fab

[pliant forum]

I've seen a few Assets with the Mega Grant icon in their products so I'd say it's worth a shot.
Nineva Studios got one, but I'd assume it's because they do Mobile Plugins that cover all the ground Unreal Engine doesn't?

[open rock]

@pliant forum I was thinking I have done soooo much optimizing this to work really well on mobile so it could be a foot in the door.

[north stirrup]

yup some do get megagrants, but I'd say it's the minority

so don't make your entire business depend on you getting one 🙂

[pliant forum]

I can't judge, since I don't know exactly what it is your applying with.
But take a look at Nineva Plugins and maybe Pixel2D by Polyart.. It requires more than just optimization to qualify, so be ready for negative response

If Phy didn't get one, I wouldn't keep my hopes up 😄
Voxel Plugin and FluidNinja is probably the 2 marketplace Assets that really deserves one. Even more they should be bought and integrated directly into UE4/UE5 😉

[open rock]

Have nearly a year before it is ready to publish but I am almost at a stage to package a maybe 10 level game and just see what they say.

[north stirrup]

I'm not sure, since we are already selling pretty well it arguably doesn't make much sense for us to get a grant

So there could be an inverse effect being applied there

[open rock]

Phy if I don't get it and start price high how easy is the price to change before people start complaining that they paid more?

[pliant forum]

Depends I guess, personally I would say assets that contribute the most in aspects that is sorely covered or requires a massive amount of time/skills would qualify no matter how much they sell

[open rock]

I guess if they are happy with the asset they wouldn't care

[north stirrup]

Realistically, the grant team has thousands of requests and only a few grants

So they gotta make the choice somehow 😄

On my side at least, I'm happier with that money going towards someone that really needs it

[north stirrup]

Hard to say really

One way would be to just try stuff

and refund unhappy people

but that requires to be financially stable already

[open rock]

I honestly don't need the money. I will still do this without it. But if I have to charge $200 for the asset, it becomes more about the community. I would rather charge nothing and everyone get it. I just can't justify that

I want people to make 1000 games not 5

[north stirrup]

maybe start low and build a community that way

and gradually increase the price as you start adding more features

if the product allows it, making a trial/free version will help wonders

[open rock]

@north stirrup that's not bad 🤔

[ebon leaf]

Is there a plugin that exports blueprints when you save them as PDF or PNG image?

[thorny compass]

One or two. I don't remember the names. Screenshot something maybe?

[worn oyster]

this might also be a good reason to get 1 😛

not much use to fund a pack that no1 cares for

[modern perch]

GraphPrinter will do it

@ebon leaf

[summer cloud]

Hello, quick question. Does Epic go through similar QA process for updates, or do updates go live as soon as you submit them?

[delicate dove]

@gritty fossil please read the #rules for any future postings of content :)

[daring sedge]

Why does it not let me add it?

[daring sedge]

That worked thank you

[ebon leaf]

looking for low poly switches/turnknobs that would allow me to build something like that in Unreal

[oak fiber]

beveled rectangles and beveled cylinders. If you cant find any, its 5 minutes, end-to-end, in a dcc app.

[uncut river]

What other services exists besides Xsolla for in game stores, etc? Im Reading some pretty negative reviews about this platform

[cold summit]

anyone know any good bank maps?

[midnight arch]

is it profitable to sell 3d models on the marketplace?

[hollow zephyr]

Yes

[fair patio]

Hello, is there any Unreal asset store sellers here? I'm a new seller on Unreal Marketplace and I need help!
My question is: How do I request an payment? My sales have reached the minimum $100 but I don't see any buttons or any sections where I should request the payment. If you can help me I'd be really thankful! ✨

[pliant forum]

They automatically pay you once a month

[fair patio]

@pliant forum So I don't need to "start" the payment in any way, they will do it automatically after I reached the $100?

[pliant forum]

Yes, every time you hit the $100 mark they'll pay you once their monthly payout day arrives

I think they changed it from the 15th to the 1th of every month recently. I can't say for sure though, I don't keep track of it

[fair patio]

Okay, thank you for the answer!

[hollow zephyr]

Make sure your hyperwallet is setup and everything

[fair patio]

@hollow zephyr Thank you, I noticed I hadn't added all the payment info to my hyperwallet, that must be the problem

Yeah, it seems a bit confusing

Hopefully I got everything right now

[tame compass]

i was wondering who buy marketplace asset for ?

[delicate dove]

@tame compass your sentence sadly does not make much sense. what are you trying to ask? :)

[tame compass]

for what people buy marketplace asset for ?

i wondering making game is that profitable ?

or they making movie ?

[delicate dove]

generally to speed up production (tools), buying stuff for tests/mockups/experiments, and edit the assets as needed to fit their game.
some people just want to make a game regardless how it looks, or buy things from one and the same style.

[vale prawn]

As someone who uses Unreal for non-game stuff (immersive simulation for research), I heavily rely on the MP. I really don't care if my whole scene is made up of MP assets, it's actually an advantage: it frees up my time to focus on more business oriented tasks. So far we've spent ~5k€ on the MP, which is a very small fraction of the cost if we'd had to do all that ourselves or via subcontracts.
But I really don't know if that's a major or minor market share of the MP. And I don't think details on that are available anywhere.

[modern perch]

Epic wouldn't even know

[delicate dove]

josh showed some data like a year or so ago and mentioned that at some point we'll get more data. when though... nobody knows.

[modern perch]

from like, survey results?

I think that was a lot longer ago?

[vale prawn]

They probably have some rough idea. Just based on the email address of the buyer, you can get a lot of information. If 90% of your sales are to @gmail.com, you can guess that you're mostly selling to indies. It's obviously not a perfect way to figure our what your market is, but it's better than "We have no idea".

[modern perch]

people using gmail accounts are not necessarily indies, so I would suggest that's a very poor methodology

survey results would be more reliable than guesswork

[vale prawn]

gmail probably wasn't the best example, but I know people from the automotive industry using the MP, and they each do with their corporate email. So Epic can have a rough estimate of each industry just by sorting the email address according to their domain (I'm sure there are some BI tools for that).

[modern perch]

Hunting through tens of thousands of marketplace e-mail addresses and manually trying to assign them to an industry is an exercise in madness, especially when so much work is carried out by subsidiaries and third parties on behalf of a major stakeholder

to put it simply, using the e-mail address is not going to work

I know when I was doing work for Audi, it was via a third party, and we were one of several contracted entities doing that kind of work

[vale prawn]

As I said, there are BI tools out there for that. The problematic of knowing your market and customers in a digital-only business isn't really a new thing for which we have no answer. I'd be really surprised if Epic didn't have some rough estimates of who buys what in the MP.

[cobalt bough]

The garbage at the marketplace is totally out of control

[tame compass]

@cobalt bough wdym

Also do making lightmap is our responsibility?

[delicate dove]

yes it is

[split iron]

Yeah the barriers have fallen a while ago

It's unfair to people who make major assets and don't get exposure under new content

And unfair to customers who have to sift through it (and to sellers who lose sales when they give up)

Isn't nice

[hollow zephyr]

I feel that it balances out long-term, better assets will come up first in searches because they have ratings, sell more, etc

[tame compass]

@hollow zephyr is it true or false.

[thorny compass]

I think only the reviews/ratings have such effect. So consider the free assets, these skyrocket. Are all of them good tho? Then look at the reviews themselves, they are mostly useless: "good", "fantastic", "does the job" and similar. Also I have heard for some sellers pushing hard that you leave a review/rating or bust.

Not to talk about the price of an asset... In general, mass opinion does not go a hand-to-hand with quality.

[hollow zephyr]

is what true or false

[tame compass]

is it true that good asset that sell well come out in first searches ?

[hollow zephyr]

well my assets that sell well moved up the search list so I assume it's because of that

[split iron]

The bug where you make a change and submit then it sits awaiting review perpetually until you cancel and resubmit is really annoying. I think it happened with a new plugin as well but have no idea. They've taken a day longer than their current contact times

[night chasm]

anybody know some good metahumans clothing packs?

can't find anything on the marketplace which is kind of surprising?

[night chasm]

ahh weird! i guess my next question is does that mean everyone using metahumans is doing their own custom thing, or does that mean no one is using metahumans...

probably a question for another channel 🙂

[stiff maple]

Does anyone know what date this month the payment for last month sales will be?

[delicate dove]

they are 2 months behind on payment iirc

[split iron]

You get paid on the 1st of each month for the month prior to the earning month (you get the earnings from January on March 1st)

[delicate dove]

^ that is what I meant, but better explained.

[stiff maple]

Interesting. One of my assets was in the sponsored content for last month. An in the email from support they said I'll receive the money this month. Looking at my previous payment dates it's never been the first. Either mid month like 14th/15th or the 30th. Could it be different because I'm from the UK?

[novel brook]

Hello, is there some site where i could get old free for the month assets?

[modern perch]

nope

if you missed them, you missed them

[novel brook]

ok, thanks

[delicate dove]

after they changed to hyperwallet they changed the date to the 1st of each month.

though, I was part of the same sponsored content last month and gotten that payment on the 13th of september.

[tame compass]

@split iron i got this bug too.

[tawny torrent]

I still can’t directly check how many sales a product made in lifetime right ?

[pine wraith]

Guys has anyone come across any forestry / tree cutting esque environments on the MP? I can't find anything searching lumberyard timberyard etc, surely someone has done something like this before though? Perhaps it's part of an environment that doesn't use those specific terms.

[graceful arrow]

Not saw any harvesters or forwarders. Plenty of logs out there though 😄

[coarse sun]

Why there's so many models at sale supposedly rigged to the epic skeleton that are bad rigged?? I mean, the first I do to test an skeleton it's to throw it a fbx with the T pose, it's very clear when a model isn't well rigged. And not talking about the A pose, that many times it's different.

[tame compass]

Its not easy to do that.

Well i avoid making that type for now. But i know its not easy to polish it. Single mistake can make you remade all over again.

[coarse sun]

I know, it's hard, only saying that the rigged to Unreal Skeleton Yes should be really rigged that skeleton. Very few models are really rigged the right way. I've no problem using a non rigged, but in marketplace, in my opinion, the QA should verify that it's really rigged and you can use it right out of the box.

[tawny hinge]

marketplace has sadly some wide spread of asset quality, and you never really know what you get 😦

[vale prawn]

Is there any way to export the complete list of owned MP products? I'm about to write a script to do that, but if a solution already exists I'd gladly use it.

