fab

[hollow basin]

It's only that you have to use professional license if and only if you are earning over 100k

[severe spoke]

that's why i initially figured might aswell grab it ya never know

if you may be in that ballpark someday lols

well for the fab freebies

[hollow basin]

Even so, you can buy stuff now since you are under the threshold and still be able to use it later when you earn more. But if you are already earning over the threshold you must buy professional license

[severe spoke]

Nice, g2k thanks mate

[vestal sluice]

Anyone else having lousy sales this month compared to previous months ?

[green seal]

It’s fairly normal to have a bit of a sales hangover after a large sale (end of april) which was 2 weeks ago. Depending on your product(s), it can take a few weeks for things to ramp up. Some people with high demand assets can be largely unaffected. It really depends.

[vestal sluice]

Indeed, I guess it's to be expected. I did have a pretty good performance in the last month's sale period at least, so that evens it out.

[molten cloud]

In addition to this, when thinking on sales, also consider standard development cycles, for many projects early June for example is a blackout period for demo purposes leading into the summer, and I'd say the next big blackout period would be around Sept/Oct and then Dec, followed up by Feb/March afterwards. I'd typically say to structure sales projections around quarterly blackout periods and plan accordingly~

[green seal]

I don't think I've ever heard of a blackout period?

[coral pollen]

For me May (W19) was very normal, in general recording to my historic data, it is mostly not one of the best sellings month like november Black Friday etc

||Normal means compared to (for me) a weaker '24 (specially while the switch to FAB) , a good (?) '23 which seemed to be the best year for Unreal Marketplace and a very weak '22 (I count this as a seller-starter year for me)||

[worthy pilot]

Hey will they bring fab to epic launcher or not

[jaunty dagger]

Think the plan was it to be fully integrated into editor I may be wrong though

[worthy pilot]

I think its already integrated with the editor i saw some ppl do that

[calm dagger]

The roadmap says they are planning on doing somekind of "desktop" FAB, though I am not certain if that means a standalone dedicated app or an integration on the Epic Games Launcher

[jaunty dagger]

It's partially integrated into the content browser

Think it's still a wip as it has some bugs the odd time

[worthy pilot]

Idk im used to buy assets in the launcher instead of the web now i only use web

[jaunty dagger]

Same

[worthy pilot]

Its weird but i also hope they do a mobile app for fab

[dense raven]

I hope this is the proper channel to ask for help.

I was extremely busy and never had enough time and will power to take a look at the requested changes on the Marketplace/FAB.

I need help with re-establishing the seller's account because someone reached out to me via email to ask for 5.5 version of my plugin.

Can someone help or direct me what should I do?
Many thanks in advance! ❤️

[undone valve]

Not sure. Asking the support team via the new support website might help you 🙂 And yes, this is the right channel

[merry plover]

Hey guys, I'm just wondering why this is still 0 despite having sales. Do the number update at the end of the month or it takes sometimes to update the number?

[hollow basin]

I wouldn't go off that number. The sales tab is much more informative. If you aren't getting paid a month after the end of the sales month (as in any sales April should be paid out at the very end of May or first two days of June) then you should worry about the payout tab, because either that number will increase due to not making enough from the month or you should get paid

[warm knot]

As far as I know, that number still might change anyway because someone might ask for a refund.

[green seal]

The balance here shows up at the end of a month, if you cross the threshold of $100, they pay you out, and the current balance returns to 0. Don't rely on this to see your expected earnings, use the sales tab.

[royal rapids]

I'm contemplating turning some features from my previous games into a standalone product on Fab. (Morph Target Cloning, Custom menu/UI system, etc.) Anyone on here able to tell me if it's worth the effort? I imagine art assets do much better than BP/programming ones in terms of sales. It's much harder to convey value of what a plugin/set of scripts do and I'm just curious on those that have taveled this path can tell me their experiences.

[calm dagger]

On the current market, anything non-art related will for the most part do better just because the art sections are flooded with cheap AI generated content

[marble egret]

I downloaded some asset! but I see nothing in vault and I see nothing in my project!

[hollow basin]

It really depends. You can have good code projects sell well. It really depends how much money you consider "worth it"

[drowsy jasper]

are there any decent top-down (or 3rd person) mobile touch screen assets on Fab to allow camera pan and rotation/tilt through swipes/gestures, in addition to tap and move functionality for player ?

[hallow jackal]

Testing UE 5.6 preview on Linux, both Fab and Bridge are unable to connect to Epic's servers. The problem is that the API "getaddressinfo" is not being found by the "dlsym" function, so it's unable to lookup the hostname of the server.

I'll file a bug report for this but would like to know if anyone can reproduce it on Linux and also on another platform.

[green seal]

Isnt that pretty normal? I seem to remember bridge always needing a few days or a week for it to be operational on the latest build version of Unreal, let alone a preview build. The plugin needs to be recompiled and updated.

[calm dagger]

Also I doubt it would be of any use since no assets can yet be marked as UE5.6 compatible

[green seal]

Yeah it is a preview, not intended for any real usage

[calm dagger]

To me it seems already more stable than UE5.5 "product ready" version 🤣

[green seal]

Havent had any issues with 5.5 personally, but thats good then!

[spiral jacinth]

That seems like a bug, the inability to find that function probably means UE 5.6 was compiled against a different version of a system library [my guess glibc]... I know with AMS, I actually had to create a docker to build my one of my libraries against the oldest glibc I could -- because some Linux distributions are using an older version than what my build server uses and that would cause a failure during runtime because what people were running were older than what I built against.

[agile kayak]

Nah no system is perfect 😭 being on both endsof having to use frameworks to check and score things and making them ; humans be humans and are lazy sometimes

Reality is if they wanted to they could automate it all with ai now lol

But idk about the morality of that

Imagine the guy proposing that as a project at work

“ so we reduce errors and speed it up by having an initial ai check everything and this is then given to the reviewers to do a final check - and it lets us fire half of them”

[mossy granite]

U have a point...🥺

[proper dew]

Nordic Medieval Tavern: 2UVMC-EP8Z5-HJH7J-N7Q47
Apocalyptic Hospital (Unity): 2RKVV-5HA45-PUHBL-P9SWZ

[rose lagoon]

I got the Tavern only, thank you

[random crane]

does anyone know if there is a legal issue with allowing players to build levels in my game with megascans and similar assets that are under the standard license ? I'm not sure if this is considered redistribution, but basically the players would just be able to move the assets around and create new levels, for free, they won't make money from this. All levels in my game are with assets that are under the standard license, either purchased or downloaded for free

[rose lagoon]

I'm pretty sure you are fine as long as it's a packaged project (there is no easy way for the user to extract the assets)

[random crane]

thanks, that's what I was thinking too

[hallow jackal]

Unreal has its own local toolchain and its bundled version of libc++ and libc++abi, which are supposed to be used. The info I found online suggests this may be an issue with how they compiled CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework), which is the internal web browser.

[outer scaffold]

Can anyone buy something on Fab right now?

I can't make purchases on my personal or business account.

Is it a general problem that everyone encounters now, or is it just me? I can't buy for 3 days. I can't wait more. Can anyone help me? I wrote to the Support, they just said wait a few days

This is the error I get. I tried another card, not working. I can't buy with my personal account as well. Idk wtf happened but I can't make it to my deadline if I wait more! Please help me!

I hate FAB, I miss the old marketplace so much

[outer scaffold]

Could you buy it? It's the same for me. It happens to me for the all assets

[desert panther]

Have you contacted Fab support?

[outer scaffold]

Yes, they say wait a few days and try again, but as I can see people still face this problem for months! Waiting doesn't fix apperently

[desert panther]

Ok, I would contact them again and ask them to look at what was the problem with the transaction

For example, it's possible that your bank is denying it for some reason

But only Fab themselves can look into it on that level of detail

[outer scaffold]

Not even they can't see the details

[desert panther]

Wtf that makes no sense lol

Ask them who can help you with this then, because if Fab can't figure out their own payment problems, who else can...

I suppose you could try contacting your bank or credit card company and asking if they've been denying any transactions for you recently

[outer scaffold]

idk, I saw some solutions. Some people solved it trying +10 times, some solved by purchasing something through the launcher first, then they say the browser started to work. I'll try all of the solutions I saw

[desert panther]

Yeah maybe if you're trying in the browser, try using incognito mode or clear all cookies etc.

Oh yeah and turn off any ad blocking plugins or such, they could interfere with things

[outer scaffold]

The bank is fine for everyone. I used the same card for Unity asset store, works there.

[outer scaffold]

tried on a whole new browser xD

[desert panther]

Well it doesn't matter, I've used my card online and they just randomly decided to block one particular store because it was suspicious for some reason. If nothing else helps it might be worth checking.

[outer scaffold]

I'm gonna try a 3rd card because it worked for someone to try a 3rd card 😄

[desert panther]

I tried two of my cards when I had that problem with a store and my bank froze them both lol

Thankfully they were pretty quick about issuing me new ones

[outer scaffold]

I guess it is not enough to fight with the bugs of our own projects. We have to fight with FAB's bugs as well!

[outer scaffold]

PLEASE HELP!

A lot of people have the same problem: We can't buy assets from FAB! Here is the "FIXED AND CLOSED" bug report on the forum:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unable-to-purchase-on-fab/2124799/28

What I have tried so far:

• 5 different cards, 3 different banks. All work on other platforms; none of them work on FAB.
• Tried to buy something through Epic Launcher and FAB Plugin in the engine, didn't work.
• Tried to buy assets one by one to see if any of them caused the problem. Didn't work. I can't buy any of them, even one by one.
• Spammed the process (+5 times), not work. Someone could buy with +10 tries.
• Tried to buy with my personal account as well, didn't work.
• Created a new business account with a new business email, didn't work.

I don't know what I'm gonna do. If I can't buy anything from FAB, I can't make the project that I signed up for. I can't meet my deadlines if this problem continues for a few more days! I saw it continues for months for other people! SO, LET'S FIX THIS PROBLEM? Why on earth, you closed the old marketplace like that? 😭 WHY? 😭

The only thing Fab Support says is, "Wait a few days". I saw people waiting for a few months, but it doesn't fix it! I don't want to make my game on Unity! The same assets are on Unity Asset Store, and I can buy them from there! Please, let's fix this.

@calm yoke Who can I reach for this issue?

[outer scaffold]

I created a new business email and a new Epic account with it. Then created a new bank card. I bought a random asset: https://www.fab.com/listings/7a115c57-73bd-4108-a34c-bb5ec4ac9782

I could buy it! Then I tried to buy the assets that I wanted, but I couldn't buy them. Then I tried to buy that same random asset from my main account, but I couldn't buy it on my main account. I could buy it on the new one. I don't know what happens but it is so weird

[rugged wren]

Have you tried calling your bank to see if they can check what happened with the transaction?

[urban spear]

So there's still blatant(?) copyright infringement on Fab, this is literally on the front page under recent releases: https://www.fab.com/listings/6ec42e46-bd85-4e55-b4c9-df422d13a4a9

Like... Those are just straight-up slightly-altered Pokemon for pete's sake

[untold bay]

undoubtedly pokemon-inspired but they might hold up

they're all somewhat different from what i can tell

[desert panther]

Tbh those look like they took a pokemon and kitbashed it just a little with something else

[urban spear]

I mean it's still flying way too close to the sun

[desert panther]

I don't think it's something for us to worry about, report it and move on :)

[urban spear]

I don't think you can report copyright infringements directly without being the copyright owner

[desert panther]

You can probably report it for violating the rules since uploading copyright infringing stuff is against that

[urban spear]

I already looked at the report form

[desert panther]

Yeah why not just report it using the first option

[urban spear]

I guess I might as well, if it doesn't go through it can't be helped

[vale prawn]

I think they totally gave up on enforcing copyright with Fab. You can see copyrighted stuff being posted daily, I don't think they care anymore.

[outer scaffold]

There is no transaction request on the bank side

https://www.change.org/unrealmarketplace

LOL, people started a campaign to bring back the old marketplace. Please support!

[undone valve]

This will never happen. Even if it had one million signs.

[untold bay]

It's pretty close to feature parity now, with improvements in some areas

Reviews/Q&A are the big ones

Probably should've baked a little longer but at this point no point going back

[unreal stratus]

good luck to anybody trying to get some visibility on their new releases — this is simply unusable and is undoubtedly chasing away customers. The new releases page has turned into a showcase for Linder Germain and ScansLibrary -- and not a single one of those assets is marked as AI generated.

[long mortar]

We need to all send formal complaints to epic games

I already sent one

Came here to same the same shit

Every day i browse new building models category & now the marketplace is just Linder Germain

[untold bay]

I sound like a broken drum but there should be a deposit/sales minimum per asset to incentivize efficient use of listings

[long mortar]

Honeslty your right

Even if its $1

He posted over 20k models in one day

Did they create a ai bot to acheive this?

even typing that many prompts with ai models would be extremely time consuming, they prolly found a way to automate the entire process lol!

[untold bay]

looking at linder germain, it looks 100% automated including the ideation

[long mortar]

Yeah 20k ai models prompt by prompt is still alot of work. The entire thing gotta be automated 100%

[unreal stratus]

between the automated generation, upload, and Fab approval -- there must not have been a single human involved in the process

[long mortar]

fr lmfao

[unreal stratus]

I'd be utterly outraged if I was an asset creator

[untold bay]

i only search for unreal assets so i'd never encountered this. the process for unreal assets does have a human in the loop so shouldn't be as gameable... maybe

[long mortar]

yeah this is only specifically for the fab section, luckily unreal engine content has its own filter

But yea if they dont do anything about it, GG's

People will have to just put the content directly as a asset pack for unreal

Aint no competing with a bot that can spam drop 5k+ models at once

[echo sundial]

@leaden vector I have sent you a friend req.

