fab

[still basin]

He got banned but for other reasons that I don't know

[mellow vigil]

Thats awesome, I think the only real solution is having control over your community and discord server

[still basin]

maybe report to google but also his main account to Discord themselfs, saying he promote piracy

[mellow vigil]

I will give that a go

[still basin]

Can't hurt to ask FAB tho, maybe thing have changed

[warm knot]

There is no excuse for what that guy is doing. No point in asking if Wayed did something to piss him off.

Yikes, that is not very encouraging for me to make this a full time gig in the future. I mean, what's the point if your work just gets stolen? It would only be worth it if this case happened only 1/10,000 people. But I'm reading on Reddit that game asset piracy gets worse every year. I'm sorry this happened to you.

[mellow vigil]

Thanks, I would definitely stick with it. Its very good as a secondary income but it is very stressful having it as a full time gig

The thing is, within a few weeks of your asset being published it is instantly listed on a piracy website. You cant do much about that except provide exceptional customer service.

Good customer service is key, people find it invaluable and it prevents a fair share amount of people pirating your asset and just buying it for the regular updates and good customer service

But the thing is, as your asset expands, so does the community. That is something I struggle with. I try my best to provide the best customer support but of course things happen and people get unhappy, and they can damage your business out of spite

[warm knot]

Might as well price the asset at $1000 first, wait for the dude to buy and pirate, then drop the price to $50 after just to piss him off.

[mellow vigil]

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

It depends on the type of asset you release, but the launch can be a very big factor on how your asset performs in the future

Atleast before FAB, im not so sure now

[warm knot]

Have you considered finding a way to generate a unique code for each person to join your Discord server? Generate a unique joining code whenever someone buys your asset, that way the lousy fuckers have to pay you each time they want to join.

I'd be like, BITCH, you gonna pay my ass each time you get banned!

[mellow vigil]

Well, there is something like that already. The users who join have access to a generic help and general channels if they have any unrelated UE questions, but the members who want to access documentation and help channels have to directly message their order ID which can be verified and is unique per sale. Verifying that grants them access. However giving unverified members access to general channels and generic help channels for non kit related questions allows them to communicate with asset members which is what the user is doing and distributing it

I dont want to lock it so the community is only for strictly paying members, since that is a bit shitty and isnt what my community stands for really, I dont mind helping other members that arent members of the asset

Its a difficult one tbh and im not the best at managing servers or how to set them up properly

[warm knot]

I'd gatekeep the hell out of everyone, lol.

[mellow vigil]

😂

[hollow basin]

I was trying to determine how likely it would happen to the rest of us. If he is doing this to everyone and the guy wasn't provoked in any way then everyone else here should start preparing. Wayed rightly banned him. I do not condone the pirater in any way. But since this is done out of a grudge then this is a problem we should really just be helping Wayed and don't need to start preparing for war against the entire marketplace. Let's be honest, if this was done to everyone we would have to stop large support channels and possibly force unreal engine to encrypt our packs to only work for certain users/computers per key

[warm knot]

Ah, yes that makes sense.

[quaint cedar]

Do "Install Plugin to Engine" options list custom Engine versions somehow?
I don't really want to download 5.4 just to get the Plugin version.
Why am I still surprised about the assumptions by that company.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/allow-us-to-download-plugins-even-if-we-cant-install-them/118242/22

Ah well......... guess i use some other person's script to fake the engine version

[quaint cedar]

Okay, simpler solution:

1. Start 5.x Download
2. Click on "Install to Engine" on the Plugin
3. Select 5.x (available even if the Download just started)
   3.1. Plugin Download will be queued and is waiting on 5.x Download to finish
4. Open "Downloads" and cancel the 5.x Download
   4.1. Plugin will still download and can be found in a lonely 5.x/Engine/Plugins/Marketplace/ folder where you initially wanted to install 5.x to.

[rare helm]

I have to submit for review just if i want to update versions of my products to 5.5?

Or update its pictures?

I think it didnt need so with older market place

[vale prawn]

Yes, that's new with Fab. I'm guessing they don't want description/pictures to get too out of hand, as there were some issues with that on the MP.

[rare helm]

But i think they should allow changing engine versions instantly at least

[wanton charm]

PSA : FAB updates requires new unique URL each submission

I release a plugin that points to github URL releases, with per-engine-version branches whose only purpose is to have a .uplugin with the right editor version. (underlying code uses precompiler directives) -- however, since it's not possible to tag a commit in a branch, the URL i've been pushing to FAB for updates don't change: they point to the head of the branch.

Turns out, if the URL of your submission doesn't change, it doesn't trigger the update process on their end, despite me receiving emails that "new release has been approved".

I had a user go through support and tediously ask for details in order to get this information:

Please note that the GitHub URL provided remained the same while only its contents were updated. For update requests to go through properly, please ensure a new URL is generated and submitted each time. We are working on making this information clear on the product page and we offer our apologies for the confusion and the inconveniences this may have caused you.

**EDIT **: FAB Doesn't help, but apprently I'm also very dumb https://github.com/<owner>/<repository>/archive/<commit>.zip works instead of tags since each per-branch update has its own commit ID.

So that means updates silently fails, publisher is not notified (worse, you get notified it's a success so that's the info you communicate to users), users never get updates.

[dire meteor]

however, since it's not possible to tag a commit in a branch
Seems you can? On github at least.

Or just create a branch and filter commits from the main branch into that branch.

And don't update the branch any more.

[wanton charm]

So one dead branch per release for a plugin I'm updating on a weekly basis 😬

[dire meteor]

Yes

Or work out how to tag commits.

[wanton charm]

the problem is getting an URL to the .zip, but you're 100% right I might be able to go through use the commit ID

huuuh

hmmm

[untold bay]

I assume cachebusting arguments get it done?

eg [url]?v=[timestamp]

[wanton charm]

@untold bay @dire meteor https://github.com/<owner>/<repository>/archive/<commit>.zip works!

[proud field]

Hi all,
When publishing a Plugin to the marketplace, for the Demo/Example I want to add some stuff from the Third Person template. I will need to add the content from Third Person to the plugin's content folder right?
And then materials etc that are referenced from the engine folders will be work fine on any user's computer because of Engine version and relative file paths?

[untold bay]

I will need to add the content from Third Person to the plugin's content folder right?
Yes. You can refer to assets from the Engine folder, but it does not contain the Third Person assets
And then materials etc that are referenced from the engine folders will be work fine on any user's computer because of Engine version and relative file paths?
Yes, this is pretty safe. They really do not remove things from there (eg. it's cluttered with junk)

[proud field]

Thanks! 🍺

[deft gyro]

can a fab seller create a promocode for his assets on fab so you can download for free?
i sold my assets on sketchfab in the past and since i upgraded some of my older assets before selling them on fab soon i want them to be able to download the new version on fab for free. is that possible?

[still basin]

You have to contact Epic if you want to give an asset for free to someone, I think key are somewhere in the roadmap

[deft gyro]

okey, thank you

[digital agate]

ok - so has anyone managed to renew their hyperwallet without photo id? My drivers license has expired - I cannot get out of the property to get a new license (that's if my eyesight allows it anyway) - I don't have a passport anymore.
When I set up hyperwallet, my Drivers license was valid - it was accepted - it shows it's me - it was fine - nothings changed. Now I've had 2 responses from them just saying I need a current photo ID - WHY DO THEY NEED A PHOTO ID ANYWAY?????

[twilit rain]

Hi ! I'm trying to release a simple camera movement system on fab but i received this feedback. The project i'm submitting is a content-only plugin. There is no source folder nor platform allow list in this case right ? Because I tried adding platforms to the .uplugin file, but then the plugin wouldn't be recognized.
Or maybe I chose the wrong "product type". I went for* tools & plugin* > game mechanics. Maybe I should resubmit in Game systems > Game mechanics.
So here is my question : in what product category does a content only plugin goes on fab ? And does fab accepts content only plugins ?

[drowsy plaza]

Payment processors have a lot of regulations put on them by world governments including reporting taxes if payments go over a certain amount and fraud protection laws, you should be able to use a secondary ID like a passport if you don’t have a valid drivers license.

[drowsy plaza]

Plugin categories need c++ code to be sold and distributed on fab, you want to use the asset pack option if you are not using c++

[digital agate]

I don't have any photo ID left - it's all expired and I'm not in a position to renew any of it.

There's absolutely no way a photo ID changes anything anyway - it's just bureaucracyat it's worst

[quasi stone]

There's a 0% chance you dont have a government-issued identification. You cant be stateless even if you wanted to.

The question is actualy why are you afraid of submitting your information

[undone estuary]

valid is the issue

[digital agate]

hmmm - new user 😄

[digital agate]

I have already set up with hyperwallet when Epic changed over to it - at that point it was valid - nothings changed except the license has expired.

[drowsy plaza]

How do you even own a home if you don’t have ID? They are required for pretty much everything in the Us from bank accounts, to renting/home ownership, to insurance, to doctors visits, to alcohol purchases, etc.

[digital agate]

I have plenty of ID - just not photo ID - the only photo ID in NZ is the drivers license and a passport.

[cosmic urchin]

anyone help me here, so I used to use Bridge to get textures and there was never any cost with it

but as everything has gone to Fab theres now cost with some textures that didn't have any cost attached before

is this just epic way of gating what you get and forcing you to pay when prior you didn't have to

[untold bay]

fab had a "claim all existing megascans for free forever" button that was available until january 1

anyone who didn't take that "grandather me in please" option will now have to buy megascans like everyone else will going forward

[cosmic urchin]

so i did that and it said that was done

[cosmic urchin]

but according to the website I have to buy them yet I clicked that button you speak off

of

[cosmic urchin]

now you said megascans there is this minus the quixel ones ??

that can be the only difference I can think of

[untold bay]

@cosmic urchin go to https://www.fab.com/sellers/Quixel

you should see everything listed as free

[cosmic urchin]

so when I'm on bridge is there a way to filter to none quixel ones and just seen the megascan ones ?

[untold bay]

i do not understand the distinction

[cosmic urchin]

so a moment ago I was able to grab some texutres from bridge which directed me to fab and they weren't charged and they were one I had previsouly got in the past

could it just be I stumbled onto a free one or is there a difference between quixel stuff and megascan stuff ??

[undone estuary]

technically yes, quixel is the brand and megascan is the product

and even if you "collected them all" with the link, it doesnt seem to update until you try and use it/ add it to your library so quite a few of the older free products will show a price till you attempt to use them with your account then they become free and part of your library

[rare helm]

I recieved an epic mail called update on sanction id ..etc

Idk what sanction is maybe its not actually epic dont wanna open that mail 🤔

[undone valve]

Then go renew your driver license or passport

[undone valve]

You had to claim them on fab for using them on fab but you also had to claim them on the quixel website to use them on bridge

[undone valve]

It’s when you did something wrong. They sanction you by for example taking your product down

[digital agate]

yeah I plan to renew both, just can't do that for at least another 3-6 months.

[cosmic urchin]

Was this all in the fab thing cause I only remember seeing the claim all free assets on fab etc thingy

[undone valve]

Mhh okay that is Bad. And you don’t have any other document in NZ?

[undone valve]

Nope. You were able to claim on fab and had a separate claim button on the quixel website.

Here was my original message about that

[cosmic urchin]

That's a bit bad on epic then imo cause I possibly now have to pay for stuff that I could have claimed for free if there wasn't claim buttons dotted all over

Is there a way to see what I've claimed for free

[undone valve]

Uhm. So on fab if you click on a asset it says „owned“ or something. In the megascans library you also have an owned text I think

[cosmic urchin]

So can't see what i have claimed and haven't, I went on some assets i don't remember ever getting and they show saved to my libary

But not sure if that's cause I've randomly clicked the heart icon on them or not before they did this fab thing

[digital agate]

quite a bit - I've asked them to consider those instead but haven't heard back (plus in NZ an expired drivers license can be used as ID for 2 years)

[undone valve]

Ahh interesting

[cosmic urchin]

So i think the fab thing is broken cause I clicked on a few that showed price of 0.99 and it had the download button and add to my libary

So I must have defo claimed them all just be fab not showing stuff right on front facing page

[untold bay]

Are you logged in?

[cosmic urchin]

Yeah

But like I say when I click on some of them that showed cost of 0.99 they had the download button inside

[narrow wave]

Fab has a tendency to not show if a product is purchased until you click on the listing

[undone valve]

That got fixed and should only be for quixel assets now

[cosmic urchin]

Yeah it was quixel I was looking at i think

Well i ended up in that category anyway

[fallen cargo]

How do I get Fab to work in a source built engine? Was it available in 5.4.4 or was that after 5.5? I can't install the Fab UE Plugin from the launcher

[tardy charm]

I thought the fab plugin is already part of source

seems to be the case, its in my source built engine and i didnt copy it there

[fallen cargo]

I have the pre-release fab plugin enabled but theres no button or link to Fab in the editor anywhere, so im not sure how to add any content from there

[worldly charm]

Hello, I can't access Quixel Bridge from unreal engine 5.4. Has anyone solved a similar problem?

[hoary kettle]

honestly, WTH is this BS. Oh Look! A Fre Asset that literally does nothing without a separate purchase!, but we tell you, this is so you can try it!.. also, why is is BP if is is for Unity?
This is why i will not buy from epic. well, one reason

Epic has dug themselves a hole so big that not even their hollywood money dreams is going to pull them out of

Or, just a regular old F the little guy.

unless premium Blueprint is a brand, or something, but that does not change the rest of it

[undone valve]

You can filter for Unreal Engine. Also I am not sure why this should be epics fault. The seller can decide himself how he prices his assets and which asset depends on which asset. That also was the case on the unreal engine marketplace.

