Sadly, this is about to totally disappear even for the base models.
However it's always possible to unwrap the content in Unity and extract anything you need (fbx in your case) !
#Many DLCs don't have standalone download files for use with non-Unity platforms
vagrant kayak
valid ocean
Huh? What you'll only offer .unitypackage downloads? >.>
vagrant kayak
It's a bit more complicated than that, but the main platform I'm doing content for is VRChat, everything else is bonus.
But no matter how it goes as I said you guys can always extract anything you need after Unity unwraps it. It's not like it was a big downside, it takes like 5mn maximum to install the whole shop in unity and then you just right click + "show in explorer" to access the source file in anything you have a need for.
valid ocean
Well whatever. I won't import it into Unity tho xD
Actually there's a nifty Python script to just extract the . unitypackage directly which is what I'm using, but I'm a power user and that's honestly pretty user unfriendly. The best option I see would actually be providing the source Blender files too, at least from a sense of ease of use.
vagrant kayak
Well that's your choice to fight it, I gave you a solution then you do you.
I'm not doing that for pleasure, there's reasons for everything
valid ocean
I mean you could probably even automate it to a certain extend. Like, have the website auto-generate the other download options from just the .unitypackage file 🤔
vagrant kayak
The trafic would make the website explodes when big updates come out
There's thousands of users
We cant give such a task to the website
valid ocean
But it doesn't explode right now?
It would only generate them when you upload the file, once for each new version is my thinking.
vagrant kayak
Because it's direct download, it doesnt have anything to do than sending the files
But the balance user experience / easy for piracy is very complicated. More than half of the incomes are void because of file sharing
valid ocean
But you can only download it when you bought it o.o
vagrant kayak
But providing all ready files directly in the computer makes it easy to reupload in a drive and share it worldwide.
valid ocean
But the same is true for the unitypackage file too
Like, it won't reduce security to add more options
vagrant kayak
Yes and no. It's still better and with the amount of piracy, anything better is relevant