fab

[north stirrup]

0.01$ per dl

[tawny torrent]

I thought people choose to set there product free for a month to get more ratings

[delicate dove]

nein

[sturdy hawk]

I saw a post on the forum from a guy who has his asset free fro the month and he got like 10k download per day on the whole month !

[north stirrup]

I guess the 50k free downloads figure was from a year ago

Marketplace grown quite a bit since then

pretty crazy

[tawny torrent]

So let me ask the correct question , can making my product free improve selling later on , so i get temporary more comments and reviews then make it priced again?

[delicate dove]

every once in a while you'll get an email where you can submit your content to a list, and if the marketplace team picks it, you'll be contacted to sign some stuff/get paid/yada
but oddly enough they tend to pick the same kind of people their work instead of being more random in their pickings.

[hasty nexus]

got around 150k in aug 2020

MP is constantly growing

[tawny torrent]

Downloads or usd?

[hasty nexus]

downloads dude

[north stirrup]

lol

[tawny torrent]

O

[sturdy hawk]

You'll be ranked higher on orbital market, and the ~30 people that use it each day will see your plugin 😂

[hasty nexus]

150k per month i would be busy right now driving my lambo

[delicate dove]

you cant even set it to free (unless specific plugin stuff)

[tawny torrent]

Oh I can’t

[north stirrup]

pretty sure some sellers are making this much tho

it's crazy

[hasty nexus]

per month?

[north stirrup]

yup

[sturdy hawk]

polygon surely does

[hasty nexus]

i don't think so

could be but hard to believe

[north stirrup]

Like, I don't throw that randomly - it's an educated guess

[delicate dove]

i know of one person who actually ended up in a call with tim to congratulate them with their sales. and lets just say, they live lavish now.

[north stirrup]

wtf

[tawny torrent]

Polygon sells much even tho they have horrible lighting maps and only made there maps only optimized for unity , weird

[delicate dove]

no

[north stirrup]

when was that Luos?

[sturdy hawk]

waiting for my Tim call ⏰

[delicate dove]

a few years ago, and the person did amazing marketing that was shared on basically every platform

[north stirrup]

I see, different times 😅

[delicate dove]

they still making good money though, because due to that they are established

[tawny torrent]

Polygon make more money than realistic assets?

[north stirrup]

lol

[hasty nexus]

150k that's something...

[tawny torrent]

But polygon isn’t stylized in my opinion

[hasty nexus]

but are they like a studio or such?

[north stirrup]

Well your opinion isn't stylized in my polygon

[delicate dove]

i dont know the exact numbers but the pack was just below 100,- and had a few thousand downloads in the first month alone

[north stirrup]

and this was a few years back

[tawny torrent]

I mean stylized style is available in mp

[delicate dove]

when the mp was more curated and not filled with.. well.. points at mp

[hasty nexus]

it compensates a little bit, the amount of people buying is also exponentially increased.

[delicate dove]

sadly the amount spend has been lower due to the constant stream of sales with people going 80-90% off, which is now being done slightly better.

[hasty nexus]

yeah

[tawny torrent]

Id call zelda and feynx rising and similar styles (stylized)

If u google the style in 3d ud get similar style

[delicate dove]

even uncharted is stylized

[hasty nexus]

when new platforms comes out everyone wants to cash out as much as possible and as fast as possible.

[tawny torrent]

Ok different perspectives

[delicate dove]

stylized just means that "stylized"

[tawny torrent]

Umm if u take it literally

Ya

[delicate dove]

in some cases it means toony, but it can also mean anything that is not 100% realistic

99.9% realistic? BAM stylized

"in art, the decorative generalization of figures and objects by means of various conventional techniques, including the simplification of line, form, and relationships of space and color."

[tawny torrent]

-.-

Yes anything can be stylized but commonly theres specified style known as stylized

In 3d

[delicate dove]

looking at the amount of debates about it ive seen over the years, commonly there has not been a specified style known as stylized

its a very opinionated topic

[tawny torrent]

Yes fortnite , zelda , feynx .. these can come in head for stylized for now

[merry field]

When I see the term "stylised" I think of "not trying to look realistic"

Which moves with the times; something with graphics like Half-Life 1 would look stylised now, but it wasn't back then because it was trying to look realistic but the technology wasn't there yet

[tawny torrent]

For me i think stylized style requires creativeness and special vision not just unrealistic

How ever i am sorry i started back to market place

[merry field]

I think you could certainly make a decent amount of money off it if you put in some effort, but you wouldn't want it to be your only source of income

[tawny torrent]

Yes i will be more toward realistic style i think

@fickle basin i wanna add u

Weird , all got quite together 👀

[sturdy hawk]

(lunch time!)

[real dust]

Not to be an ass, @tawny torrent, but I think you're massively underestimating the work and skill that goes into successful marketplace assets. From what I've seen of your work in this server, I don't think you're at the point where you'll make any interesting amount of money selling that work. You can definitely try and submit something and see if it gets accepted, but to go "I will make something where there is a gap in the market and roll in money" is a massive misunderstanding of how this works

[tawny torrent]

I respect your opinion but I wouldn’t say this discouraging text to any beginner to market place , I know i will start tiny and can improve myself over time then maybe try to fill in gaps and make respectable profit

Can happen from anyone if they put hard work , so it wasn’t needed to specify that I can’t do that @real dust

[real dust]

I'm not saying you can't do it, I'm saying it's unreasonable to expect it to come falling out of the air immediately - because the impression I got from this conversation is that that's closer to what you're expecting

[tawny torrent]

Knowing the potential of market place may encourage to work harder and improve

• idk u judged my skill based on what works

[real dust]

The things you've posted here in the past few weeks. I've helped you with various things a couple of times

Again, I'm not saying there's no way you'll ever pull this off

[eager kestrel]

It is all about how you market your product. If you just release it on the MP and let it sit, you won't get anywhere. I had to think hard about what keywords people would search for and base my entire product on those keywords. Now it is easy to find Universal Monster and I have been averaging one sale per day since I released it. Also will be in showcase starting March 16th. 😁

[real dust]

I'm just saying I think you're underestimating how difficult it is to be successful in this business

[eager kestrel]

I also chose to integrate it with a currently very popular asset, ESRPG. That brought in a lot of people as well.

[tawny torrent]

Yes you did help me i am grateful for your helps, but i dont think judging my overall skills based on some questions is a great idea

[eager kestrel]

Why no judgements? Everyone who looks at your product will be judging?

[real dust]

You don't need to live by my words, by all means, go and prove me wrong. I'm just offering my observations as a professional developer for you to consider (or ignore)

I'm just trying to prevent you from getting your hopes up too much 😛

[sturdy hawk]

I was here when it was "not enough content" :3

[tawny torrent]

He didnt look at any products he judged my skill based on unreal questions/ help

[real dust]

Yeah, because the questions you ask imply skill level, which implies product quality

[tawny torrent]

No , i can be unreal noob , but blender 3d expert

[real dust]

Anyway, I've said my thing, consider it or ignore it, but I'm gonna leave it at that

[tawny torrent]

So i can make some assets

[eager kestrel]

Easy survival has been riding the hype wave right now, hehe.

So I hopped on too

[eager kestrel]

Right! and now they send me emails for showcase, hehe.

[real dust]

Nice example of how awful the QA policies are

continues to quietly sulk

[tawny torrent]

@real dust thanks for your advice to not get my hopes too much up

[eager kestrel]

Yeah, they are dealing with 🏴‍☠️ so they hid the documents.

That is about it, hehe

[real dust]

Can't blame the seller for the ignorance of the buyer 😄

Definitely still blame the marketplace for allowing it though

[hasty nexus]

That's clever.

:))

people love the asset anyway

otherwise they wouldn't rate it 5 stars

they'd post a question to verify themselves

so, the asset is good.