[desert panther]

Previously, we shared that price changes prior to a sale would not disqualify products from the sale. Due to some technical complications, that is no longer the case – a product’s price must stay the same for the 30 days prior to the start of a sale.
Heh... So in other words, they didn't find it high priority enough to implement the EU-mandated "Lowest price in 30 days" indicator, and are instead putting the responsibility on you

Not that it's a particularly big deal but the phrasing of it is just kinda funny

[merry plover]

Do you guys frequently participate in Epic Sale Events? Any tips for why and when you should do that? Just some dumb questions 😄

[green seal]

Every time. Why? It’s great if you don’t hate money. Sales are when we generate by far the most revenue.

[green seal]

I’m gonna run this by some of the devs, its not a bad idea.

[warm knot]

Yeah, gatekeep the fuck out of those people with entrance fees.

[warm knot]

I almost thought it was the Unique Creatures Pack guy again. 🤣

[still basin]

About the guy that automated sending new assets, i made this post earlier today.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/please-add-an-initial-cost-to-publish-on-fab/2513862

[hazy hill]

Made a new easy plugin for flying AI https://www.fab.com/listings/cbd12b34-11d3-4366-aea7-895cf9077069

[vague beacon]

.

[merry plover]

Do you get more exposure if you participate in sale events?

[civic token]

Hi guys, can i use Material Layers for my project assets? I’m referring to the review process and the possibility of getting rejected.

[desert panther]

It's a UE feature, why would you not be allowed?

[undone valve]

Yes. Like for almost any digital store, a sale means more exposure and more people browsing (especially in the sales tab) and therefore more sales if you product is discounted.

[green seal]

Yes but not just exposure, people are 10x more likely to buy during a sale. There’s really no reason to NOT be part of a sale. Everything to gain.

[sweet knoll]

❓ Is there a way to search across all my individual assets that I own from Fab? For example find treasure chests.
Looking at the UAssetBrowser plugin is the closest I see so far. It seems I'd need to download each asset pack manually in the Epic Launcher so that the plugin can search the vault directory. Any best practices on that use case anyone?

[untold bay]

i tend to have one project that just has all the fab assets i'm likely to use

[spiral jacinth]

It depends on if the description says "Treasure Chest" in it somewhere -- if so AMS should show you it as I search most the fields. However, catagorizing and auto-matically tagging all sub-assets is one of my mid term goals of AMS. 😉

[sweet knoll]

1. What is AMS?

2. Optimally I can search for both file names (and eventually auto tagging, that's a luxury), but I was thinking mostly in terms of using the existing Unreal filters, e.g. animations or skeleton meshes or static meshes and browse through previews of those.

[spiral jacinth]

AMS = Asset Manager Studio, my free cross platform launcher/asset manager for Unreal. It d/l all the asset information from BOTH epic's private API's [which is also used to d/l the assets] and the public FAB api's so it actually has as much data as is can from the author. AMS can totally replace the Epic Launcher for unreall stuff... My next step is to actually run thru each sub-asset from an asset pack thru AI to detect what type, categorizing, tagging them is and then log this info on my server so that everyone with that asset would get even more details. 😉

[spiral jacinth]

You can get it at https://assetmanager.studio and it works on Windows and Linux [working on finishing Mac support].

[sweet knoll]

Thanks, I just downloaded and tried this. It seems that right now the focus of the project is to be a quick launcher? As opposed to managing assets? What I was looking for is something that manages info on a per asset basis (not per asset pack). To help find that one animation, effect or mesh I am currently looking for in my jungle of asset packs.

@spiral jacinth Some feedback:

The only difference between the Assets and Vault tabs are what is available in my account vs what has been downloaded? It feels like it should be one tab then with a filter maybe. That filter is missing from the Epic launcher so would be a good enhancement.

With the current functionality I feel like there should be 3 tabs: Projects, Library and Engines.

In my pefect future there would then be a new Assets tab next to Library that deals with individual assets and their preview and making it easier to import them into a given project. But just identifying them would already go a long way.

To clarify, my use case is that I buy tons of discounted asset packs and will have to eventually sort through hundreds of them to find e.g. a treasure chest, a projectile VFX, a sword animation and so on.

Right now I don't see the main benefit of the app over the Epic Launcher. Is it mainly startup speed?

From this branding summary ("why should I use this") really when we drill into it the main difference to the epic launcher is the initial load speed?

If you're interested in working on per individual asset management functionality, I'd recommend looking at the UAssetManager plugin if you haven't yet (For access I can help you test it if you pm me). There seems to be an opportunity in that space right now because the plugin is currently not being actively developed anymore it seems as the last working version is for UE 5.4.

[rugged wren]

If I click 'my library' on Fab, it gives me a search box just for the assets I own

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a similar feature to limit searches to things you own for Quixel assets, though...

[spiral jacinth]

That is an interesting idea to merge the vault / asset tab, perhaps a filter that allows you to limit it to those that are d/l'd could be easily added.
My goal is to actually allow d/l from other sites and categorizing of assets not only from Fab but several other places I own assets from. [Humble Bundles are my nemesis 🤣 ]

[sweet knoll]

It lets you search across assets packs, not individual assets like a static mesh or an animation.

[spiral jacinth]

I am planning on allowing searching and viewing of all sub-assets in an asset pack. 😉 I want to have a single source to find anything I might need. So that is where I'm going with it... 😄

In fact, one feature I plan on doing shortly after I have the backend infrastucture is you could d/l just that single asset piece [& its chain] w/o downloading the full asset pack. 😉

[sweet knoll]

Yea, that'd be beautiful!

[fresh sphinx]

Just felt like pointing out that this tire mesh asset costs close to the same amount as a full set of 4 michelin tire's irl 😄

[desert panther]

This talk about the new release page and visibility makes me wonder, do people even use that

Like... I didn't even know there was a new release page there

If you're banking your product's sales on appearing on a page like that I got some bad news for you lol

[untold bay]

i view fab via a bookmark that contains my filters but i still wind up on the homepage a fair bit and do see what's in the featured slots

[civic token]

Hi guys, I'm new to unreal, I have a refrigerator model, the door is separated and I have drink bottle that I want copy them in to the refrigerator door. I want to make a Blue print that by pressing button open and close the door and ofcours the drinks attached to the door, and I want to be able to change the material also.for open and close door I have a tutorial and go with him, but I don't know how to attached drinks to the door(the way that can change the material also best way to optimize) .really appreciate and thanks in advance

[daring bridge]

If it's a skeletal mean use a socket. If it's separate static meshes just attach them

If the drink meshes are already part of the mesh, edit the textures

Material layers would work

On another note, is anyone from epic here? I'm not getting very far talking to fab support via email and my ticket was first opened six months ago

[warm knot]

This is the Fab channel, buddy. Try ue5-general instead.

[hollow basin]

Not in an official capacity. I have heard they could browse this channel but you are not very likely to get help from them here, this is more community ran

[jaunty dagger]

Fab stuck in a security check loop yay.

https://imgur.com/iqvunBu

Click the check and again we go.

[lusty summit]

fab pls fix the duplicate tags for the launcher's sorting function

[warm knot]

Sound Effects
sound-effects
Sound FX
SFX
Sound_Effects
SoundEffects
soundEffects

I see where this is going.

[misty belfry]

does anyone know why some things are listed on Quixel but not fab?
im trying to download this:
https://quixel.com/megascans/home?search=Western&search=Desert&search=Sheer&search=Cliff&assetId=xgknben
but i cant find it on fab

apparently its not the only one missing either, a whole batch of these scans are unfindable on fab

[vital island]

My fav seller btw

[rugged wren]

lol, these are crazy

looks like AI art to me, but they all seem to be labeled as not made with AI...

oh, it seems about half of his stuff IS labeled as made with AI (the total drops from 38k to 19k if I filter out AI content). Maybe his upload script broke slightly and stopped marking the submissions correctly XD

[devout kindle]

This is horrible : /

I bet Epic is losing more money than gaining from this seller.

[still vessel]

how?

[still vessel]

if it's labeled correctly i dont really see the issue

more assets, if you don't want AI assets, filter em out

[devout kindle]

hosting those assets and the internet bandwidth 😄

[still vessel]

what pisses me off is that megascans went from being free to being $19 for a brick

i legit can't find a good looking brick

i just want a brick rn

[devout kindle]

I remember I searched for a brick too.

[still vessel]

i wanna do like aaaa, pull brick out of the wall to unlock door thingy

it has to look somewhat unique

[untold bay]

(i'm sorry)

[still vessel]

Im gonna bite you

[rugged wren]

agreed, we already had this problem in the old marketplace with 2D assets, it was just a matter of time before someone started doing the same in 3D. My favorite fab feature is the 'don't show AI content' filter. Don't know if there's any way to address sellers mis-labeling their products, though.

[still vessel]

thats an issue epic has to resolve

but AI assets are still assets

if they're cheap and they work, i dont see why not

heck i should learn how to generate AI assets

so i can make my brick

are they decent?

[untold bay]

you would be better off grabbing the brick from the Starter Content

[vital island]

Each model 50 MB.That guy uplaoded 35K 3D Assets.That's mean 1.8 TB Data storaged in could.That's a problem.

[untold bay]

1.8 TB is nothing. the data costs for those assets is basically zero. but the user experience and brand perception impacts are bad

[vital island]

500K Vertex Count Like each model.Models are not usable for games or indie movies.Just like getting 2D SS for mobile project could be.+ Far distance

[untold bay]

yes, the assets are certainly unusably bad. total scam.

[rugged wren]

for me, personally, I haven't found any which were cheap enough that I wouldn't just generate them myself rather than buying them, even if they were at a quality I felt would be usable. Saw plenty of 2D texture/icon packs before listed for like $20, which is enough to pay for a subscription to generate whatever you want.

But since selling AI generated stuff is all about volume, I also don't feel like I can trust any seller mass-generating stuff to care about quality/usability to any degree. This guy's meshes are all 500k polygons even if they're basically a flat cube and the ones I skimmed had some pretty obvious artifacts that would need to be fixed before using them in a game (e.g. characters with 6 fingers and no eyes). Saw plenty of things like foliage packs before with really bad-looking edges from where the author deleted (or failed to delete) the background, etc. If you're happy to use AI-generated assets, it feels like it may really be less work (and money) to generate them yourself than to go through the process of vetting and testing and cleaning up what someone else generated (and then at least your assets are more unique to your project).

[vital island]

Still waiting all assets ai generated.Half of assets not ticked with ai-generated title

[vital island]

this one i mean

[rugged wren]

at least with 3D models we can preview the actual mesh and see how bad it is compared to the thumbnail XD
I think it might be easier to trick people into buying low-quality texture packs

[vale prawn]

Let this serve as a reminder to never go outside of the Unreal channel on Fab. It's the wild west beyond that.

[rugged wren]

just wait until these all get re-submitted as nanite meshes 😉

[vital island]

Should be removed i guess.

https://x.com/RonanMahonArt/status/1924353452827664648 Go there,Now!

RonanMahonArt (@RonanMahonArt) on X

FAB
Infinite Scroll – Infinite Regret

X · May 19, 2025, 6:36 AM

[desert panther]

Anyone tried offering a custom refund policy on Fab?

Figure I'm gonna offer a 14 day no questions asked refund policy on my plugin just out of curiosity really. I've offered an even longer money back guarantee in the past selling something much more expensive and never had any problems

The standard Fab policy isn't quite that generous, unless you've never downloaded the product

[still vessel]

i dunno much about sales but i think it's pretty well established that the easier it is to refund your shit, the more people that will buy it

sure a lot of people will refund it, but it allows people the chance to try your product, and if it's good, they'll keep it

[desert panther]

Yeah definitely, there's always a little bit of worry for something like "what if I don't like it"

[still vessel]

yep

14 days may be a bit much though

i could use your plugin to do what i need to do for 14 days then refund it if im being stingy

[desert panther]

Mine's a productivity type plugin so if you can make a game in 14 days I guess that's great :D

[still vessel]

lol

in that case try it out

[desert panther]

Yeah

[still vessel]

if you don't like it, you can always change it

[calm dagger]

I would be careful with that though, since you need to go through support for refunds, they might start asking questions and block you from doing too many refunds

[still vessel]

i think XCC had a refund policy and people just used it in full focus for like a week to make all of their character models then refunded it

so now it's $300 no refunds lol

[desert panther]

That's awkward if people are that cheap

[still vessel]

i mean everyone knows that it's gonna happen, just a matter of how well you manage it

[desert panther]

I sold a video course for 47 and later 97 dollars, 30 day refund policy, I made about 100 sales on it and no refunds whatsoever

[still vessel]

i dunno how refunds work on epic so be careful with that too

[desert panther]

Yeah I did check that, the docs do say you can refund customers for whatever reason, just need to tell them and they'll do the refund

[still vessel]

ye sounds good

try it out

[desert panther]

Yeah added a blurb about it on the product's description :) let's see

[still vessel]

you can always ctrl+z your refund policy

just gonna have to warn people in advance on your page

refunds will only be avaliable until 14th of june, etc etc

assuming you decide to stop them during may or somethin

[desert panther]

Yeah

[opal temple]

Is there a plugin to enable tab stacking in unreal editor 5.5? Like how you can stack tabs in some browsers and stuff? That would be INCREDIBLY useful on this. If it doesn't exist, I kindly request anyone bored enough to do it to make it a reality.