[scarlet mountain]

not heard of one, but i'd be interested if you are willing to share the script!

great idea

[delicate dove]

the only way ive done this, is email the mp-team as they have a database they can pull from. a script might be better :p

[vale prawn]

I've made the script but it requires some manual work, as I can't just request any user's Vault. So the user first has to to generate a json dump of its Vault, which is a simple as clicking a link (https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/api/assets/vault?count=100). But Epic doesn't allow requesting a list larger than 100 items, so if you have more, you have to dump multiple json.
But once you have all the jsons, the script generates a list of links to all MP products you own. Plus it also outputs the total value of your Vault.
If people are still interested in the script even with those limitations, I'll clean it up, write a README and put it on GitHub.

[scarlet mountain]

Yeah still seems useful

I'll see if I can work something out with making grabbing the files easier. You used to be able to do JavaScript bookmarks, but I vaguely recall they were killed for security

[potent mason]

Hi I wan't to sell a Plugin on Unreal asset store but I also wan't to make courses that may use the plugin. Does Unreal marketplace allow reedemtion codes for Assets?

[delicate dove]

sadly we still dont have redeption codes

[potent mason]

Dang. I just package up the plugin with course material but I would feel bad it could be outdated.

[delicate dove]

as long as it works for the course material that would be fine, you can always link to an update for people who want to use it afterwards?

[potent mason]

That is true. I did not think of that.

[graceful arrow]

Well, that's not strictly true. Got a Humble Bundle that came with Marketplace asset redemption codes. Probably have to request them directly.

[delicate dove]

hmm, that is relatively new then because a few years ago the answer was a clear nope.
good to know.

[stark phoenix]

:no_entry_sign: gumi#0347 was banned.

[woeful yew]

Hii, anyone know the license rules about marketplace assets? I’m a 2D artist I was thinking if i buy a assets from the marketplace I can use the assets (the render Image) for my work, like use this images in a comic book, illustration or 2D animation, is this allowed? Or I can use this assets only for create games? Anyone know how copyright work for this?

[delicate dove]

thats totes fine.

[raven anchor]

Hey, for the past month or so I've been working on an animation pack for a Sig P320, I went through textures and removed all company branding and names as well as renamed the gun in the files to something fictional. When I went through everything else to upload it to the marketplace it got rejected twice due to still looking like a "replica model under copyright." I'm wondering if I change some colors and materials (plastic to metal or something) if that would be enough to get rid of these issues. I really don't want to change the model because that would mean scrapping all my work essentially.
I also see some guns on the marketplace being called by their irl names including branding and am wondering why they might be getting a pass but I have to change the majority of the design

[forest harbor]

Simply share those plugins with your example projects. And clearly mention that this plugin is for non-commercial purposes. Redirect users(add a link or so) for the marketplace for commercial use.
It's pretty simple & worked well for me.
Even though you sell the plugin on the marketplace, you can distribute it in any other way you like.

[vale prawn]

We talked about it yesterday, so here it is:

Unreal Marketplace Vault Extractor, a script to generate a list of your Marketplace Vault
https://github.com/brifsttar/UnrealMarketplaceVaultExtractor

As I mentioned earlier, it sadly isn't exactly plug-and-play, as the end-user has to request the json data themselves. I tried making it as straightforward as possible, but still. Feel free to ask questions, contribute, etc.

I'm not sure if this should get shared here or in #released, but since the discussion started here and it's really MP-centric, I prefer posting it here. I'll delete the post if it should rather go in #released.

[delicate dove]

man, brings me back to a few years ago when they changed the rules.

there are a few guns that do not have copyright, there are also guns that are named differently in real life but we got used to their names in games.
Some where already published before they changed the rules on this, some might have (doubt it) permission.

anyways, any new gun published needs to follow the rules. just changing the textures is not enough, there needs to be visual differences in the model compared to the actual copyrighted/trademarked weapon.

[ember hill]

If you don't want to change the gun mesh, you could go to other marketplaces like Gumroad.

[delicate dove]

^

[vale prawn]

If you're pinning resources, you might also consider the Unreal Marketplace twitter account, which tweets any new MP product and retweets officials MP related announcements: https://twitter.com/unrealmarket

UE Marketplace (@UnrealMarket)

Bot that tweets for each new asset in the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
Not affiliated to Epic Games in any way.

Tweets

7118

Followers

467

Twitter

Source code is here: https://github.com/brifsttar/TwitterUE4Marketplace

[scarlet mountain]

@vale prawn thanks for releasing that tool!

[still condor]

did you tried this ?

do you tried it ? the visual novel

[hollow zephyr]

No, but its free now for grabs

[still condor]

dude, the plugin are just landed but how to install this shit

I just move on from blender this is my first day with unreal

[silent mesa]

I saw some good guns assets not available due to this. Some newer gun assets right now has totally changed the mesh to their own.

[raven anchor]

Damn that's a shame. I was gonna try providing some more realistic type stuff

I know a way I change change my model that would work well though

[silent mesa]

Probably just add some shapes or highlights in the high poly mesh and you go from there.
Guess big companies can go with it since to buy licenses to the real guns.

[raven anchor]

I was going to get rid of the stippled grip, rail, and make the slide a different shape

I hope that's enough

And I changed up the textures a lot

[ember hill]

So, thinking about the EULA loophole for code plugins again, would it be okay for a team/company to mass create Epic accounts, and assign it to each seat/office computers? So that the employees/team members don't use their personal Epic accounts, and considering that in most cases, the project files stays in the company's computer.

Maybe that way the plugin can be paid for by the higher ups, but the employees can't take it home with him/her outside of the company's projects, even in the case of job termination, because of the plugin bound to the company's Epic accounts

[graceful arrow]

When I was working for BP tech support, the 'per seat' license for some of the software we used wasn't specific to a user. It was total number of concurrent users. So if we had 12 seats, only 12 people at a time could be using it but if someone logged off that software it meant someone else could use that seat.

[ember hill]

In most other commercial software cases, you'd be able to pay for bulk licence using one e-mail address (last time I got to use one, it was SketchUp and Adobe stuff)

[vivid tide]

Anybody know where you can find + view your Tax forms/information on the UE Marketplace? Been hunting for a while now and can't find a thing.

[slow nacelle]

It's under your Marketplace Seller Portal, under Settings.

[vivid tide]

There's nothing there though, just a "Status" and an Account ID. Doesn't have any of the forms.

[slow nacelle]

Hmm, I'm in the U.S. so I don't know how it works for the UK.

[graceful arrow]

From an email I got today from the Marketplace team, you can contact them directly for a quote on bulk purchases. Also, the licenses are floating so are not tied to specific people. 🙂

[topaz yacht]

What do you guys think of https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/aws-cognito-dynamodb-gamelift-lambda is it worth it?

Do i need AWS experience or this will help?

[forest harbor]

Guys, I had some great support service from the Epic MP team. (Wanted to share this since we always see negative points 🙂 )

I had to stop developing a product and I asked them to process refunds from the customers.

But some of those customers asks refunds for a wrong product.

Then the MP team kind enough to talk to me about that resolve the situation.

[summer cloud]

Hi, I have a quick question regarding updating a product. After I click on Submit File Update, should i replace download links to existing versions or create new versions for the update?

[hearty osprey]

When using source control, is it possible to ensure that Engine versions on different computers have the same installed content from the marketplace? I take it that content added to the project itself is simple to include, but is it the same way for engine content?

[delicate dove]

if you need to update the files, then you (iirc) can just update the download link.

[nova cave]

if you want to do that, you need to install your plugins to the project itself, not the engine. Just put them in the plugin directory for the project

[hearty osprey]

I see, thank you!

[tawny torrent]

Same here , i had similar situations and they are always nice

Also recently I suggest some improvements for the market place and they said these improvements are already future plans , god knows when but at least we will see improvement to both vendors and customers later on

[tawny torrent]

My youtube views after sale ends

Any suggestion for more traffic beside reddit and twitter?

[delicate dove]

quality content, get yourself known in the community, help people out, make tutorials, showcase neat stuff in tiny gifs.

[hollow zephyr]

Put it on youtube, how to make money on the ue marketplace and use it to advertise your products AND make money from youtube ads

[solar iron]

how to use multiplayer with blueprint in ue4

[thorny compass]

Search for hours long tutorials on internet. Then prepare to spend weeks learning. Months to make something out of that.

[worn oyster]

open level + ip and ur playing multiplayer 😛

[ebon leaf]

Anyone know how this is legal?

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/fps-map-eastern-city-and-props

This is Dust 2

theoretically, if i purchased this map, I THEN own the rights to the same exact map layout as dust 2 and can not be subject to copyright infringement.

[worn oyster]

i dont think u can copyright a map layout, but dont take my word for it

[ebon leaf]

If it's sold on the Epic store, you then own the rights to it and allowed to publish it in your game.

[low atlas]

If it is highly similar to someone or some company's work however you may need to tread carefully and put some effort into making it your own

[worn oyster]

you own some rights to it

[low atlas]

yup

[ebon leaf]

Thats just weird to me

thanks for the info

[worn oyster]

nah u can use this as is as far as i know

[ebon leaf]

Im doing my weekly marketplace browse lol

[ebon leaf]

This is what i figured

thats insane right?

[worn oyster]

dunno, ppl really like this layout 😛

[ebon leaf]

lol

Well looks like EPIC games decided to F up on this one..

Just bought it, i now own dust 2.

[worn oyster]

no like i said i dont think u can copyright map layout

[ebon leaf]

its made backwards.

LOL

[worn oyster]

also if there are any rights valve might not have them

lot of those maps are user created

[ebon leaf]

cool 🙂

[worn oyster]

and mayB based on a parking lot created by an argitect

[ebon leaf]

This map is not an exact copy and does not infringe copyright. Moreover, there are many models of equipment, weapons, etc. in the store that resemble real brands and objects. But at the same time they are not exact copies and thus do not violate copyright

crazy.

[worn oyster]

nah pubg claiming the right of using frying pans as a weapon even if its done in other games and movies B4 is crazy 😛

thats is just a map that looks like the dust 😛

[ebon leaf]

LOL

truth

PUBG was all stolen assets at the begining

[worn oyster]

as far as i know most was freebee assets

if it was free on the internet it was in pubg 🙂

[ebon leaf]

lol

[worn oyster]

if u have concerns about the map u can contact the MP team

[ebon leaf]

im posting on reddit right now about ti

[worn oyster]

ahh yea thats even a better place to get ur legal advice 🙂

[ebon leaf]

LOL

[worn oyster]

if i made a tact shooter id totally use that map

ppl like playing the same map everytime, and if they buy a new game they prolly wunna play the same map again

[ebon leaf]

yupp oh trust its in my check out right now

[worn oyster]

well if you payed for it would be a waste if u didnt

[ebon leaf]

im just waiting on answers before i buy

I know epics plagued return policy.