[azure trellis]

It's a great asset and worth every penny. Price will go up after big update

[hasty nexus]

can't hate the player, it's like hating on people on youtube that found some clever ways to grow their channels super fast. as long as it's not against the rules, by all means if you're clever enough to pull a marketing stunt like this, do it

:)))

tried as well, i don't like wasting people's time. i require verification just when i have to send some files. I just from time to time ask them to don't forget to write a review. if they do it, that's fine, if they don't that's again fine.

[eager kestrel]

I think every creator should do a verification process. It is necessary for support channels. General channels get general question and support channels get specific.

Requiring review or question, up to them

[hasty nexus]

when epic gonna implement a system, then yes

it looks odd to see those discord ids to be honest :))

[eager kestrel]

Yeah, they so need a different way to verify, but the current workaround is ok for now

[hasty nexus]

and seems also irelevant to some degree. how do you rate 5 stars when you can`t even access the documentation and why the review is some discord id without anything else? 😄

looks odd

but looks good when you search for something

[eager kestrel]

Users can always edit their reviews/questions. The last step in my verification process says to edit or remove the verify post, but not everyone follows it.

I love the one 4 star review I have though. It is literally just their discord name for verification. Doesn't bother me (too much) though, hehe.

[hasty nexus]

you don't like that person that much :)) what would you do if he verifies himself with 1 star? :))))

[eager kestrel]

1 or 2 stars I would kindly ask they remove the review or add content to it explaining their rating. I won't be one of those creators that cries about anything under 5 stars, hehe.

[hasty nexus]

but would you do the same for 5 star verification process? 😄

[eager kestrel]

Nope, makes me look good. Don't fix what isn't broken, haha.

[hasty nexus]

hahahaha

:))

doesn't matter man. i bought super cool stuff with no reviews.

people bought your stuff with no reviews as well

[eager kestrel]

Personally, I look over the questions a lot more than the reviews.

[hasty nexus]

for Slashin8r i think i was his first review, no verification process

but i'm old school :))

[eager kestrel]

I see how actively the dev answers them and with what type of attitude if any. Gives a good feeling on the type of creator you are about to buy from.

[hasty nexus]

even if there's a product with one 1 star review doesn't mean anything

that product can still be gold

:))

[eager kestrel]

I see a product with 5 stars, but questions not answered in over a year, I pass on it.

[hasty nexus]

true

[eager kestrel]

Unless it is just art assets, dev inactivity is a deal breaker for me.

[hasty nexus]

😄

[sturdy hawk]

ESRPG has actually been released last year and made a good amount of sales before being hide from the marketplace by the marketplace team for whatever reason

(like miscommunication, or something, I don't know...)

so when it was back available it had all the reviews, but the release date is marked as beginning of 2021

just verified and the review are actually from january 2021 🤔... you're right, i might talked about another one then...

maybe survival kit 2 then...

well, seems like people love kits then 😛

what did you find ?

ahah, maybe it's just a big fan 😂

should we ping him :3 ?

wtf 😂

maybe... he joined a team? Or that may be a weird advertisement move 😂 ?

@tender ruin we're dying of curiosity 😂 ! Are you the dev of Easy Survival RPG v2 ?

[open rain]

yes he is

1 of the devs

[gilded lake]

Hi, i think i read somewhere that you cant include symbols/logos in your submission, would it be okay to supply them separately where they can be dropped into a material/decal?

[hasty nexus]

be real, he masked some advert by asking some random question about his product :)))

which is not a bad idea as well

everybody seems to do it anyway :))

not at all, i thought of it some days back. it's kind of an obvious thing to do

😄

true, congrats on the product. it does well it seems like.

i'm not. doing fine myself. not as much but still 😄

haha, "if you build it they will come"

when i'll make something so in demand i'll higher my expectations, meanwhile, trust me, for the kind of stuff I do, it's fine 😄

[tawny torrent]

@fickle basin how can we dm u

[thorny compass]

Mortals cannot.

[tawny torrent]

O

Oh , do use a server for your products support then

I wanted to show u my noob product

And have ur opinion

[hasty nexus]

you can show in #work-in-progress

[tawny torrent]

I am not confident to

[hasty nexus]

oh, ok

[tawny torrent]

But its published

Ok nvm i do post it later thens 😇

Yes , i will do that soon thanks

[gilded lake]

Hi!

they are military historical symbols

for example this, but its still used today

yeah i dont really intend to show swastikas

thats up to the user

but there are crosses and american/british russian symbols

yeah, i dont intend to include offensive symbols but thats different, its more about symbols like the one above

so as an option i wonder if its viable to supply it 3rd party

where a user can download and drop it into a decal etc

therefore circumventing the marketplace concern around copyright

[real dust]

You'll just need to look into what the copyright situation for the symbols you want to use is

I don't think you'll find blanket solutions for it

[gilded lake]

hi @real dust 🙂

[real dust]

👋

[gilded lake]

make sense, cheers guys

[tawny torrent]

Is there any magical plugin or easier method to convert 4.26 to older version without having to recreate it?

Do you think it may affect sales? Having only latest version?

4.25 is?

[hollow zephyr]

Start with 4.21 compatibility or something

[tawny torrent]

But then the publish portal would limit me to 3 versions

[hollow zephyr]

if you're only doing art most likely you only need the 4.21 version, just open the project in later versions and check for errors. if there are none, all is good. when new versions come out I just open my source project, check, then just tick the new compatible version

[merry field]

It depends on the type. Plugins are last three versions, any other kind of asset can have any number of versions

Best to develop in the oldest version which supports all the features you need

But you can probably take that too far

Last couple of versions should be fine, e.g. 4.21 or 4.20 or something

[oblique seal]

Did anyone else get their payout earlier ?

[merry field]

Yes, on the 11th

[tawny torrent]

Does this mean someone bought my thing?

[merry field]

Well, yes

It wouldn't say 1 unit if you didn't sell 1 unit

[tawny torrent]

What about payout report page , they are like sorry no info

Or thats when epic pays me?

[merry field]

You only get a payout once a month

45 days after the month

Yup

[tawny torrent]

15/4 or 45 days according to product publish date?

I thought its 15th of each month

[merry field]

Yes, but not for the previous month

They did the payouts a little early this month; I just got money for sales in January

[tawny torrent]

So I should not expect anything on 15 march

[merry field]

No, nothing until the 15th of May

[tawny torrent]

Alright i just hope that someone wont regret or refund and leave a review

May?i think u meant april

[merry field]

No, May. It's March now.

As I said, I got paid for sales in January in mid-March.

[tawny torrent]

Wow

Thats late

Any consequences to get paid earlier ?

Or its strictly 45 days

U said Little early

[merry field]

Sometimes they pay out in the week before the 15th

[tawny torrent]

Alright , thanks weird they skip out a month

[merry field]

So maybe 10th-15th range

It might be a buffer for refunds?

[tawny torrent]

Yeah

This is per vendor or per your asset publish date?

Like do i expect someone with many asset to get paid monthly

[merry field]

Yes, but it'll still always be a month delayed

The rules are:
If you made more than $100 in Month A, you will get paid around the middle of Month C

[tawny torrent]

Oh

So 100$ + speeds up payment

[merry field]

Not exactly, you won't get paid until they owe you $100

If you make $60 in Month A, you won't get paid at all in Month C; if you then make $50 in Month B, you'll be paid $110 in Month D

Vendor or asset publish date won't matter

[tawny torrent]

Oh got it but if i made 100$ + in month A i get paid in month B , correct?

[merry field]

No, you never get paid in Month B, ever

Always in Month C

[tawny torrent]

Oh

[merry field]

It's just that they won't pay you at all until your total is > $100

Also, pretty sure that's $100 gross, not net (so you may receive less than $100)

[tawny torrent]

Yeah

So if i publish 2 asset one in month A which gets received on month C , and one in month B which gets paid in month D , this way i can get C , then D in a row

Correct?

[merry field]

All depends on how many you sell

If you publish an asset on Month A, and sell more than $100 worth each month thereafter

You'll be paid in months C, D, E, F, G, etc.