So the solution is: if you are not happy with that, avoid the seller and purchase an alternative

[hoary kettle]

allowing it, is there fault. they allowed the scummy practice of essentially a bait and switch. or more of a sewer lure. i consider that practice suicide. I filtered by Unity intentionally

[undone valve]

I think it’s pretty cool to be able to buy additional functionality for a main product. Though they could improve the design and make it like a dlc on the main page instead. Also there is no „Blueprint“ category

[hoary kettle]

It is a Unity asset. why does it have Blueprints? Unity does not use BPs

[undone valve]

Blueprints in English also have a different meaning. They are not only the visual scripting system but also these plans for houses and other stuff. It is often use to refer to a template of something which the buyer needs to built upon

[undone valve]

…

[warm knot]

What do you mean by "F the little guy?"

This seems like a "try before you buy" asset pack, but we don't have much context to judge fairly here.

[sick prairie]

Hello, i have this page https://www.fab.com/distribution-agreement when i try to access my publish settings but when i click the accept button, the page just refresh, any ideas how to fix that ?

[drowsy plaza]

He complains about fab for really dumb things that are non issues once a month

He said he was mad a unity asset was on fab using the word “blueprint” in their description while filtering for only unity assets

[undone valve]

Also doesnt work for me. Probably is an bug

[undone valve]

Yeah, right. Doesnt make any sense what he is talking/complaining about

[sick prairie]

Just another one :p

[warm knot]

Are we sure that these aren't the kind of blueprints that he's asking for? 🤔

[rose lagoon]

this guy has been selling on the Unity asset store for years. he sells modular buildings (wall/fence sections, columns, posts, etc). he also sells environments (maps) that he created using the meshes from the modular pack. he called these additional packs "blueprints". technically, i believe they are "prefabs"- Unity's version of a BP Actor. his products probably predate UE4. it says clearly in the description under IMPORTANT what products are required. also, it is free... maybe ask for your money back if you aren't satisfied🤷‍♂️

[drowsy plaza]

He likely is referring to prefabs which are reassembled assets in unity, I could see them being called blueprints by some especially a UE dev working in unity

Blueprint actors are the equivalent of prefabs

[hoary kettle]

you are so far into defending bad practices, that you are incapable of seeing them. I have more important things to do, like make my games, then to listen to people who 1. did not read or comprehend what i posted. 2. are such fan boys of bad business practices, that it wouldn't matter anyways.
Off to do things. have fun

no need to ping me again on this subject, thanks.

[undone valve]

We are 5 different people and no one understood what your point is.

But yeah lets set this conversation aside

[lime anchor]

Just published a free UE5 assest if anyone is interested!
https://www.fab.com/listings/fcd59a2a-abef-436a-914c-f061d114e056

[wanton charm]

this is for #1054845218723209226

[undone valve]

How are your guys sales going this January? Vote with the right emoji
📈 They got better
✅ Stayed the same
📉 They got worse

Personally mine got worse for some reason

[polar python]

for me no sales after fab launch, but made some during dec holiday sale and now nothing.

[plush talon]

is it possible to get something from the old Marketplace that's not on Fab? (if I don't own it)

[polar python]

for some reason fab with modern ui and black theme somewhat feels closed and doesn't feel comfortable the og marketplace felt open and encouraged to search for things but fab is lifeless

[undone valve]

Nope not really

You can write to the creator

[green seal]

Completely normal globally in all industries for there to be a sales hangover after the holidays. Its why companies often try to push for January sales and such but fact is people just bought a ton of stuff and it inevitably slows down.

[undone valve]

Yeah definitely makes sense. This year though it’s is way more rough than last year.

[plush talon]

How do I get their contact? Is there a way to DM Epic accounts?

[undone valve]

Which asset do you want

[plush talon]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/easy-ui-manager

[undone valve]

Here you go:

She/He might not reply though. Doesn’t seem like the seller is active

[plush talon]

ah I see where you got it now, can't believe I missed it

[plush talon]

thanks anyway :D

[undone valve]

You are welcome

[untold bay]

winter sale was awesome. one sale in january

[loud dome]

The new "fab doesn't update your product if the url doesn't change" is really annoying 🫠

[untold bay]

are you using a cachebusting argument

[loud dome]

yep. That seemed to fix it

Changing version title and version notes had no effect. So Fab was giving users a month old version

[untold bay]

yes it's annoying that it's necessary. uploading something to same URL is an obvious and common workflow

[loud dome]

It used to be the workflow for the old marketplace? Just edit the version title and you would be good

[midnight arch]

has anyone faced missing packages? Something that I had 1-2 years ago in my library is now gone

[undone valve]

If it wasn’t migrated (not even auto migrated) it won’t appear in your library anymore.

[midnight arch]

I can see it that it is for sale on FAB

but it's missing from my library

I think I got it with free for the month

[undone valve]

Uh then I don’t know

[warm knot]

Everybody where I live is broke because of inflation. The only company that didn't seem to slow down here is Amazon.

[digital agate]

I haven't had a single sale this year - that's never happened before. I've still got the same type of traffic on my website and YT and discord is still active, but no recorded sales.
I'm wondering if it's FAB and the fact I let my Tax Info expire (and I only did that because I didn't trust the spam like email and waited for something to show on the website). Even with all that updated no sales are showing though.

[loud dome]

Sales report shows 3 sales on 31.12. and none in 2025.
Should have been at least one or two sales in 2025

[untold bay]

before, during, after winter sale

first time product's been on sale, and probably benefitted from most products being in the black friday sale only

[loud dome]

Mine wasn't in the winter sale. But the report shows similar sales.

[spring lion]

Question for those who frequent the Fab/Marketplace - are there any solid tools that can facilitate measurement of gaps between objects at runtime?

[digital agate]

did you update your TaxInfo before the end of 24?

[loud dome]

Think so? Nothing has indicated that the product is not for sale. Or that I need to do something. Updated the product today even.

[digital agate]

You can still edit and sell when it's outdated. In the Publisher Settings, Tax Detail section there's a status field:

[mild garden]

There's little point in trying to assess how January is going when we only have sale reports for 9 out of 31 days and are just coming off a sale. It's well-known that people tend to buy less both right before and after a sale. If I were to extrapolate the current rate of January's sales, they would be 60% of what December's were. However, this is a flawed way of comparing months. When I compare it to January of last year, sales are actually up.

[drowsy plaza]

Mine is similar, I sold on the 2nd and since then nothing. 2nd is the day after the sale I think

[drowsy plaza]

Like output a float of the distance between two objects? There are several function libraries for cheap that can do that

[drowsy plaza]

I’m the same, Nikolas did a poll and the vast majority said it has gotten worse since January. Some said the other 2 pollers said it stayed the same but it’s unclear if they sold often before or not

Hopefully this is just people not buying stuff after Christmas, being on work breaks, or new year resolutions and not a platform issue. Last time fab had issues epic course corrected quickly

Fab really needs a patch note when they make changes

[undone valve]

They did that but eventually stopped...

Here.https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/fab-release-notes/2106369/9

[drowsy plaza]

That sucks, they should have kept it going.

They need to prioritize the seller analytics, it’s really hard to determine what’s happening with the low sales when we have no traffic data.

[quiet spruce]

Is there a way to force an Install to Engine plugin to be Add to Project instead?

[green seal]

Its barely been a week in January. Do an assessment of the month in february. Every year is going to be different. I agree that there should be better analytics tools and information telling us where traffic is coming from.

There is absolutely zero reason to be alarmed if your sales haven’t been performing as usual less than 10 days into a new year (10 days after the end of a big sale), especially after two consecutive sales periods, in the middle of an inflation-induced semi recession. Let things play out, and check in again on February 1st.

[undone valve]

No. Install to Engine is for Plugins and Add to Project is for blueprint packs. 2 different things

[digital agate]

I agree that 1/3 of a month doesn't give good analytics, but I'm wondering if there is also something else at play:

1. I usually get follow-up purchases for 1-2 weeks after a sale, this time none.
2. I have a customer who apparently purchased 3 days ago.
3. The Fab sales report abruptly ends on the end of the sale, listing a 0 sales for 1 product which was selling up to 8 seats a day on the previous days
4. My TaxInfo expired at midnight 31/12/24

[civic igloo]

What percentage of sales does FAB take for 2025?

[undone valve]

12 afaik

[civic igloo]

Will changes occur during this year, or will the percentage remain constant?

[undone valve]

It should remain constant. 0% was only in 2024 to give people a better start on Fab

[civic igloo]

Do you have any tips before selling the 3D model?

[undone valve]

What figures?

[civic igloo]

I mean 3D Model

[undone valve]

I got plenty of tips for selling on fab. Will do a video about this in the near feature. But I dont have any specific tips for 3d models

[quiet spruce]

So I installed my plugin to an engine and created a new project, but the modules from the plugin aren't being loaded. What am I doing wrong?

[civic igloo]

Okay, thanks.

[undone valve]

You also need to enable the plugin the project

[ebon leaf]

Will fab be accessible in the UE5 editor via the plugin like quixel bridge or is it just a store front on the website and nothing else? (noob here, have mercy) EDIT: found my answer- The direct integration with the Unreal Engine 5 Editor is expected to be available soon, allowing for a more seamless experience similar to the Quixel Bridge plugin.

[narrow wave]

It already has a plugin. Has for a while now

[ebon leaf]

I saw that 🙂

Very cool.

I've seen that people are downloading the entire megascans library but that is so much storage space 🪦

I need to play around with the fab plugin. I just really hope it has all the same or more features and functionality as quixel, because I just started using UE5 and quixel is so nice 😄

[light oar]

I wrote a script for blender 4.2 that can bulk import assets downloaded from fab. You just select the parent folder and hit import and it grabs any mesh within the sub folders, creates materials and applies the correct textures automatically.

Also has options to remove empty parents and reset Uvmap names

I have only tested it with Quixel meshes so far. But it allows me to bulk import loads of objects and then generate texture atlases.
Then batch export to unreal.

[ebon leaf]

That’s pretty cool @light oar

[light oar]

I just wish I could get a bulk downloader working.
I wanna be able to download a batch of assets from a set.
Say, Nordic rocks for example. Download them in one click, import to unreal and done.

[digital agate]

unreal bot just marked it as a bug

[undone valve]

Nice!

[polar python]

yep after fixing search my product was on top but now it is in middle like it was at fab launch

[hollow basin]

I searched for my product and couldn't find it even having the exact name as the search and i looked through about 100 other products. Weirdly enough my other product which doesn't have a similar name or purpose came up before the product I searched for!

[drowsy plaza]

Same, even generic searches like “zombie animations” don’t work

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah that happened with mine too, it’s so broken right now. Worse than launch.

I’m guessing it started sometime after January started and the Christmas sale ended because that’s when sales fell off a cliff. I’m surprised no one else really reported it to them

[untold bay]

search seems to be overweighing tags and underweighing names.
these all have the "pitch" tag

[drowsy plaza]

Interesting, that’s probably what is happening then. They probably forgot to set a bool or something to prioritize names

[echo egret]

Just wondering... is it really too much to add a straightforward "Plugins" exclusive filter and a filter to exclude all the already installed plugins, in the launcher, so to make easier to identify and install those not yet installed? Everybody's workflow would get a quite productive speed up to be thankful to Epic for. Just my 2 cents.

[dim fable]

You'd think a lot of the stuff Epic should have implemented years ago would be easy to add, but alas here we are... I like to imagine it's something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

[green seal]

I don’t think its a matter of it being too hard to do, just that they have a huge load of work to get done and they have to prioritize. It’s not as simple as throwing more devs at the problem until it gets resolved, there’s bottlenecks like any other production

[tame wasp]

is there a way to hide all this audio spam? I just want to see new releases for Unreal and it's all audio files

[vale prawn]

There's a (public) Discord server where a bot posts for each new product release on Fab, except AI and music. I can share the link if you want. Disclaimer: I run the server.

[mental comet]

Hey all, I'm having an issue where the plugin I'm trying to publish on Fab has been stuck in legal review for over a month and a half. Any idea how I can speed up the process?

[undone valve]

Write to support asking about the state and that you waited for a month

[mental comet]

I did this 🥲

[undone valve]

What did they say?

[mental comet]

Thank you for your patience. The matter is currently under review by our legal team, a process that may take a few weeks. However, we are making every effort to expedite it and will keep you updated.

Please let us know if you need anything further. 

(4 days ago)

it's just that a lot of people are waiting for this plugin to be published, more than 10 users have contacted me already...

[inner wadi]

Hey, i'm still used to the old marketplace and fab is now totally new for me.
Are there still this monthly free stuff you can get ?

It does 😅

[undone valve]

Yes but it’s every 2 weeks now

[untold bay]

you could publish it separately from fab as well if you want, eg gumroad

[charred mica]

For me, it was around 2.5 months for the first response from their legal team seeking additional info and after that it was done in 4 days (we had 10+ back and forths). So basically, I believe the staff is not that big in that department so it will reach a human soon.

[red meadow]

Hello guys, quick questions if anybody knows.
I have a couple of people reviewing my product but when I search it in Fab it says it has no reviews when actually it has some back in the marketplace. How this actually works? I’m also unable to locate my seller stats to see if the product is being purchased on Fab or not

[untold bay]

fab didn't port reviews
it ported ratings but only for assets with 5 or more ratings

[red meadow]

I had like 10 5stars back in UE marketplace but It doesn’t look like here at all

I mean it is the only thing running on UE marketplace by me and it was doing decent for 1 year, now can’t even be found through the research “lava lamp” if u don’t scroll 10 minutes passing any 3D model but lava lamps

Never mind I’m just complaining sorry

[untold bay]

valid complaints tbh

[vale prawn]

Even with the Unreal filter, which at least removes SketchFab crap, yours don't appear until quite a lot of scrolling. And not a single actual lava lamp can be found before yours.

Search is truly broken, not sure if it's just a temporary setback (as discussed above) or just Fab being Fab.

[red meadow]

In unreal engine marketplace it was literally the only one ahahahah

So if people wanted lava lamps by any chance there was only mine available

[serene socket]

When searching "lava lamp site:fab.com" on google it comes up as #1 for me. So there is that. Amazing looking asset.