[still vessel]

does it have to look pretty?

i can probably give you a free license if you help me test it

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zxQwmQ how is this okay?

happy for the guy for finishing his project but that just looks like a scottish kratos

[rose lagoon]

it's clearly labeled as fan art, as far as I see he's not selling it

[still vessel]

oh I see

makes sense

[patent breach]

Thousands of them aren't.

[still vessel]

I realize

I mean the ones that are properly tagged

[green seal]

The tag is irrelevant as it most AI generated stuff isn't tagged. There are tens of thousands that are not and it's not enforced.

Sure, use the tag, you'll probably see more AI stuff that isn't tagged, than AI stuff that is.

[rugged wren]

With the wide variety of data formats, workflows, etc., I doubt there's really a practical solution to truly enforce correct tagging of AI content. You could make 38,000 procedural meshes in Blender, or maybe you wrote an FBX exporter for a proprietary piece of software you cannot share with Epic to verify the source files (if you even have them at the time they ask). Even if they wanted to, who has the time to individually check and audit tens or hundreds of thousands of individual assets to make sure they're tagged correctly? You could say let users report them and handle them on a case-by-case basis that way, but according to fab the seller above published 17k assets in the past week, with ~4k going up yesterday, I don't think you could even report them that fast if you tried.

Since the business model of selling mass-generated assets is pretty much the same as the spam business model, probably the same kinds of solutions need to be applied. e.g., make every fab submission cost the seller $1, add additional filter options to let users blacklist specific sellers from their search results, or rate-limit publishing of new submissions (maybe 100 submissions per day would be enough for most people--the ones that would probably suffer most would be people trying to spam generated assets and people migrating large libraries of assets from other marketplaces).

[green seal]

I also understand it is borderline impossible to manually review each and every one of these. There is a blatant amount of copyrighted assets on FAB, especially since it was merged with all the stuff Sketchfab had (which was littered with copyrighted assets). I fully get that it is not easy or feasible to manually review every single submission. You'd need an army for that alone. But yeah any kind of hurdle to discourage bad actors is a good one, even if it makes things a tad more inconvenient for the genuine creators.

[opal temple]

no it doesn't, idk why I wasn't pinged on this.

[calm dagger]

They should limit the amount of assets one can upload, and do manual reviews on all of them

If you limit to let's say 10 assets per user, that would limit most of the spam. Then you can "earn" more assets slots based on revenue or with a small fee

Or at the very least, have a competent reporting system in place that is actually useful, easy to use and reviewed by humans...

[fossil dune]

at this point, some one should just build an "Unreal Engine Only" Marketplace that kind of mimicks the old one but with better features...
This is terrible, both for sellers trying to list and buyers trying to find stuff...
https://x.com/80Level/status/1924683015239647347

80 LEVEL (@80Level) on X

A literal waste of space: @RonanMahonArt spotlighted a single Fab account that has uploaded over 38,000 AI-generated assets.

Unreal Engine users criticize Fab and Epic Games for letting the marketplace get flooded with AI junk: https://t.co/OHBJvUxdhw

X · May 20, 2025, 4:26 AM

But why ??? 35000 of such terrible geometry. I remember when UE Marketplace policy was "no low quality/low effort" products... This is crazy.
Imagine the optimized highquality models and/or artists getting buried by 35000 non optimized assets

[rugged wren]

the old UE marketplace already had this issue with 2D assets and many of those sellers are still on fab with the same ever-growing collections of inventory sprites and 'dramatic character portraits.'

It was only ever a matter of time before generating 3D content was easy/accessible enough to do the same.

[vital island]

When FAB will block Generated Ai content?

[rugged wren]

if it actually sells, then I guess probably never 😆

[rugged wren]

some of them are so broken I doubt the seller has even looked at them

[fossil dune]

Probably generating and uploading through a script ,
Not by hand or 1 by 1.
It’s automated probably.

[desert panther]

The problem is even if they wanted to there is no way to detect it

[desert panther]

It definitely feels like Epic needs to add a CAPTCHA lol

[fossil dune]

Some cleverly written JS script will probably bypass it once he’s logged in.
The script they wrote is very clever… I’ll give them that

[desert panther]

It's gonna take a bit more than javascript to bypass a captcha :)

assuming it's correctly implemented anyway

[floral cloud]

If everyone in this server reports it maybe something could be done about it

[desert panther]

I'm pretty sure Epic is entirely aware of it, probably just letting things stew to see what happens

[rugged wren]

maybe as AI generation becomes increasingly cheap and accessible the problem will kind of fix itself, because everyone who would have considered buying such assets will realize they can just run the same models locally for free

[desert panther]

Yeah

[rugged wren]

or in 6 months there will be hundreds of new sellers trying the same approach XD

[still vessel]

I'm not sure what's your quarrel with me. I already said I have no problem with AI assets if they're tagged properly and that epic needs to deal with untagged listings in some way.

[still vessel]

can do, give me a week or so to finish prototyping though

[green seal]

Having talked to the fab team directly about it, they are absolutely aware of the issue and are figuring out the best path forward to deal with it. A lot of the suggestions here to help with the issue are good, though they often require a lot of backend work to address from what I gather. It’s pretty dang high on their priority list at the moment

[desert panther]

Yeah definitely seems that way

[green seal]

I can only imagine how difficult it is to juggle/tackle this issue. It's easy to say that it needs more curation, more people vetting the content before it is approved for publish. But the sheer VOLUME of uploads makes that not exactly realistic. Let's say they do manually approve things every time. Can you imagine the wait times for genuinely good products to be approved? We'd be waiting weeks on end after wrapping up a tool or asset. Maybe even months

[untold bay]

It is probably a bit touchy for them because:

• They probably want to allow thoughtful, high quality GenAI content (I know, don't @ me on this, not a debate I want to get into here)
• They don't want to worry well-behaved creators who fear a crackdown
• But at the same time it's very bad PR that really begs for a response even if it's a "We're very aware of the concerns and are deciding how to best address them"

[green seal]

Yeah they are genuinely stuck between a rock and a hard place

[rugged wren]

Totally, people already complain about the wait times we have now

[green seal]

Something DOES need to be done but I'm seeing so many comments on the topic about how easy it is to fix, it isn't

[untold bay]

It's 11am again so I'll ring my "sellers should have some financial commitment to the space they take in Fab" bell but landing on an actual working solution for that is surely thorny and not a quick process

[green seal]

I talked to the team about this directly, they love the idea but as I mentioned above, there's some backend issues related to it. They are absolutely considering though so you've been heard

[untold bay]

but that financial stake goes a long way to solving moderation issues, because the fee reduces the need for moderation and partly pays for it

[rugged wren]

And even if everything was manually curated, how can a curator identify mislabeled AI content reliably? The backlash from artists who don't use AI being accused of mislabeling AI art would probably be worse

[desert panther]

I think the only realistic solution to mass-uploads like thousands a day is to just deny the whole batch and contact whoever is doing it and deal with them directly.

There's just no way to individually review those with any level of rigor

[green seal]

Lol yeah I think a very very easy first step is to implement an upload cap over a certain period

Like, my dude if you're uploading even 1 high quality asset per day you're doing real good

that's still 365 high quality products/year which is ballin'

[desert panther]

The unfortunate reality is that some people don't even understand that people don't want to buy their AI slop because in their eyes it's great

[green seal]

I don't believe for a second that they think it's great, they just see an opportunity to make a bit of money, and when you mass-produce and mass upload like that via bots/scripts, it's all about seeing whats possible and how much money it can bring in

[desert panther]

You've clearly not talked to some of these people lol

[rugged wren]

Sounds reasonable. I think there are probably some edge cases of legitimate users who want to upload large batches, like someone migrating their whole library from another platform or someone doing 3D scans in the field who finishes all the work from a trip in one big batch, but I would guess these are few enough that they could have a "if you want to submit more than 1000 items in a day you should contact us first" policy

[floral cloud]

If only there was a “fab ai” marketplace for only ai shit, and regular “fab” for real assets

[desert panther]

I mean absolutely there are those too who just think they can use it to make money and that's all there is to it... but some people genuinely think their AI generated assets are great

[green seal]

Yeah I agree with you here. I am sure there are some exceptions with some genuine people wanting to upload a large library, and in that case contacting them directly sounds like a great idea, they can even vet it properly in that case and figure out some kind of deal. It's a win-win.

[green seal]

Oh probably! I was mostly referring to that 38k uploads dude hahah, I doubt he believes his work is the bees knees

[desert panther]

lol yeah

inb4 he uploads the literal bees knees

I'm sure he'll eventually reach that word in the dictionary

[rugged wren]

I did see one with bees in it, actually XD

[vital island]

What is that?

Netflix's Trans Bee's in the assethell movie like stuff

[floral cloud]

Damn

[untold bay]

i saw one case of a music label uploading their tracks en masse to fab. reasonable use case for multiple uploads

[vale prawn]

I would be surprised if Fab implemented a submission fee in any way. That's kind of opposed to the whole Epic "open" philosophy (see mobile EGS/Apple), "we succeed when you succeed", "NFTs are welcome here", 88/12 revshare being shouted everywhere, etc. They just want to attract as much creators as they can, make it as easy as possible to contribute to the metaverse, and I don't see them putting up barriers on that way.

I'd think they'd lend towards more end-user facing changes: better discoverability, changing the default filters, adding more filtered/highlight sections, etc.

[untold bay]

Yes, it does feel a bit antithetical, and likely why they never had one in the first place, but there's likely a happy place where a token fee curbs excessive upload spam while not overly deterring well-intended creators. Like, a $20 deposit that gets returned after $100 in sales. I spent about ten seconds thinking of those numbers and I'm sure you could find better.

in the case highlighted yesterday, even $1 would be enough to shut it down entirely

[still basin]

Steam do it with a 100$, I don't think many people see this like its absurde or a huge problem

[desert panther]

I don't know if I would have published my plugin if it had a 100 dollar barrier on it

10 dollars barrier? perhaps

[rugged wren]

such a high submission fee would probably immediately raise the prices of everything, haha

[still basin]

The amount are just fine details, the overall idea is to add a cost to those very low quality spammers. 5$ would already help a lot

I said 100$ because that what Steam does and it helped.

[desert panther]

Yeah

[still basin]

It could be to limit the number of assets depending on how much you sell?

[rugged wren]

it would definitely be a big change to introduce a fee, now, even if it's really reasonable I'm sure there would be complaints. Maybe a balance could be something like the first 10 uploads are free, but every 10 after that costs something.

[still basin]

10 asset max when you create an account
50 if you have sold for a total of X$
etc..

[still basin]

Yeah, for now I think the backlash is bigger in doing nothing tho, I hope they will find a solution soon

[rugged wren]

I'm sure whatever they're considering the last thing they want to happen is to end up needing to quickly revert it for any reason. I wouldn't blame them for taking their time to be confident that whatever they do actually addresses the problems they're trying to solve without creating new ones.

[tawny hinge]

i don't think a fee would help at all. they probably make their sales which counters a fee for them

it is what it is... either they outright don't allow AI generated content, which requires way more moderation, or marketplace sellers have to accept the change in industry

[desert panther]

Well if you gotta pay 30k up front to upload 30k assets I think it would put at least a slight damper on it

I'm not sure if denying AI assets is the way to go, but it's problematic detecting them if users don't mark them

[untold bay]

if people are actually buying assets, a small fee would be covered

[rugged wren]

yeah, I feel like even if they were banned outright we'd still have AI assets. At least a good chunk of them are currently correctly labeled so users can filter them out when they wish.

[untold bay]

i do not think the person uploading 35k assets is going to sell $35k of them

[desert panther]

They definitely need some kind of system that can flag mass uploads because they should always lead to at least some scrutiny. It's easy enough to hold them and discuss with the uploader. But as was said earlier, this does require implementation from the Fab devs which is easier said than done

[tawny hinge]

never say never...

[desert panther]

I wonder... Money laundering through uploading and then buying AI slop assets...

[tawny hinge]

if they add a upload limit the sellers will just use multiple accounts

while the normal user, who wants to build up reputation, is the only affected by the limit (if someone can push out so much content that is..., but that could surely happen if an artist decides to migrate their assets to Fab)

[desert panther]

Multiple accounts isn't that easy to do either because you still need to verify it and actually get payouts and generally having a dozen credit cards isn't something most people can easily do for this purpose

[tawny hinge]

i'm just pointing out that this won't solve the root issue

[desert panther]

I think upload limits in theory are fine - it's not hard to implement a step where you just need to discuss with support if you want to upload a larger number

The main thing would just be that they need some way to easily detect and flag problematic uses, whatever the method for that ultimately would be

[rugged wren]

if they're actually making sales then there's a chance their assets are actually useful. I don't think I've seen an AI asset yet that actually had reviews (or enough reviews to show a rating, anyway) so I suspect they are not making many sales on an individual asset (if any in general).

If you have to upload 100 assets to get 1 sale, any fee, upload limit, etc., will kill your whole business plan.

[desert panther]

Yeah I doubt they make that many sales on slop assets either 🤔

[rugged wren]

with textures it can sometimes be hard to be sure looking at the thumbnails if they're fine or not, but with the 3D meshes above it's really hard to imagine someone actually buying them

[untold bay]

i would guess the 2D icons and portraits do some sales

2d generation is frankly really good right now when it doesn't have to cleave to strong constraints

but as soon as you add tech requirements, as with textures and models, we are not there yet

skybox generation can be pretty good. doesn't need PBR maps. but a little silly to sell that since skybox ai is already free/inexpensive; mostly banks on people not knowing it's there

[desert panther]

I'm thinking of making a game with assets I've drawn poorly in Paint just for shits and giggles

Just need to come up with an idea where that would work lol

[rugged wren]

yeah, plenty of games need a bunch of rock or helmet icons, etc. I still think the cost of generating them yourself is lower than the cost of buying them, though.

