets when looking for new ones, of course, which is a key feature specially when after years the amount of owned assets can be kinda overwhelming. Speaking ofsales... at this time of the year, before Fab was released, sales were recurrent. I guess it's due to priorities as you said, considering they just launched it, but sounded fair to ask. 😏

[drowsy plaza]

Once the sales feature rolls out for creators it will have products on sale every day of the year, right now it’s still in beta and only supported for event sales. The next one is on the 25th

I don’t think it’s good UX to hide products you own, that can create issues with mispurchasing stuff, increased refunds due to mispurchasing, make assets be used less due to people forgetting about them, and overall hurts sellers. Just saying “owned” is fine, if you own all the products of a category then there is no reason to search in that category since you own what you need

Especially with epics giveaways, people may look for a product only to find out they already own what they need, I’ve done that before with stuff

[echo egret]

That's good to know. I was kinda sure I was just not informed about Epic's specific plans {all I knew were those we all I guess have recently seen were scheduled by them} due to the amount of different stuff I'm busy with, so I was trying to keep me up to date on that.

Uhm... I guess it's something kinda personal, I believe many would find that filter option kinda useful when not a must. I've personally seen others pointing out how useful that would be.. personally I give up searching and purchasing assets if I have to struggle spotting unowned assets throughout walls of listed owned ones. Anyway... thanks for the feedback.

[timid scroll]

How to install UI Material Lab plugin? I'm using 5.44, and it supports up to 5.4. But I can't install it via fab.

[untold bay]

annoyingly the UI sorts by createdAt when really the more meaningful metric is publishedAt which you can stick in the URL bar

but it does mean that you're incentivized to get approved and publish ASAP or people scanning Newest will never see your product

[drowsy plaza]

Try restarting the launcher and uninstalling any cache files for that asset if you previously installed it

[pulsar nova]

it's always been so annoying trying to keep track of new releases when new products just pop up on the second or even third page, especially since it's always the interesting systems and code stuff that takes that long to approve

good to know there is a way around it

[tranquil kraken]

Is creatdAt the time when the UE project was created?

[untold bay]

my guess is it's when you create the fab product. i have not attempted to verify this

[tranquil kraken]

thanks

[covert mesa]

That was it 🙏 Thanks

[silent fjord]

I'm reviewing unreal/Fab's 'NoAi' tag terms for a project. In the terms it has the line below

“Generative AI Programs” means artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, or similar technologies designed to automate the generation of or aid in the creation of new content, including but not limited to audio, visual, or text-based content.

Just looking for a second opinion. Would you consider a computer vision project that's designed to just label the contents of images to fall under this. eg, this a human, this a car etc. The resulting data won't be used in any form of generative ai training to create content (like openai, stable diffusion).

[dire meteor]

Well no, it doesn't generate any content?

[timid scroll]

It didn't work (I have not installed it before). Looks like fab thinks that 5.4 is not equal to 5.44, so not allow me to download it.
Downloaded other fab plugin just to confirm in general download works fine.

[untold bay]

this exposes an issue with the label, that it conflates:

• a desire to avoid supporting models trained on proprietary data
• a desire to avoid assets with potential copyright liabilities
• a desire to avoid ai-generated slop

there's also a whole-or-partial element to it. sometimes you see assets with AI-generated placeholders, like background paintings or book covers, where most of the asset isn't AI generated

also a bit unclear how you'd classify assets which use grant access to generative models. they are not created with ai, but let you create with ai

[green seal]

I think it is left intentionally vague to give them a bit of leeway in terms of what they decide to allow and disallow

[cursive chasm]

leeway is where creativity flourishes. Its a good thing

[timber meteor]

"Hello everyone, I’m looking for a Metahuman sample project. If anyone could share it with me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance!"

[warm knot]

Platforms like YouTube keep their terms of service as vague as possible. That way they can ban you for whatever reason they want, but I don't think Epic would stoop as low as YouTube.

[worldly flower]

https://www.fab.com/listings/cf14788c-b6d8-40a5-8604-5b377eae2d99
Be aware.. mature Content /s

🙄 How can one Tag a DNS Server Plugin as "mature Content" ?

[dire meteor]

Maybe if you're underage you're too stupid to know what DNS is? 😛

[spark laurel]

Hello, is the fab Christmas sale today or the 25th?

[mild garden]

I didnt know Tim Sweeney had adressed Fab directly but he did. It's probably of interest to the people here, so here it's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XknflWJivgg&t=2392s

[mild garden]

It was supposed to be today, I think.

Yeah, it's today, the sale is live

[red sapphire]

still no wishlists... crazy.

[untold bay]

Dirty Nasty Sex Server

18+ only

[wanton charm]

Quick question, I used my personal Epic account to publish a plugin on FAB, and somehow I'm unable to access it or add it to my library "as a user" -- is this expected? i.e I can't add my own plugin to my library of assets (I tried logout/refresh/all the things, "add to my library" is simply not available)

[split iron]

Sweeney has some new and really gross flavour of kool-aid he'd like you to drink ASAP
https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/1hkpanm/tim_sweeney_id_really_like_to_apologize_to/

My favourite quote is this:

Despite that, the business continues to go strong for sellers. Most of the seller performance is about the same as it was on Unreal Engine Marketplace—not a drop—despite some loss of search functionality and other core features.

Can't believe he thought people would buy that

Fab was an absolute fail, it never should have supported anything other than Unreal

Now we have the garbage flooding the store from every possible source instead of just one

[polar python]

if you just published it then wait for some days

[wanton charm]

(Just to clarify, the plugin is up & live on FAB already)

[polar python]

ye just gonna take day or two to update and automatically show in your library

[wanton charm]

ok perfect, thanks for the reply ❤️

[hollow zephyr]

I have pretty much the same sales number + half a dozen pro licenses at 2x 3x the normal price

[digital agate]

same here, slightly more if anything

[split iron]

There have been plenty of posts by people who lost sales too

Maybe fab is better for some stuff and worse for others

I think at minimum characters need to be their own category, not under smart assets

Doesn't affect me personally it's just really dumb imo lol

[still basin]

I think the main problem is discoverability. Some will benefit from it, other will greatly be penalized

On the UEM if you typed "procedural " I was number one and 2 (I have two tools), now I'm at around 150 to 200

So it definitely affected my sales, which is why I'm going to focus more and more on youtube and doing my own marketing outside fab

[split iron]

Yeah my sole plugin sales have plummeted. It sucks to lose a bit of passive income but not really a big deal for me. I mostly just feel for those it is a big deal for who had the rug pulled out from under them

[eager tusk]

Can anyone direct me to a good discord server for help with Quixel Mixer?