[worn oyster]

well if they pull it from market u get a refund for sure

the guy has 5 pages of MP content, not sure what i think about that

busy bee or something

[ember hill]

I'm surprised they pick Dust II of all maps.
Could've steal some CS beta days map but oh well 😛

[worn oyster]

well its a studio so could be multiple ppl

[ebon leaf]

lol yeah

idk this is iffy.

ill wait for a reply from epic store

because this is groundbreaking

I can literally copy any map design i want then.

[ember hill]

Maybe they'll copy Mirage next, who knows.

[ebon leaf]

What ever they do ill buy it, lol

it's not me going down in flames, its epic

[ember hill]

Or maybe one of the CSGO community made maps being sold for 500K IDR.

[ebon leaf]

Alright back to shopping 🙂 limit 500 dollars.

lol

[worn oyster]

well there has been copyrighted stuff on the MP B4 , if they pull it you will get a refund but they are not liable if you spend a lot of money and time into deeply integrating it into ur project

[ebon leaf]

better hurry up my process then and get a demo out

[stark phoenix]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Vanshaj#6066 received strike 2. As a result, they were muted for 1 hour.

[gritty heron]

I remember those jetpack animations that were made free for the month, and it turned out the guy ripped them from some AAA game, and had an old account on some forum (same username as his Marketplace username 🤦‍♂️ ) asking how to rip animations from that game.

[hollow zephyr]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/mask-pack-37-in/ well this pack is still up with a gas mask from cod mw

[thorny compass]

Was it down?

[hollow zephyr]

never

[thorny compass]

Hmm... maybe UE's team then decided so.

Some workaround.

[hollow zephyr]

100% sure it's ripped

[thorny compass]

Yeah, I remember the last time it became a question. However, I see also no complains on the asset page about that too 🤔

[hollow zephyr]

they probably decided they can't prove it's ripped so kept the pack up

[thorny compass]

Well, if someone rips the models and compare them 🙂

[hollow zephyr]

what's even funnier (?) the guy has some train packs on their unity store that are also ripped from World of Tanks. 100% sure because we worked on those same models doing the HD remastering

[thorny compass]

^

^

Sus

[hollow zephyr]

sadly I think only the real asset owners can do something about it, like actually prove it; and they won't bother, it's peanuts for wargaming

[ebon leaf]

is black friday sale coming for assets?

[silent mesa]

Hi. Do you know any marketplace template that is a sim building template wherein you can easily mock up a scene with walls, doors, windows, furnitures and appliances? There are certain "build" assets. But they are bit complex or too much for what I need (easy build system, player building system, etc).
I am looking for something like this. Thank you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei1OlRI6Hp4

[void oriole]

Made a downloadable demo for Shader Plugin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bPQG2bohec

you're driving a speeder bike at 350km-h in a procedurally generated forest

world and vegetation both computed on gpu

[tame compass]

Do asset that ripped from games taken down ?

Not only its unfair that was illegal

[delicate dove]

@tame compass generally yes, though sometimes something slip trough. in those cases you can report it.

[balmy helm]

Vigilante hit marketplace again, just wondering why would he put them for free, they are high quality models

[delicate dove]

<_< he gets paid for that.

im not allowed to disclose how much, but lets just say that 2-3 packs is enough to live comfortably for a year.

(depending on how much he is getting from epic)

[balmy helm]

Oh didnt know he was sponsored by epic

[tame compass]

He get paid from epic? Despite giving for free ?

[agile shadow]

Hey everyone, the moderators have allowed me to post a marketplace related poll. If you could take a few seconds to answer how much do you spend on game assets in a year, it would really help out myself and other fellow marketplace creators a lot! We don't have a lot of data points available and getting a ballpark idea on how much people spend in a year would really give some valuable info!
https://strawpoll.com/ux9gcjdqb

[void oriole]

Didn't know about Vigilante, oh boy, incredible.

[graceful arrow]

He got a Megagrant a while back. He designs these models for use in military simulations, as part of the his Megagrant thing he releases the models created for free.

[tame compass]

is this funding request or debt d?

what if i fail to deliver megagrant

my project just spaceships asset though

[forest mirage]

I think you should have changed the brackets. Should add 250, 500, 1k. Almost everyone did $100. Been at it for 2 years and I fall between the 500, sometimes 1k bracket

On that note, anyone have some insight on if we are getting a black friday sale. I have about 1k worth of assets that I want to purchase that I'm hoping will be $500 worth of assets lol

[hollow zephyr]

most likely yes. Black friday and christmas sales like last year?

this explains one week with 0 sales here, people holding out for black friday 😆

[agile shadow]

@forest mirage yea I kind of misread the room on this

[ebon leaf]

so there's gonna be a sale?

👀

[agile shadow]

I did not expect so many answers over 100$

[ebon leaf]

i mean for assets on epic store

[agile shadow]

I have amended the poll and it now has more answers

[forest mirage]

legit. I have so much stuff that I will need that ive been waiting for a discount on lol

Can't revote, you can mentally jot me down for 1k last year and 500 this year. Most of my money went to plugins

[gritty heron]

The newest Synty pack is $350 rn, gonna go up to $500 soon

[charred fulcrum]

Selling a textured, rigged, 3D cartoony game ready character. DM me for previews. Real Cheap

[coarse juniper]

hey guys any news about black friday

[thorny compass]

Sales are never announced beforehand around.

[silent mesa]

Hoping there is a blackfriday sale 🙂

[ebon leaf]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/victorian-house

thinking about this one or a couple of small ones together

[tawny hinge]

there was one in the last 2 years from what i know, so chances are high that there will be one

[ebon leaf]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/santa-claus-02

[delicate dove]

@ebon leaf post this in #released instead, please.

[ebon leaf]

it's not mine, just thought that it was worth to look at

[delicate dove]

should've said so hehe, unless its part of a discussion we prefer to keep marketplace pack releases in aforementioned channel.

[ebon leaf]

yeah, I was thinking about writing - somebody should make a horror with santa, but thought if it's the right place to talk about ideas

[plush scroll]

is there any way to download a plugin without having the required version of UE ?

my drive is full and I cant download anymore

[silent mesa]

Can anyone recommend a project cleaning product? I was looking at this and so far it had the most important features IMO like deleting unused assets. The UI is also clean. There is a free asset cleaner product but lacked the features of automatically deleting unused assets. Thank you
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/clean-project

[raven ferry]

the one thats free for the month does the job for me. I've been using it for a while

it shows a list of all unused assets, you just select all or some and right click to delete

[silent mesa]

Alright then will try it out 🙂 thank you

[stark phoenix]

:triangular_flag_on_post: ItsJustKon#0788 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[abstract ferry]

How can you import the content from a Marketplace asset that only lets you "Create Project" to an existing project? For example a locomotion system, or an inventory system.

It seems like other people are only asking about importing meshes, textures, etc. but I haven't found other people asking this question. Why am I un-smart?

[abstract ferry]

Oh I haven't seen the migrate option yet. So you have to create a project for the new asset first then migrate from that?

Thanks! I'll try that out. I'm normally solid with Googling, but most results came up about just the "add to project" assets.

[ebon leaf]

you can just copy content folder from one project to another too

[silent mesa]

If I receive a credit for my marketplace wallet from epic, and I use this credit to buy an asset in the marketplace. Does the seller get money from this credit that I will use to transact? Thank you

[pliant forum]

Epic is giving the credit out of their pocket. They can't give out credit on the cost of the creator

[ebon leaf]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/complete-shooter?sessionInvalidated=true

worth it?

if you just want to replace and add graphical changes

not knowing much about coding or advanced things

lol

seen that before somewhere 😄

whole ui looks just like battlefield one lol

[fluid hamlet]

pretty impressive. for $75 bucks lol

[ebon leaf]

yeah

i want to make something funky and funny with it

like tf2 type

when you have pyrovision googles on

[tidal moss]

How would you let down a customer that just keeps pestering you over a 5$ plugin? I typically work with coorporations so they have a method for that. No clue with regular people. I dont want to tell them i have a boyfriend and ghost them.

[modern shadow]

Do you think decembers free for the month is gonna be big?

[tidal moss]

@ebon leaf joe

[graceful arrow]

Disk space, obviously 😄

[modern shadow]

Like good assets

[weak peak]

Have past Black Friday sales been good? I'm keen for Magic Map Material & Maker, on sale or not.

Any recommendations for something suited to a Viking action/ RPG project?

[ebon leaf]

never been in any black friday sale for game assets, but if it's as good as xbox marketplace sale then it's gonna be epic

would be nice to get full bundle of materials to make full game

assets + plugins

for like 100-200$ max

damn

😄

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/modern-rpg-survival

this looks interesting, not so much the rpg aspect, but more like turning it into story driven game from it

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/third-person-story-adventure-template?sessionInvalidated=true

or could this be more useful for that

[silent mesa]

I suggest easy rpg if you are going for a viking rpg game. Modern rpg if you are doing a shooter rpg type. Both of them are already games by themselves.

[weak peak]

@silent mesa do you mean Easy Survival RPG? Can't find an 'Easy RPG' on the marketplace.
Modern RPG looks more shooter focused for sure.

Q: with systems like these, do you have to build around them from the start? Is it typically easy to alter certain mechanics if the defaults don't quite suit, or even remove and roll your own versions entirely?

[stark phoenix]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Shank#2410 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[honest cypress]

goes in #released

[thorny compass]

Maybe a bot. Or human behaving as an oblivious bot.

[ember hill]

Goddamnit marketing.

[stark phoenix]

:triangular_flag_on_post: AexTeam#3098 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[delicate dove]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[ember hill]

Maybe this should be pinned in this channel.
But then salesmen don't read pinned messages on Discord, so...

[delicate dove]

for justice.

[fleet garnet]

Lol

[gritty mauve]

Any idea if there will be a Black Friday sale this year?

I have been waiting for Meshingun Studio to make a sale for so long xD

[graceful arrow]

No sales dates can be made public, even if people know in advance.