But I wouldn't be surprised to find out they are actually making sales. If they're making a LOT of sales on individual assets I would be surprised, though, I'd really expect it to be more of a trickle that only adds up to a decent profit if you have a huge collection for sale.

[dim fable]

cast a wide enough net and eventually you'll catch something

[desert panther]

I think the big boon for buying them is ease of use... don't have to figure out how to set any of it up or deal with any services etc.

[rugged wren]

that's true. The first time I saw one for sale for like $20, though, I instead spent $20 on a midjourney subscription to see for myself how easy/hard it was to get usable results 😅

pretty much always required some cleanup (especially when trying to make seamless textures), so I can understand someone being willing to pay to avoid that step, but plenty of sellers are also not doing that either

[vale prawn]

A fee would also kill all free products providers, which is a significant part of SketchFab userbase (I'm guessing). Especially when they're pushing RealityScan's uploads to SketchFab in the meantime.

[floral cloud]

Change in the industry equated to 35k shitty ai models 😲

That’s wild

[fossil dune]

From 1 Person.
Imagine if 10 more thought "oh this guy must be making money"
You now have 350'000 Ai Assets.
Lets say a number like 100 people max believe he really is. You'll have 3'500'000 AI Garbage assets.

I don't mind AI generated assets, at least clean them up before you upload or something.
It's almost like people can't generate the assets themselves...

an asset like that having 500K triangles is wild. its like they've never modeled ANYTHING in their life. 80-90% of the geometry is not needed. what about all the other assets in the scene? Worst performing assets ever...
anyway maybe they accepted cause theres Nanite or something...
i just don't get how that's anywhere near Quality content. Its garbage geometry, wrapped in a decent looking texture and horrible UVs...

[fossil dune]

I'm no 3D modeller or artist , and just did that in 30 seconds. about only 1% or less of the Geometry you see there.
You can just slap the same texture on top or material and will look the same or better.
These are wildy poor assets that will hurt performance.
Thing is new buyers or users won't know this...

[floral cloud]

Bro fix all the ai assets and then upload them 😂

That would be hilarious but I get your point

If even another few people do the ai shit, ugh

[fossil dune]

neh... its a terrible marketplace to both buy from and sell at...

[floral cloud]

The man knows

[hollow basin]

No fee for free products would be my policy. AI mass uploaders aren't going to put up their assets for free just for the fun of it, and everyone else would still be able to post free products for free

[vital island]

Perfection.

[open citrus]

how to i change where fab source files are downloaded to from within engine? dont like bloating my C: drive

also i downloaded this free asset of fab but the whole set is just one static mesh and i only need to use one of the planks....whats the recommended way to edit this...

[untold bay]

epic launcher has a setting for where your vault directory is

[untold bay]

you could edit this in Modeling Mode

[vale prawn]

Nice, the topmost featured product on Fab is a complete stolen pack
https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/1krcfum/another_day_another_stolen_asset_on_fab/

[green seal]

It isn’t meant to solve the issue, there IS no singular solution to this problem. It’s about deterring and putting up some hurdles in place to prevent some people from abusing it.

[calm dagger]

The 2nd one too

[grizzled thunder]

120K saw my twitter post.
Doesn't seem to be any change to the sellers page, still 19K of the assets not flagged as AI

[rugged wren]

even if the author wrote a script to go through and update them all, it takes time for the product listing update to get approved and published. I doubt fab would apply this change themselves to all of these assets since there isn't really way to prove the assets were generated by AI, and if they started flagging everything that "looked weird" they'd probably just be creating more problems

[grizzled thunder]

I've no idea how the seller profile page even deals with 35,000 products

[cyan plinth]

Oh good we're already somewhat on the topic. I may have accidentally added some things to my Fab library that were tagged as being made with AI. Is there a way to filter those while viewing my library so I can remove them?

[green seal]

This is among one of the many issues yes. Not to mention, where is the line drawn? There’s no wording to describe where the line is, if I use generative ai for cleaning up a weird patch on a texture, is that use of AI? I am being pedantic with an extreme opposing example here I know, point being, there is no real rule with a strict definition, it relies on an honesty system.

I can say right now that fab/epic is painfully aware of that dude and are figuring out the best way forward but its not going to happen overnight

[rugged wren]

yeah, even if this was an honest mistake on the seller's part (which may be the case since about half their assets ARE marked as AI assets--maybe they didn't notice something changed on the submission page that broke their upload script) and they want to fix it, it's not trivial with so many assets 😅

[rugged wren]

I think you can only filter out AI assets to view only NON-AI stuff but not the other way around 🤔

[grizzled thunder]

I mean, I half want to thank the guy for pushing on the conversation. It's just one I'm already tired of having in my head since gAI came about 😂

[cyan plinth]

There's no filter at all on the library page so I couldn't even do it by process of elimination. At least not like the other sections have.

[green seal]

Seems like they removed half the amount of content on Linder Germains page so far, it's down to 20k now

Why that page hasn't been brought down entirely I don't know. Might be they're building a case

[rugged wren]

wow, that's much faster than I expected. Maybe the ones correctly labeled as AI-generated don't violate TOS and will stay up?

[calm dagger]

They haven't, you might just have the AI filter enabled

I still see the 38K products on my end

And it keep going up

Now even with copyrighted logos on that garbage

[vital island]

No.Close the ai filter

Same amount 38K Assets are there

[rugged wren]

with 2-4k published every day over the past week I imagine there's a huge backlog of submitted-but-not-yet-visible assets in the pipeline 😅

[calm dagger]

That filter is useless because most assets aren't marked as AI

This guy is the best example of that, all AI garbage but only half is marked as AI generated

[vital island]

That's my boy

[rugged wren]

I noticed some older assets were all around 5k polys, maybe the new ones are 500k due to a typo 😆

[vital island]

A Big Fan of Overwatch 2

[cyan plinth]

Nevermind. You can't remove things from your library at all. wtf?

[green seal]

Oh wow. Well, I mean it's something I guess

[vital island]

Before 2025 if they pass 1M product for 3D Models Catagory that's a problem btw

[dire meteor]

You can email support and have them do it afaik.

[jagged jewel]

Already 41k. Not marked as ai, also guns in "Buildings and architecture".

btw, this guy assets make 30% of "Buildings and architecture" category. this is just spam, regardeless how it's generated

[floral cloud]

Whos buying this 😠

[jagged jewel]

nobody i suppose. unless it's some money laundering schema

[dim fable]

vast majority of them will never make a single sale, but realistically it costs them next to nothing to churn this crap out so it doesn't require many sales to justify it, and if you cast a large enough net eventually you'll catch something

41k products is a pretty big net

[floral cloud]

How much do they even cost I wonder

[dim fable]

depends on how they're generated, quite a lot of AI services are just free right now though as every AI startup tries to carve out market share so they can get bought up by a big fish

[jagged jewel]

fab could easily make that economically unsustainable by adding a small publishing fee. legit assets will recup that after one sale but spam will not work anymore. would also work for both ai crap or just crap

i believe steam has something like this

[dim fable]

They could which makes one wonder why they haven't

[floral cloud]

There’s no way to report this I imagine, even then reporting 40k assets would be hell. People said epic already knows about this though

[jagged jewel]

ppl tried to report it

[floral cloud]

lol I should make ai script to report all the ai generated models, that would be true irony

[jagged jewel]

but it not violates any rules, except some of them not being marked as ai. that was the epics answer

[floral cloud]

Damn

[dim fable]

fab is an asset sewer, no one wants to go wading through it so all you can do is hope something good bubbles up to the surface

[cyan plinth]

Why would anyone want to offer legit products at this point? Fab is going to be seen as a slop bucket and trust is a big factor for making repeat sales.
I know I won't be paying for anything on Fab either if this is how things are going to be and I doubt I'm the only one.

[floral cloud]

Same

I think perhaps a non ai alternative storefront would be nice, allow 0 ai products but idk if that’s even viable

[rugged wren]

is there a better place to sell UE assets?

[cyan plinth]

Govt. id required to post. Permaban after 1 offense. For starters. The way things are going with AI it's scorched Earth or nothing.

[cyan plinth]

Your own website I guess. There aren't a lot of other options they haven't bought yet. At least that way you can avoid your work being sold next to garbage.

[desert panther]

Discoverability is a major problem selling anything for UE outside of Fab

Discoverability has always been the biggest problem even on the UE Marketplace before the AI slop spam

[rugged wren]

More difficult to drive traffic there, though, and then I have to deal with payment processing and sales regulations for different countries, etc.

[cyan plinth]

Yeah it sucks.

[desert panther]

This is frankly why I'm not fully convinced the slop spam is actually going to have any impact whatsoever. I guess it might make it harder to find specific types of 3D assets or such, if the search phrases overlap.

[cyan plinth]

I'm not going to be bullied into it though even if that means taking a monetary loss.

[calm yoke]

We're aware of this and are working on addressing it. A more detailed post will be coming soon.

[desert panther]

That's good, it feels like this topic has been discussed to death here with the same things coming up every time :)

New users obviously not aware of what's been discussed previously so can't really fault them

[calm yoke]

We'll be posting on the forum, but I'll also drop the link here at that point in time 🙂

[jagged jewel]

You guys should add a publishing fee at this point. It will avoid you a lot of work and improve the overall quality of content. You can donate it to charity, like steam does

[fossil dune]

💯💯

[fossil dune]

Yeah, just like steam.
They can make it refundable after X amount.

Fab is really not attractive to list in or buy from , especially for new people, both sellers and buyers.

Not to attack them or anything, But one user uploading 35’000 AI garbage and getting approved is just mad.
What if we all started doing that? how may primitive meshes with 500K tris would be in there.

how long would you have to scroll to find a seller who puts time into his work, not a script…

[vale prawn]

Yes, this + never stepping out of the Unreal channel, and you'll more or less have exactly what the MP was before AI existed.

[fossil dune]

thing is if im uploading AI and i dont tag it with that, that filter is completely useless.
for example the guy with 35K AI assets didn’t tag all of them as Ai

so filter is useless unless seller feels like it

[oblique minnow]

Then report it

[fossil dune]

it’s trending on multiple social media and reported multiple times

[oblique minnow]

dont go on those social media if its ai saturated

[fossil dune]

im guessing he’s not the only one, he’s just the one thats trending now. products still up

[fossil dune]

huh?

not trending as in positive. trending as in people are not impressed Fab allowed this

[rugged wren]

I know everyone is concerned about the future, but this guy is (afaict) really exceptional at the moment, and there hasn't been enough time to see what the fab team will do in response.

That said, even if this seller is the all-time record holder for most published assets I don't think he can tank the entire market by himself. I haven't seen any of his assets in my search results without explicitly looking for them, for example. That could be because I mostly just look for UE assets or because I don't often search for models with queries like "Blast Core Mark II". So for me, personally, I don't see this as a reason to stop using fab.

But has anyone else tried to search for something and found the results filled with this guy's assets? Even searching for the word "blaster" (since his latest batch are mostly using that term) I have scrolled through pages and pages and not run into his assets.

[oblique minnow]

the marketplace is still underdeveloped atm, why not just wait until its pretty enough

its gonna be the largest unified market and your not locked in to ride til its prime, instead its complaints.

[jagged jewel]

wait until ai bros discover how to make ue assets

[fossil dune]

Picture this, youtube or blog post:

“Hey guys, I make $100 on Fab with only 10 mins of work a day. I have a script that generates AI models, then uploads them to Fab.com, the script then lists everything for $2. but there’s a lot of sales per day that lead to $50-$100 a day. Download link for the script below”

How many people do you think will jump on that

[rugged wren]

ok, eventually I did find his assets under the 'blaster' search, but it was after scrolling much further than I normally would. I don't normally expect to find what I'm looking for on like the 10th page of results.

My point, though, is that his volume of assets doesn't necessarily mean that he will dominate everyone's search results and render the site as a whole unusable or leech sales from people selling higher-quality assets.

[fossil dune]

see my last point

[oblique minnow]

how many policy updates will happen if it gets out of hand

[vale prawn]

Honestly, this whole controversy seems wayyy overblown. Some guy doesn't tag its products with "Created with AI"? Community goes mad. Fab staff features stolen assets at the top of the landing page for 24h? Nobody bats an eye.

[oblique minnow]

AI is only currently projecting the market, then when it slows down they will fix the sorting. Right now as i said the site isnt even done.

[rugged wren]

oh, totally, if he's successful it's a real risk that we'll see more and more of this kind of behavior. But I doubt Epic/fab are really keen on that happening, either. Obviously if in six months there are thousands of copycat accounts and this type of content is all you can find on fab, the site will die. We're not there yet, though, there's still time for them to do something. Don't despair too early 😉

Considering how obviously unusable his meshes are I would be surprised if he could actually earn that much in a day even with 50k assets 😅

[oblique minnow]

yal do know fab will expand even further than it is, just upload your assets and let them fix our market

[rugged wren]

in some ways they're kind of related problems in that there's no way to prove when you make a submission that it is or isn't made with AI and there's no way to prove that you do or don't have the rights to list it. They're both things that any platform kind of has to take your word for it at first and deal with problems later in a reactive manner.

[oblique minnow]

then when it happens more new fab policy and deleted posts will happen

simple as that

[fossil dune]

Personally, i could write more or less the same script in a week or 2.
and then after that make it free just to prove a point, then share sales reports.