[drowsy plaza]

I like it, my sales are a bit better than they were on the marketplace and as a customer I find it easier to find stuff I need.

The roadmap is promising as well and the team listens to the community often.

[undone valve]

They should have just release fab but keep the old marketplaces up too until things are ironed out.

[drowsy plaza]

I think that app is abandoned, I recommend using substance designer and painter instead or something like instamat which is free for indies

[drowsy plaza]

I personally disagree with this, people would have been segregated between stores which would have hurt sellers and the fab platform long term since it’s much harder to migrate people over if you do it that way.

It would have created licensing issues too

[undone valve]

Yeah eventually you have to stop the old marketplaces of course. But with licensing you are completely right. That would have been a big issue

[drowsy plaza]

This isn’t a self promotion channel

I recommend posting that on Reddit or the unreal forums where it’s allowed

[warm knot]

If I create a brand name product but list it for free, will Fab allow it?

[undone valve]

We do not care

Not having a wishllist prevented me from buying like 10 assets in the future already because I also dont want to put in the effort to set up a list somewhere to keep track. I used a browser extension but my anti virus cleaned all my browser data so I also lost those assets too which were like 30.

[warm knot]

We can't even get a wishlist for Christmas, smh.

[drowsy plaza]

Do you want them to rush features out like they did with launch or take their time and make sure it’s done right?

I think fab is very hesitant to release features rapidly due to how the launch went

[warm knot]

They could "make sure it's done right" by just not removing the wishlist in the first place. And I'm not asking them to rush anything; they're the ones who rushed Fab.

[drowsy plaza]

They didn’t remove it, it just doesn’t exist yet. The codebase with fab is not the same as UE Marketplace

It seems like no matter what fab does people complain, they rush to launch and you complain, they don’t rush features and you complain.

[warm knot]

They didn't remove it, it just... doesn't exist? That's some odd reasoning skills. 🤨

I respect Epic Games, and I love their engine btw. I don't have much to complain about

[red sapphire]

if blox designed a car, it wouldn't have a steering wheel or seatbelt at launch

stop complaining about essential features missing at launch! we had to prematurely launch because.... well, for no good reason, but stop complaining! ya'll are being big meanies

[pulsar nova]

?????

just let me download the files what the hell

[drowsy plaza]

Facepalm, the lack of self awareness is wild

[pulsar nova]

rapidly

[hollow basin]

I think the reason people are complaining about fab needing to hurry up is because they announced the release date and was late by about a year and a half. People assumed that the year and a half was spent ensuring features like wishlists were working properly. The solution I think people actually wanted was to delay the announcement of fab so that they are nearly done development before people even know about it. But I understand what you mean by the wishlist feature never existed, but some people (me included) thought the extra time they were spending on the launch would ensure those features would be included

[pulsar nova]

yea "they are taking their time with the wishlist because they launched prematurely" is wild to say when the launch was very delayed

[pulsar nova]

I just tried to download it again after waiting a bit and it worked now, thankfully seems to have been a mistake

I still rue the day I want to grab a plugin without the right version installed, though

[dire meteor]

But they don't want a car, they just want faster horses. Horses don't have steering wheels or seatbelts!

[warm knot]

That reminds me of FIAT's electric car. I learned why the name actually means Fix It Again Tomorrow.

[jaunty dagger]

Was this from the megascan pack?

[tardy charm]

I know you have figured it out but for future reference, the epic launcher seems to have slow loading that isn't indicated by any form of progress bar. You can't install anything during this. Perhaps it waits for the whole vault to load first? I have no idea
Typically the launcher will freeze for a bit once it is over, at least for me

[green seal]

It’s not odd. It’s not like they had wishlists developed for fab, and then decided to omit it. It was a feature that was available in UEM, but hasnt been developed or coded for fab yet.
I see your point, we lost a feature we once had, but blox isn’t wrong here.

[red sapphire]

that isn't really the point though is it? Why launch something that's supposed to be this grand, new and improved market, when it doesn't even have feature parity, let alone improvements? What kind of decision making process led to the conclusion that features like a wishlist, or filters that save, weren't mission critical?

These aren't outlandish complaints as blox makes them out to be. What's crazy is defending it, as if it is some cardinal sin to complain about the state of Fab, in a channel that's setup to discuss Fab.

[green seal]

That is another discussion entirely, and I agree that fab as a whole was rushed.

[red sapphire]

exactly. so the whole 'it wasn't removed, it wasn't built in the first place' is irrelevant to the actual topic

[green seal]

I can’t wrap my head around it, I can’t fathom how it was all approved to begin with. But like any massive project it likely boils down to devs being given an insane deadline, was rushed due to executive decisions who were surrounded by yes men. And it stumbled from there. I’m probably simplifying it but that has been the gist of every questionable bit of planning Ive encountered throughout my career

Definitely easier said than done, this was a massive undertaking, and Epic is a huge ship to steer overall. Easy to say in hindsight, and I’m sure some tough calls were made. But at least we’ll get to where we were within a year if their roadmap is anything to go by.

[tawny hinge]

usually they stick pretty well to their public roadmap (at least regarding to the engine) so i have some faith in Epic 😄

[warm knot]

We can try and talk about these little technicalities of what is more correct, but I think that the customer is more correct in this case, and I would be one of those customers. You see, I can't remember all of the things that I had wishlisted, so now I'm just not gonna buy anything. Wether we actually had a wishlist or not is irrelevant at that point if you ask me.

[tawny hinge]

yea that wishlist thing was a massive fail, and idk how they set their internal priorities at the moment, but apparently it's something else... (because implementing a wishlist is pretty trivial)

what may have happened is that they joined the teams from several marketplaces which then tends to be chaotic if they used different frameworks/etc. so maybe there's still internal friction 🤷

[mild garden]

They said they are aiming to release basically everything on the roadmap "until spring" and "in the next number of months." The only things they expect to come later in 2025 are things like "Fab Desktop". Out of 9 points, wishlists and text reviews are number 7 and 8, so don’t expect them for a while.

[tawny hinge]

they are sorted by category not by priority afaik

[mild garden]

Sorry to say, but it's numbered by their priority order, they said they might not follow it 100% but it's their "rough order" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GriPX0OK1t0&t=1017s

[tawny hinge]

okay, wasn't aware of that talk. thanks for the heads up

[primal otter]

Okay, this is a bit confusing. Are we sure we're getting Professional license of the current giveaway Newtonian Falling and Momentum Damage System? Because UI indication is not perfectly clear whether or not you get professional license.