[red meadow]

It feels like it is getting lost between all those models, but my lava lamp is 1% model, most of the work is shading and programming

Yeah I noticed via google that is the only result appearing, I have no idea why it isn’t showing through the website directly

Thank you man btw

[vale prawn]

Google gets it. The reddit thread doesn't include any lava lamp discussion, but it's actually pretty accurate as to the situation 😄

[red meadow]

Ahahha comical, quite on point

Did u guys struggle too with this porting?

I was happy getting 100/200€ every 1/2 months but since the porting I saw 0

[vale prawn]

I think some people reported reviews being missing even though they crossed the threshold, there may have even been a thread about that on the forums, I don't remember.

For the search part, it was truly awful at launch, but got better after a few weeks. Currently, it seems it's back to trash again.

[untold bay]

about flat for me but you are in exactly the situation most likely to tank sales IMO

[undone valve]

It’s okay/slightly better sometimes/ slightly worse at other times but I sell plugins so that might be the reason

[untold bay]

anyone remotely in the neighborhood of the sketchfab flood is most likely to be hurt. as you observe, you have a sophisticated high-end asset that the search can't distinguish from generic model slop

[undone valve]

This problem still exists. Fab support told me it will get fixed with the review overhaul update

[undone valve]

They really need to prioritize high quality assets based on purchase history and Reviews

[untold bay]

sales, ratings, reviews, refunds, even clicks. any signal they can get their hands on is badly needed

[red meadow]

I don’t even know if reporting these issues at their support is of any help

As u said they might be very aware already

[undone valve]

Exactly and here we are at that problem again. The fab team does 0 public communication. No changelogs anymore, no current state of things, nothing except their roadmap and even that doesn’t chabge. Support gives generic answers. The only way to get information is to get lucky and Abby from the sketchfab team answer you on the fourms. But even then only I know the infos and most people still don’t know what the heck is going on

[polar python]

you are not only one, me too. it really hurts, makes you wanna beat the shit out of whoever is working on fab. or atleast who published it in first place

[polar escarp]

how the hell do i change my name on fab?

[manic jungle]

Hello,

I am trying to login into fab plugin but I am stuck on "Verify you are a human" widget and its not moving any further?
Its kind of stuck in a loop and keeps faily to verify.
Does anyone know why it might be happening and how to resolve it?

I am using UE5.5.1 but the same issue is also happening in UE5.4.

[undone valve]

Don’t share your ip address or other personal information

[manic jungle]

oh sorry i will remove the images

[undone valve]

But regarding this. I am very active in this chat and until now I saw no one having this issue.

[manic jungle]

I had this few days back as well and I tried everything, it did not work but next it worked on its own. So I am hoping maybe tomorrow it will work. But now as it has happened again so this becomes a bit concerning.

[untold bay]

i have previously had this problem with epic auth, where i could not get past the captcha for days at a time

went away after a few days, happened again at some point

[manic jungle]

exactly.. this is what is slighlty troubling. Even if it gets resolved on its own tomorrow, the day it occurs again it wastes the whole day.

[earnest moss]

hello, is there any info how to upload UEFN format ot FAB

[drowsy plaza]

I think you just need a 3d model pack and set it asset pack.

[earnest moss]

this one &

[drowsy plaza]

No, upload it like a normal unreal asset pack submission

I’m just saying only 3d models are supported

Maybe animations but idk

[earnest moss]

this environment pack have both. it is not separeted packages

[drowsy plaza]

I know, UEFN is still unreal

you set it up in the fab portal not your files

[earnest moss]

sure, i know. I just wondering how they upload in that format if there is no that format to upload

[drowsy plaza]

1. Create a unreal engine asset pack that contains only 3d models and textures.
2. upload the project to fab
3. Set the distribution type to asset pack
4. Enable UEFN support

if you cant enable UEFN support then you ahve incompatible asset type

[undone valve]

There is but probably not for your asset type

[earnest moss]

i already found info it is invintation only

[earnest moss]

UEFN format is invintation only

[undone valve]

Ahh okay didnt know that

[fossil dune]

It would be great if the Verify Order thing on Fab had an API you can just query without having to check orders manually. Then a lot of systems can be built around that,and simply verify order and automatically grant special permissions without human intervention.

[ebon leaf]

A question: Can I use all the free quixel megascans in godot or unity and not in unreal (mods pls dont ban me if i cant write this 😦 )

[storm parrot]

This is a question for the web but i believe it falls into cc attribution?

[vale prawn]

It falls under Fab's Standard Licence

How can I claim free Megascans on Fab?

With one click on this new page, you can claim over 17,000 Megascans, including 10 packs with brand new scene files from Quixel, until the end of 2024. These assets can be used in any tool or engine according to the Fab Standard License agreement.
https://support.fab.com/s/article/Fab-Transition-FAQs

[quasi dome]

Any idea when it's going to support 5.5?
https://www.fab.com/listings/8a639215-7f85-4cc7-b155-fa2137326209

[twilit rain]

Hi ! Is it possible to make a promotion for a listing at any time ? I just launched a 0.99$ product and i want to set it free for the first week. Should i manually edit the price or is there a way to make the promotion ?

[vale prawn]

Isn't the plugin deprecated and not needed anymore? I think I read that somewhere

Yup

As of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9, you no longer need this plugin to view information about Blueprints in C++ code
5.5 is VS 22 17.10, so it's not needed

[vale prawn]

Not possible at the moment, but that feature is on the roadmap (though pretty far down)

[quasi dome]

That's strange. I remember I couldn't compile 5.5 project before, had some errors leading to that plugin. I just tried again to compile and launch 5.5.0 and it worked just fine. Magic. I don't know, maybe they've updated something in Visual Studio... Well, thanks!

[silent yoke]

The biggest issue with FAB is the lack of social interaction.
I run a studio myself and have ended up gambling with my business.
I can't tell if the packs are good or not since customers can't really reach me easily, not many people think about support emails or anything so I'm not getting any feedback from my packs.

I just recently found out about a couple of broken collisions and missing assets from 2 of my packs, no idea if it cost me a review or not so I just have my fingers crossed that it works fine on my customers end.

If anyone is curious about my packs, search for "Rough Edge" under the creators tab.

[polar python]

Hey guys I finally made trailer for my asset, tell me how does it look
(i know sound effect need some work)

https://youtu.be/dVFPF0avk2A

[vale prawn]

Do you have a Discord server? Quite a few creators on Fab have one, and it's a great way to have interaction and create a community around your products. On my side, every time I purchase a product on Fab, I join the creator's Discord to get updates, information on new products, provide feedback and bug reports, maybe exchange with other users, etc.

[silent yoke]

I should consider that, but moderation is a big part of it, I have soo much going on and I wouldn't be able to take care of bad actors if they happen to show up.
But at this point I might just be forced to do it, a potential workaround would be to really limit and restrict community interaction to just support tickets and an announcement channel.

[vale prawn]

I think moderation isn't that big of a problem honestly. I'm a member of a lot of Fab creator's Discord server, and I pretty much never see anything that needs moderating, even on large servers. Discord has some built-in features to limit that issue, and I'd say it's working well. Maybe creators who manage their own Discord can weigh in on that.

[silent yoke]

Thank you for the reassurance, I'll ask some of the creators for insights but seems like I don't really have a better alternative

[merry field]

Feels like sales numbers fell off a cliff with the switch to Fab.
I'm only a very small-scale creator, just have the one product, was selling maybe 10-12 a month before, now it's down to maybe 2 a month.

[silent yoke]

Yep, happened to everyone, including the 0.1% of top sellers.
I'm in contact with some and they have said their sales have dropped by 80%
FAB is a mess, running a business on this platform is impossible for smaller studios now due to the influx of low quality AI generated garbage that gets pumped onto the platform, it ruins the algorithm and their search function is terrible.
You need to use very specific tags to get to the high quality packs.
If you intend on running a business on the platform, I'd suggest gather customers from social platforms like YouTube or TikTok or Facebook, and then leave links on your socials if people get interested.
You can forget about attracting people on FAB itself.
Worse part is, FAB has a monopoly over asset stores since it directly integrates with game engines.
If there was an equal counter part like a UEM 2.0, I'd move all my products onto that alternative and forget about FAB.

[merry field]

Ugh, that's depressing. Doesn't exactly motivate me to release more products.

I'd imagine the lack of proper reviews and questions also has something to do with it - people could tell how active a developer was from those

[polar python]

yep it is depressing

[still basin]

We are around 800 on my Discord, overtime I got some moderators but honestly I think I had to ban 1 person in a year (he wanted to resell my work), otherwise its really smooth in general.

The worst are the spammers, you just ban them when you see them and they are obvious (example "Amazing 3d artist looking to sell art")

But like you I had a problem that an error was added in my tool after I published it and it took me weeks to learn that, its someone on my Discord that informed me of the problem

[still basin]

The monopoly part is scary. My sales dropped by a lot too (a good 60% drop in January so far). If there was a real good competitor market I would be in there.

btw when was the last FAB update?

[undone valve]

I'm currently waiting to release any products until search etc. gets better.

[peak widget]

Latest update I can see was 7 days ago.
Seems like they are updating fab once a month (start of each month).

If you take a look at their roadmap you'll see In Progress tags on some tabs, and I've noticed that they've added even more to In Progress in the 1a. Search tab, this past week.

So they are indeed working.

[still basin]

Thanks that reassuring

[undone valve]

I think having a Discord is amazing for Fab sellers.
-> You slowly built up a community that wants to know what you are up to.
-> I think I banned like 1 bad actor in 4 years and a few bots. So nearly 0 moderation is needed
-> People communicate with you what they think about a new update or if they have issues
-> They give you new ideas for new products
-> You instantly have traffic on new product releases because your community checks them out
-> And it is not only good for the seller but also for the customers of course. They love reading the changelogs of products and they just love chatting through Discord about anything really. Because lets be real. Everyone hates writing emails.

[undone valve]

They update constantly but they dont release changelogs constantly

[still basin]

The proximity with the user is amazing, I would add that the Discord also become a treasure of information with all the question/answer asked there.

[undone valve]

I thought about doing that but most Chinese customers don't use Discord and write me via email. So I try to answer the most common questions/issues in my documentations

[still basin]

Interesting, that good to know

[undone valve]

Ouh nice! You are the creator of the massive village pack. Its currently in my cart 😄

Its sad that I use my cart as a wishlist alternative...

I miss wishlists

[still basin]

Hey glad you like it! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I'm now experimenting with a dungeon generator 😉

And yeah I also miss the wishlists, we probably miss a lot of sales because of that and its annoying for the users

btw there a private Discord for fab publisher (all you need is to have at least one asset released), I can send you an invite

[undone valve]

I will 😄 I need to finish my current projects first though!

I think when all the roadmap features are finally implemented it will be a LOT more better for sales. Even the first section "Search" will probably boost it a lot

[undone valve]

Would be cool. Didnt know that

[still basin]

Yeah I'm also in "hope" mode 😛

[polar python]

is it official ?

[still basin]

Not official but it started from the private Unity seller Discord and follow the same rules

[polar python]

ok, can you dm me ?

[still basin]

yeah sure 🙂

[polar python]

thanks:)

[balmy basin]

I know this has been said so many times but what the heck Epic was thinking pushing Fab integration when the whole store is just complete mess. All the Quixel assets are here and there, no way to search Imperfections or similar categories. Marketplace is full of copyrighted assets or assets that are made like in 10 minutes (or with AI) and pushed there. I saw images in roadmap and there is little hope, but jeez, I just dont understand why they did what they did

[zenith elk]

Well as a customer, fab is a step up from the slow, and clunky Unreal Marketplace. Plus, getting both Unreal Unity assets in one place is really appealing for me.

But yeah they could have waited a few more months 😅 not sure who forced them to launch

[silent yoke]

Investors and executives were the reason for the rushed launch.
Mixing all the platforms into one store sounds good on paper but it has really impacted us creators in a negative way where now a large portion of creators can no longer fund their business and had to close shop which causes a decrease of quality products.

Not to mention the integration with Sketchfab has flooded FAB with copyrighted material, stolen assets, bloatware, and AI-generated "art."

It's not looking good for anyone, and in the end legitimate developers are finding their work overshadowed by these low-effort or stolen assets, further diminishing their sales and discouraging participation.

[tardy charm]

the featured free content got updated

What a weird selection
a modern house, a modern bakery, and a parrying system?

[polar python]

nothing usefull

[tardy charm]

Usually there's a theme with these. I don't know the theme for this one. Like what you live in a 8 million dollar house, one day you go to a bakery and start having to parry croissants?

[untold bay]

i'll never complain about a nice environment

[tardy charm]

honestly yeah the environments are pretty nice, it's just a really weird batch

[pliant forum]

Indefinite waiting while creating new asset products is brave. I personally halted all asset production during this extremely volatile sale period (Also called FAB launch)

[hollow basin]

I have a discord of just about 250 people and I think it's great, I haven't needed to do any moderation. I get unwanted dms, but that doesn't affect the server. Most people that are there just have questions about a product and stay there. But it's nice because it's like building an email list of people that care about your products and it feels less intrusive. They signed up to see it, they can leave anytime, they can mute it anytime. Whereas with emails I don't know how they got my email half the time

[undone valve]

Yeah I just hope it gets better and then I will release an asset each week. If I would release it now it would drown. Already tested it but delisted again due to 0 sales.

[cursive chasm]

I'd take both over just a discord account/server any day of the week. Nobody can delete/ban/nuke my email list while I have it backed up. Someone today could login to your discord and turn it into something obscene in moments.

Where as I can buy a gmail workspace account and email 100-200 of my customers a day to let them know of updates, ask questions, or announce new products. Customers can mute/block/delete/report my email as spam if they so wish. Both discord and email have their uses. Don't discount old tech because its "old".

[hollow basin]

Fair enough

[undone valve]

Just add 2FA, only give yourself important permissions and so on. Discord has an anti raid/nuke feature too. So if something happens and you report that you can get everything restored.

[cursive chasm]

I refuse to rely on a 3rd party like Discord to restore/protect my business. Thats utter insanity.