If its going to take Fab 6 months to fix this, by that time, buyers will be very frustrated.

Also its not that expensive.
HuggingFace has models you can run locally on your own PC, connect the results to a script that uploads to Fab and thats it, 50-200 uploads a day. or even more

Out of morality i wouldn’t do that

[oblique minnow]

buyers know howto filter

someone prolly rich asf from it rn and yal complaining abt ai

[fossil dune]

shilling much?

[rugged wren]

absolutely, nobody is arguing that what this guy did is difficult or expensive. If I wrote the script I'd at least add a step to decimate the models down to 10k polygons, though :p
I would really be fascinated to see his sales reports if he has any though. And interviews with the people who bought his assets, find out what they thought they could use the meshes for 😅

[fossil dune]

I don’t find it difficult or expensive. Morally, i can’t do it… its not that i can’t/incapable. i just can’t see myself doing such out of greed. But to prove a point i would

[oblique minnow]

well its your pockets

[rugged wren]

but is there really much money to be made selling stuff like this? There are free assets with higher quality

[oblique minnow]

ai sucks at texturing

btw

[rugged wren]

if you're a professional modeler, I don't think this guy is your competition

[dim fable]

Ah yes the forums, the OTHER Epic site inundated with spam

[oblique minnow]

wait til yal realize fab is the least ai saturated market

[fossil dune]

anyway in conclusion i feel there should be
Fab.com

and
Fab.ai

if you’re caught on fab.com uploading AI stuff, all of that and possibly your profile will be moved to fab.ai

[oblique minnow]

such a silly idea

[fossil dune]

is it? Shilling much?

[oblique minnow]

overused word

like it or not some people look for ai assets

can be cheaper alternative sometimes

[solar frost]

My hand actually does this, huge problem. Doctors say I'm clipping through the world

[fossil dune]

thats fab.ai

infact i think those people should be informed that they don’t need to buy AI generated assets. They can generate them for themselves. using their own Pcs. or the same platform you generated from

visit huggingface for models you can run locally on your own pc without paying a fee except the electricity bill

[oblique minnow]

fab.ai doesnt nore will ever exist

not really a demand for it

[fossil dune]

Shilling much?

[oblique minnow]

bros 3rd time

just ai the vocab smh

[fossil dune]

who’s counting

you’re currently just outting yourself as the 35K seller

[oblique minnow]

why u mad

out of nowhere

just have a conversation like an adult

anyways moving on

[jagged jewel]

you couldn't find it probably because there's no description and no tags. those could be also easily generated with ai

[oblique minnow]

prolly dont buy ai products if you dont like them

[floral cloud]

🤔

It would be funny if epic said the same thing lol

[oblique minnow]

as i said before site still has yet to be finished and they know what problems they have on their market

epic knows

[floral cloud]

Hmm I wonder if nobody brought it up would it have even got their attention

Or maybe you’re right, they know all the problems

[oblique minnow]

my data is slowing down my response gonna be delayed

[oblique minnow]

they do

think like a company

[floral cloud]

Yes no feedback from any user is necessary

[oblique minnow]

expand production in several ways to project sales then when it slows down sort through and fix whats needs to be.

[floral cloud]

Including feedback of them knowing every single issue lol

[oblique minnow]

im sure they know

[floral cloud]

Sure you said they know all the problems, I have my doubts they know all problems without user feedback but I digress

[jagged jewel]

Went checking fab this morning, AAAA+ quality content is still here.

[desert panther]

FOEANTTTE the next big gaming hit

[jagged jewel]

#FREEFOEANTTTE!!1

[vale prawn]

As someone who's mostly out of the loop on that, what's the workflow/models used here? Text to image (e.g., Stable Diffusion) to generate a single image, then feed that to another model generating everything else (mesh, textures)? I didn't even know there were models generating PBR textures. As shitty as the end results currently look, it's still technically fairly impressive, and if image to 3D keeps improving like text to image/video, I can see that becoming useful in the future.

[desert panther]

That sounds like the workflow yeah

I think currently there can be value from these tools in that they can give you a starting point, so if you use them as part of a workflow where you build on top of what they give you, it could potentially speed up the whole process

I've not really used it myself, but at least considering it for someone like me who isn't exactly a 3d artist but I could take AI outputs and then use it as kind of a model that I can study or use as inspiration, there might be some potential there

[fossil dune]

The first thing they need to improve on/fix is the topology and unnecessary Geometry.

Then the next step is Good UV unwrapping.

If the AI masters those two , then it would be very very useful and time saving.

Right now the models they generate are too high poly and terrible topology.
You need good topology especially if you're going to rig and animate.

At the speed AI is moving , maybe sometime next year same time, AI will be there...

[unreal stratus]

looks like individual seller sales have gone live?

or is there some sort of secret sale event happening?

[untold bay]

looks like individual sales

[unreal stratus]

nice! I know lots of folks have been asking for that. Unrelated, but I've used Pitch Black since you first shared on reddit like a year ago, such a handy asset to have 🙂

[untold bay]

yay! glad to hear it. would love to see (and share if permitted) anything you've made with it

[jagged jewel]

just be careful, you can't go on sale 30 days after previous sale end (individual or not) and you cannot modify prices 30 days before

so sale/price change => 30 days no sales for this product

[jagged jewel]

Linder Germain was deleted

[oblique minnow]

so is fab sales good for a career change?

[hollow basin]

You would need to be a top earner on fab in order to match what would be a modest salary in other jobs. As a side gig, it's not bad

[oblique minnow]

hmm

mk

[rugged wren]

you could always try to game the system by running a dictionary through an AI asset generator 24/7 😉

[oblique minnow]

im not doing that

thats cheating to me

i rather work hard than do some crap like that

[oblique minnow]

do you have the experience or just guessing at it?

[hollow basin]

I have been a seller for two years, and I think I do slightly better than average but it's still tough. My best advice is to not lack on advertising. Advertising your product is just as important as making a good product. Fab won't do it for you

[oblique minnow]

ah

interesting

like twitter, instagram, artstation

?

[hollow basin]

Those could be decent, but I mainly advertise on youtube. Most people are looking for tutorials and you can just say "are you looking for a system that does this? If you are trying to save development time, I have this system available on Fab to purchase". Youtube is really the only place I advertise but I should do other places as well, but I just know youtube the best. On youtube be upfront that what you are showing is paid, nobody likes sitting through a video and then finding out they have to spend money. It's also very easy for documentation, just film a video of you using the tool and say when you're supposed to use each variable and provide an index so people can jump to parts they want to see

[oblique minnow]

ok thank you for that

[white moat]

Hey, I am currently developing a asset pack which is basically completed. The main focus is the actual models and textures but I have included some limited blueprint functionality and VFX. To make it more of a "complete bundle" I have been dabbling in trying to create some sounds for the effects but after several days trying to create a single good sounding explosion it feels like I am wasting my time for something that would be of higher quality if bought from a proper sound pack. How valuable would you say "extra" things such as sounds to an asset pack is to the consumer? And is it common for asset packs with functionality to include sounds for their actors?

[untold bay]

You can launch with what you have and see if the level of interest merits further investment

Worth looking at what other options buyers have and how you stand out amongst those. Maybe the BP is enough, but maybe you do need the sound

[rose lagoon]

I have a world audio system that is all BP, meant to handle ambient noise, dynamic music changes, etc. it's awesome, and I'm very happy with my purchase. the gun sound effects are literally the dev saying "pew pew", "bang", "boom"

[untold bay]

update on Linder Germain's AI spam:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/update-on-products-generated-with-ai/2523501

[north fern]

I got the invite for the Fab June Flash Sale. I tried filling out the form and it just sort of repeats itself back to the top to fill-in after clicking "Start". I tried filling out everything a few times to be sure. Anyone else experience this?

Oh... I see the error. For some reason, it saying "Minimum 32 characters required" for "What is your Epic ID?" Mine is no where near 32 chars.

Ah, I see... they want the alphanumeric Account ID.

[calm yoke]

Hey folks! I wanted to pop back in here to keep everyone updated on the situation. Here is the update on products generated with AI > https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/update-on-products-generated-with-ai/2523501

[white moat]

hahah nice, I have considered something similar, like just including placeholder sounds with the proper implementation and timing with the animations so that the customer has an easy time switching them out for something better

[carmine owl]

Does anyone know what I put to include the roughness on my model? It's way greyer/lighter than it is in-engine with my mats

It looks totally different to in-engine. I don't know why.

[hollow zephyr]

Yes but fab stores can be a legit business like dekogon or leartes, dozens of good products will surely sell

[hollow basin]

Sure, but those are the top producers. They have dedicated teams to make products which will probably not be the case for most sellers on fab. I agree it's legitimate, but can be more difficult to earn a good salary if you are not one of the best

[carmine owl]

I'm just happy if anybody buys my Thompson and thinks it ok. I know it isn't the best.

And it looks off in the 3D view for some reason.

[urban spear]

Are there any stylized environment packs that are actually optimized for Nanite?

[untold bay]

cloviren has stylized grass

[urban spear]

Well I mean more than just grass lmao

[untold bay]

grass is the hard part really. you can happily slap nanite on most opaque things and it just works

it's things that would ordinarily be masked that you want something different

[urban spear]

Well, there's also trees and other foliage with masked materials

Granted, there's now this plugin: https://www.fab.com/listings/f59fbd35-f5da-4435-9a0b-af464d10a49c

[vale prawn]

Really? Even just a few weeks ago I had this issue, someone on my team just enabled Nanite on a whole bunch of (opaque) foliage, and the result was overdraw madness. There was a great GDC talk on just that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoxYceDfKEM

[untold bay]

I saw this talk. It's true, most, rather than all

[dim fable]

meh I've always found that there is very little benefit to using Nanite on grass... it doesn't need to affect indirect lighting or occlusion, doesn't need cast shadows (contact shadows will work fine) and its detail is too fine to be meaningfully useful as an occluder. You can push a lot more geometry if that's what you're after but I generally feel turning it off gives you a lot more flexibility

[urban spear]

Yeah, overdraw is the achilles heel of Nanite, minimize it and you get the performance gains it promises but otherwise...

[astral cloud]

Just wanted to acquire some pack on Fab - being in the EU: and getting this - so something GRANTED BY LAW is not valid? Are there some changes here? At least, I cannot remember having seen that strange dialogue before...

Which part of GRANTED BY LAW did they not understand? Seems to be some EU specific stuff here

[rugged wren]

It seems there is an exception here as long as you agree to it, so this is them asking you to agree
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/guarantees-returns/index_en.htm#inline-nav-8

The wording is kind of confusing, though 😅

[astral cloud]

Yes, I am forced to agree, then it works. Did buy this one now, but being forced is not really the best option.

[rugged wren]

So they are saying that, by default you have 14 days by law to refund something unless you agree that downloading the asset will terminate your your refund rights early

I suppose this exception to the law was more intended for cases of buying something like an individual movie, watching it once and then refunding it

[astral cloud]

Well, really confusing, but anyway, never had to use a refund, quite sure, things are ok. But not being a laywer, things are really confusing

[astral cloud]

Yes, that's something I really can understand

[astral cloud]

Fab does enforce that agreement, otherwise no purchase possible at all. So with my agreement I lost that right, clearly stated here... Just a theoretical problem, it's 15 Euros and a product I'm confident, it will work as expected. But in general, if this was some really expensive one, I'm almost sure I'd be lost here when talking to a lawyer.

[rugged wren]

I can't say for sure, but I would guess that this kind of practice is fairly common for digital purchases but maybe buried more deeply in the TOS.
FWIW, they don't say they will absolutely reject refunds after you've downloaded something, so if you buy an asset that doesn't live up to the marketing materials or is broken, etc., it may still be worth requesting a refund (I've never tried to refund something on fab, though, so no idea how difficult it may be)
https://www.fab.com/refund-policy

[desert panther]

Yeah the refund policy is separate

This withdrawal thingy is just related to the EU-wide online sales thing where you automatically have a 14 day right to refund simply if you change your mind

Buying digital goods it becomes a bit iffy and easily abused (buy it, get the files, refund it), so this is common for those kinds of cases

I think the Fab refund policy in general covers legitimate cases where you might need a refund

[cedar bone]

yes, but it is nothing new, its like that for long long time, for years, on any digital market, its cuz the moment u buy a digital asset u own it and u can get it immediately in its entirety
they cannot allow for ppl to buy digital assets, download them and then refund for 14 days, that would be insane, cant happen
unless there is nothing really wrong with the offered asset and its true to the description, there is hardly a reason to refund it, even if u dont like it for any reason

[astral cloud]

Yes, this makes perfectly sense - buy, download, refund - could be a way to steal things. Although that would mean having no license and in risk of getting caught. But I understand the problem. And in the marketplace guidelines, I found, that if epic can reproduce problems with an asset, the refund should work, so even if having agreed to losing the right..granted by law, this will be no problem, hopefully. Maybe that Warning box You lose your rights granted by law is a little bit intimidating and some other wording here could have avoided the confusion

Thanks to you all for the constructive discussion

[desert panther]

I've started offering a 14 day no questions asked refund policy on my plugin, but I don't make that many sales so I can't say yet whether that invites abuse :) Although my plugin is also a bit more niche use, so might not get all the randos trying to get it in that way

[rugged wren]

I agree the wording here is a bit confusing and it's a little shocking to get a pop-up like that, but all things considered I think it's better to have it up front and explicit rather than buried under some, "by clicking 'next' you agree to <100s of legal things including this somewhere>"

feels a little more 'honest' 😅

[lusty summit]

Just bought an NPC to test someone's work and it doesn't install any actual files in the projects.