Once I check my transaction log in my account page I see that the price value doesn't even match to pro license but to personal license which makes me believe it's not pro license we're getting.

I'm getting the impression that the license you chose before claiming the content will lock you to that particular license.

This is what I see

From the transaction log it's clearly personal license I got

[zenith elk]

They are both the same license

[primal otter]

Oh, interesting. Thanks for the clarification.

[zenith elk]

Yeah, for the free giveaways, they should have just taken away the professional / personal choice. Its the same license in the end.

[undone valve]

You can write fab support and they will give you your wishlist as a pdf

[spiral jacinth]

You can download any asset/plugin without having any engine installed with my Asset Manager Studio. (https://assetmanager.studio).

[pulsar nova]

oh nice I'll keep that in mind

[tepid aspen]

Hi - How do you guys verify buyers since there's no questions and review section?

[jaunty dagger]

Some do order id

[tepid aspen]

Then how do you check if the id is valid

[jaunty dagger]

Not sure personally just know some asset providers have asked for it to confirm 🤷 maybe others know more.

[tepid aspen]

I see the new ID checker section for sellers. Thanks

[zenith elk]

Epic games launcher is hard stuck, hopefully fab wont be forgotten like EGL

Even though Unreal engine is pretty good, these side project problems shake people's faith in Epic 's name

[serene escarp]

Bridge is abandoned since 5.5.1? Tried to use 5.5.0-preview plugin but UE is crashing on launch.

It's not organized as well in Fab

[green seal]

No, bridge is back until FAB has a suitable replacement. Why are you using the preview plugin?

[silent fjord]

Great to see text reviews, the only thing I care about being their lowest priority. Half of this stuff should've been done before the switch. So incompetent

[serene escarp]

Didn't find Bridge in downloads for Linux this time https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/linux

[silent fjord]

Does anybody know of any scripts to download all of my quixel material assets to my local machine (not the script to claim assets before the free period ends)

[sick prairie]

Hi, why we can t delete a declined plugin ?

[narrow wave]

Just had a classic Fab moment. Found an interesting asset with less than 2 stars, but there's no reviews so I have no idea why people are rating it so low

[fossil dune]

posted an update to a fab plugin and the Rocket thing they are running to build the plugin is hallucinating and generating errors on classes that are not even in the latest / submitted plugin... Even Ctrl+Shift+F to be sure...
Locally everything builds fine.
From their build server it's referencing old version classes with the newly submitted update and complaining about duplicates.. there are no duplicates...
Weird, theres probably a bug on their build farm/server , its pulling the wrong files or contaminating them

[tepid niche]

It still is crazy to me, what fab considers "relevant"

Not to hate on the artists, but the quality is so bad ...

There is potions like that, but you won't find them, even if you scroll down for a while, just poor quality ones.

[untold bay]

fab 👏 desperately 👏 needs 👏 quality 👏 signals 👏

reviews, ratings, and questions were good. but really it needs raw sales data

recommend the products that sell
steam does this
it's good for everyone

[tepid niche]

Yea I mean can't be to hard, to just take the sales on some of the items into account.

[untold bay]

you want to account for recency to some degree, and give new assets a chance to be seen
but there is just too much stuff out there for it to be arbitrarily ordered
and reviews/ratings/question data are too sparse for most assets to rely on

[tepid niche]

Also today I saw some swimming animations, on sale looking at it, it had 3.6 stars, which had no meaning to me. Was it just to expensive, where they not compatible with ue4 or ue5, where there some other issues, or just poor quality.

[tepid niche]

Still, this can't be the top picks for potions, this are the most relevant?
This is insane to me!

[untold bay]

they certainly are all potions

but yeah many categories are incredibly saturated and need some algorithmic help to sort th rough

[tepid niche]

Yea and some quality indicators, and also some better AI content filters.

[still basin]

it is urgently needed

[still basin]

being able to memorize that filter would be a start, I'm sure its not that hard to do

[drowsy plaza]

fab added this new disclaimer for items on sale.

[fossil dune]

in response to this:
if you ever have the same problem:

don’t change your code or anything.

delete the old submissions and create new ones instead of “edit”

[raven quarry]

they need to fix the sort and filter categories

no alphabetical order is driving me insane

and there's this

[warm knot]

Looks like you found something decent here, but the other ones look like they'd fit into a low poly mobile game or something. Definitely not the best quality.

Speaking of quality, I've actually had some dude say that my assets sucks. The fuck is he talking about? I have only one asset so far, but it's still way better than the majority of the other ones that fit into the same category. Whateva, bitch.

Epic should be the ones to determine what is quality, if they ever decide to implement that feature.

[drowsy plaza]

To be completely frank with you Dan, you and most people on fab would likely never make another sale if they took what you want and implemented it into their discovery algorithm. The assets that would get pushed would be the ones that sell dozens to hundreds of units a month, this would essentially create an unfair marketplace where only the rich can succeed due to having large marketing budgets to solve the chicken and egg problem this idea creates.

Last I checked the shaders you make don’t qualify for the requirements to be seen as a top seller

Steam also doesn’t just push top sellers, they push all games, top sellers have extra store placement but all games do get a chance through algorithmic stuff at some point

[untold bay]

Even Steam does not give much placement without existing quality signals. A new game with no sales gets basically zero visibility.

Steam is not a charity to indie developers. If they're showing a game it's because they think it will sell.

Ultimately if there are 2,000 potion models, it doesn't serve anyone's interest to show the 2,000th best potion in anyone's search result except its creator. The results should be relevant to the search but otherwise it serves everyone best (except creators of sub-par assets) to show the best-selling results of comparable relevance.

Personally I don't worry too much. I'm only interested in making one-of-one assets that aren't in direct competition for anything.

I do care about people finding Fab useful, easy to use, and have a reputation for serving quality.

[drowsy plaza]

Ah okay, so everyone be damned but you don’t care because you have no competition currently so it won’t affect you in search.

That sounds like something Jeff bezos or bill gates would say

[untold bay]

Ultimately the point of Fab is to generate revenue for Epic, directly through sales and indirectly through empowering developers to make video games that sell and generate Unreal royalties.

These things happen in proportion to how often a buyer decides to use Fab, finds something that will help them, and then buys it and has a good experience with it. Sellers benefit from this, but the point of this benefit is to incentivize them to make more and better assets that people want to buy.

It doesn't help to incentivize people to make more assets of lower quality in crowded categories! They should be disincentivized from doing so!