2FA especially is insecure. Ask any computer security expert. Sim swaps happen all the time.

[undone valve]

But you trust Google to store your data that might loose your data at any point (no hate though, I am just saying). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3mqAdboy8Y

[cursive chasm]

Where did I say I trusted Google?

[undone valve]

"gmail"

[cursive chasm]

"Nobody can delete/ban/nuke my email list while I have it backed up. "

[undone valve]

Ahh I thought you were talking about backing it up on Google

Didnt read that good enough

My bad

[drowsy plaza]

You can send a email list via Gmail? I was using sendy and send grid but the pricing was too high for the low conversion rate it had

https://support.google.com/google-workspace-individual/answer/12921167?hl=en

[cursive chasm]

Gmail workspaces yes. Costs like $20/month and has some funky rules around it but it'll send via your business domain aswell.

[drowsy plaza]

Oh yeah mail merge is what’s it’s called, I have a email list with over 10000 people though so idk if they allow that feature for that many

[cursive chasm]

Chop up your email list into 1k blocks and test for deliverability/click through rate.

[drowsy plaza]

Oh so it’s 1500 a day, so I could just section off the email list like you mentioned

[drowsy plaza]

Does it have analytics?

[cursive chasm]

Don't know

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah I’ll try that for sure

That should save me 50 bucks a month for server hosting and be much simpler than email apps. I wonder what happens if you send it to a dead email address

[cursive chasm]

You still have the same rules around email delivery/can-spam/etc as any other ESP/self delivery.

[drowsy plaza]

I’ll probably just stick with discord for now then, I don’t want to pay for a email verification service and the click through rate is very low on them so I don’t bother

[warm knot]

I was day dreaming about starting a Discord server but changed my mind. Don't wanna babysit a bunch of man children.

[hoary kettle]

can't login because epic is not sending the 6 digit code. ****** brilliant epic.

[zenith elk]

If i were to kitbash and mix 3D models from different creators all together, the performance would be subpar right? as there are so many different materials.

[still basin]

Yeah ideally you would want to use less materials and maybe even atlases your textures when its possible. Look at the textures too, I had a client that hire me to build an open world, they took all their trees from the asset stores and they had 7 materials each with 2 textures going from 2k to 8k, so you may want to check that first or contact the dev just to be sure

But otherwise when its come to optimization the right answer is always "profile, profile and profile" 😛
Annoying answer but the best 😛

[zenith elk]

Thank you! Maybe one day the different 3D artist studios can coordinate to use the same material, if the art style is the same? Hmm...

[zenith elk]

Yeah hopefully they can put the rather basic stuff for sketchfab that people uploaded for fun a little further down

They were gonna update the search soon if i remember correctly

[still basin]

This may be hard unless you buy multiple assets from the same artist. Materials are like code, they are made form scratch so artist would probably not like to see another one using their work

What you can do tho is to stick to one master material and replace the material on the other trees you buy.

[exotic mirage]

So I only claimed all the Quixel assets in Quixel/Bridge, not FAB.. how screwed am I?

[hollow basin]

If you hit the main button to claim all megascans you're fine

[exotic mirage]

yeah.. I did not hit the Claim All button in FAB. But I do own all 19k Quixel assests in Bridge. I think i'm screwed since, bridge will be discontinued. I thought they were going to honor the purchases/assets in quixel/bridge 😔

[balmy basin]

Anybody else tried to search Twinmotion materials and assets in new storefront? Where are they now? I found only few asset packs, which now cost 10€-50€. The big material packs are nowhere to be seen.

[vale prawn]

I hate the launcher so much. It randomly decided to change my Vault cache location a few weeks ago, obviously without telling me, meaning I didn't get any update notification since then, because it didn't use my actual cache to check for them.

Now I get a whole lot of products to update, except the launcher apparently can't install product that have a compatibility to a newer engine than what you already have in your cache. Meaning that to get the last update on a product, you first have to clear your cache, then add the product. This is so broken.

Epic: You have to have items in your Vault to get notified of updates
Also Epic: You can't update items if they're in your Vault

[undone valve]

Yeah with only these you don’t have access to the improved versions of the assets. And also eventually you will loose access if you don’t download them all

[balmy basin]

Wait what... I have them only in bridge too. Do I really loose all the assets. I just checked and there is price in Quixel assets in Fab -_-. So I might as well download as many as I need into temp project and use them from there

[undone valve]

Nearly every active creator did a video that you need to claim them on fab too

Also epic sent a few emails regarding it

[winter hollow]

does anyone have troubles signing into fab? i've been solving captchas for last 30 minutes and getting 'incorrect response' when attempting to login

browser network tab shows request failing with error 400 - bad request

i swear it is the worst auth system i've ever saw. every time i try to login it never works

[green seal]

No issues here

[red meadow]

re jumping on the yesterday topic:
users have been actually reviewing the product on fab and it’s still not showing

[undone valve]

They just removed the trader badge for a bunch of sellers. Go check if you still have yours:

When I try to update it literally nothing happens

Currently everyday there is a new bug on fab

Yesterday it was file updates being initiated for products that werent supposed to have one

The day before that it was the ranking bug so now everyone who knows the tricks can rank number 1 in search

[chilly escarp]

Pressing update in that link worked for me, just took like 3 hours to see the banner disappear

[undone valve]

What happend when your pressed it?

For me it does nothing

[chilly escarp]

Nothing, no feedback lmao

[undone valve]

Ahh okay. Haha

Thank you for that information

[chilly escarp]

it's a small indie company these things happen

[undone valve]

Yeah right

If I were such a small company I would struggle too

[candid rivet]

is there any way to filter for plugins in the launcher? the filters are all garbage now and there's multiple of the same, it doesn't make any sense anymore

[topaz echo]

anyone knowing how to import metahumans using fab, since bridge seems not to work anymore? https://streamable.com/70fa6j

[tame compass]

do fab full of AI sellers ?

[vital island]

Nope.Click the Hide products created with AI

[warm knot]

There are some people who don't mark their creations as AI, but you can tell pretty easily. Like, if you see a "1000+ ability icon pack" that is supposedly hand drawn, and it's being sold for only $2, then it's most likely AI generated.

[tame compass]

i miss old unreal engine markket

selling using fab is struggle

headaches

[undone valve]

As far as I know this isnt supported anymore and we need to wait for a solution

[vestal sluice]

I cant access my fab portal because the agreement is never going away. This issue came up a couple of days ago and went away quickly, but now it's like this for longer. Anyone else getting this issue ?

[undone valve]

I had this issue but after clicking on it a couple of times it went away

[vestal sluice]

It's never going away lmao. I tried so many times. I can't submit my update today thanks to this.

[topaz echo]

Insane !! Thank you anyway for the answer...

[undone valve]

You could try a different browser

[vestal sluice]

Thanks. Logging out and logging in the same browser seem to have done the trick.

[drowsy plaza]

I wonder if I’ll need to do it

I had to for epic games store

[undone valve]

It went away after updating and waiting for a few hours

[last matrix]

If you get a UPS buisness mailbox, can you use that as your buisness address when you go through the Trader verification process?

[warm knot]

What if you just click non trader? Will someone from Brussels break into my house in the middle of the night? I'm in the US btw.

[jaunty dagger]

Hopefully

[drowsy plaza]

That’s what I did, likely nothing will happen as the government is extremely inefficient in every country but worst case you get flagged as a trader by epic and they ask you to fill it out or stop selling

[serene escarp]

Hello, can I redistribute Epics City Sample buildings in my commercial package?

I see some Megascans possible included in City Sample

[worldly flower]

if you claimed/own the Megascans corresponding to that, and the rest if comfy with the Eula of the sample project.. you are fine to use them.

[worldly flower]

I currently read thru the License text that comes with my Audio Assets... The Epic standard license

Is it true?
As far as i understand it, i'm allowed to use the Music files as background music for streams (Paragraph 4 and 6)?

Distributing Linear Media Projects. Subject to any applicable restrictions in Section 6 (Content Use Restrictions), you may freely Distribute a Project that is a rendered linear media product. This means, for example, you may freely Distribute:



i. rendered video files (e.g., broadcast or streamed video files, cartoons, movies, or images) and```

[austere needle]

Not sure if the right channel to ask this. Sorry if is not. Has anyone been struggling with megascans on fab. I claimed them all in Fab with the one click option, but now some assets are priced (assets released in 2024). So I assume I did not claim them correctly?

[worldly flower]

They eventually are claimed.. but bugged..
Can you try to open their store page and look if you can change the license selection to the right (sometimes it has the wrong one set..)..
Also..Sometimes the license drawer isn't available.. cause claimed.. but a download button or "Add to library" is there.. meaning you own the right to use that asset.

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If anyone has an idea of if i'm right here: #fab message

Would be nice to clarify this 🙂

[untold bay]

#1054845218723209226

[austere needle]

Yes. It is buggy. Thank you

[spiral jacinth]

You can use my asset manager (https://assetmanager.studio), it has filters for pretty much everything. 😄

[marsh salmon]

this looks great, nice work

[undone valve]

You are my hero. The only thing missing in assetmanager is better looking ui. That’s what people seem to miss (I made a video about it)

[spiral jacinth]

Please feel free to submit github issues, I'm not opposed to changing the UI at all. 😄

[drowsy plaza]

If it’s built in JavaScript or c++ you could use react or QT framework for the design. QT would fit the unreal engine look

[spiral jacinth]

Its actually built in JS. I can theme it however I want I have full control over virtually everything. At this point making it fully functional has been my primary focus. Still have a couple features I'm working on and fixing a couple bugs... 😉

[waxen pilot]

im trying to get and use a texture from fab but all im seeing is a way to download the texture files. is there a way to have a one-click add material like back in bridge? when im on the fab plugin, it just says "Quixel does not offer products for Material & Textures"

[lilac dirge]

Hello I dont know if this is the right place because there is not audio/plugin channel but does anyone have the plugin of project acoustics? Its not available in the marketplace and I really want to try it https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/project-acoustics-for-unreal-audio

[winter hollow]

is that trader status needed for free plugins or not?

[undone valve]

No idea, probably

[vale prawn]

There's #audio. The project has been discontinued, so you won't find it anywhere legally.

[lilac dirge]

I know but I want to somehow test it because there is a lot of cool stuff there

but thx for the answer

[vale prawn]

If you only provide free plugins, I'd say no (that's my situation, and that's what I chose). The trader definition implies commercial activity, which I don't think applies in that case? I'm definitely not a lawyer though.

[winter hollow]

yeah, i just have a few free plugins on mp, and trading is not my primary activity. i did ask support long time ago on marketplace. was just confirming since noticed those changes on fab

and since i can't login to fab for over two weeks i can't do much rn

that error 400 -bad request is haunting me on all browsers

i used to able to login when a "click a block" captcha was ocassionally showing but most of the time it is just broken

[undone valve]

Nearly every browser blocks some specific cookies/tracking stuff. I dont think it will change your situation but you could try to disable really any blocker

But dont go onto any website if you do that. These "basic" blockers are there for a reason to protect your data and personal information

[undone valve]

So it wasnt removed. Very good info!

[warm knot]

What about view analytics? ^

[still basin]

Glad they keep that

[undone valve]

I think that is part of what she meant with „sale analytics“ because in the live stream they mentioned view analytics and other such stuff as far as I remember

[drowsy plaza]

I think that’s what they meant, original it was called “seller analytics” so she might just be referring to it differently here

[drowsy plaza]

Do you remember what other analytics they mentioned?

I honestly hope view analytics come before June

[fossil dune]

am i the only one with the trader message

"You must declare your trader status by February 1, 2025 to continue selling to buyers in the European Union.
Declare trader status"

even though ive long declared?

clicking declare trader status you get:
"Great job, thank you for submitting your trader information!"

[fossil dune]

is it still there?

[winter hollow]

if it was adblock-related or something else i'd see a blocked http requests in debugger, but i see only server response with error
and it would not persist in different browsers

[silent mesa]

do we have a possible upcoming fab sale soon?

[undone valve]

True

[drowsy plaza]

I think they usually do one in February or March, not having seller discounts kinda sucks because a lot of people used those to boost sales each month on the marketplace

[vestal sluice]

No invitation so far yet. I am hoping we get back the frequent monthly sales from now on. They are maybe delaying it because the last sale happened very recently.

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah given they have the 30 day cooldown period they probably will do another one in February or march, probably February around Valentine’s Day

The roadmap is expected to be completed in June according to them, so may or June is likely when we will get the individual sales. My guess is they are gonna build a self service sales tool so we can set discounts automatically through the portal instead of emailing them which is likely why they delayed self sales

[rigid girder]

So apparently we can't use "Water" in asset packs anymore?

Or PCG 🤔

[untold bay]

beta yes, experimental no
pcg is currently neither

[rigid girder]

Ya, not sure why it was listed there.

[untold bay]

if it was enabled in your project, they will flag it

[rigid girder]

But there are countless packs that use the Unreal Water system, including mine for the last year?

[untold bay]

it might be fine as long as the assets are included directly and you're not dependent on the plugin

[rigid girder]

Any idea how to "fix" this one? The engine auto creates the folder when you assign an image as the splash.

maybe I'll just resubmit and hopefully get a different reviewer. They seem to randomly call out things and then forgot about them the next time 🤷‍♂️

[hollow basin]

Must be a newer rule because my first product that I published 2 years ago used the geometry script plugin while it was still experimental. It's in beta now so I shouldn't have any problem. But my pack was entirely dependent on that plugin working. It may have been an exception if the marketplace knew it was going to be in beta soon, that I don't know, but I never ran into trouble with it

[rigid girder]

I had a smaller update go through no problem last week. It honestly seems to be super random what is called out in the reviews.

[shell osprey]

Hi!
Quick question with regards to assets that have not met moved to fab, like this one
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/medieval-kingdom?sessionInvalidated=true

If i didn't downloaded it before, it is gone?

[untold bay]

if you own it, it should still be in your vault

[shell osprey]

I just set the location of the vault, but i see absolutely nothing there

Do i need to re-download it or something? because i see no place to do it

[untold bay]

does it show up in your epic launcher?