Is anyone at Epic actually testing anything, ever

[civic roost]

When using the UE5 plugin there's no Nanite option, will this change in the future?

[oblique minnow]

is fab becoming a new way of having a career though asset selling

[hollow basin]

I wouldn't call it that new and it's not that much more profitable as it was before. If you considered the unreal engine marketplace a profitable endeavor, fab would probably be profitable as well

[civic token]

Hi guys, I have a model that I want to use with Material Layers. Some parts are metal, some are glass (transparent), and one part should use a masked material. How can I apply these different materials using Material Layers? Thanks in advance!

[tawny hinge]

that belongs in #materials

[civic token]

Hi, any Fab seller here? i need ask some questions. thanks in advance

[blazing tinsel]

yoo how do i package 3d assets i made to be sell??

like if i have a bunch of beds for example and i wanna sell it do i add them all into one file but different collection? (im using blender)

or different files for each

[rugged wren]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/fab/asset-file-format-and-structure-requirements-in-fab

[calm dagger]

Feel free to ask your questions directly, you will get answers faster that way 😉
https://dontasktoask.com/

[hollow zephyr]

make a UE project and add them there

[blazing tinsel]

Ohhh ookkokokok

[blazing tinsel]

Thankss

[undone valve]

Hey everyone, I'm looking to improve my browsing experience on Fab and was thinking about an extension to help filter out AI-generated content through community effort.
The core idea:

• A Chrome/Firefox extension where users can mark assets or creators as AI.
• A central backend tallies these community "votes."
• If an item reaches a certain threshold of reports from the community, it's hidden for all users of the extension.

Would love to see something like this exist, powered by users. I would create it myself but I have no experience creating such rather more complex (?) browser extensions myself, so I'm hoping this idea might inspire someone with the skills!

[dim fable]

Maybe ask copilot to generate the code for it

chatgpt

I also think it would be easier to just hide sellers wholesale if too many of their products get labeled as AI, instead of trying to play whackamole with every individual listing

[undone valve]

Yep. You are right. I will take a closer look on how hard this really is

[rugged wren]

being able to filter specific sellers out of the search results would be a really useful feature, AI or not. Sometimes I've already seen what the top couple of sellers have to offer for a certain term/category and want to explore other options

[undone valve]

So in the past I did a history browser extension once. This looks fairly easy to do. I will get to work now and see how it goes 🙂

[undone valve]

Great idea. That probably even is my first step to make this work

[vale prawn]

Is non-tagged AI content really an issue on Fab? I don't browse often (I stick to new releases), but I very rarely see AI content filter through.

With Epic making it easier to report such abuse, I think time would be better using that tool (and making others do too).

[dim fable]

It was enough of an issue that I completely stopped even trying to look for 3D/2D assets

whether it still is I dont know

not even just AI content, there's just so much trash...

[vale prawn]

I'll sound like a broken record, but: never go outside of the Unreal channel on Fab. It's a wasteland out there. This should be stickied at this point 😄

[rare helm]

Is

Is there a way to update my products to latest version of unreal all at once instead of one by one

[desert panther]

Like, update the products you are selling or using in your projects?

[rare helm]

Selling

[desert panther]

Well at least for code plugins or such you would have to package it for the new version and that would need to be done on a per plugin basis and I don't think there's any magic button to pull that would just do that 🤔

[rare helm]

Yeah true i don't think so for all products

[undone valve]

Extension for that is finished!

This is what I have so far. Already pretty useful

[viscid dagger]

is there a possibility to give someone access to content we publish on fab? I want the rest of my team to have my published plugins in their library

[rare helm]

Yeah i used to give access by telling their epic accounts to the market place support email then theyd give them access so try emailing fab with accounts of your team

[viscid dagger]

ok, thanks

[warm knot]

What if a user created 41,000 accounts and used your extension to mark his own assets as non-AI generated? Trust can be an issue.

[undone valve]

It was pretty easy to make so far. I now made it so you can only mark sellers as ai sellers. Once one seller exceeds more than a specific amount of marks it gets hidden automatically. (The following I still need to add:) And if someone thinks it was a mistake they can report it so I (or the community) can review it

[warm knot]

Ah, so simple, yet genius. Make it so that users can only mark as AI. 👍

But what if not accounts mark legitimate sellers as AI?

Bot accounts*

This is a pretty good idea, btw.

[undone valve]

Thank you 🙂

[undone valve]

If it happens to you you can go to your seller profile and click on a report button so I can review it

[pliant forum]

I've been wanted a blacklist feature since FAB released, if this works, put it on the chrome store once it's done, I'd 100% use it

[flat island]

Hi, when will ArtStation marketplace migrate to FAB?

[undone parrot]

Is anyone aware of an asset that allows MediaPlate use for Skydomes?
For a current project I need to use a video source for my sky.

[vital island]

Hope never.

[cedar bone]

i hope never

[green seal]

Do people still use ArtStation marketplace since it got completely swamped with ai slop?

There was definitely some good stuff in there

But I have barely touched artstation in 2 years

[jaunty dagger]

Check it sometimes but hard to sift through

[cedar bone]

ArtStation marketplace and ArtStation overall is an amazing website, there are tons of great quality asset there, nowhere to be found on FAB
its also much better to find, browse and discover assets there, the functionality is also much more mature than FAB
even the layout is more intuitive and consistent to use, with more dense design and amount of data available

the best part is it is engine agnostic, the assets are mostly standard 3d and other formats, not for any engine thus its easier to use for anything, not to mention much more variety of assets for many different software and workflows

FAB is still the "engines market" so ppl just dont list ton of things there at all, this and the constant issues FAB had and has, still not resolved by totally incompetent epic games, constant controversies, lack of support and systemic solutions, its just a sad terrible mess

if they force ppl from ArtStation to migrate to FAB it will be another disaster, the only thing they will achieve, they will destroy what ArtStation is, nothing else, and then it could endanger the artistic part of it that i love, and i bet less that HALF will even try to migrate cuz they dont need to be on a "engine market" and then they will meet with a wall of incompetence and nonsense rules on FAB and another half will say f* it, so i hope it will never happen and epic will come to senses

[rocky fox]

Hey so i noticed that Quixel Bridge and Fab are frequently competing against eachother.
for example. when fab was released, there was that big deal about bridge sending people to fab to get their quixel content

for a while, quixel would go back and forth between working natively and refering to fab (which is terrible for quixel)
for months now, i have been able to use Quixel Bridge with no problem
lastnight, i was using bridge just fine

startup my project for the morning, and now quixel forces me to use fab, but what i need on fab i have to use the webbrowser for because the application refuses to get my the surface material that i need

can i disable fab and purely use quixel?
this is seriously frustrating

even the content i have locally downloaded, requires me to access fab

[trail heron]

all the quixel content is part of fab, there is no real back and forth early on fab just lacked some features so they re-activated quixel temporarily, there is no competition as quixel is merged into fab

long term quixel will go poof entirely and it will just be fab

[rocky fox]

I understand what you are saying,
but the flipflopping of functionality is obnoxious. sometimes i can use quixel, sometimes i am forced to use FAB
there was a live stream the other day ago around a guy who has Quixel functionality and the other was forced to use FAB

it is inconsistent and poorly implemented

[covert frigate]

If I buy 3d and 2d assets from Fab marketplace then combine and heavily modify them(along with original assets) to create videos with original content that are streamed and monetized with original music should I say in the video descriptions:

"All Rights Both Audio And Visual Belong To..."

Do I own the rights of the visuals as well?(even though some of the assets were purchased from Fab and modified beyond recognition, mainly just trees and landscapes).

I think I should claim some rights over the videos. There's extensive shader, fx and lighting modifications that people will probably steal. They are unique content with original HD fx and lighting solutions that someone will probably take and use as their own background videos while they narrate something else if I don't claim some rights.

[untold bay]

@covert frigate The fab license grants you the right to do a broad variety of things with the assets, but afaik none of those things require you to credit the asset creators

https://www.fab.com/eula

[covert frigate]

Reading through the terms they seem to be against the content being extracted for reuse and they want the user not to permit it's reuse. So I think the statement should be something like:

"Visual rights are protected under CC-BY license agreement videos are not permitted for use outside of this channel. All audio rights belong to (my company name)"

[untold bay]

A rendered video is already a non-reusable version of most assets

[covert frigate]

I anticipate some people will take it anyways even with a notice in the description.

[untold bay]

even assets included in a published game can be extracted. i think it suffices for any extraction to be mildly inconvenient

[foggy spindle]

Am I the only one annoyed that Megascans tetures dont download with a exr displacment map any more? Pre fab, everything was JPG other than DSP, which was great. Now I have to down load a 1-2GB file for all the exrs.

[rugged wren]

yeah, the main point is not to extract a mesh and then re-sell or publish the extracted mesh, but if that mesh is part of a packaged project of some kind it's fine (but if your project is open source and that mesh is stored in a public github repository, that's probably not fine)

[vale prawn]

It only took 6 months, but now sorting by newest actually sorts by newest : https://www.fab.com/channels/unreal-engine?sort_by=-firstPublishedAt

They also added the firstPublishedAt sort option, which I'm guessing solves the issue of re-publishing. I'm still seeing some listing not properly showing on that, but I can't really tell what's the issue (or how widespread it is).

[undone valve]

The Fab Search Filter extension is now available for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fab-asset-filter/

[carmine leaf]

Does anyone know how to get control over what files are downloaded inside in the integrated fab store/library? especially for Quixel texture sets I want to have the height map for displacement. I have seen people do this but I cant find a setting.

[carmine leaf]

I guess it is preset by Quixel. I found that downloading higher resolution sets then often include it, starting at 4K

[tame compass]

finally finished product after 5 times review

[honest blade]

Everything on my Fab account is gone. I still have everything in the launcher. But not on the website or in Unreal. Anyone else experiencing this? Even Quixel's section on Fab is bare bones.

[jaunty dagger]

Had similar happen a week ago it eventually came back.

My entire library was basically unresponsive also

[deft tapir]

Are indivual sales live? I recently checked the road map and it said in progress but today I noticed a whole bunch of items on sale. Far as I know there's no official sale event at the moment.

[desert panther]

If they are I don't see any way to start a sale for my plugin anywhere in the UI

[jaunty dagger]

I also saw a bunch of sales 🤔

[vale prawn]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/fab/sales-and-discounts-in-fab#individualsales

[jaunty dagger]

But where did they talk about it lol

[deft tapir]

Last time I checked this they said no

[jaunty dagger]

So people just request anytime they want now

[vale prawn]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/individual-sales-are-now-available/2485249

[jaunty dagger]

https://i.imgur.com/5iSUOZL.png

[deft tapir]

Same here

[vale prawn]

It's for creators only. They didn't announce it for buyers, I don't think there's much point to that.

[jaunty dagger]

I have access to publish just havn't released anything yet 🤷 oh well lol

[deft tapir]

It logged me out I should be able to see it after logging in, anyway I didnt get the Memo, been a creator for 8 years. And we still have to wait 14 days before we can start our own sales not so?

[vale prawn]

You must submit your request at least 14 days before the sale’s desired start date.

[desert panther]

Ah you need to submit it manually, I expected a button on the edit product page

I noticed there was a new FAQ and Changelog section you can add now though

the FAQ goes below the technical details box that I'm not convinced anyone will ever read it but hey at least it's there :D

[deft tapir]

Just my luck, why keep this information in a locked forum and not update the roadmap.

Even if customers dont need to know about but they should communicate with sellers better.

[hollow basin]

Just saw the changelog earlier and checked here and no one mentioned it so I assumed it was out for a while. You think it's meant to be used as a changelog for every update or just the most recent?

[desert panther]

Tbh there should really be a mailing list you can subscribe to get these kinds of updates

I don't read the forums, and I can't even get notifications about replies to my on product's forum thread for some reason

[desert panther]

Hard to say - I couldn't see it in the preview product page thing anywhere, so I just dumped by full changelog into it and published to see if it will actually show up somewhere on the page or not

[vale prawn]

You can tweak the settings to get notifications, maybe even email, on first posts in certain category. I have it enabled for Publishers Hub
https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/<username>/preferences/tracking

[desert panther]

Thanks I'll have to check it but not holding my breath it will work :D

[desert panther]

It goes here and looks like this when you click it, so it's for the most recent it would appear.

[deft tapir]

So I actually first noticed the on sale button on the front page a few days ago but nothing appeared when I clicked on it so I didnt think much of it, but today it worked. Did it just start working recently or was it likely a bug that day?

[rugged wren]

ooh, that's a good tip, unfortunately I haven't been able to log into the forums for a while, though, haha

[somber totem]

I'm trying to get this atlas into my unreal. For some reason it's not in fabs quixel page in the unreal but it is in website. Any idea ?

[cedar bone]

its like that from time to time, just wait it out if u can

[honest blade]

Oh really? Well, rip Fab for now. I've been using Polyhaven in the meantime. lol

[covert frigate]

The same thing happened to me for a while. I think it was the cache or something. Eventually it went back to normal and it's working fine now.

[tropic marsh]

anyone know how to solve this, i see my owned items in the shop but library is empty

[vivid cloud]

you probably haven't logged in or have a different account in the fab library in the engine.