[untold bay]

The closest billionaire here would probably be Peter Thiel saying "Competition is for losers" eg. any in any business category with too much fungibility margins will eventually go to zero due to competition

Zero To One, great book

Really, the biggest opportunity for Fab is to help incentivize development of more high-end assets and fewer low-end assets, by creating a marketplace that succeeds in connecting buyers with those high-end assets at the highest price they can bear. So you can fund more high-end developers pouring years of work into stuff like Ultra Dynamic Sky, Fluid Flux, and so forth, because those assets massively elevate what you can do in Unreal Engine for absurdly low cost to their users.

One more asset like that would help everyone in the ecosystem more than, say, Potions #2001-5000

[undone valve]

I will soon release a video on how to boost fab sales. I went from 0 sales on fab to 3-4 a day.

[next stirrup]

Hey does anyone know what happened to the seller Kubold on the unreal marketplace? He had the best first person combat animations but now that I'm looking to get them I can't find any of his stuff anymore on fab, anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[tardy charm]

Kubold is on fab. Just search his name and you'll find his stuff

[gusty bison]

how does that make any sense

[tame compass]

u guys can put sales now ?

[warm knot]

He's doing the professional community a favor. What a champ.

[lavish sky]

I want to make and freely redistribute an example project for one of my tools using free assets from Fab, such as Project Titan for example.
Is that possible or the fact assets came from fab, free or not, is an issue ?

[spark laurel]

Does anyone know which month and which event Fab's next sale event will be?

[agile shadow]

No one is going to tell you that

[worldly flower]

Do i see right?
There is a Model pack / Smart Asset in the Tools & Plugins Category in Sale? xD

Epic's quality management on peak

All those senseless categories do no favor to Fab... Sure.. procedural Systems are Tools & Plugins.. but.. if now also Modelpacks count to this.. the store is cursed..

Meanwhile:
Decals are still in "2D Assets".. not in "Decals"
and
Iconsets and Texture Atlases are still not in "Atlases"

Making both categories still stay empty.. und useless..

🙄

[vale prawn]

I'm very late to that discussion, but if you don't use the Unreal filter, you'll have a whole lot of low-quality SketchFab assets. Removing the Unreal filter is like going on 4chan to get a glimpse of that internet thing.

[worldly flower]

I still have the opinion.. Fab should've been pushed back for at least half a year with excessively beta testing.. the current state is a joke compared to other marketplaces..

Categories are shit
Scam and AI sellers are pure shit
Searching is even worse than shit....

Nearly nothing works fluid and intuitive..

[still basin]

using the wishlists quantity and conversion along with the sales would help too

[undone parrot]

Anyone know where I can find the Abandoned Apartment scene?

[urban spear]

So does anyone else have trouble with the checkout being stuck at processing after placing the order?

It was kind of a problem for me with the old marketplace but it's even worse with Fab

[green seal]

Sellers decide which category things go into, not epic.

[worldly flower]

Yes. But this problem exists for all migrated assets, too.
And here, epic either needs to advice the sellers to categorize their migrated stuff correctly, or do it by themselves.
Or remove those shit categories completely, if nothing is added to them.

[green seal]

New categories were created and assigned when assets were migrated to fab.
And they do advise them. I was asked to change something when I submitted a tool recently. But ultimately it is up to the sellers discretion.

[worldly flower]

The marketplace had over 3000 decal packs..
And the decals category is empty.. fully.. nothing inside.. since 2 months.. so.. things went wrong here

[green seal]

Yep, categorization is still being improved, lots being fixed there

[worldly flower]

And no, it's not a seller thing alone.
Just try to put vapers to baby articles on amazon - good luck not hearing from the vendors team then.. zhe shop itself needs to clearify his rules and force them!

[green seal]

I’m just telling that that is how it is set up right now. Sellers determine which category things go into at the moment. So if someone has an environment pack and puts it under characters for whatever reason, he dumb.

Smart assets and Tools/Plugins are somewhat vague terms so its not exactly surprising that things kinda get mixed there. A smart asset can be considered a tool of sorts.

I agree that categorization is a bit of a mess right now but its being worked on

[undone valve]

We weren’t able to change the category of migrated assets.

[green seal]

Oh really? I can change it now though?

[undone valve]

I definitely wasn’t able to. I will check it it works now 😉

Nice it works now!

[quick quarry]

I bought assets on Fab, but when I try to download them in the Epic Games Store, the download stops by itself after just one second. (I need to create a project to download the assets.) For other projects/assets, the download works perfectly. If you have any solutions, I’m all ears!

[tepid niche]

Ohh wow thanks gotta try that, that sounds amazing! 🙂

[undone valve]

The seller can decide himself whether his blueprint pack can be added to a project or if you have to create a new project to download it.

[polar python]

what is difference between trader or non trader ?

what do i choose ?

if i dont sell products very frequent or in large volume am i not trader ?

and who tf doesn't sell on fab without intention of making profit ?

i just don't get it

[polar python]

hey i saw your assets and they are awesome !

[vapid crow]

yea that is way too vague lol

[untold bay]

I would read the whole thing as "Epic is doing whatever the EU requires them to do"

[drowsy plaza]

That means do you have a LLC or not. It’s mainly for EU I would just do non trader, nothing will happen if you don’t live in the EU anyways.

I’m registered as a non trader even though I have an LLC and fab is my main source of income. I’m from the US so I don’t really have to abide by EU laws. They can’t enforce anything on me

[vale prawn]

I think they can prevent you from accessing their market though

[drowsy plaza]

I dont care

[warm knot]

Just say that your address is 1337 Middle of Nowhere Road, Somewhere Out There 99999.

[undone valve]

Hey, thank you very much!

[warm knot]

When I publish an update to my asset will my customers be made aware of the update?

[peak widget]

Take a look at General Information as Last Update, located in the bottom of the product "see details" tab.

[hollow basin]

@undone valve Not really, I think they have to play the infamous "look for the orange dot" game. They then have to update it and add it to project

[tardy charm]

If it's a plugin, luckily the dot shows up right under the relevant engine version and you can update through the installed plugins tab. For assets however, have fun scrolling for the next 10 minutes wondering what needs the update

[drowsy plaza]

They will see a update button next time they install it but fab is planning some form of patch notes and product specific forum pages in the next couple months, you will probably still need some way to notify users though unless the wishlist feature notifies of updates

[vestal sluice]

It seems there was a sales reporting bug recently in the fab portal.

The last few days since 24th, I didn't see any sales on my end. I also didn't see any sales for yesterday a little while ago. But checking it now, I saw a sale for yesterday as well as the day before.

It's possible a sale happened but there is a delay in the reporting

[charred mica]

Aah right, just verified, happened the same here.