You get paid every month so long as there's enough money in the "pool"

[tawny torrent]

Great , thanks alot

[next badge]

damn it past me

[tawny torrent]

Oh really , game industry, or all online?

I added

A reddit post

As u said

Barley noticeable hehe

Makes since, wish 45 was 30 though

Well idk 0 upvotes , but yeah i think communities can be picky at what they’d like

So maybe better luck with different type of content next time

[coarse sun]

A question to all the creators; what do you think of the offers? The sales and event sales? Let me explain my question; I've a lot of whishlist because I know, soon or later, it'll be on sale. This system says that you shouldn't pay full price because it's a matter of time to see the 50% label at side. I guess some sellers raise the price just for that but isn't the sales a way that devaluates the initial price? That's guessing that almost all sells are while the asset it's on sale. Or I'm wrong?

[junior smelt]

ERRORS WINDOWS 4.24

ERROR: Missing precompiled manifest for 'Launch'. This module was most likely not flagged for being included in a precompiled build - set 'PrecompileForTargets = PrecompileTargetsType.Any;' in Launch.build.cs to override.

thanks marketplace team, only if I could change the build file for your engine from my plugin

[hollow zephyr]

It might never be on sale, I for one, only put my products in the christmas sale..if ever..so it's a looong wait

sales are constant anyway, the biggest numbers are always on big sale events regardless if my products are discounted, because of the bigger traffic and views

[thorny compass]

^ I know one, two guys which are just stubborn and don't put on sale.

[tawny torrent]

Can I raise / decrease the price of my product?

Can i put my product on sale?

[coarse sun]

@thorny compass I can understand that these two guys think the price it's completely fair and don't play with the marketplace rules, the question it's if they have some way to communicate that position and if their global sales are enough to satisfy them.

[thorny compass]

I dunno, they can only tell. What do you want them to communicate?

[coarse sun]

That they'll never lower the price. I doubt I'm the only one that waits for event sales to buy a great quantity of assets.

[thorny compass]

You can put it on the the asset page I think. At least I saw recently an asset page where the author was promising it will never go as Free for the Month. Therefore, I think you may put something like this too? At worst, the MP can tell you to remove it.

[thorny compass]

Dunno why everyone hypes about right angled figures: voxels, roblox and etc.

[tawny torrent]

Thanks!

[thorny compass]

Hmm

[tawny torrent]

If i click submit , will it directly automatically show a result ? Or thats a real submission to epic team?

And do you think i may see a change if i put end date of 13 march instead

Nvm i can’t even choose 13

[hollow zephyr]

Sales update like at midnight for the previous day

I just check in the morning

[next badge]

hey guys i wanna ask for help regarding my code plugin for the marketplace i get these errors(the last one already being fixed) which i dont know how to fix

anyone here know what i need to put

[sturdy hawk]

wow, first time I see such pdf 😮

well the description are pretty straight forward and there's a link to describe how to fix it...

[tawny torrent]

Do you regularly have days without your product sold?
How often does your product gets sold? Average vendors

[north stirrup]

Some people get dozens of sales per day, many people get max a few sales per month

What's your pack?

[fringe ridge]

Anyone else having issues with not getting the email notifications for comments, reviews etc mine stopped last Sunday and I haven’t been able to get them working again

Ok thanks I’ll give that a go

[tawny torrent]

I meant average vendors / normally , its normal to pass a day without sales for them?

[north stirrup]

What's an average vendor really?

If your question is, "Should I worry if I didn't make a sale today", the answer is no

[tawny torrent]

Yes Ok , thanks

[tawny torrent]

why this channel is quiet

[mellow cloak]

Are there any asset packs out there that people have been seen that are like modular building packs for survival games? Where they can have a foundation, one wall with and without windows, and so on

[tawny torrent]

Yeah i think i have passed by some before type i think ud find them if u search “modular”

[mellow cloak]

Yeah, I looked at them, doesn't seem to be any huge good ones

[tawny torrent]

Wdym “anyone huge”

How do u want them to be like?

[mellow cloak]

Just with loads of of different parts, realistic style, different type of materials. I know it's specific but thought it was worth a try haha

[tawny torrent]

You sure there aren’t? Let me check

[mellow cloak]

I've found a couple, they just didn't have enough parts or the reviews were poor

[tawny torrent]

These seemed fine

[mellow cloak]

Yeah I saw them, my game is survival game so not sure they'd fit great haha, thank you though

[tawny torrent]

Maybe u can turn any building to survival with some decals or extra material layer

[mellow cloak]

Yeah probably

[tawny torrent]

Also check sketchfab site maybe theres something interesting for u there

[eager kestrel]

I also had mine processed today. 😁

[merry field]

I don't think there much involved in processing updates

Is there even anything manual involved?

[tawny torrent]

Is it better to add to ur current product (update it) or selling a seperate new pack

[merry field]

Two quite different things, surely?

[eager kestrel]

If it is a file update, they do review it again. For my update, they actually sent me the email a few hours early and had me worried so I replied letting them know I didn't see the update. They then replied back apologizing and pushed it through.

[merry field]

Interesting to know

[tawny torrent]

Will i be able to choose 15-3 today?

[agile shadow]

no

[hollow zephyr]

if you check sales so often you'll scare off people from buying 😆

[next badge]

owo

[hasty nexus]

i believe the daily sales report updates once per day at 12:00-12:10 AM UTC

[eager kestrel]

It may even be based on your own time zone, mine updates at pretty much exactly midnight my local time.

[hasty nexus]

oh really?

to me mostly when i checked, it`s midnight UTC time only.

maybe they changed something, who knows

[eager kestrel]

General marketplace times seem to be UTC, but my personal sales report is updating by my local time, from what I've noticed.

[hasty nexus]

and what's your time zone?

[eager kestrel]

America Central time zone

[hasty nexus]

interesting

[eager kestrel]

I would have definitely thought it would go off Eastern time here since that is where Epic is based. I was expecting it to be changing at 11pm or something, haha.

[hasty nexus]

i'm in EET (Eastern European Time)

[tawny torrent]

How would they know

[thorny compass]

They will hop on DIscord and see... aww that arche, so pushy - ewww

He was joking tho. Message being, give it time, build a patience so not to get stressed.

That latter thing is so... missing. Weeks can pass until the author decides to check on his product and answer. Been there.

You know such case?

[round lava]

Are we ever going to get sorting by sales?

All quality tools/assets get buried by bad assets.

[thorny compass]

Sorting by sales is not an indicator for quality. Not at all from what I have seen. Nevertheless, quality in general goes down rapidly as quantity increases - true.

[round lava]

It's a start. Look at unity's marketplace, there's a reason the assets are selling more.

Searching the marketplace is painful.

True, but still -- there's quality 3D assets selling more because they're better/high quality

[thorny compass]

Tbh, I can't remember right away, but there is no such thing as Sort by sales or similar to most Game markets.

There is Popularity say.

[round lava]

Popularity is based on revenue, or units sold, I believe.

[thorny compass]

Maybe, but nobody tells you. Because, it is kind of closed circle. You see more sales, you think it is better and you buy it.

So... Like with the rich ppl, get richer because they have more money already.

[round lava]

I mean, it's also better for marketplace devs. They put in so many hours to create an outstanding asset, much higher quality then your usual asset and then you get buried.

In a way it rewards quality.

Revenue is the best metric. Reviews/question would be bad, especially considering unreal does the whole free stuff for a month

[thorny compass]

Revenue best metric? For quality? Hmm.... hmm.... Well, I guess Nestle think so too (example).

[eager kestrel]

So all free open-source anything is crap? 😜

Exactly my point, haha

But then again, Epic itself, makes the dough.

[viral crow]

Source available

[eager kestrel]

So your free open-source stuff is awesome if you still make tons of revenue in other things? The logic just fails basing it purely on revenue.

[thorny compass]

Free is out of the matrix.

You can't compute its value.

[eager kestrel]

No revenue.... does not compute! hehe

I'd love to see total product downloads, although it can be manipulated just as much as page visits and hits.