[thorny compass]

I'm selling an old mattress. Can go on sale too.

[coarse juniper]

hey guys does the black Friday sale includes all the assets

[raven ferry]

nope

the seller has to opt-in

it is no secret that every year we have black friday/cyber monday

[thorny compass]

Higher the price, the better it should be.

[graceful arrow]

Are we placing bets on how many people increase their base price just before/ on the day of sale?

I'm going with... 6 sellers.

[ember hill]

The seller faked the sale?

Welp, guess I have to live with my own bodge work of compute shaders.

[silent mesa]

Its always good to see the goggle sheet for prices to review on. But we just cant help if sellers increase their prices over time. I just hope not before a big sale 😅

I usually noticed popular assets that have reached near or full potential are always part of the big sale events.

[weak peak]

Anyone know of a UE alternative to Unity's Feel asset? Easy access to screen shake, timed/ graphed effects like chromatic screen distortion, chromatic aberration, etc.
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/feel-183370

[delicate dove]

^

[weak peak]

Yeah fair enough, there's a few of those I've run into already! Unity does have all of these, as post process or camera effects, but it's more the communication and fine grained/ curve driven control that's a timesaver.

I could trivially re-create it, but it would take me a day or so at least, and $20-40 is a steal at that point

Will do mate, cheers! I've seen it for like dash movement and stuff, where would this point to, the post process volume?

Fair enough, and that's good to hear. In Unity it's a fair bit of code, so well worth the asking price IMO.

Building something as a product, vs making a product out of something that meets your needs exemplified :)

[tame compass]

Is there any flying blueprint controller that respect the mesh collition ? (Like impulse node that respect the asset collision). I like to buy thoose

[silent mesa]

I feel that blackfriday sale for UE is next week tuesday basing on previous years 😄

[ember hill]

If it's tuesday, does it make Black Friday? 🤔

[silent mesa]

haha. probably just an early sale before the exact date. I think unity and other sellers have started earlier this week.

[silent mesa]

for post process effects there is chameleon.
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/chameleon

[ember hill]

Tried it before when it was free for the month.
Confusing to use, at least in as is form. Perhaps you could reverse engineer it to learn few things about post FX material assembly.

[fossil token]

Would anyone know of any stealth kill animations with hands?

[modern shadow]

LogicDriver Pro is kind of a scam yes

[pliant forum]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt

[ember hill]

Me who used Flow Graph can only watch from the distance.

[modern shadow]

for the money its too pricy, but the lite version is indeed very useful

I'm not saying its bad, just that I dont have a reason to spend 200$ on the pro version

[pliant forum]

Usually when people continue to work on their products, they increase the price along with the quality.
For a system as big and resourceful as the Logic Driver Pro, $200 is a steal. Unless you can make something that would cover a fraction of it's functionality in the timeframe it would take you to make $200

[modern shadow]

for my use case I can do all with the free version

[ember hill]

Though if you want similar system for free, recommend checking out Flow Graph.

[modern shadow]

I did have some occasions where the pro would have been useful but nothing too serious

[modern shadow]

the one that came out this september?

[pliant forum]

On their website you can see you're missing a ton of features with the free version, but if it fills your needs that's really all that matters

[ember hill]

I think it was earlier than that, but I just noticed it around September or so when it was featured on the launcher.

[modern shadow]

?

[ember hill]

That's it.

[modern shadow]

interesting

[tall helm]

lol, this made me chuckle, thanks 😄

[sterile locust]

i love the marketplace 🙂

[tawny torrent]

Why do you love the marketplace 🙂

[ember hill]

He just posted it across other channel.

[tawny torrent]

Oh, maybe mp got him crazy

[half mist]

someone pls make a camera shakes pack Ill buy it
(like a pack with lots of different camera shake blueprints for different uses)

[ebon leaf]

or tell me how to rotate camera while you move it with keys

[half mist]

?

go to #blueprint

[ebon leaf]

so you need to code camera movements?

[scarlet mountain]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/cinemotion-real-handheld-camera-motion-kit

Check that out. Not for every purpose but very cool for cinematics

[scarlet mountain]

See this ^

[half mist]

this seems for cinematics and stuff. I need for gameplay

like guns shooting and reloading and stuff

and getting damaged

stuff like that

[scarlet mountain]

Ahh yeah. Wasn’t sure what you needed it for so shared it anyway

[weak peak]

Was looking at Ascent Combat Framework and (price aside), most reviews mention a Discord ID... Seems like the creator is coercing reviews with the reward being a sample project or something?

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/ascent-combat-framework-c-action-rpg-creator/reviews

[graceful arrow]

Creators often use reviews or questions to verify users have actually bought the asset as opposed to finding it on a dodgy site. There isn't a way for creators to know otherwise. Some creators might try and force a positive review for what ever reasons, but that's a different thing all together.

[tame wasp]

I was wondering, what's the image dimensions for the thumbails in the marketplace? Most of 1:1 (square) however I noticed the showcase thumnails are landscape.

I need to take into account any cropping etc

[graceful arrow]

All covered in the MP guides, https://marketplacehelp.epicgames.com/s/seller-guide?language=en_US

[wise wadi]

is it possible to get a refund for packs i downloaded already?

they were advertised as full pbr

but look at this

they basically only have a diffuse and normal map and do very weird stuff

i feel a bit scammed

[wise wadi]

yeah i requested a refund and also sent a mail to the seller for a refund

just want to make sure it doesnt slide out of the 2 weeks refund policy for europe

man i feel bad, i gave them 150€ for a bunch of trees and they do shit like this...

and now i can only hope...

[graceful arrow]

Looks like there is some channel packing going on in those textures, otherwise the other material slots wouldn't be getting used?

[wise wadi]

the R channel of the color map being roughness?

i dont think so

actually the textures dont look pbr at all in the map

they also use the r channel for specular

its like they just tried to jank something out of the color map

lol wait

they basically blend both rgb's with a vertex color and then multiply it by 3

and that is the specular lol

[graceful arrow]

That's.. erm.. shall we say rather a unique approach to specular... 😄

[wise wadi]

using 2 bark textures actually looks really weird ingame

thats actually when i started looking into the shader

[graceful arrow]

Which pack is this btw?

[wise wadi]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/profile/60fps?count=20&sortBy=effectiveDate&sortDir=DESC&start=0

the screenshot there is from the birch pack

but other packs seem to have the same issues

[graceful arrow]

Dang it... I was looking at those tree's 😄

[wise wadi]

iam suprised no review mentioned it

man i even emailed them and thanked them for making all those trees, i feel even more sad now to see what they actually did

[graceful arrow]

Part of me wants to get a pack, just to see what the hell is going in it...

[wise wadi]

well technically if you'd fix the shaders and replace the textures with some new ones it could be nice

but i dont think i should pay for something i have to completely fix afterwards

[graceful arrow]

Indeed.

If the seller gets back to you with anything interesting I'd be interested to know what's going on 😄

[wise wadi]

wait i add you so i can msg you later with infos 😛

[split iron]

How can I see total sales per-product (my products)

Reports panel is worthless for this (or anything beyond total monthly earnings)

[silent mesa]

I am in favor of verifying buyers for discord support. But if this is getting too common then the marketplace or the creator needs to give an alternative instead of posting to the reviews and questions. It is getting too saturated to browse over the questions and reviews to read relevant info. It defeats the purpose of these two categories IMO. I usually read the reviews and questions before buying an asset. More likely buyers forget to remove these verification reviews/questions after the verification step.

[weak peak]

Any review posted for verification purposes is likely going to be ill-informed, considering it's likely at the start of your usage of that asset, too. Just ends up being a way to solicit mass 5* reviews from people who have just bought your asset.

[hasty nexus]

when epic is going to provide proper tools for publishers to verify purchases then 100% those questions/reviews will disappear.

otherwise none of the publishers want to offer support to people that downloaded their product from a pirate website

[ember hill]

If someone owns the marketplace asset, they should know what to ask about it on the support discord server.

[silent mesa]

It would have been an integration of discord and epic, if epic bought discord first 😄

[vestal nacelle]

#fab message

[ivory wigeon]

Ooops 🙂

[ember hill]

I knew marketing people don't read pinned messages.

Is this about Code Plugin?

I mean the guideline section

Pretty much this, you don't need to reinvent the wheel that Kismet libs and other engine BP libs, if you're making custom BlueprintCallable UFunction.

[ember hill]

Shorteners for extra penny yay

[silent mesa]

Since unreal slackers is sponsored by epic and its a big group already. Isn't there an an option in discord that before entering a server you have to read/scroll down some info/rules and if you agree you click and you now have access to the group. We do have a lot of channels here, wouldn't it be nice to have a specific read rules page before entering a specific channel? at least we can post the important rules before new users can enter. hehe

[ember hill]

The thing is, Discord already have all those features, for pretty much any server.
People are just often dismiss them and lying when they said they read the rules.

[fiery trail]

Hi guys, does exist the multiplayer version of ActionRPG template?

[ember hill]

No.

[graceful arrow]

What's the name of the really useful blueprint graph helper asset pack thingy? @delicate dove uses it all the time...

[thorny compass]

There are few. BP Assist maybe?

[graceful arrow]

Maybe, It's the one that let's you connect nodes automagically simply by dragging them over a exec line etc

[thorny compass]

Well, check it out then. Because it does something similar.

[stark phoenix]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Mahmudjon#1792 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[delicate dove]

@graceful arrow node graph assistant?

[graceful arrow]

Yes! That's the one, thanks man!

[forest mirage]

anyone have any insight on when that black friday sale starts? I'm tryna go shopping

[weak peak]

Tuesday. I looked at the last few and they always get announced on Tuesday before Black Friday, running into December.

This is presumably American Tuesday, so probs overnight Wednesday for me zzz

[forest mirage]

Ty

Cant wait

[weak peak]

https://www.google.com/search?q="black+friday"+site%3Aunrealengine.com&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU944AU947&oq="black+friday"+site%3Aunrealengine.com&aqs=chrome..69i64j0i22i30l6j69i60.8973j1j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[forest mirage]

Think theres like 1k worth of stuff I want to buy that I'm hoping will drop to 500

[weak peak]

I guess you have to buy 2k worth of stuff for 1k instead 😛

[silent mesa]

Sale at blackfriday then it turns out to be free of the month next month haha

[raven ferry]

free of the month on December 7

[weak peak]

An asset I wanted to buy went not for sale today or yesterday 🧐

Black Friday announcement within 24 hours, I believe

[weak peak]

Only about 6 hours to go!