[mild garden]

The only day there was a problem was the 26th; it updated 2 days later than it should have (the 27th even came before the 26th). "Today's"(28th) report came 2 hours late, but 2 hours isn’t a problem, I guess. However, 2 days was definitely weird.

[vestal sluice]

Yeah it’s quite odd for a 2 day delay

[polar python]

same

[undone valve]

I think you pinged me wrong here, right?

[weary gyro]

built unreal editor from source on linux.... cant access fab assets in the editor... trying to get flat nodes for ue 5.5.1..... any tips?

installing the launcher .msi through wine didnt work. launcher keeps crashing on load.

[hollow basin]

Yeah, sorry. I meant to @ the comment below

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah I noticed some discrepancies in reporting time too, maybe their service that handles reports had an outage or something that day

Nice they finally integrated the marketplace reports into the fab reports, we don’t need the old portal anymore for records

The new payout screen is nice too, they have a nice message when you reach the 100 dollar threshold

[spiral jacinth]

You can use https://assetmanager.studio to d/l assets / plugins on Linux.

[spiral jacinth]

Or you use Asset Manager Studio, and just filter to "Updated". 😉

[tardy charm]

I do in fact use asset manager studio for this exact reason

[tawny hinge]

it's currently pretty much the only choice for linux users to get access to the plugins they bought

[polar python]

as you can see net units is only 1 but showing 3 of them

and btw we will get paid for DEC + NOV combined right ? because it is calendar year ?

[polar python]

i did not cross 100$ in nov but did in dec so when should we get payment ?

[agile shadow]

No, only November.

[green seal]

YTD = Year to date. Meaning your earnings on that product this year until this date

[green seal]

No, you get paid out one month at a time. You get paid for december sales at the end of january

The payment coming in a few days is for november sales.

Things miiiight be different for you because you crossed the threshold, but my guess is you will be paid out in January

[polar python]

ok thanks

[deep kernel]

what's a good way to download the free megascan assets in 1 day?

[undone valve]

You can claim them on fab and on the quixel megascans site. Then you can use quixel bridge for a few days. Then the fab team should provide a new solution trough fab

[deep kernel]

so I don't need to download assets?

[worldly flower]

cross fingers for them to come up with a solution.. I'll only believe it, when it is online and working 🙂

[deep kernel]

I'm just downloading as much as possible just to be safe

bought 2TB SSD just for that 😂

[worldly flower]

18K+ Assets.. i would rather wait for a solution by epic, than running thru that 🙂

[deep kernel]

Has Epic Games mentioned anything about access after December 31?

Hopefully, all we need to do is claim megascan assets by Dec 31, but I'm not sure

[worldly flower]

if claimed, you have full access to all assets you claimed - forever

I'd guess only new ones coming in 2025, or unclaimed assets won't be free.

[deep kernel]

fair enough 🙂

[worldly flower]

so.. if claimed all.. you are good.. no need to huzzle downloads.

[hollow relic]

came here to ask this exact question and found it immediately 🙂

[hollow relic]

just to confirm, to 'claim' the megascans, means to go to the fab website, and click on the 'claim all megascans' button, right?

thanks

[raven quarry]

i just got some unreal engine assets from humble

why am I being allowed to redeem codes to the assets that I already have?

[undone valve]

Additionally you can claim them on the quixel site too. Make sure to also claim that

[tardy charm]

Yeah I noticed that as well. I suspect that it's because the new keys are for the FAB personal license which is different from the legacy Marketplace license

[raven quarry]

ah, that's fair, then

I was thinking of ways to get rid of them

oh well

[feral lotus]

Im thinking this might be the best place to ask, Say for example I have a asset I downloaded which is the following 100 Sword Animations but I want to use 10 of them and then another asset which has 50 fire materials and i want to use 2 of them, How would you clean up the "lefttovers" from the asset packs (ofc this can get super messy if you have multiple asset packs etc), Just wondered if theres a bettter solution than importing them packs into an empy project and then importing them into your main project ??

[undone valve]

This is interesting:

But it just leads you to the quixel page

[undone estuary]

@feral lotusthats pretty much the workflow. new project with the temporary assets then migrate what you need to your project.

[feral lotus]

Damn that kind of sucks as it,s pretty cumbersome to do that all the time xD

[weary gyro]

ill check it, thank you!

[weary gyro]

why do a couple sites mark ams as potentially unsafe? T-T

flathub warning is a lil spooky

[tepid niche]

today is the last day of the sale, any recommendations? 😁

[narrow wave]

Yeah, it's their current solution to not clog your library with all the individual quixel assets

[hollow relic]

I did that, is this what i should be seeing?

quixel website

[undone valve]

Yes.

[zinc egret]

anyone know a good character model i should buy or a free one i should use from the fab store?

[deft gyro]

i am requesting a seller account currently and i am on the last checkpoint on the site. I wait for a few hours now and just wanted to make sure that it's normal that it takes a longer time to get the account yes? Cuz the others steps went very quickly.

[undone valve]

Thi is also new:

[silver surge]

Having an issue with Quixel Bridge. When I open it, the pages don't update/render unless I drag the title bar or drag the scroll bar.

E.g. if I open Quixel Bridge and do nothing, I'm just presented a blank page. But if I drag the title bar it will render the initial page. From that point, if I click on a link within the quixel window nothing will happen--until I once again drag the title bar/scroll bar and then the page will finally update as if I've clicked on something

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Quixel Bridge plugin, as well as re-downloading the engine, but to no avail

[drowsy plaza]

Well I’m glad to see that fab isn’t littering the library with individual Megascans.

When they said megascans would come to the library I was worried it would litter it

I’m also happy fab migrated the sales data from the marketplace over

[spiral jacinth]

Because AMS (and any other Asset Manager) needs mostly full disk access via flatpak to be able to see any of your vaults, and projects if they aren't in your home directory. Mostly full disk access for flathub generates that warning. People stick their vaults & projects in other places like /opt, /Unreal or (I even had one person tell me they used /usr/local/unreal for the vault directory, and the flathub version won't work for that path and now need to add a error for that corner case to the code base 😅 ) .

Btw, Flathub is actually lying, I'm not getting FULL disk access but actually mostly full disk access, AMS does not add ANY of the extra access privs for /etc or /usr (& a couple other system directories) to the flathub version. If you stick your vault in their, sorry, use the appimage or apk I'm not going to add any system dir's to the requested directory list for the flatpak version... 😉

Btw, if you only store your vaults, projects, and engines inside your home directory, then you can actually run the flathub command to REMOVE the mostly full disk access, as AMS only defaults to asking for full disk access because I'm not going to be dealing with the support headache of "why doesn't AMS see my vault here: /somepath/somewere/" on the flatpak version. AMS is perfectly happy with more limited disk privs as long as all your stuff is inside the home directory as the default flatpak disk privs give access to...