I'm sure plenty of people buy products and just instantly trash them with only ever trying them once or not at all.

[thorny compass]

cough

[eager kestrel]

Personally, I have bought a ton that I have yet to even try out. Not necessarily consider them trash yet, but never got to using them.

[north stirrup]

Number of successful games using it

[eager kestrel]

That for sure would be the best metric

If only the marketplace kept track of that for us

[north stirrup]

What's even a successful game hehe

[eager kestrel]

Set price range higher than 0 and you exclude freebies. It is a start.

[north stirrup]

This is so true

[eager kestrel]

Yep, it is a never ending cycle of bad marketplace sorting, haha

[north stirrup]

Ye

I kinda wish such practices would be forbidden tbh

[eager kestrel]

Key icon, lol

I don't get why you can't put discord name or something in your account profile and then creators get a list showing that.

[north stirrup]

It's backend work

[eager kestrel]

A simple field in your profile exposed to all sellers.

[north stirrup]

Likely not a priority

[eager kestrel]

Yeah, we know. Marketplace is lowest priority, hehe

[north stirrup]

You might also not want sellers to know you bought something

[eager kestrel]

True

Could leave it blank then

[north stirrup]

When someone purchases on gumroad I get so much info lol

[viral crow]

What do you have on me?!?!?!

[eager kestrel]

Doesn't need to actual show the account name or anything, just whatever they put in that field

[north stirrup]

Country, ip, last 4 digits of CC

[eager kestrel]

Your bank info, address and all numbers related to identifying you

[viral crow]

Dayum

I wonder if that's an issue, considering European regulation. Strange.

[eager kestrel]

Oh wait, that is what Epic asks for from sellers

[north stirrup]

I'm not storing it

So it's fine afaik

[viral crow]

Oh no, not for you

The platform itself, and the fact that they share it so freely

[north stirrup]

I think that's pretty standard for payment platforms like that really

Technically on gumroad you're buying from gumroad

And gumroad is paying the seller every week

Legally I invoice gumroad, not individual customers

[next badge]

my project that done bout 3 months ago that i applied epic megagrant a year ago just got response by Epic MG team

this is awkward

thats project i dont work anymore so might email epic so i dont waste their time

🥲

[thorny compass]

Tell me why you have 2k+ unread messages?

[next badge]

defo not youtube notifications

[scenic lava]

oh that's awkward

[next badge]

😅

[north stirrup]

Animeeeeee

[viral crow]

https://tenor.com/view/cute-anime-dancing-silly-happy-excited-gif-13462237

[next badge]

chika san

[thorny compass]

Hey, that fine.

[next badge]

aaa'

[north stirrup]

#leaks

[next badge]

me looking back at the screenshot nah mate im good i think

[scenic lava]

you have good taste in anime 😄

[next badge]

nothing i dont know where to post it and this place seem "appropriate"

https://tenor.com/view/no-i-dont-think-i-will-captain-america-old-capt-gif-17162888

[next badge]

moderator looking at this post welp boys time to ban this guy from messaging in this channel

[north stirrup]

Can epic employees sell products on the marketplace?

[viral crow]

🤔

What would be the concern for Epic to disallow it?

[north stirrup]

I guess none really

[next badge]

now this is a real question we need to ask

[north stirrup]

But they'd potentially have additional internal knowledge about the marketplace

Global sales numbers etc

I assume epic employees can't apply for megagrants for example

[viral crow]

Interesting, didn't know that

[north stirrup]

Jams make sense due to strict lottery laws

😄

Ur tiny tho

Divivor the tiny

Was that like for small installs?

Damn that's not a lot

[stiff pond]

Still no laptop yet

Waiting patiently though

[north stirrup]

How long has it been?

[viral crow]

Oh my god

I was just about to post that

[worn oyster]

some marketplace creators joined epic and their stuff is now free

so there is that

[delicate dove]

thanks for the reddit tips btw.
post is flying

[delicate dove]

its a first :p

[north stirrup]

hehe, native videos ftw 😄 Congrats

[delicate dove]

i never used youtube to get views/become a personality so that's alright. just expected it to be more of a convenience if everything was on youtube. guess i was wrong.

[tawny torrent]

When will you release your advertisement course ? @fickle basin

[tawny torrent]

That’s why i dont match my name with market place name as they will also find out the vendor asks alot of noobs questions

Oh thanks! I hope it’s the one u meant

But since u know

I want to know your advices and criticism

As i am making

New product now and want to know

The flaws of the current

If you have time like marketing flows / trailer / screenshots / thumbnail

[stuck glade]

I'm sure this must have been asked a lot before, but... Why can't we sort by rating in the marketplace?

[tawny torrent]

Maybe its defaultly based on relevance which involves rating too

But for pure rating , i think to give newer vendors (cough) / new products a chance to be viewed

[sturdy hawk]

You can on https://orbital-market.com :3 !

[sturdy hawk]

No, it's sorted by release date, not relevance

[tawny torrent]

Oh , you know better 😇 , but i might be correct for the reason

[silent mesa]

I was curious if the unreal marketplace has an option to check the history of assets you bought, assets you made questions or/and made a review, locate the specific question/review. It would be cool to check them out immediately instead of manually checking them one by one and sorting other questions or reviews. I have a tendency to forget giving reviews after using them or revisiting some assets.

[tawny torrent]

Hi

Yes

@fickle basin

[tawny torrent]

@fickle basin come on be MEAN

Tysm for checking all these out i really appreciate it

Oh , yes i wanna more of that

I will have next volume of it soon I’m not a 2d artist

But i tried

Oh wow , font’s that bad

Probably keeping people away

Lmao , thanks for being nice

Any else advices ? How about the pricing

[viral crow]

I feel like you're all talking about something secret

[north stirrup]

Now I'm extremely curious as to what the asset is

[viral crow]

Put that cat back! I saw that!

[tawny torrent]

Divivor u kept your question for ever

Exposed

I mean your question about if its something or not

I am kidding , its fine

I meant when u said does it have moon and skies? Then u left the chat for a while

[north stirrup]

I can't find iiiiit

[viral crow]

Release us from our suffering

Let us into the club

Speak of which you are speaking!

[tawny torrent]

The left side of my name here + the right side of my name in market place makes a word

[viral crow]

Oh god, more puzzles

[real dust]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/toon-skies-stylized-clouds-planets-environments

[viral crow]

It's like a treasure hunt

[viral crow]

Ooooh

[tawny torrent]

O my god

[north stirrup]

You're a genius goosey

[real dust]

Recognized the cactus

[viral crow]

Looks beautiful

Little bit surrealist

Love it

[north stirrup]

yup this looks great, congrats!

[tawny torrent]

Okay i am open to any criticism or opinion if anyone have anything to say , as i am working on a new thing

[north stirrup]

Can you link your reddit post?

ye ik

[tawny torrent]

Ok i posted the reddit link in released

[north stirrup]

The first 5s of your video are not good

Most people will only watch that

you want to show up super fancy stuff in the first few seconds

then show how usable it is etc

timestamps?

I like the segment after the 5s mark

it's great to show how easy it is to customize

oh yeah I see what you mean Div

[tawny torrent]

I think i agree , i wanted to show how easy it is to setup

[north stirrup]

yup 🙂

Video is way too long too

I think 30s is enough to showcase the product

[tawny torrent]

But i wanted to squeeze the day cycles

And show how they look

30? Isnt too short?

[north stirrup]

You could have done something more aggressively edited for the presets

eg, a single cycle

but switching between each presets every 0.5-1s

[tawny torrent]

Or Side by side 4 in one scene

[north stirrup]

that way the action is not messy & easy to follow

[tawny torrent]

The

[north stirrup]

No, not side by side

that's super hard to watch

[tawny torrent]

O

Yes might do later thanks guys

[north stirrup]

It's just replacing a link 🙂

[tawny torrent]

No

Its deleting a link

And making new trailer

[north stirrup]

In my experience #released doesn't bring much traffic 🤔

[tawny torrent]

Oh doesnt a new trailer/ with an update counts as released

[north stirrup]

but that might be because I have an established community already

Nope arche

😄

Don't hesitate to post WIP versions of your trailer here @tawny torrent

I think it'd be very instructive for everyone

[tawny torrent]

Not sure if the 30 seconds will have much of a wip but i am working currently on product that i might release this week giving attention to ur comments on my current product

I thought it comes first for me only

[north stirrup]

Every time I make a trailer, I do several iterations on it 🙂

Even if it's < 1min

[tawny torrent]

Premier pro?