[tropic marsh]

mmm i am logged in i can see items in store as an "in your library"

for example, but library is empty. i can only see them at the store

[cedar bone]

do u own only quixel assets in that category? i assume not, but if u do, those are still only visible on the quixel seller profile not in the library

[tropic marsh]

i dont actually, i own only quixel stuff. ^^"

how can i get to that profile?

man i miss quixel bridge plugin haha

[cedar bone]

well i dont know what they are doing, but it is apparently some kind of maintenance or other issues connected to that, maybe some fab bugfixing, there is a lot of it, if it does not come back in like 3 days i would message them

[cedar bone]

ha ha, what a chance
u just go to their profile and browse from that
either find them by name or click any of their asset and click their profile there

[tropic marsh]

thanks im here, but i cant see any material that i own by them

this is so weird its there for 0.1 second when i enter profile and then gone

why it is so weird lol - if i filter only by quixel on store everything gone too

[cedar bone]

are u sure u claimed all the asset when there was time before 2024 ending?

[tropic marsh]

yep

i can download from store - if i dont filter

[tropic marsh]

as mentioned here

😦

on the web its working, not on fab plugin

[cedar bone]

aa, u mean the plugin, dont know, only checked web recently, technically there is no reason it should be different, its just epic and fab, you cant understand this lol, its beyond any reason and logic
i guess i would need to check
other than that u would need to contact support

[tropic marsh]

i mean yeah adding from unreal straight to the project, easier no?
thank you for trying buddy

[tall pebble]

hope this is cool with the mods but i wanted to dump my unused UE5 codes from humble bundle here; grab them while you can.

1. DE52A-246FE-TC8NG-9589D
2. C33YC-TAVFF-V9R5E-2FYDJ
3. AUXP2-2BPBK-C7UAH-DN8DV
4. B4B9Q-NBSLS-S34PQ-AX2BF
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34. 8X64K-UP2YD-5CDQG-JGL57
35. ABLQB-ZAZZN-LW3GU-3MWU2

[tawny hinge]

first one is gonna redeem them all 😄

since it's not even clear what's behind each key

[pastel kindle]

Yeah someone's taken them and then not said anything

[dense condor]

oh well since we are giving out codes ..Ive got one for the Apocalyptic Hospital (Unity) if someone would like it?

[dark light]

Hi all, I don’t want to get in trouble for posting in the wrong place so is this channel ok to post newly added/updated assets from fab, or is there a specific seller channel that I’m missing? Thanks for the help👍

[tawny hinge]

#1054845218723209226 most likely

[dark light]

Thanks, I indeed did not have that channel selected

[cedar bone]

turns out i dont see them in fab plugin too, there is a workaround by enabling showing 3d compatible assets, but its inconvenient

[jaunty dagger]

Thats the only way I found to see quixel now.

[tropic marsh]

thanks for checking, so you usually jsut go fab website and download stuff from there ?

[split apex]

Hey all, every time I publish my project on Fab, I activate the "creating a forum post" for that, but then every time I keep getting this error. Any idea? should I create it manually?

[desert panther]

Contact fab support. I activated the forum post on mine and it worked just fine on the first try

[cedar bone]

i didn't use them yet after fab plugin release so i dont know what is the best way now, maybe the 3d compatible thing works, but i assume it wont export the ue specific assets and thats an issue, but it will any other standard 3d assets like textures and model, but what about ue materials, not sure, u would need to check or ask someone who works with them day to day, just didn't need them, so didn't check

[uneven sierra]

Hey, quick marketplace question -- I could've sworn I owned a marketplace asset consisting of RPG ability icons, but I no longer see it. Most likely, this would've been something offered as free monthly content some time in the past. Is anyone aware of a marketplace asset like that being discontinued? (ie: copyright issues, etc.)

[untold bay]

anything you ever owned should still be in EGL even if it wasn't ported to fab

[floral cloud]

lol rip someone got blessed

[uneven sierra]

I don't know if it's necessarily a fab-specific issue -- might've occurred before the switch (unless I'm mistaken, this channel replaced #marketplace). I know a similar thing happened with some sort of fantasy medieval tavern asset I used to have

[narrow wave]

#fab is the #marketplace channel just renamed

[still vessel]

some assets made by epic dissipated from my library with the migration

sometimes they randomly appear

but I could never find them when i need them

I had to source the infinity blade VFX pack from 2012-2013 and download it on my drive

part of why im learning VFX, I'm done depending on market assets

gotta know at least basic 3D modeling and VFX art so that I would never have to purchase a quixel brick for $9 ever again

during my latest journey in the world of game art and stuff

i finally discovered where normal maps came from

always assumed they were some mystical textures from the outbacks of australia sourced by texture smugglers

[untold bay]

infinity blade disappeared pretty recently, not sure why. it was up on fab

[still vessel]

"wow, people still use this thing we made for them 10 years ago, let's remove it from the marketplace and reintroduce it with revamped textures for $20 a piece"

[jaunty dagger]

Props still exist

But when you go to it gets a page doesn't exist 😂 https://www.fab.com/listings/48ad9979-d576-4d25-8234-5bb25af7d7c6

[split iron]

I pulled my listing to stop selling it
But I still want to update for existing customers
I don't see the option though?

[jaunty dagger]

Can you add it to projects?

I had them all before fab but they are missing for me.

[rose lagoon]

yes, through the launcher

[still vessel]

mine disappeared from the launcher as well

[rose lagoon]

maybe double check your filters. not saying you're wrong, just a suggestion

[timid orchid]

anyone know what actually changed in the new fab distribution agreement updated today?

[undone valve]

I think just that Epic is allowed to set the Generated Using AI tag on products themselves

[vale prawn]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/fab-document-updates-eula-fab-distribution-agreement-etc/2540618

DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT UPDATES

UPDATED on June 4th, 2025.

We removed the outdated Exhibit that referred to last year’s promotion of time-limited 100% revenue split

We made changes to Section 18.k. that include:

Updated wording around NoAI and CreatedWithAI tags.
Epic will now be able to moderate missing CreatedWithAI tags.
NoAI tag will now be applied by default to MetaHumans published on Fab.
Fixed wording around Epic’s AI usage in Safety & Discovery tools to align with Fab’s Terms of Service.

[rich oak]

hello, is there a way to filter out the assets i already own ?

[undone valve]

.

[undone valve]

Yes, I made a extension for Firefox: ⬆️

[rich oak]

ty vm

[pine ridge]

Does anyone have these cactus models downloaded, as I need them, And Fab does not have these models
I don't understand why they did not upload on Fab, it's showing in Quixle only

[jaunty dagger]

Even if we did we aren't allowed to share it

Email fab or quixel they may get to adding them sooner rather than later.

[pine ridge]

Got it Thanks

[raven quarry]

so I was working on something and I got this genius idea of selling it but I need a vehicle to demonstrate it

I found this pack: https://www.fab.com/listings/591e3b3f-9d49-4cd2-8e28-d471c1a10cab

the vehicles were light and bare-bones which was great for me

BUT

I can't use it in my product, right? or is there anything I could do to change that?

[rugged wren]

I don't think you can distribute it as part of your product, but if it's enough just to use it in the screenshots or a packaged demo that should be fine (AFAIK).

If you need it to be part of the actual project files people are buying with your product, you could try contacting the author to see if they'd be open to giving you explicit permission to distribute it. Since it's a free asset they might be open to it.

[desert panther]

Yeah I would definitely try to contact the author. Make sure you mention you'd be happy to display their logo or other type of credits, so it's basically free visibility for them

[narrow wave]

This might be a silly question, but have you thought about using the car from the vehicle template?

[raven quarry]

thanks, I'll try and do that

[raven quarry]

I actually have not! I am going to check it out now

[elder cairn]

it doesn't mention forced arbitration, or was this already added before? just saw it now

[vale prawn]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but you can check the previous EULA at https://www.epicgames.com/account/eula-history

[elder cairn]

PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. IT CONTAINS A CLASS-ACTION WAIVER PROVISION. IF YOU ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT, YOU AND EPIC AGREE TO RESOLVE DISPUTES ONLY IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES AND NOT AS PART OF A CLASS ACTION (SEE SECTION 17(b)). YOU HAVE A TIME-LIMITED RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF THIS CLASS-ACTION WAIVER. BY AGREEING TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, YOU ARE ALSO AGREEING TO CONTRACTUAL TERMS THAT WILL LIMIT SOME OF YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING A JURY WAIVER, A DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY, AN EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN KINDS OF DAMAGES, AND A LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

it's right at the beginning of the fab distribution agreement

[vale prawn]

It was always there

[wraith spoke]

Hi

[wraith spoke]

Hi

[sharp crypt]

Hey, does anyone have a lead on downloadable ui animation templates? I know how to make them myself but want to save time if possible, free or paid

[dusk thorn]

Fab reviews are slower than ever at the moment, holy heck.

Pending review for over 24hrs now.

[untold bay]

likely 5.6 updates

[dusk thorn]

Yeah I'd imagine there being lots.

[lime summit]

okay maybe I am a bit stupid or something, but I've looked around and I see no way to actually get the height/displacement map from quixel materials using fab in engine, it's honestly so bad. The only way I can get it is if I download it through the website and import it manually which I don't really feel like doing unless I have to. I only get a ORM packed texture which only contains Ambient Occlusion, Roughness and Metallic but no displacement map. I'm on 5.6

[tawny hinge]

also Unreal Fest?! so some staff might be there

[undone valve]

When epic adds fab to the epic games launcher this Sommer, all old quixel functionality will be back. I don’t think this is currently possible

[lime summit]

it's summer rn 😭
Alright thanks, I'll have to fix some shit manually but should be fine. I saw they added quixel bridge download button but it doesn't work so yuh

[spiral jacinth]

Fab is already in the Epic Launcher and has been for quite a while, they even behind the scenes moved all the Unreal Marketplace content into the FAB API [but marked them as not transitioned to Fab] to consolidate the API's. AMS is using the same API calls as the Epic Launcher and when they moved to fab, I had to reverse engineer what all the new API calls were to get data...

[lime summit]

Man Fab is so badly made currently. I download assets and than it stops downloading one of them at 99%, gets permanently stuck so I have to cancel that one asset and instead if clears my entire list of pending download. Not to mention I had to restart my entire project to even get downloads working again and the downloads are also very slow on 500mbs internet. Lastly finding assets, selecting specific textures and so many other features just does not exist. The UI is badly made and why isn't there any easy way to find assets you already own.

I love unreal and epic games but fab is the worst decision they have made ever so far, than to add onto it they release it broken.

[jaunty dagger]

Is there a specific file sharing link we should use? https://i.imgur.com/y3FnXIs.png

[desert panther]

As long as it's something they can easily download the files from I don't think it makes any difference. I've used Google Drive myself

[jaunty dagger]

ty

[merry plover]

Hey guys, I don't understand how fab payout works. I have my first sales on early May, now it's June and over 30 days since I have my first 100$ sales. I sent an email to fab support and provide my case, they said that checks the "Monthly Reports" and "Payouts" instead of looking at the Sales tab. I checked my "Monthly Reports" and "Payouts" tabs but there was no information displayed.

[desert panther]

If you went over the 100 dollar limit in May you'll probably get a payout at end of June

[floral cloud]

When y’all are on unreal and press the fab button do you have access to all your megascan/quixel content? I used to but now I only have the quixel projects unless I go on web where I find all the models/etc.. is that normal?

[unreal stratus]

I can confirm this on my end as well, but just noticed that Quixel Bridge is working again

[floral cloud]

I’m gonna try it today, I was literally checking last night and it was redirecting to me to fab on browser

[floral cloud]

Ah yeah now I got bridge working

[calm dagger]

The sales made during an entire month (in your case May, regardless of the day of said sales) are paid in a single payout at the end of the following month, so in this case you will get your payout at the end on June

Assuming that you surpassed 100$ excluding the 12% share of FAB (so you actually need to earn ~115$ to get a payout)

[grand stratus]

Does Fab have something similar to the Vault in Epic Launcher to store already downloaded assets or do I need to download again/migrate already downloaded assets if I want to use them in another project?

[rugged wren]

The Vault is Fab?

[narrow wave]

I'm assuming they mean assets downloaded through the Fab plugin

In which case, just download the assets through the vault in the launcher instead of the plugin

[tulip laurel]

My latest pack is struggling sales wise I wonder if anyone has some advice in here https://www.fab.com/it/listings/1791f064-b840-4f16-b934-9ed51ae27d08

[desert panther]

If I had to guess - medieval torture instruments aren't a particularly common niche

It looks good and the description is well written so can't really find any obvious issues

Maybe it could use support for earlier versions of UE - I know many are still not on 5.5, but I don't know if this is a big factor for models

[rugged wren]

yeah, I have one asset that sold better than expected for the first week or so, then not at all since then. My best guess is everyone who wants it already has it, now 😅
Your medieval village asset, for example, is much more general-purpose and it wouldn't surprise me if it always out-sells the cages just because there are a wider variety of games that can make use of it.

[tulip laurel]

Fair enough, but I never had such a negative experience. I'm still going to finish the series in the hope that maybe a larger amount of assets with promotions etc is going to somehow work. I didn't think about the 5.5 entry level. I should do something about that.

[silk shale]

Did you found any solution, i can see my assets of fab in the website but when i press fab plugin in unreal and try accessing the fab, i can't see my assets; only few? So, I've to manually set up the assets.

[lime summit]

I did not find a solution

[silk shale]

alright

[spiral jacinth]

I'm not sure if Epic Launcher can resume as I never use EL anymore, but AMS if it freezes because of issues with Fab, when you restart AMS you can tell it to download the same asset and it will RESUME the d/l so you don't loose any of the progress it has already made. I do plan on adding in the future that the entire d/l queue is saved on exit and then auto-restarted, but right now you do have to tell it to get the asset again in AMS.