[drowsy plaza]

I think it’s fine for demo content like a boat physics plugin having the water plugin in their map but their code not referencing it.

[shell osprey]

oh, that was it. Last time i checked, my epic launcher library just pointed me to fab, now it has content xD

[drowsy plaza]

https://www.fab.com/listings/455e30aa-16c8-4532-8222-32ab51a82473

This guy is reselling mixamo/fuse characters

[wanton charm]

I beg to differ on the PCG stance, I have a plugin on FAB that's built on top of it

[vapid crow]

anyone ever use the FPP Melee animset from fab? i know it's for FPP only but im wondering just how bad it looks in TPP.. I know a lot of FPP animations transform the upper arm bones so they are detached from the body. does the FPP melee animset do that?

[polar python]

enjoy

[late crown]

what is that error?

i cant get this free asset idk why

[solar rapids]

Is anything under the 'Standard License' can be used in other engines? Even what is made by epic games?

Because Valley of the ancient for example, mentions that "the content is licensed for use only with unreal engine-based products" in the product description so I don't know if that from migration between the old marketplace and fab or was intended

[drowsy plaza]

Assets from anyone except epic games can be used in any software you like

Epic Games attached a special addition to their assets since they are used for learning unreal and promoting it

[solar rapids]

Where did they mention that

And what about quixel

[drowsy plaza]

They mention it in the quote you quoted

[drowsy plaza]

Quixel can be used with other engines now that it uses the fab license

[solar rapids]

it could be there in the description from the old marketplace and got migrated without being edited that's why I wanna make sure because it uses the standard fab license in the product details like other assets

[solar rapids]

yeah same as Valley of the ancient

I will make a support ticket to make sure, thank you so much!

[fossil dune]

how consistent and reliable is the "verify orders" thing on fab for you? a lot of them seem to return invalid

[undone valve]

Make sure to manually type in codes. If you scan codes using snippet tool for example it might add invisible characters and stuff

[fossil dune]

tried it multiple times. manually typing, paste as plain text etc...
does it work all the time for you?

[undone valve]

I only had to do it a handful of times but it worked each time

[fossil dune]

great, ive got more than 1 bugs that are just happening on my account...
or being sent bogus order ids(i doubt it)

[undone valve]

Currently fab is very buggy. I am currently avoiding doing anything related to fab until it is more stable again

[fossil dune]

do fab order Ids start with an "A" or an "F"?

[undone valve]

With an A

Though right now I forgot if you need to include or exclude that A

[fossil dune]

😪, the only emails i get after reporting bugs isolated to my account are " We have escalated your support case" then get ghosted...
like some sort of shadowban

anyway thanks for the response(s)

[undone valve]

Yeah they do that to me too. I think it is also again another bug as other sellers get answers in within an hour

[spark arch]

any idea if theres a way to update your products description and such without needing to submit for approval each time? They keep compiling my plugin and pushing it as a update every time I submit even a description change

[fossil dune]

not currenly no, its on their "roadmap"... but the feature was there on the original mp...

[vestal sluice]

That's unfortunately a thing since Fab started. No way to avoid that, which I think is really dumb and inefficient.

[undone valve]

There is a scam email going around by someone saying they want to make an American film. Do not click any links from that mail and report it

[spark arch]

just got that lol

[loud brook]

Is anyone else having issues with their launcher/library? It's telling me I don't own my own products and the launcher is not even showing one of my own plugins.
Other users on my discord are telling me that my plugin states it's incompatible with 5.5, even though the Fab product page says it's compatible with 5.5, other users have previously been able to install it for 5.5, and the listing says it's compatible with 5.5

[desert panther]

Man what on earth is this lol

I sell a plugin on Fab and someone just emailed me "found you on fab, do you want to collaborate on this movie we're making" and then it's just some really really strange thing where it basically seems there's nobody involved in this expect the director I think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhTZ4TOqwqs

[loud brook]

It's a scam email, don't visit any of the URL's

The youtube URL seems innocent, but don't know how safe it is to share it

[desert panther]

Yeah it looks pretty weird lol

I went on the website in incognito mode but I dunno, it didn't look particularly dangerous

And yeah that youtube url is just a normal youtube video, nothing weird about it

[loud brook]

Incognito won't do anything about IP fishing links. Incognito is literally just not saving what sites you're visiting to your local computer. It should not be treated as a "security measure"

[desert panther]

Sure, but at least it isn't gonna be able to abuse any flaws to connect me to any of my logged in accounts (eg. via things like FB or google login embeds)

[loud brook]

ah yeah maybe

[desert panther]

This movie is supposedly based on a book, and the book seems to actually exist. Whether it was written by a human and not an AI I wouldn't know :D

[loud brook]

I usually have another browser installed just for this, don't trust incognito anymore ever since (it was either edge or chrome) was exposed to still track you in incognito

[desert panther]

If it's sussy enough I usually have a browser in a VM

Ok actually it is a little bit weird, the address the email came from doesn't exist

That certainly raises an eyebrow

[loud brook]

if it's REAL SUSSY then you buy a new device, go to your local McDonald's, install NordVPN (today's sponsor 🔥 ) use a VM and to top it all of, incognito mode 😄

[desert panther]

lol

I don't think anyone's gonna gain anything from looking at my IP address.. NAT is gonna block anyone attempting to knock any doors

[vale prawn]

Honestly I didn't even read the email, the title alone was enough for me to trash it

[desert panther]

Oh you got it also?

[vale prawn]

Yep, they cc'd a lot of people too

[desert panther]

haha, that's funny.. for me it didn't have any cc's

always curious what kind of scams people are trying to run with this stuff because it seems so obvious

[loud brook]

what is cc?

[desert panther]

I forget what it stands for but it's a field you can add other recipients to in emails

[loud brook]

They probably wrote a script to go over a bunch of products and go into their technical details section to grab the support email to create a huge list to send the email to

[undone valve]

It is a scam as I already said

Do not interact with that email

[desert panther]

I emailed them back quoting my rate for movie consulting is 750usd/hour lol

[hexed wing]

Hey anyone! Does the Payouts tab in your seller reports have a delay or something? Ive sold like 135$ this month and the payout says 60$/100$. Even after the fees this cant be right. Any info on this?

[still basin]

The payout is done once per month, the last day of the month with a 1 month delay
So January will be paid on the last day of February

[hexed wing]

Ah alright. Good to know! 🙂 You know the reasoning behind this? Odd to have such a big delay in time. Is it because of potential refunds or something alike?

[still basin]

Not sure of all the details but its common (for example Steam does that too), but the refund is mostly the big reason.

Imagine selling for 1000$ that you get paid for, then you have 500$ of refund to do, they don't want to run after you for the money 😛

[hexed wing]

Yeah totally makes sense ^^ Thanks!

[silent mesa]

will this not get the attention of the squid game franchise?
https://www.fab.com/listings/8c8b83cc-e971-4ff3-8900-26d9aafab2c3

[final scarab]

Is there a browser extension/script i can run to auto add types of free assets from the marketplace?

[dire meteor]

Is there any kind of support for that asset manager studio thing?

[vale prawn]

The creator/maintainer is around here. I think they said to post GitHub issues for support, but I may be wrong.

[drowsy plaza]

It’s not technically the last day, it’s usually the 30th unless that’s a holiday or the month ends on an earlier date. some months end on the 31st

[still basin]

Thanks indeed

[hollow zephyr]

oh man, AI description

what the world has come to

[dire meteor]

Thanks!

Damn.

I had to complete five captchas to log in to the epic games website...

[spiral jacinth]

Yep, I'm around --and yep I prefer github issues because AMS is a side "fun" project for me at this point, so having a place I can find the issues I need to fix when I have the time to work on AMS is a good thing to keep me from dropping the ball. 😄 As for the question, no, AMS does not auto-add new free assets, too many other things that need to get fixed/done.

[dire meteor]

Nice. Fair enough.

But the issue resolved itself. 🙂

[undone valve]

No one cares

This channel is not for advertising

[dire meteor]

I couldn't log in, but when I tried to log in to the actual website, it said I had some sort of protection agreement thing to agree to before it let me in... after agreeing to that, it all worked fine.

[winged valve]

Sorry for the inconvenience. I have deleted the message.

[drowsy plaza]

anyone here have a free product on fab? I am wondering if that bug where free sales reports didnt show up has been fixed

[inner plaza]

Anyone else also not see their product on recently added?

I see a bunch of other products there uploaded Jan21 but not mine

[untold bay]

the UI sorts by createdAt which I think actually sorts by when the product was created on the backend
more useful is/would be publishedAt (you can substitute the URL) which actually shows when a product is launched
because anyone sorting by createdAt may NEVER SEE products that took a while to get published

(This is the URL I use to browse new releases)
https://www.fab.com/channels/unreal-engine?is_ai_generated=0&listing_types=3d-model,atlas,brush,decal,education-tutorial,environment,game-system,game-template,hdri,material,smart-asset,tool-and-plugin,ui,vfx&sort_by=-publishedAt

[vale prawn]

Nope, still here

[inner plaza]

Thank you🦋 that makes sense ! What a weird system

[drowsy plaza]

so you dont know how many people have redeemed your free product?

[vale prawn]

Nope

[drowsy plaza]

Have you posted on the forums or sent a support ticket about that? I want to release a free product but not if I won’t know how many people are using it

[vale prawn]

Epic stopped answer any of my tickets a looooong time ago. And for that issue I think the devs acknowledged it the day the sales report went live, saying "we're aware of it, we'll fix it soon", which means... not much I guess.

[undone valve]

They are aware of this but said it isn’t their priority

[daring bridge]

is the W8-BEN form wizard broken on the last step for anyone else?

it literally fires off every single possible error response

[tender flame]

Hello. I'm having an issue with cart. How to add a Pro license to cart when you have personal license item in library?

[undone valve]

Doesn’t work

[worldly flower]

You don't need to

If you bought personel license at a time when your allover revenue wasn't bigger than 100K, it still is valid if you exceed that.

The pro license is only for bigger companies that buy at this second with millions on the shelves 🙂

[tranquil sentinel]

Hello everyone - has anyone else had issues where plugins and such that you own in the marketplace are not updating at all on the Epic Games Launcher?

I have a plugin that updated 10 days ago (according to Fab) - which also made it compatible for UE 5.5. But when I go to the launcher, it only says it is compatible for 5.4 and below. This plugin is installed directly to the engine, so there isn't any option of "add to project" that I could use either.

Any thoughts on how I can resolve this issue? I haven't been able to find anything on how to actually get this working properly.

[loud dome]

Only that you need to modify the URL if it contains changes.

[tranquil sentinel]

How do you do that and find the proper url to push an upgrade?

@loud dome , this would help me tremendously

[loud dome]

I just add a query at the end. Like ?x=20250122

Something that modifies the URL without changing the effect.

[tranquil sentinel]

Hmm, where would I put that in. The uproject of the plugin?

[loud dome]

ah no sorry. For each plugin version you need to provide an url to the zip right.
If you update that file without changing the url, fab won't detect that it's and updated file

[tranquil sentinel]

I guess I am still a bit lost - @loud dome

Hmm...

Where do I need to navigate on Epic Games Launcher or my local drive in order to change where this would point from?

If you update that file without changing the url, fab won't detect that it's and updated file

Is that something I can do as a user? Kind of sounds like something the developer of this plugin has to do no?

[loud dome]

omg.
I read your question all wrong. I had a issue where I updated my plugin on Fab and they never updated the actual plugin, just the description of it..

Not sure how to trigger an update in the launcher.

Should just be enough to restart the epic launcher and under Installed plugins it should look something like this.

For Fab library I have no idea. Those stuff you do "Add to project" with

[tranquil sentinel]

While yeah I'd agree on that one.

The update 10 days ago now allows for it to be on 5.5

But the launcher says incompatible with 5.5 lol

[loud dome]

When I released MeshPack for 5.5 I had to restart the launcher to get it to show. (Make sure the quit it in the tray)

[tranquil sentinel]

Damn, still didn't seem to do the trick

[pastel shore]

I had the same issue. Disable the blocking of third party cookies. It's dependent on cookies from embedded site.

[daring bridge]

I'll give it a go, cheers

[last matrix]

is it just me or is FAB sales page updating more frequently than just after midnight every night?

I like this change

I have gotten a bad habit of staying up till midnight to see the sale chart update each night

[green seal]

I think it updates at midnight UTC. It updates at 3am daily here in Norway, which is UTC+3.

[loud dome]

@green seal Siden du også holder til i Norge. Sendte deg en DM, men tror ikke du har sett den 😅

[undone valve]

Search suggestions

[rare helm]

One question, does all unreal engine asset have to be in "smart assets" i think fab didnt like that my unreal environment product is using "environments" product type

[silent mesa]

Do prices change based on location even if my account is based on another country?

Like im currently in europe atm, for a few months for a training, i want to buy an asset on fab. I am from southeast asia, i work there and i pay taxes there.

So if i buy an asset how will it affect the prices? If it will be increased based on current location can i force it to use where im originally at? Thanks

[warm knot]

Hey, guys, I'm thinking about publishing a brand new idea that's never been done before. I'm going to call it "Unique Creatures Pack." Great idea, huh?

[wispy scarab]

Hey everyone

What are opinions on the Cassini project?

[drowsy plaza]

It updates at around 745pm my time(central time in America), I wish they did live sales updates like steam but 745 is better than midnight like it was on the marketplace. I think they are using the same backend service as the epic games store sales reports since they update at the same time.

[drowsy plaza]

Only one way to find out, go to the checkout window and see if it uses USD or euro

[drowsy plaza]

Smart assets are blueprints, in other engines they have different names. If your environment pack has stuff like procedural foliage spawners or other blueprints then it needs to be in that category most likely.

So an example would be a handgun blueprint, that would be a smart asset

[last matrix]

I’m PST and it used to update at midnight yeah, but I noticed yesterday that it had updated to show sales for Jan 22 earlier than that

[drowsy plaza]

PST would update around 545 I think. Is it updating before then?