[soft solar]

re this: if I have claimed them, do I need to add them one by one to my library? or once I start using it, after I claimed them, will it be added?
since if I need to download them one by one, it will take some good time before it is all added....

[pliant shard]

Guys

https://www.fab.com/listings/b0c60c4e-1f18-433d-a66f-b8d66aeaa24a

Who did that?

What type of dark humor is that?

[devout mountain]

A very good question, someone please answer. It will help us all. If we must download before 11:59pm eastern, then it is going to be a very busy day🙂

[soft solar]

well, it is about midnight for me, so I don't think I will have a answer lol

[tame compass]

is personal sale a feature yet ?

[fossil dune]

according to fab road map, its one of the last things by priority so you’re probably not going to see those for a year or 2 unless many people/sellers push for it

[drowsy plaza]

Fab needs a license type for objects that have uses outside redistribution for stuff like this. Content creators would buy this but if a game bought and used this it would be an issue. Granted he isn’t being deceptive about where it’s from so if a gamedev uses this they are just dumb but still

[drowsy plaza]

No, they said in the livestream the roadmap is gonna take about 3-4 months to complete and that’s towards the end of the roadmap so probably not until march or April will those be available. They likely will do a Easter sale in February, on epic games store epic does a event sale like every 6 weeks

[drowsy plaza]

They are finishing up the first section of the roadmap now, so they should be moving onto the second section starting in January

[zenith elk]

I bought 2 assets, but 1 of them does not show up in the library , both are available in EGL vault thankfully.😅

[worldly flower]

is it just me, or are the Limited-Time-Free Stuffs underwelming AF?

The 4th months now without anything that can be usefully merged.. Assetpacks are inconsistent, plugins are.. not worth a word..

[hollow relic]

Aight, thanks!

[undone valve]

Yeah. Also they seem to often add a useless character that no one needs.

[worldly flower]

i mean - i think they add this stuff, cause they want the Free-4-the-month things being useful for Unity and Unreal.. which is kinda crap for both

[tawny hinge]

i found some of those better than what we used to get 🤷

guess it's personal preference

[hexed wing]

Hey there! I have two questions: Why cant I edit my listings on fab? Worked in the past. Just stopped working now that im checking? And second question: Are there guides for naming convention and folder structures for UE5 when selling on fab? 3d assets/packs? Or do ue5 projects also not really get monitored anymore like the rest of the stuff?

[green seal]

You can edit listings, just needs to go through approval first, can take a day or so.

[midnight gazelle]

Hi I got an email prompting me verify whether I am a trader or non trader. Back in the UE marketplace days, it was simple, I just chose that I am an individual selling assets on the marketplace but the new guidelines given by Epic is vague and has got me very confused. Doesn't some of the guideline automatically make you a trader? like for the first point about selling things for profit, but isnt that what we already do on fab like sell things to make money on fab? for the Third point, just being on fab, you're automatically selling in large volumes anyway? Do these automatically make you a trader? What are the guidelines for a non-trader?

I don't own a business but I sell assets as a hobby in the UK, am I considered a non-trader? 😕

[vale prawn]

Fab's wording isn't very clear, but all this relates to the Digital Service Act, and the legal definition of "trader" can be found here:

‘trader’ means any natural or legal person who, in commercial practices covered by this Directive, is acting for purposes relating to his trade, business, craft or profession and anyone acting in the name of or on behalf of a trader;

I don't know if any lawyer weighed in on who qualifies for this role in Fab's world, but a safe interpretation could be that any commercial activity makes you a trader. Some argue that if that commercial activity is not your main source of income, then you qualify as a non-trader, but I don't know if this has real legal ground.

All of this is very new and rather untested by the courts, so I'm guessing there's no easy answer on that.

but isnt that what we already do on fab like sell things to make money on fab?
Some people release only free products, making them elligible to the non-trader role.

[midnight gazelle]

If you choose the non-trader role, does fab marketplace automatically make all existing assets free?

[vale prawn]

No, not at all

[undone valve]

If you are a trader the only change is that your name is on your seller page.

[tardy charm]

Seems like most quixel stuff has become paid now but if you clicked that claim button last year, you will be able to download them through their profile

That's neat, it doesn't fill up your library, you download it through quixel's profile

[loud dome]

It's mostly about EU law and that Fab has to disclose info about your company when you are a trader.

I think you need some sort of business registration to be a trader.

More info here: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/marketplace-disclosure-requirements

[vale prawn]

New year, guess who's back?
https://www.fab.com/sellers/GhoostLines Studio

[tardy charm]

they're at war with epic games

[maiden carbon]

Has anyone got paid by Epic today for their November sales yet?

[undone valve]

Yes me

[drowsy plaza]

I got paid on the 31st I think

[hollow basin]

On the 31st as well

[still basin]

I did

[maiden carbon]

Has anyone not been paid yet but expected to be?

[drowsy plaza]

I would send in a support ticket if the payout report shows they paid out but you never got it. there isnt much anyone here can do about payments tbh

[maiden carbon]

Thanks, it doesnt say its paid yet

[drowsy plaza]

it should tell you if you reached the threshold, does it say that?

if you get paid out it resets to 0 but if you didnt get paid out it should say like "50/100" dollars or something

[maiden carbon]

But that $389.94 is what my sales were in November.

[maiden carbon]

Yeah it says this on my payouts page: "You've met the minimum payout value of $100! You'll receive your payout for this month on 2025-03-02.
Current earning balance
$389.94 / $100.00"
But that $389.94 is what my sales were in November.

So I don't understand why I should get paid 2 months after the end of November.

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah I would for sure contact fab support, that sounds like their accounting had an issue or something

[maiden carbon]

Will do, thanks

[minor tulip]

https://www.fab.com/listings/05163451-3964-47e8-bb9c-7f1f1d5a839e
They don't stop

[undone valve]

It is just sad for people who buy stuff like this. Hopefully they get a refund

[warm knot]

But it's unique!

[drowsy plaza]

They do, if epic takes a product down for copyright infringement the users who bought it get a refund and a warning

[echo egret]

Hello fabulous sourcers! Here my question... is it just me or Epic made something about Personal and Professional licenses' purchase preventing from buying both now as soon as one of the two was purchased? Previously, in the doubt, I purchased both which was kinda annoying but if what I've noticed now is right I definitely welcome the fact they found a final solution to the doubts on the matter.