[north stirrup]

The first iteration of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqhHRdcakv4 was 10min long for example 😅

Ppl get bored quickly 😛

I make trailers and reels in a similar way really

except in trailers it's features not projects in the lower thirds

[north stirrup]

that's what I use yep

[real dust]

I'd recommend Davinci Resolve

[north stirrup]

^

I'm stuck with Premiere now that I've worked so long with it, but if you're starting I've heard very good things about resolve

re: trailer duration

[tawny torrent]

will also check about resolve , another thing i had trouble with is music for my trailer I ended up with YouTube Free music to be safe

But its kinda horrible

[north stirrup]

You're not allowed to post that on reddit FYI

Only youtube

[tawny torrent]

Oh

Fr?

[north stirrup]

At least that's what I've been told

mmmh

[tawny torrent]

Whats a proper solution for good music

[north stirrup]

I might be wrong

Re: first 10s matters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Ek3GpJ4L0 this one has no logo at the start, and a good first 10s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6mrqbn1J1Y this is with a logo + pretty crappy first 10s

you can see the huge dip at the start

[thorny compass]

I'm definitely the last case. Have no patience to watch someone mumble, moving cursors.

[north stirrup]

I mean, everyone is

[thorny compass]

In fact, if it is possible to read it as a page that 10 min video, I wouldn't be there.

[north stirrup]

I usually buy royalty-free music

it's 20-50$ per song

[thorny compass]

I dunno man, ppl even learn coding from watching videos. The amount of videos watched is staggering, so maybe they are not so picky.

[north stirrup]

Learning is different I guess

I've used https://www.bensound.com/ and https://audiojungle.net/ @tawny torrent

First one is free with attribution, but that's a pain to do outside youtube

[tawny torrent]

I think i might use imovie music too

[north stirrup]

yeah, in the end the music just needs to not be too crappy and you're good

[tawny torrent]

My trailer one was crappy right

[amber kernel]

Heya, we got last point to fix for publishing in marketplace, but the last point asking to add _t after texture

We have almost 220 of them ha

is there a way to make it not by hand?

[north stirrup]

well, it's not very inspiring ye

[amber kernel]

i dunno, maybe some sort of script

[north stirrup]

Maybe there's a batch renamer plugin on the MP? 😄

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/asset-renamer

[amber kernel]

maybe, take a look

[north stirrup]

hey look

[amber kernel]

Almost read as NaZi asset renamer lol

[north stirrup]

jfc

[real dust]

@amber kernel If you're familiar with blueprint this is something you can make in a minute using Editor Blueprints

[amber kernel]

i do

never thought i can rename assets with bp Oo

[north stirrup]

bp editor utility can do that nowadays?

[real dust]

BP editor utility can do anything

[north stirrup]

I might be wrong div

Just gotta be careful

[real dust]

Can even interact with importer factories

[north stirrup]

hehe noice

[real dust]

(bit of an exaggeration obv., but they can do quite a lot nowadays)

[north stirrup]

@tawny torrent https://audiojungle.net/category/music?sort=price-asc&term=inspiring#content lots of good stuff here for $5

[amber kernel]

I have a lot of exp with game blueprint but never touched editor bp

Where can i read about it?

[real dust]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProductionPipelines/ScriptingAndAutomation/Blueprints/index.html

Just make one of them and look for the functions you need in the API

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/EditorScripting/Asset/RenameAsset/index.html

[amber kernel]

Got it, thank you

[amber kernel]

Thanks for the asset link

[north stirrup]

Wanna hear a fun one

turns out my trailer got copyright claimed by the artist I bought the license from lol

I just noticed the claim

Gonna dispute it

It makes sense really, because I didn't say to youtube I had a license yet

In the dispute ye

you can provide your license

You can also ask creators to whitelist your channel apparently

hopefully the video doesn't get taken down lol

[viral crow]

This whole workflow/copyright system is so broken...

[north stirrup]

https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU

Relevant 😛

[viral crow]

The fact that it has to get taken down before you can let Youtube know you have a license 😆

My lord

[north stirrup]

Oh it's not taken down

just demonetized

which isn't an issue really

since it's not monetized

[viral crow]

Yeah, for your usecase that's not half bad thankfully

[north stirrup]

but yeah, youtube system is great really

lol

[forest raptor]

a bit late but i use this one https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/M066/ue4-editor-utility-blueprint-for-renaming-multiple-files

quite useful

[amber kernel]

Does anyone encountered good bushes asset pack? I have almost everything i need, but for some reason in all packs i have bushes is missing. Couldn't find anything useful in marketplace either.

[real dust]

I don't think you'll find many packs with just bushes

What sort of stuff are you looking for? Realistic, temperate, deciduous?

[amber kernel]

Thanks, just purchased MORT, cost almost nothing

[amber kernel]

Something realistic yes, can show references

i have matched grass, trees, flowers and other stuff but only one random bush from different asset pack ):

[fickle hazel]

does anyone know of any maps for stuff like a stadium or an arena or even a big room Preferably free

[tawny torrent]

@fickle hazel https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/red-stadium

This?

[young nimbus]

anyone know any gun sound packs that would have separate files for shot start and tails/echo?

[maiden cedar]

Anyone here ever use Character Interaction asset? Doesn’t have inventory does it? Their discord is dead and they never answer

Or anyone know of a good base melee combat / shooter with an inventory to start a single player game with

[coarse sun]

@maiden cedar close combat fighter, even without inventory, it's one of the best melee combat system in my opinion. Melee and shooter combined there's nothing, with souls like theme the action rpg combat it's freaking good too. The inventory it's one of the easiest thing to add to any game. If you don't know much about UE my advice it's not to use any existing system because you'll get frustrated soon if there's something you want to modify.

With guns third person shooter kit it's very good, but also hard to modify without a general knowledge.

[maiden cedar]

I’m using easy survival right now for a more medieval style. But hard to find a complete shooter type like that system is. Because I want to do a single player sci-fi shooter, just no real complete kits out there

[coarse sun]

Third person shooter have a lot of features, and I guess it'll be at 50 % in the incoming sale event. It's really amazing.

[maiden cedar]

With the third person shooter, what would you recommend as one of the easiest inventory systems to implement into projects?

[coarse sun]

Really none, but there's one free in marketplace, you can try with it

[zealous spire]

We have no intention of retiring this channel. 😄

Can't imagine why we would.

[amber kernel]

Hey, im still looking for some foliage pack with bushes

Can somebody suggest me any?

Lots of grass, tress and stuff - but no bushes for some reason

[delicate dove]

try quixel

[amber kernel]

nothing there 🙂

[real dust]

Megascans + Speedtree

[tawny torrent]

@amber kernel what bush appearance you’re after?

Isn’t this good ?

[ebon leaf]

does anyone ever tried merging als v4 with the puzzle constructor ?

[amber kernel]

Heya! Gonna check it, thanks

[amber kernel]

Not exactly what i needed

[tawny torrent]

Oh

Can you post

From google

What do u need

[amber kernel]

Nothing really extraordinary - just bushes

[tawny torrent]

The pics u shared is

What u need?

Where are these pics from

[amber kernel]

yap

Its from Valhalla - i noted that my landscape doesn't have any bushes and started to looking for some in marketplace

and didnt found any ):

[tawny torrent]

It have to be realistic?

But the asset i shared already have similarities to the pics you shared just different color gradings

[opal cave]

Is there any packs of 3d armor for characters? In style like fantasy mmo ames. Can't find any. Or only way is to hire someone to make it?