[silent mesa]

haha if indeed they will stick with the same schedule this year or even have one 😆 But im ready 💰 and google sheet is also ready 😄

[gritty mauve]

Why would you need a google sheet?

Can't you use Wishlist? xD

You can see automatically which values are reduced xD

[vestal nacelle]

spreadsheets can also track which assets raised their prices in preparation for the sale

[weak peak]

Or this thing 😛
https://www.unrealsales.io/

[vestal nacelle]

"Affordable Quality" ... I see this publisher in Showcase right now, they've got crazy pricing tactics.

[weak peak]

Who?

[vestal nacelle]

shady pricing strategies are supposed to be against marketplace guidelines but I guess they are rolling the dice

that's their name, "Affordable Quality" lol

[gritty mauve]

Frick affordable quality

All my homies hate affortable quality

I got 2 of their assets

[slim flax]

Wishlist is max at 50 amounts only

Epic needs to allow 200 wishlist at minimum

[gritty mauve]

I love how they say they will keep on rising price since they are going to add more behavior and features to their system
Then the price reduced, and they added nothing for about half a year xD

iirc

[slim flax]

Who?

[gritty mauve]

Affordable Quality

[vestal nacelle]

Publisher should be allowed to raise prices for additional work done, but Ecosystem AI by Affordable Quality... raising price by 500% for... bug fixes? smh

[ember hill]

Don't underestimate marketplace marketers' cunning plans.

[slim flax]

Uh. I noticed that as well. A lot of devs do this too btw. I bought one of this dev's asset to see what is it though

[vestal nacelle]

Pretty sure Companion AI (by the same publisher) price was doubled prior to Showcase discount as well.

[gritty mauve]

They rise prices after the first publish to get more reviews

And those reviews are pretty decent

Since they got the asset so cheap

[slim flax]

Yeah one of the reason i bought it from them

[gritty mauve]

They are more likely to overlook some flaws

[gritty mauve]

It was at 150pln when I bought it, so yes, it got doubled xD

(is ~300pln now)

And I am pretty sure inflation wasn't that bad xD

[tawny hinge]

i can't blame devs for doing that (selling for a lower price to get some reviews)
still better than fake reviews

[silent mesa]

I use this https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a-sJ0cvmgSiXToD1GxjCED6e1993ZytTB5oAZ9bb8YM/edit#gid=1114449252 and https://www.unrealsales.io/tracker/ to track stuff 😄

[gritty mauve]

WHY XD

[weak peak]

Some people just like to be busy I guess lol

[gritty mauve]

Use this formula

Add items to your wishlist

Too much? Remove unnecessary

Wait for sale, if price reduced enough -> Buy

else -> wait

[gritty mauve]

23 minutes left

https://tenor.com/view/holiday-classics-elf-excited-will-ferrell-gif-3902442

[weak peak]

Any recommendations for a brutal melee combat game? I need blood and just VFX in general, then environments, props, characters... Roughly everything haha

[gritty mauve]

Never get characters from marketplace xD

There is asset I am buying but I am not gonna recommend it since the more people use it the more recognizable it will be xD

[weak peak]

It's going to be bought by hundreds, and show up in 1-2 full game releases maybe either way 🤷

[weak peak]

What's wrong with marketplace characters?

[gritty mauve]

They are easily recognizable

And people will criticize your game as a "asset flip"

That is why I limit myself to environment / props

[weak peak]

I want it for an MVP, then either MetaHumans or an actual artist to replace them as I go.

[gritty mauve]

Metahumans for in game?

What is your target hardware?

Nasa computers?

xD

[weak peak]

They come with LODs already, don't they? Should be fine, but either way, tomorrow me's problem

[hollow zephyr]

because you can see if creators increased prices before sales?

[gritty mauve]

That is why you should keep your wishlist small

So you remember the prices

[hollow zephyr]

don't need to remember anything, just check the spreadsheet 😛 also I think you can see if a product ever went on sale, so you know to wait or not for another

[weak peak]

Or you can like, screenshot your wishlist lol

[hollow zephyr]

why don't you guys just write it down on paper instead 😆

[weak peak]

It's Live

[hollow zephyr]

maybe mark it in your wall calendar

[weak peak]

Let's goooo

[gritty mauve]

Sometimes I do

xDDDD

[gritty mauve]

It crashed for me xDDDD

[gritty mauve]

Noice

[thorny compass]

kek

[weak peak]

Just be faster bro

I really hope they don't do FOMO shit like Unity did

[thorny compass]

Gime your all money for informing you

[weak peak]

What I was first, Sir Liesalot

[thorny compass]

But in general, this year, I think to skip most 🤔
There ain't much things to buy.

[weak peak]

I'm new to UE so everything is new to me haha. Also helps the free content and Mega Scans cover lots

[hollow zephyr]

yes there are, doing 30% off all of my products 😆

[thorny compass]

aah, my advice then, buy only what you need in the next week or two.

[weak peak]

Yeah it's mostly 30-50 for me, with the exception of the anim pack which is like 75

I'm sensing FOMO bull

[gritty mauve]

Wait a bit guys

The list it getting bigger and bigger xD

[weak peak]

No, it's time to riot. Game devs rise up

For too long have we tolerated this oppression, this constricting duopoly.

Most expensive item is 30% off hah

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/ascent-combat-framework-c-action-rpg-creator

[thorny compass]

Aah, yeah, "have a game" plugin 😄

[weak peak]

It's like when you go to fancy restaurants and they don't put together your meal for you. Dark Souls de déconstrucción

[silent mesa]

Ow several stuff I expected havent been included in the sale 😅

[weak peak]

There's still stuff popping up

[silent mesa]

Im happy though skeletal decal is included

[weak peak]

Is that the bloody one? Looks crunchy

[silent mesa]

I agree on this if you are really serious with your game or have a large budget. Better get someone on fiverr to have a custom character

[weak peak]

There's some coupon system BTW

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/black-friday-marketplace-sale-thousands-of-assets-now-up-to-70-off

[thorny compass]

Throws $1k, earns $10 back 🤔

[gritty mauve]

I mean

Just spend more then 15$

No need to go for 1k xD

[thorny compass]

Hard to constrain 😄

[weak peak]

I don't understand though, is that $10 1+ times or just the once? Such an odd promotion if it's just once lol

[thorny compass]

Buy more, ask later.

[gritty mauve]

Once

It is in the rules

Does not matter how many transactions you make

If at least one of them is > 14.99$ you get 10$ coupon

The most expensive asset xD

(Deprecated Please Update)

[cedar carbon]

hello! I'm not sure what I should include in my FilterPlugin.ini, should I add Config, Source, etc or only external files?, because apparently I'm not referencing some directories 🤔

[thorny compass]

I think you need a more specialized channel for that. #plugin-dev e.g.?

[cedar carbon]

oh, i'm switching, thanks!

[thorny compass]

gl

[proven heart]

Do you have any control over how much your products will be discounted or is Epic deciding it for you?

[hollow zephyr]

you can pick a percentage, but I only do a sale per year so I'm not the best person to ask

[tawny hinge]

anyone own this one and can say something about geometry quality? https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/1880f6872e704d59bf40dea756823f77

specially if it has reasonable poly count

[balmy helm]

Any asset worth it to get at this sale?

[raven ferry]

13268 assets on sale, it depends what is worth to you

[graceful arrow]

Just bought one pack. Mainly for 2 of the 5 characters. Very much worth it.

[delicate dove]

I just hope I make some sales.
Dont think there is currently anything I really need myself.

[tawny hinge]

do you sell cookies?

[delicate dove]

i can make them, but I dont think a "free cookie with every purchase" would work for digital goods :p

[ebon leaf]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/cinemotion-real-handheld-camera-motion-kit

is there anything better?

for creating movies

[stark phoenix]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Tefel (Astro Colony)#8305 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[balmy helm]

Which dwarf pack should I buy... https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/dwarfs-pack or
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/dwarf-low-poly
First one offers more for less $ but second one looks more beautiful....

[ebon leaf]

both look good

[honest cypress]

The one with the longest beards

[boreal grove]

ok what are some must-buy UE Marketplace assets?

[gritty mauve]

You better remove it before <@&213101288538374145> get you

(Read channel description)

[stark phoenix]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Mahmudjon#1792 received strike 3. As a result, they were banned.

[delicate dove]

lol

when you warn someone multiple times and they refuse to learn...

[gritty mauve]

Yey

I got someone banned

[gritty heron]

Can I release something on the marketplace that uses copy-pasted engine source?

[gritty heron]

I figured out how to reasonably just subclass existing code...but I'm still curious.

[ember hill]

This is basically repurposing engine plugin code (albeit it's older version of rich text decorator).
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/inline-styling-decorator-for-rich-text-block

[thick umbra]

regarding this sale, what are some of the "must-haves" on the marketplace?

[ember hill]

Depends on your project, but stuff like Fluid Ninja is worth seeking after.

[thick umbra]

yeah, that's fair. i guess it is a bit vague. i guess i was thinking more in terms of maybe code plugins or tools that are available. thanks for the response!

oh wow, fluid ninja is dope!

[delicate dove]

look for stuff that improve your live, plugins related to ui, nodes, additional blueprint stuff, material functions, that sorta thing goes a long way.

[balmy helm]

I feel like ultra dynamic sky is a must have if you havent worked on your sky also I doubt ninja will go on sale rather the developer said he is planning to increase price

[ember hill]

Oh snap...
TBH Fluid Ninja seem good, but eh, I make my own fluid sim then.

[balmy helm]

Gl with that, if it was that easy no one would be buying it unless of course you are knowledgable in that area

[ember hill]

Yeah, I know my way around HLSL and some USF stuff.

[silent mesa]

Wow. this is useful for anyone starting out an FPS project as it free, then you can buy the full version later.
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/low-poly-shooter-pack-free-sample

[ember hill]

I loved the animations from that project 👀

[silent mesa]

yeah. I asked the devs if they could make a high poly version of it for realistic FPS games. The animations are so sleek. Probably next year I hope.

[balmy helm]

There are already good realistic weapon models on marketplace , dont know about animation infact I dont pay attention to animations much tbh.

[silent mesa]

yup there are, also with good animations, I would recommend Marat K, bought 3 products already 😄

[balmy helm]

Ahh those are expensive, I usually buy cheaper ones unless I really like them, the most expensive pack I've bought was the dekagon western guns @silent mesa

[silent mesa]

It has already the animations I need and got to learn some BP stuff. Custom animations are quite expensive (200-400 dollars per FPS set) for my current needs.