[untold bay]

it doesn't matter which you have once you have it

the only difference is whether you are eligible for personal at the time you buy it

[still basin]

he seems to be out now

[minor tulip]

This is his third time

He'll be back

[still basin]

That sad but at least FAB do something even if he is insistent

maybe its time they add a price to release an asset to filter the low quality

[minor tulip]

I don't think so

[still basin]

Like Steam, and they refund the 100$ after its recouped

[minor tulip]

Actually maybe

[still basin]

Yeah I'm just thinking out loud but there may be something here

[minor tulip]

I don't think they should charge 100$ to release a 5$ asset

[green seal]

My guess is, because you got the notification that you crossed the threshold in december, you’ll get paid when we all get our december sales payment.

If you were crossing the 100$ threshold monthly, you’d always be getting paid one month after the end of the month of sales. I can only assume that things are a bit different because you arent hitting the threshold every month.

[rare helm]

So, theres a free product which had good features but apparently the author removed most of its features to put them in the paid version

Im just wondering if its allowed for the author to update an existing product and remove its features

No objection since its free

[fossil dune]

Its a grey area. Its their product. Epic is just a reseller...

Also they might remove features for multiple valid reasons.
Eg, if the feature they removed required more support than what the price justified.
I would if that feature, especially for free product, requires more support than my paid products. basically spending more time on it but its not really doing anything for me financially.

Also, epic does retain the previous versions on their servers, so you can still use the previous versions just fine.

At the time you buy a plugin, you are buying it as is. You're not guaranteed feature updates or even a building API for newer UE versions...

Epic is just a reseller that takes 12%.
There's things they could enforce but they push sellers else where even more.

a lot of sellers add features and don't subtract them purely for goodwill...
The only thing you can report them for is if the description of their product at the time of buying does not match what you get. if they change the description before you buy its fair game

[undone valve]

In the past, I removed a small „feature“ from one of my products, but this allowed me to improve the product greatly and add countless new things.

[green seal]

I’d say it is a huge ethical concern if it was a paid product that they took features away from. But it was free? Then it’s totally fair game.

[rustic finch]

How do I get an update for an asset on fab? I have a plugin installed to engine and they released an update multiple days ago which the fab page even shows. But I have no button to update the plugin or anything (it did not automatically update either, I am missing the new features)

[drowsy plaza]

Try restarting the launcher and clicking the fab library refresh button

[rustic finch]

I have multiple times. Even uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin

Restarted the PC too

[hot geode]

Hey. Is it still avalible to download packs by Quixel Bridge and directly add to project? It always sends to webpage.

[real obsidian]

Anyone use montea?

The dialogue system?

I had a few questions but cant get support on it

[flat island]

Hi, anyone know when this will be fixed?

The product is in draft

[undone valve]

I would argue that this helps you decide whether you should look for alternatives...

[undone valve]

Reach out to Fab support

[real obsidian]

True

It's open source as well

Hopefully I get a response

The creator seems like he knows what he's doing with the product

[soft solar]

so, no clear answer on this?
yes, I know it is way to late now, which just sucks

[hollow basin]

I claimed the megascans without downloading them and they all seem to be still available for me on fab

[soft solar]

good to know, thanks!

[drowsy plaza]

Megascans are in their own category on Fab, they don’t show up in the library, they have their own section for that. If you claim them, then you own the items you claimed, but any future megascans that get released won’t be owned unless you buy them.

[soft solar]

👍

[undone valve]

Does anyone know why they don't update their fab changelog even though they clearly made changes?

[wanton charm]

Circling back on this and for anyone who has the issue "can't see my own plugin/asset in my library" -- you need to contact support for them to add it manually. 🥲

[undone valve]

Bruh. But good to know. Thank you for sharing this

[drowsy plaza]

Either they forgot or they are just gonna post statuses on the roadmap page

[silent yoke]

Does anyone have a good explanation to why FAB has removed all social interaction from it's platform?
The reviews and questions.
I recently found out that Fab has uploaded two faulty files onto their servers, severely impacting the functionality of my asset packs.
I have sold a couple copies of these packs but I have no idea if my customers are getting what they paid for!
No questions and I don't even know if my product is being reviewed or not.
I've solved a handful of issues on my product thanks to the review system they had in place, even turned a 4 start review into a 5 start before, now we are left in the dark to gamble whether or not customers are getting what they paid for or not, it's beyond infuriating and this is no way to run a business.
If there was an alternative to FAB, I'd move but there is no competition, they hold a monopoly over the marketplace now and it's a complete disaster.

[maiden carbon]

I crossed the $100 threshold in November. I think they ballsed up during the crossover from the old system.

[maiden carbon]

The new system must have a software bug.

[green seal]

Have you reached out to fab support?

[maiden carbon]

Yes, I have received a reply but it wasn't admitting there was an issue so I've requested escalation. It being a weekend when there are less relevant staff available is not helping I think.

I think that the "Payout" staff probably don't work the weekend.

[still basin]

Recently I had a bunch of 1 star review and it took my a while to understand why because of the lack of information.
Turn out they changed the folder name of my tool and that was generating error...

We need written reviews and questions back

[drowsy plaza]

What kind of error? Some of my products had several 1 star reviews pop up recently too with none of them seeking support

[still basin]

To give you an idea my tool that was affected was Massive World. It had 1 one star in 9 months, and then suddenly 4 one stars in 2 weeks.

Turn out that the main folder name was changed by FAB which was creating compile errors with my editor tools so it was just not compiling at all and it made the tool not working

I'm not the only publisher that had this problem, and without the written reviews it take a lot of time to realize that. I found the problem when someone took the time to report it

[drowsy plaza]

By compile you mean in the ide or in the packaging?

I’ll have to check that because 3 people wrote 1 stars on 2 of my products without telling me why

[still basin]

In the ide

So the tool wasn't working at all

[steel sky]

Damn that's rough

Epic is allergic to user reviews

[still basin]

It's sad because publisher use them to improve their products and react rapidly

[warm knot]

Can't worry about user reviews if you can't read them in the first place. points to head

[steel sky]

Well Tim Sweeny did mention that he dislikes user reviews back when EGS started. I guess that sentiment bled over

[warm knot]

If I just cover my eyes then maybe the reviews will go away.

[maiden carbon]

4.6 average score over 48 scores is very good. I'm not sure why you are complaining. 🙂

[still basin]

Yeah not saying it's bad, but mostly that those 1 stars don't reflect the quality of my work because the chances are high that I got those one stars based on bugs that was implemented after I sent my tool to FAB

[vestal sluice]

Try imagining going from a nice maxed 5.0 ratings for a long time and then suddenly plunging into a 4.6 in a week, all for something that isn't your fault. That will really suck.