[tawny torrent]

This?

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/military-supplies-vol-2-clothing-and-bags

[delicate dove]

well.. war can be fantasy

[opal cave]

well there is medieval pack but its still not fantasy

[terse gyro]

my Xsolla payment for marketplace item is loading for ~5 minutes already but money gone from my bank account. what's wrong?

[delicate dove]

worst case contact the mp-peeps if it doesnt go trough

check the first pinned message in this channel for their email

[terse gyro]

I'll wait a little at first
but thanks

[cedar panther]

I didnt get email for last 2 reviews on my product. One of them is 3 days old and other one is from yesterday.

Anyone else having same problem?

[delicate dove]

the email notifications on that are random at best

for those with access to the creator hub, Josh just made a post showcasing some marketplace metrics, including op search terms, top countries, and revenue per category.

and before you want to discuss it publicly
"There is some information that I’ve collected that I wanted to share with our seller community. While there is some information that we aren’t going to share due to competition concerns, I hope the information below will be useful and informative. Please keep this information internal within the Creator's Hub community."

[merry field]

Without going into too much detail, I find it funny how little of the sales are in materials .... despite so many 8K dirt packs

Also worth adding that they're asking for feedback about what kind of metrics people would find useful

[delicate dove]

https://giphy.com/gifs/N63fPtiPhkBdS

[north stirrup]

Oh I was expecting some $$$ figures

The growth part is pretty interesting

[dusk minnow]

If i may ask, is there a server or channel for Robo Recall?

[thorny compass]

Just search on internet? What is that, a game?

[dusk minnow]

Yeah it's a game, and I can't find a server for it ANYWHERE

[thorny compass]

Oh... maybe they don't have 🙂
Search for any kind of community around that game, not sure that you can find here one - this server is just for UE.
Also #lounge as this is off-topic here.

[delicate dove]

lol

[hollow adder]

Hey I'm looking for a cheap graphical options menu, any you guys would recommend

Doesn't have to be advanced or any thing

[merry field]

Can't get cheaper than free: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/menu-builder-carousel

I can't comment on its quality though - I built my own menus because I like re-inventing the wheel

[hollow adder]

Thank you, very nice!

I've made one myself but the saving just didn't work

[merry field]

For graphics settings? There's BP node to apply/save the changes, you shouldn't have to do anything special there
(Get Game User Settings -> Apply Settings)

Specifically for graphical settings - anything custom, you'll need to write your own custom save/load for

[split iron]

I really wish with the massive payment delay we could easily see how much money we're owed and when. Fine if there's a disclaimer it can change based on refunds etc

And finding my total sales in a period exceeding 18 months isn't allowed?

[sturdy hawk]

It doesn't 😛

In fact, I just pull the "last update" date of each version which is provided from epic api

but it seems to be kinda wrong...

give me a product and I'll give you its data

let's go for Simple Gravity Fields

Oh yes, it seem it's that, more like "date of creation of last version"

but anyway, I'll delete this, it's really not that useful and kinda misleading...

This is when it's kindda bugged 😅

[thorny compass]

In these cases you may print out a special string?

[sturdy hawk]

ascending popularity is zero-starred product order by ascending release 😛

(there's a lot of music stuff!)

it's of course because of the support of OM 😏!

[thorny compass]

Would never base my opinion on any ratings, lol. Sounds stupid. Considering what are most of the reviews, questions and quality of assets.

Well, if I buy yours i will review it. Tho I am very critical 😁

[sturdy hawk]

Weird, that basically the same thing with 5 CSS lines changed 🤔...

[merry field]

It seems to show how long it took to get approved - not sure if that's useful information for a marketplace though

"Oh, I updated something yesterday, let me see if it picks it up... wait, why is the last update date before I released it?"

Sadly, I'd imagine there's no way to get the actual last-updated time, which would actually be interesting

[eager kestrel]

Yeah, last update is just the date you actually submitted the new file to be reviewed. If the file already exists, the date never updates, so only new files will trigger the updated date info.

I know I am happy about it, haha. Keeping me very busy though. I barely get enough time to shoot the shit in this channel now.

[merry field]

Yeah, updating with a different URL/filename doesn't change the update date somehow, oh well

[north stirrup]

Would there be interest in a sellers-only discord, where we could share private sales data, discuss creator-only data etc?

[thorny compass]

Ooh... invite-only sect?

[north stirrup]

Yup would be invite only

With a verification based on your sellers email

[thorny compass]

Ranking according to the sales 🤔

[merry field]

A land where one could aspire to be a peasant

[north stirrup]

If anyone's interested just DM me 😄

[delicate dove]

there is a rather big one

dont know who moderates it nowadays though, because i left it about a year or two ago

[north stirrup]

Never heard of it haha

[delicate dove]

maaaaaaybe @quaint cedar knows, but im not 100% sure.

[sturdy hawk]

Out of curiosity, why did you leave it?

[delicate dove]

i dont like to be in many discord groups, and the info shared ran out at some point because we never get any new data.

the data recentlyshared in the creator hub on forums was the first real data we got in like 5 years

and now im afk, dinner-time

[quaint cedar]

Relatively sure i left that one

Wasn't much gain

You basically just created a place for people complaining about their sad seller life.
Not sure if that improved

(I most likely also complaint once or fifty times, but well)

[north stirrup]

Thanks! I'll create a new one with a few trusted faces then 🙂

hehe - if there are sellers here interested in joining that discord, please DM me 😄

[valid notch]

uh so that one is the magic place

[sullen lion]

hm? people actually wanna do that?

most packs are only ever internally consistent among a creator

[north stirrup]

I think I got >10 sales thanks to the recent partnership I did with EasyRPG

[eager kestrel]

After showing how Universal Monster can easily integrate into a system as complex as Easy Survival RPG I have had consistent sales for a good week or so now. Integration of assets is key to developers. They don't want to spend hours/days/weeks trying to get 2 products to work, just to find out in the end they are not as compatible as initially thought.

[cedar panther]

yea, I'm planning to propose to other creators too

[eager kestrel]

It is a pretty simple strategy. Invest in another developer's product that you believe has potential or is already popular. Develop integration between the two. Market the integration.

This does not mean steal their concept and incorporate into your own though, hehe.

You want to entice the user to buy both products.

[cedar panther]

do you guys think its rude to ask for a copy of other creator's content while offering a copy of my own ? Ofc, I'll only ask for this if I really think it would be profitable for both parties

[eager kestrel]

Personally, I don't see it as rude, but probably best to not just straight out ask for sharing copies, first start with the simpler question of asking if a collaboration would be profitable. Then go on later to ask how to accomplish such a collaboration.

[cedar panther]

yea, makes sense

[thorny compass]

Not sure it is legal, tbh

Don't think so.

[north stirrup]

totally is

[merry field]

Don't see why giving someone else a product you made would be illegal

You can freely give out your ue4 projects if you want

[eager kestrel]

Couldn't the product creator claim you don't own it, if they wanted to? Really shady thing to do, give out for free, then sue them later claiming they never purchased the rights to use it.

[north stirrup]

Usually you give the product through the marketplace, so the MP team would see you asked them to give it for free

[raven ferry]

there was some drama not so long ago about this. Someone gave away a plugin, the person that gave the plugin away decided to not update the plugin. The person that received the plugin decided to create the same plugin, part of the code was reused and Epic Staff had to resolve this feud.

[merry field]

Surely you'd still have the email or whatever where they gave you the link?
Plus, in this case, the person using it wouldn't be planning to include it in a project or anything, they'd just be looking at it for reference

[north stirrup]

If y'all can't wait to get the sales data

chrome dev tools ^

change timezone ^

boom early data

[tawny torrent]

If my product has low sales because of its low content quantity
Which is better?

Increasing the quantity with an update?
Making a new Volume with big quantity?

I’d prefer the update method but the benefit of new volume is being displayed on New Releases , more traffic

While an update will be search result dependent only

[split iron]

So how do you work out what you will be paid in the next installment?