[ember hill]

Can relate, making FPS anim really have to pay attention to the detail and motion.

[tribal falcon]

hi, anyone have problem with black friday prices in ue4 marketplace ? when i trie to buy something the final price dont show the discount

it happens to me with any assets

[vestal nacelle]

it shows the right price with discounts applied when you click checkout

[tribal falcon]

thats right, thanks

[gritty mauve]

Good plug-in

Had it for a while

[tribal falcon]

Yes, look very good

[vapid matrix]

hmm what do you guys and lads use when it comes down to grids? not just visual materials but runtime level grids with correct placement and neighbour functions? any favourites at the mp?

[gritty mauve]

I would just make one myself

[undone scroll]

So, i had problems paying with paypal, changed to another paypal account of my girlfriend, payed, money has been marked as "Purchase - open", but payment still broke during progress. Now money is blocked on paypal, and assets are not in my vault.
Having so many troubles using paypal on marketplace lately ... annoying

it's in compliance check, it says

[delicate dove]

might wanna contact the mp-team if it keeps failing

[thick umbra]

i like these rebel thorp models as well, https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/profile/rebel+thorp?count=20&sortBy=effectiveDate&sortDir=DESC&start=0

[stoic phoenix]

Hello guys. I have a question about characters in the UE marketplace. I want to upload my custom character to marketplace but I want to include the file of the rigged character in maya, so people can animate the character and export the animation to UE. In the marketplace guidelines I saw a form about using third party software but I don't understand if it is something that applies to this situation. Is it possible to upload my maya file with the UE asset or do i have to upload somewhere else and just link it in the asset? Thanks.

[delicate dove]

you can make a separate folder in your project, name it something like sourcefiles, and put your non-UE content in there. which is allowed and multiple creators have done so. @stoic phoenix

content/yourprojectname/source
something like that

[stoic phoenix]

thats so cool!! thanks 🙂

[vapid trellis]

so the marketplace is still allowing this type of behaviour? where can we report this?

[ebon leaf]

yeah, they increased prices for some of their assets

some noticable, some not so

[wise wadi]

beware when you buy stuff advertised as full pbr on the marketplace

epic considers this as ok

only having diffuse (not even albedo)+normal with some weird calculations on AO, Roughness, Metallic and Specular and complete lack of a Heightmap seem to be ok with them

[tawny hinge]

yea asset quality is all over the place in marketplace

which rather makes me not wanna buy stuff at all

[stark phoenix]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Dabster Entertainment#5102 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[unkempt atlas]

Hey folks, Hope everyone is well! I've been busy in a new job, and as a side effect I dont have much time to develop plugins any more. With that, I've decided to give away the ones I have on the marketplace.
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/profile/TrifoliumDigital

I've posted github links over on twitter: @terry_burns85
Enjoy!

[pliant forum]

I highly recommend the Detective Plugin, been using it for a few months!
Saved me a lot of storage space when packaging for mobile platforms

[unkempt atlas]

Glad it helped 😄

[thick umbra]

nabbed them all, thank you!

[slim flax]

I only know there's 2 different products for this. You can try both maybe.

[nimble warren]

idk where i could ask that but does anyone know why i cant open anything in the epic games launcher unreal marketplace? if i click on anything i can interract with the marketplace itself but not the assets that are being sold

the only place where it works is the browser wich is fine i guess but kinda annoying too

[delicate dove]

its best to use the webbrowser, the launcher... has an attitude :p

[nimble warren]

alright thx

[wise wadi]

is [e-mail] not working?

seller said he tried to confirm a refund but the email was not delivered

[delicate dove]

the pinned messages have the right emaail adress iirc

[wise wadi]

the email said "If the seller chooses to approve a refund, they can contact us at [e-mail] and we will be glad to process it." though

🤷‍♂️

so i guess its [e-mail]?

[delicate dove]

yea it is.

both seem to work, looking at my email history with them.

[wise wadi]

well seller said the email was returned

(for [e-mail])

[delicate dove]

guess he can try the other email address. I'll nudge the mp-team to check their settings.

[wise wadi]

ok

[delicate dove]

I send it to both addresses, if I get a return to sender I'll nudge you.

heh, that was fast. both got delivered.

though last night they did have some answerhub troubles, it could be related.

[wise wadi]

well i can only repeat what the seller told me, can't confirm it myself 100% 😛

[delicate dove]

yea, understandable.

[harsh coral]

some marketplace sellers are cheeky
before black friday sale - €10
black friday sale with 70% discount - €19.58

[delicate dove]

@midnight cosmos am I that bad at math, or isnt that exactly what you are saving?

[thorny compass]

420,26 + 105,07 = 525,33

[thorny compass]

If you have something which resemble that, I suppose you can contact the MP support.

[midnight cosmos]

I'm just referring to the css style or what the hell is there

it was funny to see that the 105 it's cut

:p

[delicate dove]

@wise wadi
https://i.gyazo.com/63fc1968c550ed8710d7591685b20bad.png

[graceful arrow]

Simply forward the sellers reply to you, to Epic.

Did the seller explain WTF was going on in the material graph?

[wise wadi]

actually i got this answer from epic

i replied with a screenshot of the material graph 2 days ago and asked them how exactly there are "no issues"

but didnt get an answer yet

the seller just said that "he's sad that the product doesnt meet my expectations" but didn't specifically said anything about the materials

well i can just wait.. ^^

gonna use speedtree now anyways, so if i dont get it back i'll just never buy from the marketplace again cause it's not trustworthy enough to make big investments, but i shouldn't make statements like that before getting a final answer...

although not getting my money back for the pack not having in it what it promised (pbr materials) is kinda bad. i should have already gotten my money back without the sellers approval

[graceful arrow]

The marketplace in of itself isn't bad, it's just got inconsistent minimum quality. Ask the MP team what Unreals specular value range is and how exactly a constant 3 * [0-1] complies with that.. 😄

[wise wadi]

yeah but what if i ever pay over 100€ again, find out later that something is missing or so and then i feel at their mercy again to give the money back...

if i depend on mercy then iam not very confident

[delicate dove]

agreed on the mercy thing. generally if a pack is somewhat more expensive, I'll see if the creator has a discord/email adress and ask them some questions first.
doesnt always help, but at least you can avoid some stuff with it.

[thorny compass]

The Quality vs Cost is a bit loose on the MP. I have seen some expensive products whose authors made some dubious decisions at best.

Therefore always investigate as much as possible upfront.

[delicate dove]

yea, thats true.
I'd probably use substance or whatever to generate the right maps myself and recreate the shader to match the rest of the content, but one cant expect everyone to do so.

[jaunty quail]

Anyone know how I can go about transferring my purchased assets to another account? I've read online that one has to contact someone from the epic marketplace team, however, not sure how to go about doing that without paying for a UDN membership. I've applied for the UDN membership anyway, however not sure it's worth it for us if all we need is this one thing.

[north stirrup]

Just email them

[e-mail]

[finite dome]

Is there anything on sale right now that is like a "must have" im prett new to unreal so im not sure what is like some common must haves

[thorny compass]

There is nothing like that. It is pretty subjective and application specific.

As you are new, take your time learning. Sales are regular anyway.

[ember hill]

Just hope that the seller for the stuff you would need later does not increase the price.

They can't charge you again for updates, but they could charge you more for newer versions.

[hollow zephyr]

just buy what you need as you need it. don't have to buy something just because it's on sale 😋

[thorny compass]

I won't be surprised if it is even cheaper. Ppl buy on sale a lot of stuff which goes unused.

[finite dome]

Thats fair i did buy 2 brushify packs but i would buy those anyways

[coarse sun]

If your new my advice it's to buy just the models or the art you need (just in case you're not artist and make assets yourself) or things you'll need at 70%.

[thorny compass]

https://tenor.com/view/stickbug-gif-18059412

[viral zinc]

If there a way to report a person selling ripoff models ?

[vale prawn]

For plugins? IIRC someone here mentioned that if you send an email to the MP team, they can send you a quote for bulk purchase.

[viral zinc]

is there some way to spot the real disccount or price change prior the sale ?

[viral zinc]

mmm someone have account there ?

Only wanted to check a single thing

says something about price drops but no clue about history

[honest cypress]

that site somehow got a megagrant

that's like amazon paying camelcamelcamel

[graceful arrow]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a-sJ0cvmgSiXToD1GxjCED6e1993ZytTB5oAZ9bb8YM/edit#gid=1114449252

[graceful arrow]

Yup. That is what they told me via email. 🙂

[opal hazel]

Had anyone dealt with burnout from providing marketplace support... I was thinking about removing stuff from the marketplace just to not deal with people no more. But now after making over 1000$ in a day it would be too financially irresponsible to do so. But for every 1000$ I got to deal with someone asking me questions for hours about most basic ue4 stuff and cussing at me at the end of it.

[delicate dove]

well, i'd be offended too if you called me bruh.
(not that it warrants being called a b*ch)
ive been a mp-seller since the mp opened up and while my packs dont need a lot of guidance, spending an hour or so from time to time helping out someone takes little effort.

[opal hazel]

yeah i was expecting to provide some support since i'm selling code plugins. but i was thinking like i would help people with code related stuff

it shouldn't take 3 hours for someone to call "apply point damage" event that's not even related to the plugins function. really building up anxiety over time

[opal hazel]

legit feeling anxious if i don't reply to someone they gonna give it 1 star gonna break the all 5 star rating i had so far. but there are too many 14 year olds playing game dev with daddy's credit card expecting you to hold their hand through their journey.

Bro we need a marketplace support group. Not the product support but emotional support amongst sellers. i feel your pain.

what should i say i call everyone bro?

[ember hill]

"It's just a prank, bro"

I think the British/Aussie equivalent "mate" is more acceptable.

Also "lad"

[opal hazel]

my Aussie friends addresses me as c*** tho

[viral zinc]

Ty man!

Do Epic now allows to enter descriptions on whatever language you want without english as base ?

[opal hazel]

Even if it's allowed I don't think it's a good idea. You'll only get only a fraction of your potential customers.

[forest harbor]

It's always a good idea to look for authors' Youtube demos/Discord & look for comments on those etc. Also, look for reviews as well.
I honestly think if someone asks for a refund, developers should always allow it.