[undone valve]

Psychologically speaking a star rating of 5 stars is worse than like 4.9

[undone valve]

But yeah that sucks

[jaunty dagger]

Yeah no one wants a 5 star uber driver.

[floral cloud]

How do lol

So*

[undone valve]

A 5.0 rating seems perfect but makes people subconsciously suspicious since it doesn't feel natural or authentic. We instinctively know nothing is truly perfect.
A 4.9 for example actually feels more trustworthy because those few minor criticisms make all the positive reviews more believable. It's a quirk of human psychology where slight imperfection is more convincing than perfection.

[floral cloud]

Huh maybe I do that too but just never noticed

Good observation

[undone valve]

Yeah I love reading about human psychology

I am thinking about studying this at a university just out of curiosity

[warm knot]

I used to be one! I gave over 5000 rides and had a perfect 5 star rating. It only dropped to 4.99 because some drunk college girls thought it would be funny to give me 1 star.

[undone valve]

Also we start looking for issues with the product if it has a perfect 5 star rating. And if we look for something we might actually find something that leads us to not buying the product...

[warm knot]

That's odd. I buy 5 star items on Amazon all of the time. 🤷

[undone valve]

The biggest and most expensive luxury hotels also purposely do something wrong so the customer feels more pleased and have something they can complain about.

[undone valve]

Never saw a 5 star item on Amazon in my entire life 😄

[warm knot]

I guess somebody will give 1 star eventually.

[undone valve]

Yeah one big hotel chain called "Ritz-Carlton" is doing this for example. They intentionally place mediocre chocolate on guests pillows knowing some guests will mention this minor issue in reviews. This calculated strategy gives their reviews more credibility because if the worst thing people can complain about is the chocolate quality, it suggests everything else must be truly excellent.

[floral cloud]

People will find a problem regardless of the product is good, even say my product was damaged and rate it a low star lol

Like that’s amazons fault not the product itself lol

[warm knot]

I should probably just sneeze in my car all day so that some other college girl can give me a second 1 star rating. Or the legendary 2 star rating; now those are hard to come by!

[jaunty dagger]

Just chain smoke

[warm knot]

GENIUS!!!! 🤯

[undone valve]

Put on Chainsmoker music at maximum volume and say your radio is broken

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah I do this on steam, when a game has a 100% positive review rating I get suspicious because you need a lot of players to get multiple reviews and the likelihood everyone positively likes your product is astronomically rare

There was a gamedev on YouTube who I think faked his steam reviews because he had 1600 90%+ positive score on steam but in his video he only sold 6-7k copies of his game and it was a rage game making the perfect score even more unlikely

He had a high refund rate too at like 500 refunds I think out 7k copies

[mellow vigil]

Is it possible to revoke keys from users? One of the members in my server is purposefully distributing my asset to other members of my server who do not own the asset. I am worried if i release my next update he will update and also redistribute that. I have banned him but he is purposefully joining on alt accounts to keep on redistributing it for free on purpose. Thank you

[dire meteor]

You'd have to uniquely identify them first. Is that even possible to prove for somebody over discord?

[mellow vigil]

I have proof of them stating they will purposefully redistribute it in a snarky manner with their email attached

[dire meteor]

That's not really proof?

[mellow vigil]

Oh you mean, actually them redistributing it to others

The only proof I got is members sending me screenshots with the link sent to them

[high badger]

Some of these FAB sellers have gone a little nuts with the professional pricing. you can get some of this stuff done custom for these prices

[mellow vigil]

But its not possible to prove it is him since its alt accounts

[dire meteor]

Or 1) that email is even theirs or 2) you didn't somehow alter it.

[hollow basin]

And how do they have multiple keys to redistribute? I understand if they just are distributing files

[mellow vigil]

No its just the project on their own Google drive redistributed

[dire meteor]

Now that you could report to google.

But they can just sign up again 😦

[hollow basin]

Ah ok. Unfortunately Fab wouldn't be able to stop that

[mellow vigil]

Yeah true, issue is its just if I release an update, then the issue is they can just download the project and then redistribute it once again since they have access to it in their fab library

[dire meteor]

And even if they did, they can just sign up to fab again and buy it again and start redistributing it.

It's a really shitty situation.

[mellow vigil]

Oh damn

[mellow vigil]

Haha yea

[dire meteor]

Honestly, I'm not sure there's much you can do to stop piracy. Even if this guy is taking it to extremes. At least he isn't trying to re-sell it on fab.

[hollow basin]

Did you do something to piss them off?

[mellow vigil]

Yes lol, I banned them because of toxicity to members and new members

[dire meteor]

Discord really needs a shadow ban function.

It's the best.

[mellow vigil]

I try my best to be chill and keep a positive community lol

But you know its difficult when your community expands

[mellow vigil]

Yeaah for sure

Are there any bots for that kind of feature

There must be

[mellow vigil]

Thanks for the help

[dire meteor]

Have you tried emailing fab support with what you have?

[mellow vigil]

Yes, I am just waiting for a response. I have not asked about a key revoke yet though since its a bit extreme. I was thinking maybe a warning from fab might be enough

[hollow basin]

Fight unethical with unethical. Make an announcement on your discord that a disgrunted user is spreading malware through "free" versions of your project and tell them not to click any links from them. When it comes to malware who is going to believe that someone is giving away something free?

[mellow vigil]

😂 😂 😂 😂 Genius

[dire meteor]

To be fair, how do you know they aren't actually doing that?

[mellow vigil]

I have no idea to be honest lol, I doubt they would go through the effort, i think they are just doing it out of spite from being banned. But they very well could be to be honest but I havent seen any proof of it yet from the project files

[quasi stone]

The place they are reaching users from is YOUR Discord server. You control it, and they have no other way to reach users who might want to buy your asset. Make your Discord server closed to new users, ban users who might be them (probably recent ones), and, if Discord has an option to hide the members, use it. Alternatively, create private channels for every single member of the Discord and grant them access only to their own channel. Bottom line, you just need to destroy their ability to chat with other users in your Discord.

[mellow vigil]

This is good advice, thank you very much

[still basin]

I had a used using my assets for youtube videos and even redistributing part of it on fab, that person was using my tools to reverse engineering it and was even asking for my help with his main and fake accounts...
When I asked FAB to revoke his key they said they couldn't

[mellow vigil]

Oh wow, sorry to hear that

Yeah i had a feeling fab would probably not allow it

I can see why cause it may be abused in the wrong hands but then it does really ruin it for the sellers who would use it properly