[last matrix]

I’ll have to check that out today. Maybe that’s how it’s always been since FAB launched and I never noticed till now

[drowsy plaza]

I don’t see any updates today so far and it’s 146 for me

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah check it around 4-5pm today and then again at or after 545pm

[warm knot]

I am curious, what should be placed into a handgun blueprint? I made one, but just want to know how others do it.

[drowsy plaza]

probably shooting mechanics, animation systems, and anything else that goes into making a gun work in game in a polished state

[warm knot]

Yeah, that's basically what I did.

[undone valve]

Is it safe to just apply my assets to the february sale trough the link or do I have to wait for the email to arrive?

[trim portal]

Can anyone tell how should companies handle UE accounts?
Is it possible to make one company account that buys assets etc. and connect every individual account to that company account?

I want to buy a plugin for UE from Fab, but it shouldn't be connected to my individual account.

[undone valve]

I don’t know if what you want is possible but in your epic games account settings you have some company related stuff you can check out

[trim portal]

Thanks! I'll take a look

[undone valve]

Glad to see sales being very great again

[marble egret]

Why Epic doesn't want people to solve disputes using class actions?? I thought class actions are for individuals who are negatively impacted by illegal practice of some business and the individuals loss is too low that they can't afford to pay a lawyer so these people group together!

in another word, class actions are for individual who can't afford to solve disputes in their individual capacity

this raises a red flag!

[trim portal]

Yes, that is a red flag. But the law allows that in EULA and it's beneficial for companies to not be sued, so recently there's been a trend to add a waiver clause into EULA. Even Discord added one about a year ago.

Here's one other example of such a forced arbitration clause
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-sue-wifes-death-agreed-disney-terms-service-rcna166594

[marble egret]

I didn't say it's sueing companies is beneficial, I learned about class actions from cases like paypal honey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKbFBgNuEOU

[polar python]

lol

is he back ?

[hollow basin]

Luckily no, I just checked and it shows no products but he still has a seller page

[gloomy plover]

Hey all, I'm using the UE 5.3 source build and facing issue with the fab plugin which is not able to launch the fab marketplace.

How do I fix it?

[drowsy plaza]

they are extremely expensive for a company because you are not settling with just one person but usually thousands to millions of people all at once. class actions usually cost companies 100s of millions of dollars if not billions.

it says you can still sue them, just not in a class action. if you have a solid case most law firms have lawyers who take cases on a payout contingency as they take 30-50% of the winnings from a settlement

https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/01/see-the-new-features-due-in-unreal-engine-5-6-and-beyond/

Epic released a future plans for unreal 5 and it looks like PCG is releasing into production in 5.6 or 5.7 so sellers who use it will be happy

high fps lumen sounds cool too, hopefully they can pull it off

[marble egret]

Again watch the video who explain what class action is.

I was one of the people who got scammed by Roberts Space Industries (StarCitizen), as an early backer i was entitled full refund if they didn't release the game within a year. they didn't give me a refund to this day and I didn't open the game since they changed their eula and to this day I didn't get full refund.
I went to university and graduated and the game didn't come out lol.
there was a chat of class action but it didn't happen. Are you saying that I am stupid enough to sue to company and pay thousands of dollars to get ~200$

Yeah you can sue them but if fab did something to a group of people and hurt them financially, especially with the non-voluntarily new machine learning training(there's no such thing as AI) they added to few days ago!
if a large group of people is hurt and their loss is too low(hundreds or couple thousands), their only option is class action because you cannot pay a lawyer thousands of dollars to get a thousand or two, because lawsuits are too expensive!!

[drowsy plaza]

I didn’t say you were stupid, the legal system shouldn’t be used to recoup 100 bucks. That’s a waste of time, resources, and energy. It’s not hard to make that back. 100 bucks(or whatever it is) multiplied by tens of thousands if not millions of people is a heck of a lot of money.

I think one party getting 100 bucks and the other losing 100 million fits the definition of unfair. The legal system should be used ethically and morally. I don’t see the world as rich = bad and poor = good.

You can also sue for other things besides the exact loss, such as time lost, lawyer fees, emotional damage, secondary damages, and anything else. But if you lost 100 bucks then I think you should just move on

[marble egret]

You won’t get sued in a class case unless you done illegal practice against large group of people, not just an individual! Like volexwagen case or PayPal.

So basically what you are saying companies can do whatever you want, unless you are a big company who can retaliate or willing to waste your money to get your rights, let go of your rights and move on!
Cool!

I believe everyone should be held accountable on their action, no matter how significant or insignificant their actions might be that’s all, I don’t want this conversation to drag.

[desert panther]

especially with the non-voluntarily new machine learning training(there's no such thing as AI) they added to few days ago!
The what now they added when? @marble egret

[marble egret]

There was change in their privacy policy, few days ago!

[desert panther]

🤔

Improving technologies or processes used to accomplish these purposes (like training machine learning models used to help detect or moderate toxic, illegal, or harmful content or conduct and enforce our terms and policies like our Community Rules).
Well I'm okay with it as long as it only applies to those things it lists

[marble egret]

There’s nothing wrong with this, but There was other clauses that adds a loophole to that!

I studied legal issues, basically cyber security laws at university and my lovely professor, taught us about some loopholes they use to do other stuff they weren’t suppose to do, should I look it up again and explain??

[desert panther]

If you can point me at the part you think is problematic that's good enough :)

[marble egret]

sure but it will be a long quotes

B. Information We Collect Automatically
We collect some information automatically when you visit, access, or use the Epic Services
>  **While the specific types of information that we automatically collect may vary, they generally include**:

This means this is not everything they collect and they can collect anything any time, so it could change like by adding machine learning.

Now this means for EXAMPLE if Epic uses OpenAI products, OpenAI will have your data too, so there's no tell who has your data whatever it maybe depends on what service epic uses

3. HOW DO WE USE INFORMATION?
• Personalizing your experience, including by presenting content or features better tailored to you or your interests, or our inferences about your interests (for instance, if you frequently play games in a certain genre, we may infer that you’d be interested in that genre and suggest similar games to you);
you can't do that without violating user privacy, they can get more data from other sources but more to that later

But please note that this privacy policy does not restrict our ability to process information that does not individually identify you, and we may use and disclose aggregated or de-identified information for any reason permitted by law.
There's no such thing as a data that doesn't identify you, any data can be used to identify you and there's shell companies to collect and identify users(my professors said they uses to work with one of those)
any information that does not individually identify, do identify you when you cross reference it with other data that doesn't individually identify you, and with Machine Learning this can be done in a second!!!!
Also Note:
Epic Doesn't need to violate your data itself, they can do this by giving your data to those who do! like OpenAI for instance

4. HOW DO WE SHARE INFORMATION?
first they say this
We may share some of the information we collect to help operate and improve the Epic Services. Depending on how you interact with us, common examples might include sharing
but then they add this
• We may also share information that does not identify you with third parties, including aggregate or de-identified information.

basically you can delete everything else in this section as it becomes useless. they can share anything

Third parties you interact with through Epic Services may have different privacy practices than Epic, so we encourage you to review their privacy policies before sharing your information with them.

This is epic saying even though we may not violate your data, we can't promise the same thing from the third parties we work with

Remember OpenAI's witness who killed himself(😉) before testifying in court against OpenAI(on how they mis-use user data). and the police in the USA kept silent for two weeks before saying anything.

people don't commit suicide before going to court, there's a name for people who die before testifying in court, just saying

[desert panther]

Tbh feels like they're gonna have trouble with GDPR at this rate

[marble egret]

Not really lol, not with this a privacy policy like this

[desert panther]

The vague parts where it's like "here's some of the data" doesn't fly with GDPR. You can't just collect a bunch and be like "I'm not gonna tell you all of them, or which ones I'm using"

[marble egret]

Well there's more I'd like to add but unfortunately I cannot!

in short, Yes, only if they get caught, Thus, in another word it's practically the contrary, they can get away with it easily

Machine learning data can be more messed up than you think according to seriously ongoing criminal projects we discussed at lectures and the examples we were given and the ideas my colleagues brainstormed for the professor who denied being part of that project(even though he knew too damn much in details about them).

[warm knot]

Better dig GhostHell's grave now, cause he's about to commit suicide at this rate.

[marble egret]

Yep lol

[proper dew]

Has anyone here bought the Humble Bundle Elites Creators Supebundle 4000+ Assets Pack? I feel like they messed some things up and I want to know if its just me or maybe other people as well.

[alpine thicket]

https://www.fab.com/listings/a2935bc7-90d9-48a9-98e7-d4fbf85bbc3e it's says it's 0.99 dolar but I downloaded free on unreal engine? How?

[proper dew]

All Megascans assets became paid at the beginning of 2025. Maybe you claimed the asset before that?

[undone valve]

Its a quixel asset

[mortal roost]

i have a question. so i released uRecoil today but i had to set it to "mature content". does this really fall under mature content? to me this sounds veeery very nitpicking (https://www.fab.com/listings/4e9fc3fe-6938-4959-a352-1867d2516b2c)

[daring bridge]

Pretty much nothing works. this is quite motivating to just stop being a publisher.

it sounds a lot like fab just hasn't worked right from the outset and I don't have the time or energy to work through it just to retain some legacy assets

[daring bridge]

it's probably extra-sensitive because lots of schools use unreal engine in certain courses now

[mortal roost]

but why classifying this as "mature"? this is a Recoil and Camera Shake Spray Pattern solution.. of course I show it off in the games it is being used, but that's common sense. The stuff included is still 0% mature content. mature content means 18+ and not even Steam as the games listed as 18+. so this makes no sense to me at all...

[mortal roost]

i found this all a bit discouraging...

[mild garden]

I had to appeal this sword https://www.fab.com/listings/f4d48254-297b-4f41-9be4-7a60af57dfe3 about 3 times before, I believe, they just manually put my asset online without the mature tag. The bot kept mistakenly tagging my sword as containing mature content. It went something like this: I publish it, it gets tagged as mature, I appeal, it goes online, a day passes, and then somehow my sword gets tagged as mature again and gets delisted again. This kept repeating.

[mortal roost]

Sounds like a very very bad experience

[alpine thicket]

Well I didnt,Idk if I did or not actually......

[alpine thicket]

So this is mean it's paid for non ue users?

[proper dew]

No, now its paid for all users, UE or not

[undone valve]

You were able to claim all quixel assets for free until 2025

[alpine thicket]

But It didnt ask for money from me? Weird.

[proper dew]

Maybe some Fab bug

[tardy charm]

If you already clicked the claim button while it existed, you will own them. They will still show a price tag but that's mostly a visual bug because the assets aren't in your library but you still own them and can access them freely

[responding to the now deleted scam link message from a hacked account] the hyperlink feature is a mistake

[tardy charm]

some folks over in the unofficial reddit seems to be having some issues too. Seems like the Medieval Kitchen pack is actually the Medieval Chairs pack

not sure if this is just mislabling or they just got the wrong key. I'm probably not gonna pick this bundle up but if I do, it'll probably be on the last day so hopefully it's fixed by then lol since I'd actually prefer the kitchen over some chairs

[drowsy plaza]

Probably this screenshot because it has blood, fab makes any asset that shows blood as mature even a little bit

[mortal roost]

so you mean if i replace this 1 screenshot it will be fine? are video-content links irrelevant to the review?

[drowsy plaza]

Probably, if you email support they will tell you what exactly it was that got flagged

It could also be the word hell

[mortal roost]

the last time i was writting with support they stopped responding for no reason

[mortal roost]

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

man this would be so funny

[drowsy plaza]

Just send in a ticket, if you try to do everything in one large ticket it may get closed out or forgotten

[mortal roost]

alright. thanks

🙂

[warm knot]

Oh no, don't tell the children about hell or blood...

[proper dew]

yeah exactly

I already wrote an email to humble bundle but didnt receive an answer yet.

[proper dew]

The medieval kitchen pack was advertised, the key after buying had the name medical pack vol1 but the key was actually linked to the medieval chairs pack.

[lusty wharf]

I am not able to buy anything on fab, its showing "Ooops an error occurred, please try again later!" since the fab store opened

[tame compass]

did anyone get invtied febuary sales ?

i am frustated its been 27 days

[hollow basin]

I got invited 3 days ago. They are usually slow with the invites but the deadline for sign up is the 1st of February so they really didn't prepare much time

[undone valve]

Just use the link or someone else it will work without any problems

[tame compass]

i find it

it only allow 3 product

...

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah this sale is only 3 products

[tame compass]

[drowsy plaza]

They said on the forums personal discounts are coming soon, so maybe in march they will open them up

they said they do agile development with fab, so that means we likely will get roadmap updates every 3-5 weeks

the last update was 1-2 weeks ago I think

[tame compass]

also they need to adress lying developer who put ai in non ai segment

its overpopulate the page

[drowsy plaza]

in search I have not seen issues with AI showing up, though I do agree that there should be reprecussions for lying about AI use but thats hard to prove so I doubt it will ever happen.

[strong helm]

I'm a new developer learning to use UE5. Most of the tutorials or YT videos I followed use Quixel Bridge but I see that this is now being deprecated. Fab doesn't seem as easy to use and the "free" assets on there seem to be pretty limited - am I potentially doing something incorrectly when I search on there or am I missing something else here?

As an example, I'm trying to create a winter forest environment for a class project and am having trouble finding what I thought would be basic pine forest trees or snow/rock assets. I'm not sure if I'm perhaps searching in the wrong area of Fab or something

[jaunty dagger]

Check through project natures assets may have something your looking for. https://www.fab.com/sellers/Project Nature

[shrewd remnant]

Is there a master material available for textures downloaded on Fab as there used to be for megascans, or do we have to make a material ourselves?