[fleet garnet]

I gave up on the whole marketplace thing because of a similar problem... People expecting me to write the whole game for them and instantly bombing my plugins with 1 star reviews if I refuse to

Had 1 guy pretty much stalk me for a year and a half because the plugin didn't do what he expected, fun stuff...

Had decent profit but questionable if it's really worth it

If I was to make anything for the MP now I would make a big disclaimer that I'm not gonna provide support for anything that is not directly related to the thing I'm selling, even if it reduces the number of sales

[honest cypress]

The definition of "multiplayer support" on the marketplace is a little vague imo

No indication how it is set up

[viral zinc]

In other hand I had the both experiences, people that reply me in a day and they fix an issue with their content or even edit a thing for me, and people that never reply after 6 months the support email and they are selling a broken thing and for that one never asked for refund tbh, used it just as learn material to an extend, it was like 10$ so...

[ember hill]

Least it's supposed to be replicatable

[viral zinc]

The complex systems usually are too vague in the general of the marketplace too.
In that way is better the Unity market as you see at least the folder tree

[opal hazel]

it feels like you are selling a piece of your mental health with each purchase

not sure what to do with Deformable Mesh Component.

There are lots of guys who think they gonna make the next GTA by connecting nodes. (might include rockstar games too looking at the definitive edition)

they all gonna buy it for vehicle damage and end up cussing at me for it not converting their game to gta

maybe i should set up something like crankcaseaudio did and sell it from my own site rather than marketplace

[delicate dove]

they outsourced it to some low end group of inexperienced people though. (but decided against pulling the plug)

[velvet oak]

I'd like to start making asset packs for the marketplace, I've never bought from there but could anyone tell me if environments like this would be of interest on there? This is something I've created recently

Oh yes right I meant individual assets bundled together as various themed packs

interesting though, thank you for the answer

[earnest quest]

Anyone have a suggestion on a good template/starter project for an Auto Chess type game

[balmy helm]

Is there a free OR better plugin than this? https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/texture-organizer

[balmy helm]

@ebon leafthat just converts img to material, the plugin I link does more, especially changing texture channels

[foggy drift]

Hello everyone! i'm super new to UE and am still working through some tutorials 😄 I fat fingered something and dont now how to un do it.... Does anyone know how to hide these red collision boxes?

[ember hill]

Press G (or enable Game View) in the editor viewport.

Also this is more of #ue4-general question, should've redirected you there, but oh well

[hollow zephyr]

http://pixaflux.com/ ?

[balmy helm]

@hollow zephyrSorry should have mentioned in game plugin/tools

[foggy drift]

oh gosh so sorry! i thought i was in the other channel. thanks so much! you saved me!

[foggy drift]

This looks amazing!

[forest harbor]

Yeah. Simply clearly mentioning what it does and won't clear things up. And having a Discord support helps a bit too. Other people might help those customers.

I had couple of instances where people who disappointed about the product. I simply share then the refund link.

Sometimes it's not worth arguing 🙂

[forest harbor]

It looks nice and I bet people would pay for it. Read the marketplace guidelines 2-3 times. It's bit tough to get approval for content only projects.

Also there are people who makes a living from the marketplace. Also don't rely only on marketplace discovery. Do your own marketing.

[ember hill]

Might better use Gumroad or something similar.

[still bane]

i would download those real quick!

[hollow zephyr]

I haven't had this experience at all. What do you mean by content only projects? I haven't done any marketing whatsoever and I've been having regular sales for years

[forest harbor]

Content Only means basically projects with 3D assets only.
There are some certain amounts of assets you need to have & you need to follow the guidelines exactly. (File naming, etc)
I not saying it's a bad thing, but reading that guideline could save time on everyone.

About marketing, I usually get a decent amount of sales from the marketplace. (Especially when there are sales & when they announce FREE content)
But, I usually do some Youtube videos on new features/updates, That'll give me additional amount of sales as well.

[velvet oak]

Awesome, thanks for letting me know 😄

[velvet oak]

Thank you 😊

[stark phoenix]

:triangular_flag_on_post: sotopete#0134 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[delicate dove]

@fickle grove what kind of support are we talking about?

[delicate dove]

we are just a community-run discord. there are dev's here, but nobody from the mp-team is present. (to my knowledge)
you still did not tell me what kind of support you wanted though.

[slim flax]

You can request refund if you are not happy with the product or whatever

[modern perch]

also FYI, that agreement doesn't mean the author has to provide any support whatsoever, that is not what that sentence means

that sentence says that the author is the person solely responsible for providing support; i.e. Epic isn't going to do it on the author's behalf

[tawny torrent]

Usually i get “track payment “ email around this time of month, its not sent yet

Same for you?

[delicate dove]

generally the 1st of the month

and its early still

[forest harbor]

I think this is not the best place for this kind of discussion & arbitration.
If you don't satisfy with the product, you can ask for a refund or give them a bad review.
But you can't force an author to give support or so.

You can't get that kind of support from marketplace assets. These are just $$ products & author's time worth 50-100$/hour.
So, don't expect that kind of support.
If you really want such support, try hiring that person if possible.
Since you have big investors, that won't be a problem.

[stark phoenix]

@fickle basin, :8ball: It is certain.

:no_entry_sign: sotopete#0134 was banned.

[delicate dove]

quite the magic trick

[forest harbor]

Hmm. Why did we ban that person?

[delicate dove]

smelly toes.

I cant go into too much detail, but lets say harr harr

[forest harbor]

Okay!

[scarlet mountain]

How rampant is piracy of marketplace assets? I wouldn’t have expected much but based on recent discussions I’ve seen it seems pretty widespread. How do marketplace creators verify legit sales before support?

Ahh that’s a bit annoying :/

How many support requests would you expect that don’t get verified?

Wow! Imagine being that much of a prick. Pirate and then ask for support

[delicate dove]

depends on the product, I get maybe one or two a year. (regular asset pack)

[scarlet mountain]

Yeah ok that makes sense, some assets would naturally be less inclined for support requests in the first place

[delicate dove]

I dont condone piracy, I get it if you are poor and just need some stuff to get started, but once you can pay for it, please do so. we have mouths to feed. if I was making the big boy bucks I'd probably give away all my stuff for free, but sadly that is not the case.

[scarlet mountain]

Yeah agreed

[forest harbor]

Unfortunately, piracy is very hard to avoid.
Anyway, most of those people who won't pay you ever or couldn't pay you.
I release everything on GitHub & I still a good amount of sales.
So, with my products there's no room for those piracy websites.
I own that channel as well 😄

Ha ha.

[scarlet mountain]

It’s something you have to accept to a degree, an yes they likely wouldn’t buy your product anyway, but you definitely want to eliminate support requests from them.

[hollow zephyr]

Did he actually pirate that pack? 😬

[forest harbor]

Here's my workflow on support & I don't worry about the source where they got the pack.

• I usually document most of the things & link those if someone asks a question.
• If that's not generic, maybe it's a bug so I can try to fix it.
• Or I will add that to the docs, make a video or share this link
• Sometimes, I simply say this is not this package offers, ask for a refund.

This saves me time & improves the product as well.
Some of those GitHub users end up paying me at some point as well.

Anyway, this doesn't work with all the products & every author.
But something to consider.

[scarlet mountain]

As I work on my first product that’s what I’ve been aiming to do. Good doco, and all support will lead to new or improved doco

[hasty nexus]

Unfortunately people don't value things they get for free. What you're saying is a dream and it's not sustainable and you'll never earn enough from it. "they end up paying me at some point" is not good enough. You didn't find the cure to piracy. You just give away your stuff for free.

Don't want to offend you, just the harsh truth, but you'd be earning more if you'd just sell your product even though your product is pirated.

You'd be doing better than just giving away for free, with Lite version of your product, if the product is big enough to have a Lite version with limited functionality. But once you give your full product for free, users have no incentive to purchase the product when they already have it and they have the rights to use it.

[forest harbor]

It's not actually FREE. Only for non-commercial purpose. Anyway, this is what everyone else is doing expect for Abobe & Autodesk 😄

It's totally impossible to stop piracy. I got the idea behind Lite vs Prot too.

I was developing OpenSource tools earlier. So, I am used to giving everything for FREE 😄

Now, I feel guilty when using an MIT licensed project in my plugins.

[hasty nexus]

Ok, so you're talking something else.

You shouldn't compare marketplace content with "everyone else" anyway, because we're giving away source code

blueprints or c++ is source code

[hard pelican]

Anyone knows a muzzle flash asset on marketplace that is not on loop by default?

I don't wanna hire someone to just convert muzzle flashes to single-bursts from loops

[ember hill]

There are view bundled with military weaponns pack, though it's a bit too outdated and still using Cascade.

[ebon leaf]

how can I request refund for assets? only issue is that project has low fps, is not optimized and seller is not responding, is it even worth it?

mail?

yeah, got it

thx

[solemn basin]

Does anyone know if there's going to be a Christmas sale as well?

I'm on holiday and I can't seem to use my card and the Black Friday sales is going to be over when I get back

[balmy helm]

@solemn basinconsidering how black friday sale coupon can be used from january instead of December I'm pretty sure there will be but don't know the scale of the sale nor if the same assets are going to be on same discount or sale for that matter(I suspect most will be), could be better or worse depending on the asset/plugin I guess

[marsh jay]

what's the date for the free marketplace assets? anyone knows?

[sage jolt]

usually around 4th but it changes

i guess its because they need paperwork from creators

[marsh jay]

oh, how does that work exactly? i've always wondered

[sage jolt]

well, the process is changed so im not sure but it was like this before: you need to provide w8 form and some other forms needed to processed

etc

usual bussiness stuff

but these changed if im not mistaken

when our product selected for it, they contacted us and asked if we want to discount our other products etc and the forms that need to be filled

[marsh jay]

i'm not sure what that w8 means. but i assume they expect to be payed more than they would from just selling it on the marketplace? and what's the vetting process. i assume you are payed?

[sage jolt]

well, w8 is the form u send to irs for taxing

[marsh jay]

my main question is this i suppose, can you be sure you get more money from the free marketplace from Epic than from selling it?

[sage jolt]

free for month actually called "Unreal Engine Sponsored Content"

[marsh jay]

oh

[sage jolt]

they support u with 7500$ for making ur product free for a month

xD im not sure if this is disclosed information but i don't think so

but creators don't go for free for month for money

for example, most important thing for us was feedback since your product exposed to over 150k users

it is a great chance to get feedback

[marsh jay]

so marketing, it seems fair. but since everyone could get it for free it raises the question

[sage jolt]

what question?