Somehow I can write math for games but didn't successfully figure out something so basic by comparison

Or what about total sales exceeding 18 months

I wish the publisher portal had transparent data like this

Right in front of you

Do any other publishers feel this? If so might be worth passing it onto MP team

[thorny compass]

I understand the question as exchanging a product between two clients. If it is between two authors, yeah there are ways.

[north stirrup]

gotcha 🙂

[thorny compass]

So, still legal? :)

[next badge]

hey guys i wanna ask what do yiou guys use for documentation

🤔

[viral crow]

You're kidding me

The data is shown based on front-end validation of some sort? Granted, in this case it's rather innocent. Still puzzling though.

[merry field]

Just look at the report for the month that the sales are for?

So look at the report for February, from the 1st to the 28th - it lists a total sold - and multiply by 0.88 to get the payout amount due for April

[split iron]

Doesn't show up for ages

Ohh the sales report

Duh

Thanks @merry field so focused on dev I can't work out something like this 🤦‍♂️ got it now

I had a feeling this was gonna be the good month but wanted to make sure, moved cities and have bills 😄

[merry field]

To be fair, it's slightly more complicated than that, because if you earned less than $100, you have to move the start backwards a month until you have more than $100

[split iron]

Thankfully I haven't yet had to deal with it

[coarse sun]

Another question, why no nudes in marketplace? I'm not talking about anime girls with big boobs, I'm just talking about nudes. There's a lot of shitty hentai unreal games in Steam, so this can't prevent it, so why? Because there are a lots of gore assets...

[merry field]

Might be against the marketplace guidelines? Though at a quick glance, I can't see a rule about that.

[sullen lion]

probably concerns over the marketplace just kinda being open and then a minor wants to buy a particle effect and uh

(they could add all the stuff to filter that or make it unviewable, sure, but that's work)

[forest harbor]

Got a rejection for a project I worked on for a while with not enough content. I assume, that's an issue with my end on not explaining enough, what's inside the project.
(There are similar projects, way little content and functionality)

Resubmitted, let's wait.
In case you want to know more, this is the documentation: https://bit.ly/3r5SKDl

[slender estuary]

tbh i feel like you should put that into your landscape material and increase the price afterwards

[oblique crater]

Trying to put something on marketplace was way more frustrating than learning to code

Somehow more demotivating too, im over trying now

How priviliged you gotta be to spend days trying to fit into a weirdly shaped box

And fill the role of artist, publisher, programmer, producer etc. A submission requires a bunch of skills

Feels made for companies, not people.

I mean the form is really good, theres a nice web-portal..

But i dont have the time or mind to fight through the endless nitpicking

Maybe its general frustrations of being indie that is running over here.
Anyway where can i go and browse+buy all the original fun weird stuff??? We need alterna-marketplace

[forest harbor]

Yeah. I wouldn’t mind doing that. But not everyone wants the landscape material. I got requests from people who are already have custom landscape mats or brushify. Technically, yes that’s the next logical step for sure.

[forest harbor]

I did some previous work on web related stuff. What I lacking most is the dependencies. It would be awesome if we could reuse existing assets as dependencies. If someone could do that with a Netflix like revenue model, that would be awesome.

[split iron]

Is it fair to drop UE 4.24 support given that there's no 4.27 coming and it's pretty much outdated now and with later releases being stable? 🤔

[thorny compass]

4.27 indirectly confirmed.

[delicate dove]

^

[thorny compass]

Ha! There is your journalist who found it 🙂

[delicate dove]

shhh

[forest harbor]

Got rejected again. I'm not going to try again.
Will include this on the landscape material and increase the price.

As a long-term goal, I'll start setting up a store and start selling directly.
As a part of that, I will make a tool to install assets directly to the project.

[toxic coral]

Is there any modular Harry Potter style environment?

[forest harbor]

So, what about this? https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/ultra-stylized-grass
I resubmitted with adding 30 grass types.
Anyway, there are people already willing to buy this.
It's sad that they want to get the full package.

I totally disagree with not enough content. For example, there can be a single blueprint or an asset that can save hours of time for some company/dev. This restriction is just ...

Due to this reason, Marketplace will lack a lot of cool innovative ideas and experiments. For example, check NPM.
That's why Node.js became so popular.

Anyway, I don't want to drag this too far. It's their decision and I am moving forward.

[hasty nexus]

try to make it the way they ask you. @eager kestrel had similar experience with rejection and now he's doing very good.

Don't get mad, just make it happen, in the end it's the best exposure you can get

either add more stuff, or explain better

[eager kestrel]

Yeah, you really just need to explain how it is not specifically Art content. It really seems like the marketplace team is used to dealing with majority of art assets, so I'm sure they get into the bad habit of "judging a book by its cover".

I replied to them with 3 long emails, each time after a rejection, then finally, out of nowhere, they took a previously denied product submission and just went live with it, haha.

Yeah, I need better art. I'm no good at that stuff at all.

[forest harbor]

Totally for sure, but I just got an automated email.
Maybe I should contact with an email.

[eager kestrel]

The title text is the explanation behind it.

[forest harbor]

Ha ha. That's nice to hear 😄

[hasty nexus]

yes arounda, you can reply to them, contact them, they're very responsive to my experience

and they try to work with you not against you

[eager kestrel]

As long as Combat System and AI Framework appear, that is pretty much the gist of my product.

[hasty nexus]

what? 😄

[forest harbor]

They should be right 😄

[forest harbor]

Thanks @hasty nexus , @eager kestrel I just dropped an email explaining the situation.

[hasty nexus]

no problem, man. good luck.

[tawny torrent]

I get the payment if its 100$+ or if its 100$ after taking of 12%?

[torpid dove]

Anyone know an easy automated way to verify users actually own your product and didn't steal it? I've recently found out that people have been stealing my product and receiving help from me and others on my discord. 😦 I was told to lock the support discord behind a verification check and ask for receipts but that seems like a lot of work for hundreds of people. I'd get flooded with emails and it would take me forever to verify them all. I'm open to ideas.

[thorny compass]

I have seen on some servers that they assign roles for verified users. So when somebody asks something you can check whether there is a tag, and if not, ask for proof.

[merry field]

Before the 12%

[eager kestrel]

Unfortunately the easiest way is to have them write a question or review that contains their discord name. You can then check next to their username for the "key" icon that indicates they own the product. Then you set them "Verified" in your discord server. Asking for receipts is the same thing, but even those can be counterfeit, so be careful.

I have put in a request to add a new text field to every account. A text field that could contain any information that may be relevant to the seller you are purchasing from. It can be left blank if you do not wish to share any information, but when it is filled in (with their discord name in this case) the seller would be able to see a list of all these text fields. Upon sale, it would add your text field to the list for the seller to see. I mean, they obviously keep track of your individual sales, just need one more piece of info to be passed along.

[silent mesa]

ow so there is a march sale happening right now up to 26 😄

[eager kestrel]

That would be very nice. Make it completely automated.

[tired peak]

oups

[thorny compass]

Aah, I know that one. Was wondering too, very nice from the author.

It just proves that if you want, there is an way 🙂

These are the facts, but going above 50%+ was the goal.

[eager kestrel]

Their math is off though. It is really 40% off from the author combined with the 50% off sale.

I think they meant $20 sale from the author, not 20%, hehe.

[tawny torrent]

How do i put my product on sale

[hollow zephyr]

one way to do it is to read the marketplace faq on the UE site

[tawny torrent]

Ok thanks

[tawny torrent]

3.6.1.a To request a discounted sale for one of their published products, publishers must email [e-mail] from their Primary Email Address (configurable in the Seller tab of the Publisher Portal settings page) at least two weeks before the intended start date of the sale with the following information:

Product Title
Start and End dates of the sale (14 days maximum)
Discount Percentage (% off)
Epic maintains sole discretion to determine the final sales price of any product.