[sharp frigate]

I miss old marketplace >~>

[rare helm]

Its undoubtedly dumb to ask for a 1920 x 1080 thumbnail to then compress it to 320 x 180

I hope someone fixes this soon and ask for 320 x 180 so we design it properly

[brazen geyser]

Fab is a truly an interesting place
https://www.fab.com/listings/e1e376c6-3fff-4e26-ab58-da760cbbfe91

[wraith blade]

Hello everyone, does anyone have a suggestion of a decent and optimised SCI-fi / Futuristic City pack on the marketplace payed or free

[rare helm]

Anyone knows how to delete my product on fab

[undone valve]

You need to first delist it and then you can delete it

[rare helm]

Thank you i clicked unlist listing then delete listing and its gone now

Idk whats listing anyway but it worked

[undone valve]

A listing is your published product. If you unlist it it is unpublished and then you can delete it

[drowsy plaza]

yeah the fab plugin should have one in its installation, when i downloaded a material from fab on my macbook it had a master material

[drowsy plaza]

you dont want a surreal low poly mesh of a random area for 10 dollars?

[shrewd remnant]

Weird I only see JPG texture files when downloading

[drowsy plaza]

you need to download it through the fab plugin not the zip files

[shrewd remnant]

Thanks!

[rare helm]

Which email do i send to to apply promotion/sale on my product

Is it the old marketplace support one or there is a new one

Or there is new method without mail

[fresh sphinx]

Anyone else get prompted this?
Not too sure how to resolve it, as its not very clear what needs to be done after clicking on "declare trader status". It just takes me to my trader info

[tepid niche]

I'm wondering, if I create a Plugin for a project of mine, do you think it is worth putting it on fab?
How much work is it putting it on fab?
If I already create it why not put it on fab?

[undone valve]

Just go to the trader info and click "Update". Nothing will happen

After a few hours it vanishes

[fresh sphinx]

I was going crazy thinking that update selections button was doing absolutely nothing 😄

[undone valve]

Me too 😄 But for me and for other people it vanished

After waiting a couple of hours after clicking "Update"

[fresh sphinx]

thank you for letting me know 🙏

[undone valve]

You are welcome

[drowsy plaza]

That’s not a feature yet, the next sale is in February

[drowsy plaza]

You basically need to make sure it’s easy to use, make written documentation hosted online somewhere, setup the UPlugin descriptors, make a store page with a thumbnail, screenshots, description, and submit the files to fab. You also will likely need to keep it up to date with the latest engine version if you want good reviews

If there is no gain for you then putting it on fab probably isn’t worth it, maybe just upload it to GitHub and give it a searchable name if that’s the case

[tepid niche]

I was thinking something like that, the overhead probably is quite substantial and probably it will not get any traction unless it's something promoted and something "huge".

[drowsy plaza]

I mean if it’s free you will get thousands of downloads but fab users expect support for even free products

[tepid niche]

Yea so more free work then and having it paid, it probably won't generate any revenue right? 😅

[drowsy plaza]

It depends on what it is

If your product solves a problem people commonly have and it’s not a overly saturated market then it will likely make money

You are not obligated to provide support for a product though, you just need to have written documentation available. You are more likely to get low reviews but it’s not required

[tepid niche]

Yea it probably is decision that needs to be made individually.

I was just thinking if I create a small UMG/slate drag and drop framework plugin for my game, do I maybe just put it on fab.

But then it probably needs more refinement, and the other overhead. Besides it probably begin a saturated marked, it's probably more like it's own project and not just putting something on fab and risking bad reviews, which might hurt stuff I really want to put on fab ... it's probably not worth 😅

[undone valve]

I thought this same stuff when I started and now this is my main source of income

[tepid niche]

Hmmm 🤔
I mean that is a different perspective, maybe I need to give this a bit mor thinking.

Thank you for that! 🙂

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah I put dlc in blueprints on the marketplace just cause and it made me like 20 grand over 2 years

[fossil dune]

Have the same issue except there is no "update" button

[tepid niche]

Is it just me, I'm trying to add something with the fab plugin and I'm getting LogFab: Error: Invalid Manifest.

[spring glade]

it's down here when u click declare. but it seems to do nothing 🤣

[fossil dune]

What i get when i visit the page is this, its been stuck like this for weeks... Even reported it. Support says they have no ETA of when it might get fixed...

[spring glade]

hmm. its sadly a bit difficult to get ahold of fab support in my experience as well =/

[fossil dune]

The profile stays unverified though and the notification is always there.
Wondering what happens after February 1

Lose sales from the entire EU or what

[echo egret]

Is there something going on with FAB today? I'm trying to add items to my cart or direct buying and it gives me an error, not allowing to do so.

I've been trying several hours and still gives that same issue.

[echo egret]

Can somebody check if it's happening or it's just me?

[drowsy plaza]

Adding items to cart and opening checkout works for me

[fresh sphinx]

I received this email back from FAB regarding this. Though, my profile is still displaying that I'm not verified, and that I need to still "declare my status"

[echo egret]

Then it's just me and I have no idea whatI can do about it. I verified the issue is happening with the Limited-Time Free assets...

[echo egret]

I wonder if i'm gonna have some feedback before it's too late...

... I've even tried clearing any cache or cookie then also tried on other browsers... the issue is the very same

[gritty stream]

https://www.fab.com/listings/e859f6a0-71c6-4636-b7c8-f066641380ff
WTF!!!!!

[solar rapids]

I didn't even get an email about it I was just checking on my sales report and got surprised by this 2 days before they apply it

[echo egret]

It really doesn't make any sense... It sounds like after that date no more trader will be allowed to sell items in the marketplace? So weird...

[echo egret]

That's Genius-level! It's something that reminds things like that which happen in Naples 😏 ... when safe-belt became mandatory in Italy someone in Naples started selling T-shirts with safe-belts printed onto them 😂

Not to mention the bottles with "Air Of Naples"... 😏

[fresh sphinx]

I think it might be a database issue on their side. A few sellers including myself have gotten this message just a few days before it gets enacted. I received a support email back stating that their development team is investigating the issue, though, I don't know whether or not this will still hinder or impact sellers after the 1st of Feb if it isn't resolved by then

[echo egret]

Anyway... I still cannot claim the Limited-Time Free assets and the giveaway is gonna end very soon. So annoying... at this point I don't think the issue is gonna be fixed in time.

FAB is having so many troubles I really wish the old marketplace was still active... such a mess!

[fresh sphinx]

Also there is no clarification as to whether or not this can be resolved after the 1st of Feb, which is worrying as for many people, this is their primary source of income. I suppose all we can do is wait and hope it resolves itself

[echo egret]

Exactly. I haven't applied as trader yet, I have no asset of mine on sale so I didn't think it was necessary to apply for that yet. I'd like to find out how things are gonna work when I'll finally have an asset to publish.

[round pulsar]

Has anyone worked with the City Sample buildings? Almost all buildings in the pack have errors with their UVs and/or textures. I am on Unreal 5.4. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks! 🙏

[rare helm]

In publish tab i see this yellow message:

You must declade your trader status by February 1 to continue selling to buyers in european union

And inside its already selected (I am non-trader)

So im not sure what do they want, do they want me to select i am trader? Or this message just appears to all publishers although they selected

[desert panther]

You should probably contact Fab support for questions like this.

[undone valve]

It’s a bug right now. Nothing will happen. And if something happens after 1 February reach out to the support team. That’s what the fab team said on the forums

[fresh sphinx]

This is what I received back after asking about the situation

[rare helm]

Thank you guys

[tardy charm]

I'm still waiting for the sequel... The Sphere

[fossil dune]

I asked them to reset my verification and I started the verification from scratch. It worked without any issues. Got the tick and everything.. Ask them to do that as a last resort...
My profile was stuck on pending for weeks for some reason.

[fresh sphinx]

I think I'll give it a day or 2. But yea like you said, last resort I'll ask them to reset it for me

[thorny vault]

Has anyone else started getting what is likely scam mails where someone wants to offer you up to 2.5 ethereum for an NFT of your asset?

I have received 3 such mails from different people so far this year. They're rather well crafted I must say

[south cape]

I've been out of the loop for a bit, it doesn't seem like assets are on sale at all on Fab, is thatr fairly typical ( I like to browse sales)

[mortal roost]

@drowsy plaza your suggestion with replacing the image that had blood in it worked 😁 . thanks a lot!

[drowsy plaza]

good to hear

[polar python]

ye they r scam, i have also recieved these type of emails

[south cape]

It's what happens when you tie 6 months of adobe to 'post something to fab'

[hexed tartan]

Ah Default Cube. Perfect for people who are used to blender.

[torpid tapir]

Hey y'all I wanted to ask what is the best way to upload my assetts to Fab: I ussualy model on blender, texture on Substance and use UE for my renders. To upload the assetts to fab should I export from blender with the texture, or mesh and texture separated? or is there a better way to approach this?

[drowsy plaza]

Fab supports selling as a zip with just the model and texture but most people would sell it as a asset package for unreal and unity

[torpid tapir]

ok so I should create an empty UE project (expept for a level and my assets) and uploadd that?

[undone valve]

There are instructions here on how to upload any asset type: https://support.fab.com/s/article/FAB-TECHNICAL-REQUIREMENTS

[torpid tapir]

oh wow thank a lot!!

[last matrix]

ok yeah, it looks like for me it updates at or around 5:30pm PST

[drowsy plaza]

Hey guys it seems fab has updated their search again, if you changed your tags for the last change make sure you reevaluate them again

[polar python]

finally someone understand, why there is soo much crap on fab

[mild garden]

I am currently experimenting with different thumbnail designs and would love some feedback on these prototypes. Do they look good? Is there something I could improve? Also do you think I should add my logo maybe in the corner? I am unsure about the border. I do not really like it but I feel like it helps. What do you guys think?

[fresh sphinx]

In my opinion, I feel that the bottom ones are more legible than the gold text. The border around does make it "pop" a little more, though the bottom right looks a little cleaner. Doesn't feel as cluttered. Looks good though regardless :)

[worldly flower]

I dunno - but - wouldn't it make sense to have text fully readable? 🙂
The Axe overhanging two glyphs maybe is a cool effect, but distracts - and since those glyphs are vowels, it gets even harder (not impossible) to read..

[fresh sphinx]

Some more white space around the outside of the image sort of like this might also help with the clutter a little. I just generative filled this in as an example, but I think it feels a little neater. again, just my opinion 😄

[mild garden]

I am also inclined to not include the border, but since my assets will likely appear multiple times in the same search, I feel like I need to make it obvious that they are from the same creator at a glance. The border would be the easiest way to do that (It also helps with catching the eye), along with the way the text is presented. Maybe I can achieve that by adding the logo instead. I will need to think more about it. Maybe I will try making thumbnails for some of my the other assets to see how it fares. I do not really like zooming out too much, but yeah, it was probably a bit too big. Thanks!

[echo egret]

Any Fabulous news about next Sale!??

[echo egret]

Don't ask that too loud... 😏 I might provide it myself 😂

A free smooth sphere... and why not a smooth cylinder as well 😏

[pulsar nova]

february

[trail dagger]

I'm having the same folder naming problem. We submit a plugin with a particular folder name but when our users install the plugin it is placed in a folder with another name. Did you find a way to control the folder name?

[still basin]

No unfortunately, I had to message fab to change it back

I also made a post about it on the forum if you want to share that

I think they saw that as an isolated issue

[trail dagger]

I found this one:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/product-not-updated-properly-and-folder-name-change/2299963

[still basin]

This one thank, I was on my phone and didn't had time to get it 🙂

[dusk kelp]

Is it just me or is fab completely unresponsive atm?
Edit: Works on chrome but on firefox not a single button works

[undone valve]

Scam

🤖

[polar python]

products submissions are open and deadline is 1 fab

[echo egret]

Just in a week or two then, makes sense. Alright. Thanks.

By the way... is the in-editor login planned to ever gonna be all internal to the engine or will always require the in-browser login even in the future!?
I find that so annoying... I try to never have the browser open when I've got the editor running, for better performance.

[drowsy plaza]

It’s kinda hard to tell what I’m looking at in a glance due to the colors of the background and the asset blending together and not creating a good sillohoute

[drowsy plaza]

I really hope the individual set sales come back in march, on the marketplace a good chunk of my monthly revenue came from discounts

[still basin]

I read your post (guessing it is you) and indeed that similar problem. In my case they renamed it to the project's name instead of the usual folder name.
This made my tool to open with compile errors and a few one stars..

[tepid aspen]

Which megascan trees look the best?

[drowsy plaza]

Anyone need a man in suit that’s ready for animation 354? https://www.fab.com/listings/8334a7b9-edf1-40fa-b49c-b0325810401e

I don’t know what 354 means, maybe that’s how many assets this creator is selling

I think these are AI generated because he has so many assets he sells

[undone valve]

I think these are stolen form that one website that scans real people but I am not certain

[drowsy plaza]

Probably

[jaunty dagger]

Quads also

[drowsy plaza]

is that bad? Im not a modeler

[jaunty dagger]

This is what I understand about it from another source I read previously.
The bottom line is Triangle Rasterization, which is how computers render objects to the screen. Though others say it more elquently than I:

All 3D objects that we see on the computer screen are actually made of tiny little geometrical objects often called primitives. Quadrilaterals, triangles, n-gons etc. are example of primitives. We will concentrate on triangles mostly because of one main reason: every object can be split into triangles but a triangle cannot be split into anything else than triangles. Because of this, drawing triangles is a lot simpler than drawing polygons of higher order; less things to deal with. This is why those triangles are so commonly used in computer graphics.

Emphasis mine. Source: http://www.devmaster.net/articles/software-rendering/part3.php

Also a lot of the ai 3d modeling softwares i've used can be made in quads or tris. Default on some being quads.

[drowsy plaza]

This months payment will be the money made from December right?

[drowsy plaza]

Now that the month is over, did your sales get worse, stay the same, or get better compared to previous months?