[marsh jay]

if it's worth it. because maybe you wont have any buyers left after i thought

[sage jolt]

nah

well

maybe?

im not sure

[marsh jay]

what do you have on the marketplace if i may ask?

[sage jolt]

i can't share links here if im not mistaken but search for light foliage

you can go to our profile from there

[marsh jay]

alright i'll check it out : )

haha i've actually bought light foliage, i usually get the free stuff but i buy a lot too, so i think i've bought it. got so many blender addons too so i've bought the majority of stuff i have

[sage jolt]

cool, did u checked it out?

[marsh jay]

tbh i dont think so. i mainly make my own stuff and try to learn from the things i buy. not plagiarism but just trying to learn as much as i can. that's why i use ue

but it looks really awesome

[sage jolt]

thats good way of learning

we bought too many assets for our game and also to learn more when we first started unreal engine 4 too

its a good way to learn

i also suggest to look at mod tools of games like conan exiles etc

we learned so much from just inspecting working game projects like conan

[marsh jay]

i've modded halo since CE, that's what got me started. those were the times

i've modded many more games but halo holds a special place for me

[sage jolt]

well modding games were the only option when i was a teen

most of us learned game development that way

neven winter nights had a great modding tools

anyways

thanks for the chat

i need to go now

cya ^^

[marsh jay]

alright, great talk : ) thanks for the info

[sage jolt]

np

[tame compass]

Is it just me that paypal require 2 days tp process transfer ?

[solemn basin]

Hey, does anyone know of any other marketplace assets similar to https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/battle-royale-island-pack/

[ember hill]

In my case, it's always been around 2 days. Quicker if you're lucky.

[tame compass]

I guess bad luck for today

[lapis meadow]

Hey guys - I'm looking for animation 'pet the cat' or similar. I have cats in game and I have other ppl walking around. Would be great if they could interact.
But I have no idea - how to search for this animations. Quite specific stuff. If you saw or know or can make it - would be great.

[raven ferry]

there's one petting animation on mixamo.com but its petting a horse. You can edit the spine/pelvis in the animation to make the character bend over. maybe it will work

[lapis meadow]

there are setting to adjust animal size! thx for this tip!

[raven ferry]

whoaa didn't know that

[upper temple]

question regarding assets bought on marketplace; we have an artist which is being commissioned to create some additional parts for a human (armored) model. Is it against marketplace TOS to send these files to the artist to make it easier for him to make them fit? Any alternatives?

[ember hill]

I think the EULA states that for Content assets, you can share it within the team. It's just the code plugin that has the exception

[upper temple]

Ok so it boils down to what constitutes a team (member)

[ember hill]

Yeah, and who knows if contractors won't stole the assets.

[tawny hinge]

that's not even guaranteed for employees

[modern perch]

if you're hiring someone to specifically work on the project as a contractor, then they are part of your team and it's reasonable to send them the files they need to complete that work on your behalf

[delicate dove]

^

[trail dagger]

From the Publishing EULA, 1.A.d

d. Distributions to employees and contractors - You also may Distribute Content (other than Paid Plug-ins) to an Engine Licensee who is your employee or your contractor who does not have rights under their license to the same Content, but only to permit that Engine Licensee to utilize that Content in good faith to develop a Product on your behalf for Distribution by you under the License,

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/publishing

So plugins are a special case, but "regular assets" like models and such can be shared with contractors as long as they only use them to produce new content that is given back to you.

The contractor must however have a license to Unreal Engine, i.e., be allowed to open the assets you send them in Unreal Editor.

[modern perch]

everyone who has signed up for an Epic Account and downloaded the engine is a licensee these days

[ember hill]

There's also UDN licensee, but that's sort of its own story, I think

[shell gazelle]

Hey if I wanted to get an asset that simulates water coming out a water hose. Is there something like that. Or how would I do that in unreal engine.

[graceful arrow]

Water is tricky. Fluid Ninja comes to mind, no idea if there are others though.

[scarlet mountain]

how accurate are you talking? a semi decent simulation can probably be done with fluidninja, but "good enough" visual effects can be sort of faked with particle systems. Depends what you actually need.

[ember hill]

You can do that with Niagara, but if you need PBD modules, they are still only available on master branch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjEUzCpyWGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cKgZrrBJ2w

(also I've seen fluid ninja live in action, turns out there's no lower level compute shader and relies on render target, so performance may not be the best)

[silent mesa]

Ow glad to learn from this, as I am hiring someone on fiverr to help me on some logic in my project. Though I am excluding plugins and components in the files.
Would it be safer to have a electronic agreement even though I am just a hobbyist?

[modern perch]

it's always safer to have some kind of contract in place, though realistically those are only as good as your ability to enforce them

[rancid grove]

I have a texture library that reads "respect to one commercial Work, with up to a maximum of, as applicable, 2,000 sales of the Work or 20,000 monthly views of the Work." Can I use this product as a palette for a markeplace item

[graceful arrow]

No, as you have zero control over the number of sales or views.

[modern perch]

it's also just a straight up incompatible license, as evidenced from the discussion in another channel last night

[vapid ridge]

With the Marketplace Black Friday Sale, when are we expected to get our coupon? I remember reading it included a 10 dollar off coupon.

[hollow zephyr]

Isnt that auto added when you place an item in your basket?

[graceful arrow]

It can only be used in January.

[vapid ridge]

Ahh thats fine 🙂

future 10 bucks off, lots of good assets I have in my cart

[royal hull]

Hello, I am in the process of creating content for the unreal marketplace and beyond. My project is to make a collection of realistic rocks built in Houdini. These rocks are for use in games and real time environments. So far I have 5 cliffs built. My goal is to add some mountain meshes and boulders as well as small foliage scatter rocks.

I am looking for information from customers who have bought asset packs (for any engine or software) before. If you can spare some time to answer any these questions I would be grateful:

1. What was your favorite asset pack that you ever bought? What did you like most about it?
2. Is customization of the assets important to you? If so what would you like to customize?
3. Are you looking for lots of features? Or would you rater have minimal options so as not to create clutter?
4. UVs in this pack are all build by hand to avoid overlap so it plays well with baked lighting. Does this add lots of value or are you guys all using dynamic lighting anyways?
5. Would you watch tutorial content about how to make cliffs like this?

Here are some quick WIPs of the project so far, I've got a couple of world aligned sand and snow materials as well as a detail normal that blends instances up close. Software is Blender, Houdini, Rizom UV, Substance Painter/Designer

Any advice that you have would help me a lot, or if this just sparks discussion about asset packs in general that would be interesting as well.
Shameless portfolio plug: https://www.artstation.com/bradyjdesign

[delicate dove]

1. No comment
2. yes, I expect a clean master material and a clear and easy to reconfigure material instance. I also expect proper naming conventions.
3. I dont expect many features from a rock-pack, they need to be clean, accurately PBR, proper pivot points, and if possible a few alternative textures for different looks, and correct texel densities.
4. its mandatory to have lightmap uv's, and while not mandatory I expect them to be set up properly with a minimum lightmap setting, and correct lightmap texel density.
5. I personally wouldnt, but I assume people wanting to make more/learn how to do this obviously would.

[vapid veldt]

hey

[viscid parrot]

Market place free for the month didn't update from last month?

[viscid parrot]

Oh thanks xD

[ember hill]

Also should mention that it would be Tuesday noon according to Epic (PST)

[tawny hinge]

dont let the meme die guys 😛

[next badge]

oh yeah its today

[thorny compass]

#released if its yours and is recently released.

[proper canopy]

it's our 🙂

[silent mesa]

Quixel has several rocks and cliffs, there are also some rock assets in the marketplace. But if you could add more procedural stuff in generating different variety of rock or connecting them to form cliffs, overhangs with material parameters that can change a bit of the look that it would be better

[thorny compass]

Then move all newly released promotions in #released

[vapid ridge]

Still no free for the month yet?

Weird 😦

[stark phoenix]

:triangular_flag_on_post: hicosoft#8360 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[tawny hinge]

usually in 3 1/2 ish hours

[vapid ridge]

Cant wait to see what we get 😄

[tawny hinge]

christmas decals and a rigged reindeer

[vapid ridge]

lol

[tawny hinge]

• the stuff i bought on sale

that would be some good trolling if they display that for each customer in the free asset section 😄

[vapid ridge]

This happens every time when things are on sale. LOL I swear. Asset cleaner, and like 2 others this happened with

[silent mesa]

That is our motto here 🤣

[ebon leaf]

been waiting since midnight lol

[forest harbor]

I agree with the most of what Luos has mentioned. I don’t think many people would interested in rocks like this. They can easily go for mega scans.

But there’s a good market for complete landscapes + scenes etc.

Also, if you add some procedural tools it will be some good value addition.

[silent mesa]

Ow I think the free stuff is good for this month. Quality prop (part of my wishlist) and environment IMO

[hollow zephyr]

shame they're a bit low res and have some photoscan defects

[royal hull]

Cool, thanks for all your feedback guys!

[young obsidian]

I'm trying to add the FFM material function asset to my project but it doesn't seem to work, or have any cache after downloading. Would anyone mind confirming if it's just me?

[unborn plover]

It's so good honestly

For free especially

The rpg could be quite useful too just to see how its made

[tame wasp]

is the marketplace down?

[young obsidian]

dunno, asking me to login again now

I'm going to try again after dinner, I think there's problems, got sign in failed

[solemn grove]

well, this is typical for me when shopping for assets! 😛

Gonna be fun narrowing this list down, lol

[weak peak]

Please use Orbital at least, should cut the time down to about a quarter haha

[weak peak]

AWS issues likely affected MP too

[solemn grove]

What is orbital?

[weak peak]

https://orbital-market.com/

[balmy helm]

Wondering where to find the bike in the pictures ? https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/automotive-beach-scene needless to say it wasn't included with the content lol

[hollow zephyr]

oh no report it to Epic!!

[balmy helm]

@ebon leafthe configurator says licensed inside of use of unreal engine based products so I guess that includes the car as well?

[modern perch]

^ pretty sure you'd need to license the actual vehicle, from the vehicle manufacturer

[foggy drift]

New Free Goodies are out! My fave is the Kraken!!!! Being super new to the scene im so excited 😄

[graceful arrow]

Welcome to yesterday! 😄

[foggy drift]

Dial up connection is slow O.o