[slender estuary]

<@&213101288538374145> https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/character-human-male-rigged

the guy from capital gaming RP is back at it selling non licenced assets. This time from a mate of mine - he made that character for their game but it was never licenced for redistribution. Apart from that wasn´t he banned from the MP? Not sure but maybe some of you have direct contact to the mp team ...

@foggy ingot

[tall helm]

@slender estuary report it to the marketplace team

[e-mail] I believe

he's banned on here with multiple accounts

[slender estuary]

Already done, just made sure you are aware 😗 Thank you!

xxxD

pure sexyness xD

[tawny torrent]

I am not sure what proper folder hierarchy I should follow for my product

Like do i put main material folder that includes all materials

Or create sub folders for materials inside the type of meshes they assigned to

I have 4 mesh categories so i make materials main folder and make subfolders inside it with categories names ?

@fickle basin

So Content > Materials > Cars Materials > Material name

Not Content > Meshes > Cars > Materials > Material name

And for textures is it a main folder ? Or i put a sub folder inside each material with its texture Content > materials > Cars Materials > textures>?

[tawny torrent]

Okay thanks 👍

[slender estuary]

no clue man, but i added a licencing right question just in case

they removed the discord btw

i was there

asked about the issue

they banned me

just me

well the thing is

the guy is already banned on the mp with his main acc or not?

so its reasonable to suspect that he don't want to get figured out so easily

might be

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/e6eadf3e-d316-4ff0-a952-1557ee4e9c8b/Australian-Road-Signs-Warning-Signs?hl=en

i am pretty confident this is where he got the road signs from

yup

one is sketchup

[thorny compass]

His locomotive is a bit different, as well tracktor and etc. There might be some, or all of them copy from the same source, or he modded them a bit.

[slender estuary]

or its just a pixel-reduction

hmmm 😄

[thorny compass]

That should be a variable...

[slender estuary]

https://tenor.com/view/pow-boom-pu-puf-puff-gif-17250633

maybe i shot a bit early but you never know with that guy xD

did you read his plugin "documentation"?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E7YeYxQxBU1KucqVj7o6I_c5xHbaLzVF/view

[thorny compass]

Australia does not exist.

[slender estuary]

Thats a good question xD

[thorny compass]

Anyway, if that car and char were stolen that is enough.

That happened to me and my cousin once, btw 🤔

So it is quite relevant and important.

[slender estuary]

😆

i think Australian road signs are hillarious

I want so sent you the discord invite they had a while back

cant share it here but i still have it in my browser history xD

just to check if they rly closed shop already lol

nvm sent it to a friend and its gone xD

[eager kestrel]

Of course you are going to face-plant when you ride a bike with only a back wheel, lol.

Hmmmm, I'm leaning toward stolen. What kind of true artist even runs into this problem when they make all the stuff from scratch? This issue is a photoshopping issue, haha.

I forgets to paint inside the letters, oh noes!

Either way, signs are meant to be universal, so anyone can understand them, so bound to see tons of duplicates between sources.

If everything in my product is working correctly in Mobile Preview, is that enough to claim it works on android and ios? I don't wish to really support those platforms, but someone is asking if it does work for them.

Damn, figured so

Best way is to just package and send to my phone?

What you mean? How do I do that?

Ah, never even knew it existed. Next to play and I never used it before.

Text saying launch doesn't show for me, haha.

Tooltip says it though

Yeah

No launch option for android. Have it installed for the engine. Something else I need installed too?

I'm in 4.23, so hopefully they are relevant for that version, hehe.

[eager kestrel]

Does anyone know if you can use the Android Studio emulator to test UE4 projects? I finally got UE4 to recognize the emulator, but it throws an error trying to launch using it.

"Missing receipt" error.

[junior smelt]

did anyone get paid for January?

[delicate dove]

i did

[maiden cedar]

What's your fav. inventory system currently in the market? Single player sci-fi shooter

[turbid coyote]

I used my own

https://github.com/NickTsaizer/GUIS_Core

[forest harbor]

Hey guys, after some emails & some changes I could ship it. Our users really like the project & they really need to update approval guidelines & the process.

I shared some links in the #released if someone wants to see those.

[forest harbor]

I read it from some places that it won't work. Anyway, I ended up buying a cheap Android device. Now it's my go-to place when doing any performance-related work.

Also, try using RenderDoc & it even works on apps running on Android. It shows some really valuable info which is not seen in the editor.

[hasty nexus]

Congrats!

[forest harbor]

Thanks.

[viral crow]

Kudos on the quality of the docs 👍

(Beautiful asset as well 😄 )

[forest harbor]

Thanks. Yeah! Making docs is something I really like.

I know a lot of us here hate it 😄

[shell flame]

Can anyone be kind and help me with submiting an asset pack to ue4 marketplace please ?

[slender estuary]

Did you read the marketplace guidelines?

[slender estuary]

https://marketplacehelp.epicgames.com/s/seller-guide?language=en_US

[oblique crater]

wait WHAT marketplace seller guide?

this seems great. I only knew of the guidelines

this will answer a lot of questions. Wtf why have i struggled in the dark for so long

[shell flame]

hi @slender estuary, yes I read the guidlines and submited my pack but I got the mail with declined " Incorrect file format - See the “Project Format” section above. "

I dont understand what to do there as I have the folders structured as they want

this is what I zip and sent them

[slender estuary]

I am not sure about it but I feel like you are not supposed to upload SOURCE files in a separate structure. Not sure though

[shell flame]

But where? If I have extra files that are not supposed to be in the UE4 project..?

its quite confusing the publishing part on their portal....

at least this part with the zipping and adding stuff

[shell flame]

what do you mean by that ?

right click on the folder - send to compressed ...

does UE4 has its own zipping tool ?

lol

=)))))

I never tought of that

and after I do that I will put that on the google drive right ?

I can make another folder in the project file named sources and put them there and zipp with the whole project

Ok, I'll try to submit again and see if it works

I know what are you saying but this files are sources with extra content in 3D aplications like max or blender

[slender estuary]

I think that just goes into a seperate "source" folder tbh

inside of the main project hierarchy

[shell flame]

Yeah, I did just that, now i'm waiting the response... will see what happens. thanks for the help guys!

[coral tapir]

Hey everyone!
Every month EpicGames provides assets for free. I want to use assets for commercial tutorials. Can I copy them to my students?
What kind of license provide?

[meager compass]

I don't think sharing is allowed, cos the free monthly assets will be non-free afterwards

[hidden pewter]

If I buy an asset pack from the marketplace, and the description says the entire thing was done with blueprints, will I have access to edit the blueprints?

[thorny compass]

y

[slender estuary]

No you can not.

bcs thats basically redistribution and not "sharing" 🙂

[coral tapir]

@slender estuary Thx
Should I buy other assets?

[slender estuary]

Cant you work with copyright free assets and or contact the sellers and ask them for a cooperation of sorts? Just bcs the unreal marketplace licence doesnt allow you to distribute doesnt mean you can not strike cooperation agreements and limited use licences with the creators themselves

[forest harbor]

I think this is not allowed. That's why the UE team cannot share some of the cool demos they do. (eg: The water system demo)

I don't think there's a way to find a solution for you. Talking to the developer is the best idea. I release my stuff under CC-Non Commercial license. So, they can be used in tutorials.

I originally make them as MIT opensource license. Then, I found out some people trying to submit it to marketplace and that's why I changed it.

[coral tapir]

@forest harbor @slender estuary Thx for the comprehensive answer! 👍

[real dust]

You can use the Permanently Free collection's contents?

[delicate dove]

^

@coral tapir you can probably contact the marketplace team (check the pinned message) and see if you can come to an agreement.
Epic generally is very lenient towards education and can potentially offer some help, though you probably do need to show credentials.

[rigid kernel]

Are there any clothes on the marketplace that would fit the UE4 mannequin? Is there any way to generate generic clothing just for testing (shirt/pants)?

[fallen basalt]

I just saw a notification for the spring sale, but I rushed to click it and can see it hasn't started yet. What was the notification saying? Is it starting soon?

[thorny compass]

I think it is about to finish even. March sale.