Mine got worse

[mellow vigil]

Yeah

[mellow vigil]

Worse but Xmas sale wasnt too long ago tbh

January is quite dry

[drowsy plaza]

Yeah, I’m hoping next month is much better

[mellow vigil]

February sale will be coming up

[drowsy plaza]

True, we really need seller initiated discounts

It’s been 4 months since we had that feature, they took it away October 1st

I don’t get why they don’t just open it up with email like they did on the marketplace until they have a self service tool

[mellow vigil]

No idea they took alot of good features I think they are just focused on features to siphon as much money from customers with UI and fancy gimmicks vs making it easier for sellers atm

[polar python]

since launch of fab other than dec sale, i only made 2 sales lmao
1 in nov and 1 this month

[green seal]

I really wonder if it has anything to do with the EU rules that they are now abiding by. A product can’t be on sale more than once in a 30 day period (theres more to it than that but that is the gist of it). So with seller initiated discounts it becomes a whole other can of worms to manage if there is no system in place to keep track of those things. Until then, easier to simply only allow the actual fab sales and easier to keep track of that instead. For what its worth there’s a lot more pressing concerns/things to fix/features to add before this becomes a priority. You unfortunately can’t simply throw more humans at a problem and have it be resolved faster.

Pure speculation though don’t quote me on this

[fossil dune]

It could be just a simple boolean check or database query for "Seller X Last Discount Date"
If Current - Last <30 days , then Reject seller initiated discount and show message on dashboard...

Assuming their database is well organised then quering stuff like that is a few minutes

[green seal]

I'm sure they have a legitimate reason for the time being is what I mean, from what I've gathered through the grapevine, there is SO much we don't know/are out of the loop on, and a lot of cool stuff coming

[tepid niche]

How is it, I'm still getting a LogFab: Error: Invalid Manifest error when trying to add assets with fab?
What can I do?

and now after restarting it is a LogFab: Error: Invalid pack - either contains a uproject or a uplugin file error when trying to add it

Also the errors only show in the console

This is something that exists since launch and I don't understand why there isn't at least a error message in the UI

Not sure what to do about i :/

thats really annoying, I was able to add one pack but others wont work

[tepid niche]

any ideas what I can do?

[drowsy plaza]

are the others that didnt work labeled as "asset pack" and not "Complete project" or "Code plugin"?

[mellow vigil]

Is payout today?

[hollow basin]

Either today or tomorrow. I have noticed sometimes they are a day early

[drowsy plaza]

They will send the email tonight and it should be in your bank tomorrow

[molten forge]

anyone else having a problem saving changes made in the 'edit 3d setting' bit? its just stuck on 'saving your scene... please wait'

[tepid niche]

Ok so now I uninstalled and reinstalled the fab plugin LogFab: Error: Invalid pack - either contains a uproject or a uplugin file then i got this error ...

Now adding it through the epic games launcher worked, how sad is that 😦

Are the asset versions from the launcher the same as from fab?

[drowsy plaza]

Hopefully the wishlists arrive before the February sale starts. It’s in progress on the roadmap now and they said marketplace wishlists will automatically transfer over so that could help with sales

[warm knot]

What he's saying is that he modelled this character without triangles, but Unreal will automatically change his model to be made of triangles only, so that probably doesn't even matter. Quad topology of 3D models only really matters during the modelling phase.

[rare helm]

Regarding ads, why do you think unreal doesnt support full screen interstitial ads which force us to download some plugin to do so

[drowsy plaza]

Honestly I think epic just didn’t care about the mobile platform for a very long time, now that Fortnite is there they might but I don’t think Fortnite monetized with ads so who knows

I really feel like epic needs to focus on the mobile platform more by making it easier and feature rich

[rare helm]

Indeed, I hope it does

[drowsy plaza]

Man they messed up the 100% revenue share deal, December payouts show 12% taken off so it’s not the full 100% like they promised. Hopefully they make it right

[digital agate]

yup, I very much hope that they fix that soon. Also, the processing seems to be stuck with nothing in PP yet

[undone valve]

Fab gets worse each day

[molten forge]

Anyone else get stuck here? it wont fucking save anything lmao

fab is so shit its insane

[undone valve]

Make sure to share that you also only received 88% revenue here: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/so-what-happened-to-100-revenue-for-2024/2310907/4

[hollow basin]

Just got my email, and yep they skimmed by 12%

[pulsar nova]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/issue-with-seller-payouts-for-december-revenue/2311091

[drowsy plaza]

We are getting 2 payments next month it seems

I’m glad they addressed the issue and came up with a resolution

[drowsy plaza]

Man this month was abysmal for sales

[mild garden]

I was expecting worse, but sales increased in the latter half of January. I ended up making 85% of what I did in December. I personally don't have much hope for February, as they have decided on our behalf that we can only have three items on sale 🤷‍♂️ Now, Epic dictates not only when they go on sale but also how many can be on sale.

[drowsy plaza]

I made 30% of what I made in December and 20% of what I made in November. The fact they changed search, broke it, and won’t revert it telling us to just wait for them to refine it further is making me mad

The personal set sales will come soon, I’m not concerned about that

[mild garden]

That's rough. Hopefully, they improve search to a more acceptable state, but this will only be possible if they start considering factors like the recent rate of favorites/wishlists, click rates, and other relevant metrics. Maybe they limited the number of items we can put on sale because they plan to introduce functionality for individual sales soon, but I doubt that's the case.

[worldly flower]

Finally got my payouts of my sales in december - whoop whoop🎉

[silent fjord]

Does anybody know what those 5.20, 5.3.0, 5.6.0 numbers are referring to when youre downloading fab assets into the epic games launcher. For context I have a few objects being downloaded and imported into a 5.3 engine project

[worldly flower]

the Engine version the plugin gets downloaded for

still a Bug since Launch of the Fab launcher system.. not showing the actual Plugin name

[vestal sluice]

Damn, that's a significant drop in sales in your side. Yeah it irks me the search still feels incredibly broken. That's the one thing they need to be fixing now more than anything else.

[drowsy plaza]

Abby told me that they will be announcing or releasing something for search next week in a DM

It wasn’t clear if it was a announcement or a update that is getting release though

[vestal sluice]

I'm quite pessimistic about any good news here because barely anything changed since launch, but I hope I'm proven wrong.

[drowsy plaza]

They have been releasing updates every week or so, it’s mainly just quality of life and bug fixes so you won’t see some radical new feature

[green seal]

They made it right the same day they noticed the issue happened, and will be rectifying it next week, with additional January payments early

[worldly briar]

so is fab the only way to download plugins we bought from the marketplace now?

and by that i mean the fab plugin inside the editor? it seems you cannot download plugins from the website

[loud dome]

You download plugins through the launcher as before?

[worldly briar]

im on linux, there is no launcher supported for linux. i was hoping there was way to just download plugins. seems rediculous that i would have to download the launcher in wine or lutris just to download a separate installtion of UE which i wont use just to DL my plugins

[drowsy plaza]

Why are you using Linux if the applications you use daily don’t support it? Just run windows and install Linux in a VM for fun use when you are bored. Linux is really only good for servers and devices that have their own ecosystem like android

[worldly briar]

i dont use UE daily, although i used to when i working on my hobby project in it (on windows). ive since moved to linux and most of my work is done there. i was just hoping i would be able to pick UE back up on linux

[rose lagoon]

#fab message

[worldly briar]

thanks, i will look into this

[hollow basin]

Does anyone know if fab allows multiple versions of a product in a submission? For example, I would have a folder named <my product> and in it would be the folders <version 2.0> and <version 1.0>. If they do allow that, would updating the pack with folders <version 2.1> and <version 1.0> delete the version 2.0 folder? Because I know updates can overwrite data and add things but I didn't know if it can also delete them as well

[fluid cargo]

You can have whatever you want in the folders as long as it all meets other requirements. For content only assets, updates won't remove files from a project that already has the content, and that is a good thing. You should also make sure updates you post won't break existing projects.

[desert panther]

Damn, Fab approved an update to my plugin in like 4 hours from submission on a sunday

[peak widget]

Yeah, they've been super fast recently
Love it.

[hollow basin]

Is there a way to test update submissions that aren't published right away to make sure that they work through fab before it is marked as publicly available?

[green seal]

When you submit an update you can choose whether it goes live the moment it is approved, or you can choose manual publication.

[tame compass]

wait a minute we got all payment from december ?

is that means january cant be combined to december ?

[hollow basin]

When you choose manual publication, is there a way to test it from there, like what it would be on Fab if it was live?

[hollow basin]

You got 88% of December's pay. You can expect the rest of it along with January's pay on the 7th of February I believe

[tame compass]

the 12% is combined to january pay then ?

oh

means early money to get

[hollow basin]

Correct

[tame compass]

nice

i am bit short

[green seal]

Think so, I’ve never tested it. Either way it is good practice to test out after it goes live so you actually test what others are experiencing

[drowsy plaza]

No you can’t test the files until they are published but you can use the preview tool to see what your store page would look like before it’s published

[green seal]

Ah that makes sense, I assumed preview allowed you to test the files, my bad

[undone valve]

These audio composers really need to update their categories. So much ambient sounds are in the sfx category. Categories like "Forest" in Ambient sounds are completely empty even though there are a bunch of ambient sounds for forests available...

[hollow basin]

Thanks for confirming, that's what I thought but was hopeful I was missing something. Disappointing though

[drowsy plaza]

I mean the files you upload don’t get changed, so you could just test the files you submitted. You should have a local copy on your PC

[hollow basin]

Yeah but I wanted to test some things like what would be changed if I updated a pack with a folder name one character different, will it replace the folder or add a new one, and if it adds the new one, does it delete the old one? I am also about to sell my first c++ plugin and I wanted to play around how it would behave differently

[drowsy plaza]

I’m pretty sure files get overridden in updates.

I always ask my users to move the files to a different directory if they are modifying them

[mellow vigil]

Is sales really dry for you guys atm?

[hollow basin]

Depends how long is "atm" is referring to

[mellow vigil]

week

[hollow basin]

Eh, yeah kinda rough. Last month was decent for me though

[somber creek]

So I'm trying to wrap my mind around variable encryption mainly because I'm a bit ignorant to it. Im looking at this plugin https://www.fab.com/listings/7bb1af6d-a4a9-4db1-b5ef-c0a48c6773e1

Wouldn't someone easily be able to break the encryption because of some locally stored key somewhere?

[green seal]

Sales are always on the low end at the start of a new year, between black friday and the holidays, combined with the current state of the economy, people aren’t spending as much. Sales also fluctuate year over year, week over week, day over day. There are days where I’ll get a low amount of sales and think «yup not surprised» and other days where I am like «… huh why did it sell that much yesterday?» and I go around trying to find a connection, either a tutorial popped off and got more clicks than usual, etc. I never really find a connection but this is why I am pushing the fab team to provide us with tools for analytics

[undone valve]

Yeah we need analytics. First half of January was extremely bad for me. Second half of January was extremely good for me and I have no idea what caused this.

[desert panther]

It's a complex topic but exchange algorithms like diffie-hellman are designed to allow establishing an encrypted communications method without exposing the private keys. To decrypt the data each participant would of course have to store their own private key somewhere, I'm not sure how else would you expect it to function.

[green seal]

Like I said, right after the holidays is a low sales period across just about every industry ever, brick and mortar stores, etc, it's nothing to do with you

[undone valve]

But how do you explain the second half being exceptionally good? Just a pile up of the people that haven’t bought in the first half?

[desert panther]

I think predicting/analyzing something like that on Fab is kind of hard since you don't control the funnel or have any kind of analytics on where your traffic comes from

(unless you have a funnel you do control that you use to drive traffic to your Fab pages)

[somber creek]

Yeah I was thinking that encrypting this stuff might just be redundant but on the other hand it might also kick out allot of "would be hackers".

[desert panther]

It depends on what you are trying to protect. Encryption generally helps stop a thid party from snooping on information exchanged between two people.

[somber creek]

@desert panther I really need to stop packet manipulation. If it would stop client variable manipulation that would be the cherry on top but I doubt. This can stop that.

[desert panther]

Nah because the client is the one who's going to encrypt the information being sent, so they can do whatever they want with it

You would have to validate the data on the receiving end to ensure they aren't sending stuff they shouldn't be sending

[somber creek]

@desert panther yeah thing about that is how would I validate it. Say I changed a float on client side and the server is waiting for it. If I am not expecting a float in a certain range I would never know it was tampered with

[desert panther]

Yeah that's the problem faced with anticheat stuff in a lot of online games. Not much you can do other than define acceptable values for stuff I think. There are some stuff which tries to analyze the data for values that look out of place etc. but those are pretty complex to add I think

[mortal sentinel]

Hi guys, I recently made the mistake to update my quixel bridge extension and with the new version I cant easily import the megascans, since it always redirects me to fab. Now I know that everything is over fab now but its kinda hard to find the quixel stuff there and you have to download each asset individually. For my case that would be 166 assets from the canyon collection. Is there an easy way to import multiple assets into your project with the fab plugin or a way to revert my quixel bridge plugin to the old version otherwise?

[tepid niche]

is there a new sale planned?

[dire meteor]

I'm sure there's always plans.

[drowsy plaza]

It’s later this month after valentines

Only 3 products will be on sale per seller though so not everything will be

[royal rapids]

Anyone know why a free megascan sample project would say it's in my library, but when I go to my library on fab.com or the Epic Launcher it's not there? https://www.fab.com/listings/2e11a225-a6ea-4781-a3e1-fe975b461894

[green seal]

This project has not been migrated over to FAB, among lots of other ones. Only way to get it at the moment is if you already had it locally in your vault

[rose lagoon]

this project still appears in my library in the Launcher, maybe check your filters?

[green seal]

Interesting, I can download it now after refreshing it in my library, that's new!

[molten forge]

Question.. who actually gives a fuck about a wishlist feature? We cant even apply our own sales so what good is it? since analytics are virtually non-existent at this point I doubt it'll even tell the seller how many people have wishlisted something

All this shit in there new update might help buyers but does mostly fuck all for sellers

[warm knot]

So you don't have to have 100+ tabs open just to remember what you wanted to buy.

[molten forge]

So helps 'buyers' and does fuck all for seller like i just said lol