[split iron]

I emailed Epic 5 days ago and no response, anyone know how long they take?
Sent it to [e-mail]

[untold bay]

they seem very backlogged. seeing 4+ days for approval on changes. probably due to everyone updating with the 5.6 release

[split iron]

Fab has been such a shit show. I don't see an option to update a product I pulled. Existing customers should still get updated tho. Did they just not add that feature? You're basically forced to screw over existing customers or continue supporting their awful store

Can't even get a response from epic on it

[undone valve]

You can do it this way I think: Submit product update but with manual publication. Once it’s approved, publish it but then unlist it again

[warm knot]

If they're suddenly backlogged, then does this mean that they're actually reviewing submissions now? Maybe somebody recently attempted to submit another 41,000 times this week?

[split iron]

That's too much work
They better have a proper solution for this
Marketplace didn't stop me from updating my plugins

I left their platform because they fucked it up
Forcing me to use it to not screw over my customers would be totally unacceptable

[thin ledge]

You can agree to have your rights removed in court?

[rugged wren]

I'm not sure if this kind of agreement has been tested in court or not, but it's been pretty common in EULAs for several years, now (I think the first one I remember seeing was for the Playstation network account, though they gave you the opportunity to opt-out of this specific clause by mailing them a physical letter..no idea if many people actually tried that either, though).

[echo egret]

Hello Sourcers! Can somebody tell me when the current sale ends, please? Just couldn't find that info anywhere. Thanks.

!?

[untold bay]

there is no store-wide sale happening right now

[echo egret]

I'm referring to the sale mentioned in the carousel, in the Discover section.

[jaunty dagger]

Isnt that opt-in?

[rugged wren]

Individual creators can now schedule their own product-specific sales. I believe the "On Sale" section includes everything which is currently discounted, not just store-wide sales scheduled by Epic.

[echo egret]

Still a sale nonetheless 😏

anyway, I get it, so I should just ask each seller directly

[jaunty dagger]

Seems similar to how it was on marketplace now

[rugged wren]

yeah, they are the only ones who know for sure

[echo egret]

Yep, it does

I guess nobody knows when the store-wide sale is scheduled for yet... better saying... I guess nobody can spoiler the date 😏 . I'm just kidding now, because I dunno what to do at this point... waiting for it or just get now what is currently on sale that I need. What's on sale now might not be on sale anymore when the big one starts. Geesh... planning budgets is becoming tougher and tougher nowadays!

[untold bay]

people who know sale dates are not allowed to say

for good reason

[unreal stratus]

you can check when a sale ends in the license dropdown

[dusk thorn]

Is Fab still really getting hammered? Submissions are taking longer than a week now and still awaiting approval. My lord. This is terrible.

I'm use to it being less than 24hrs on average. Feels like all is just halted.

[jaunty dagger]

UE 5.6 just came out could be back logged.

[calm dagger]

Unreal Fest + UE5.6 + three days week end, it's pretty normal to see longer submission times right now

[silent mesa]

anyone tried this asset for cinematics in unreal engine? it seems to be the best one I have browsed so far
https://www.fab.com/listings/41696440-c0c3-42dd-a4bd-51f463912af0

[unreal stratus]

yep, I use it -- pretty amazing plugin, and extremely well supported

Ultimate Gameplay Camera + Black Eye Camera + Cinemotion == dream setup

[silent mesa]

Nice, i also got the cinemotion in sights hehe, thanks for the suggestions, ill get first the black eye and cinemotion as ill focus first on the cinematics for my game hehe

[glacial swallow]

Where is the "place order" button??

[silent mesa]

I think its below that UI, sort of bug with the mobile if i remember

[untold bay]

mobile bug, i've seen others report the same

[split iron]

Just checking, with Fab and code plugins, is it still 1 license per dev?

[untold bay]

yes plugins are per-seat

while everything else is less stringent

[split iron]

I don't think I've ever seen anyone properly honor that

Once upon a time a studio did reach out for multi seat licensing
Otherwise everyones only buying 1 copy for their team

[untold bay]

quite likely, yes

[glacial swallow]

I see. Thank you guys

[daring bridge]

fab's support is SO BAD. it took them six months to tell me the hidden email associated with the tax form validator that we can't see wasn't what they expected (they were sending my paypal email)

now I'm finally through that part, the paypal connector is broken and I can't add a transfer method. I sent them screenshots and a console log of errors.

Fab: r u signed in? itll work if u sign in

it's bad enough that it makes me wonder if it's just AI and it's not looking at attachments or images, or perhaps the body of the text

I literally sent them a screenshot of my account profile screen in hyperwallet in the email they replied to and they still concluded I'm not signed in

[slow sentinel]

I made a package on 5.5, how can I find out which versions it is compatible with?

[pliant forum]

You can't port backwards, unless you recreate the system in an earlier version. So I would say 5.5 and 5.6 most likely

[slow sentinel]

So if I create a project in 5.0, it will support all versions up to 5.6, right?

[dire meteor]

Not necessarily. There may be changes that stop your stuff from working.

You just need to test things.

The more engine versions you jump, the more likely that there are breaking changes.

Which is why Fab has versions of assets for specific engine versions.

[slow sentinel]

i see thank you so much for the informations !

[tame root]

anyone elses quixel stuff gone from fab? must have been last few days, 2 days ago it was all there... 😕

[vale prawn]

It seems both the launcher and AMS are missing product updates if the update is a new version and not just an update to an existing version. Not sure why, but it's annoying, especially since it's near impossible to debug. For reference, I saw it with UDS which released V9 a few days ago, and even with V8 in the Vault, neither tool (EGL/AMS) would tell me that an update was available. I removed the item from the Vault and was able to download V9 without issue.

[spiral jacinth]

That is strange, I wonder if it got a new ID somehow behind the scenes which would then make it not know it had an update in any system...

What is "UDS" I'll see if I have it in my library and then see if I can see what happened...

[vale prawn]

UltraDynamicSky

It seem it was a new ID, not sure why

[spiral jacinth]

That is strange, maybe a bug on the backend on an update. Who knows. I don't have that one in my library...

[tepid niche]

how do the current sales work, is it like with the ue marketplace, where they are just comming at random times?

also how long do you think for something to come up on sale again? 😅

[untold bay]

There are Epic-organized sales, and sellers can additionally put their products on sale by request. A product going on sale must not have had a price change within 30 days to adhere to EU regulations

[tepid niche]

Ok, cool, so regular sales might be back? 🙂

Also there was a thing I missed from the sale right now, but maybe it comes back in a few months 😅

[untold bay]

they are yes

[tepid niche]

nice 🙂

[manic cloud]

Are you allowed to sell a plugin that has assets imported from a paid plugin with a standard license? I'm reading the standard license condition and the only thing not allowed is to redistribute the plugin for free on a standalone basis, I wouldn't be doing that as my plugin would be paid i'm guessing

Example: I'm using PCG to create a road system. I buy a plugin that has road assets and use that in my PCG system. Would I have to sell the plugin without the road plugin's assets?

[untold bay]

from https://www.fab.com/eula

You may:
Use the assets commercially or privately
Modify and adjust the assets in order to incorporate them into your Projects
Commercially distribute your Projects with the Fab assets incorporated into it
Use the assets with any compatible tools (usage is not limited to Unreal Engine)
Share the asset (directly, via a private repository or in the Project) with your collaborators that are working on the Project with you

You may not:
Resell or redistribute the asset for free on a standalone basis or allow others to do the same

what you are proposing constitutes the latter

i can not find the link which specifies it but
you can use assets from Epic content packs, if they are serving to showcase your assets, and are not a core part of the asset itself
this is not inclusive of Quixel/Megascans content

so if you want to use something from Starter Content or the Content Examples project, to demonstrate your product, you can do that

likewise you can use CC0 assets for the same purpose

those assets should be explicitly identified in your asset's directory structure

[manic cloud]

Ok thank you for the information

[floral cloud]

man looks good but im broke as hell

[drowsy jasper]

Is there an affordable 360 deg image capture plugin for UE5.5+ ? I need to generate cubemap and equirectangular panorama of my level.

[hasty kraken]

https://tenor.com/view/champoy-el-risitas-kek-issou-etu-gif-17837830

[jaunty dagger]

There's some things on fab I click sometimes and it shows not found then click it later and it lets me access it

[tawny hinge]

there's a scene capture for cube maps?!

so you don't really need a plugin

[drowsy jasper]

thanks!

[chilly dome]

Where is the fab button in 5.6? I don't see it anymore on the content browser

[undone valve]

Do you have the fab plugin installed?

[chilly dome]

I couldn't see it in the plugins window

[undone valve]

You need to install it in the Epic Games Launcher

It usually auto installs but you might pressed X while it installed. I did that too and didnt even recognize it

[chilly dome]

Thank you, I will try this

[chilly dome]

I tried to install the plugin and UE crashed. Now every time I open the launcher it crashes.

[hearty viper]

I'm also experiencing the EGL crash. Happened immediately when I tried to install an engine plugin for a 5.6 install.

the EGL then crashes every time, either before it can even show anything or seconds after.

so far the EGL support has no solution.

[neat marlin]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/locked-out-from-epic-games-launcher-after-adding-plugin-to-fresh-install-of-ue-5-6/2553105/38 there's mention here that an update was pushed that supposedly resolved this
idk if you did the update but that was couple hours ago so if you still have this even after that update definitely report it

[hearty viper]

ok cool that seems to work

[candid rivet]

i redeemed a bunch of assets from leartes cosmos site on fab with their codes, they seem to be added to my launcher, but they all don't show up in my library. has anyone experienced this?

[jaunty dagger]

They showed up for me maybe have to refresh?

[vagrant elbow]

can we share fab assets here?

[jaunty dagger]

Releases? #1054845218723209226

Talking about assets is fine

[tawny hinge]

it takes a while...

[simple galleon]

trying to report a broken link to fab support, but the broken link is the very link that contacts support so i cant report it

[undone valve]

This doesn’t look like a link from epic games. „force.com“?

[simple galleon]

salesforce, probably on their back end for fab?

[undone valve]

I never saw this URL anywhere being used

What did you click that you came on this site?

[simple galleon]

i clicked on 'contact now ' from here https://dev.epicgames.com/community/fab

[undone valve]

uh yeah. It seems to be broken.

I guess they will notice it when not a single support request gets sent anymore 😄

[simple galleon]

they'll start their monday feeling extremely relieved that nothing piled up over the weeked, only to get hit by a train of support tickets minutes later 🙂

[desert panther]

I wonder how many people contact them through there, you can also email them directly. I forget the email address though

[undone valve]

I do every time. Since they never answered me when I tried to contact them via mail

[desert panther]

Oh 🤔 Good to know

[simple galleon]

would you mind sharing it? I have [e-mail] but i wonder if thats where they want actual support requestss

[desert panther]

Read the last 6 words of the message :D

[simple galleon]

oops

[desert panther]

I do recall it might be fab-support as you said, it sounds familiar at least

[simple galleon]

yeah sounds like they just needed the weekend off maybe

[candid rivet]

only 10 have made it in my library, and they showed up instantly. When i find the products on the store they don't show as purchased on the thumbnail, but when i go into the product page they show "saved in my library". this really feels like a bug

[tawny hinge]

i feel like they use different servers which only sync every now and then

and/or it's a caching issue with EGS/FabPlugin

[candid rivet]

but > 24 hours to propagate?

[tawny hinge]

i can only tell how it was last time i redeemed a humble bundle

eventually they showed up at some point

you could try deleting the webcache directory from your Project/Saved directory

[candid rivet]

to illustrate what i'm seeing, the thumbnail that says "Saved in my library" is in my library, the thumbnail that doesn't show "Saved in my library" is not in my library

[tawny hinge]

Fab stores some stuff there, possible that a resync of your library might solve it

are those screenshots from the website or in the Fab plugin?

[candid rivet]

this is the webpage

[tawny hinge]

ok, maybe delete saved site data

[candid rivet]

all products seem to appear in the launcher fine, it's just the webpage

clearing cache and everything didn't do anything

thanks for the suggestion

[glacial saffron]

How can I use uefn environments for UE5 projects? Why can't I download this asset

[vital island]

Pending Approvel Stuck

Still waiting 😦

[hoary kettle]

does the term "hide already purchased assets' mean anything to you geniuses?

[wanton charm]

Ok I was entering this channel about to rant that support seems down and my plugin is stuck in limbo, with the funny looping-over-itself-report-the-broken-link but everyone else got there before me

[wanton charm]

Had that issue, had to contact FAB for them to manually add my own stuff to my library.

I think FAB is just having a really bad time

[candid rivet]

thanks for the info

[last jetty]

Is there any place that has a list or archive of the Unreal marketplace? A lot of stuff was lost in the fab migration

Not talking about pirating sites btw

It's just while sites are still viewable actually searching the old marketplace or viewing creators stuff doesn't work

[jaunty dagger]

orbital market?

[last jetty]

Doesn't seem to have everything I'm looking for but is a great start thanks

Yeah, I'm modding a game and a member of my team is uncooking a lot of the materials for light baking and we have found tons of asset packs.

We've identified multiple but they were lost in the transition

Both, shop sites or reupload sites would be good but just anywhere that archives packs so we could find more lost ones that could give images of the material nodes would be good

They favour dekogon and quixels. Quixel didn't migrate multiple packs

Not even on their website

That'd be great, do you have any idea when it'll be ready?

That's fine, this mod ain't gonna be done anytime soon lol. So what exactly does the archive cover?

Does it include individual packs