Last main post update : 2017-10-04

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This weeks free asset from Unity Asset Store

F Texture Tools

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If you previously owned Seamless Texture Generator (now deprecated), you can upgrade to F Texture Tools for free!

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thanks!

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Free (old) book at PacktPub for another 16 hours

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thanks mate.

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thanks

4 weeks ago
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you're welcome

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BIG CHANGES

The giveaway for Unreal Market assets are now moved to fab.com and will be done twice a month. First and third tuesday of the month.
The period for redeem has been shortened to 14 days.

https://www.fab.com/blade/0691ff19-b259-44e0-ad3b-093a53010f46?context=homepage
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Edit:

Select the Professionel License if possible - it should still be 0$ when checking out

Only Standard License is available now.

Question:

Did you buy the "Professionel License" when it was available - and has it now been converted to a "Standard License"?

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Interesting, thx for the info!

3 weeks ago
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Many Thanks

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It seems they only gives you the "Standard License" now.

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The Professional License has been removed/deleted, only Standard License could be used now.
I've claimed both type of Licenses on those assets, but could only manage to download the Standard one on Web and on Launcher.

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I had the same experience. Probably no Professional License option for free assets going forward.

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Despite that, this time I also claimed Professional License and UECF or something license that doesn't seem normal term.
But watching them turning into Standard License a few days later. πŸ˜…

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I might been confusing myself and others.

There is the Standard License you can click on the product page.

And then there is the Ownership information, which will be hidden if you own all the possible "Ownerships" (e.g. Professionel + Personal)

If the product only has one option (e.g. Personal) and you own it, then it simply will state "You own this item" and you can't tell it is a Personal ownership.

However if you look in the browser's Developer Tools (under Networks) you'll find a "ownership" file (json format) which contains the concrete information. (Yon may have to reload the page)

Alternatively you can (when logged in to fab.com) try altering the URL from the product page slightly

e.g. from

https://www.fab.com/listings/f2b46d19-096f-410c-a181-de69b0af3221

into

https://www.fab.com/i/listings/f2b46d19-096f-410c-a181-de69b0af3221/ownership

Notice the insertion of "i/" before listings and appending "/ownership"


Conclusion: I do find the fab.com UI a bit confusing regarding the ownership information

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But can you download the asset with the non-Standard License?

I tried to look if people can download the asset with another license that is not Standard but didn't find a way to do that.

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I'm not a lawyer. , so this is just my understanding.

As I read the Standard License section 2A you buy the asset at a License Tiers. It restricts who can legally use the asset. I believe the assets you download will be identical whether you own a Personal or a Professional Tier.

I do find it confusing that they use the term "Select a License" when you buy, but you're actually buying into a Tier as defined in the Standard License

If you own both Personal and Professional, you can probably treat the downloaded as Professional Tier.

It get more complicated if you already own the asset from Unreal Engine Market. The example from the previous text, I own 3 tiers/licenses

  • UE Marketplace License
  • Professional
  • Personal

If I ever generate "$100K in the last 12 months" I will invest more time/energy into this topic. However right now I'm just hoarding. And it is nice to know that at least some of the assets are owned with "Professional"


As a side note: I find the limit of $100K to be too low. Depending on the number of assets you are using, it could trigger an extra cost of several thousands of dollars.

It also shows the importance of track of assets and licenses. Nothing I'm looking forward to.

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Thx for the explanation, I was confused when seeing different license different price and thinking if when download it only shows the lower price one, means you can only use that one, might have limited features that is only given with the higher price one.

I guess just better hoard all of them and either way you still have those licenses with you in case anything requires them.

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If you get to the $100K or above, then do invest some time to look into the license. Better safe than sorry. And save those confirmation mails that Epic sends when you buy these free assets.

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At least good thing they send the receipt to us and didn't see any revoke yet.

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ty

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thank you

3 weeks ago
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you're welcome

3 weeks ago
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wow!!

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This weeks free asset from Unity Asset Store

Hand to Hand Set

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Use code RAMSTERZ at check out

Ends November 21, 2024 at 7:59am PT

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thank you

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Thanks so much for such detailed information. I am so absent-minded that I occasionally missed the free assets when I had a whole month to remember! With only two weeks, I am in trouble!

A question for SG / ESGST experts. Is there a way to make a given thread always show on the home page of SG? I am subscribed to this thread. I have it bookmarked (perhaps with SG natively and also with ESGST). And still, it almost never shows on my front page. At times, I have come running here to post the new offerings only to see that someone had posted 2 or 3 days previously and I never saw the posting.

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I have this bookmarked so I open sg with this thread then go to giveaways or deals or discussions, not sure if that's a solution for you as well. I just edit the link whenever there's a new page from like 36 to 37. I also have my browser open a set of pages including this on launch.

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Thanks for the idea. I just might use it! :)

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You can just put the end link like

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/gXM5E/search?page=last

?page=last

So it'll always return the latest page.

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neat thanks :)

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Agree

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Free on fab.com (replaced Unreal Engine Market Place) for the next 14 days (Until 3rd December 10AM ET)
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Stylized Fantasy Creatures Bundle

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Dragon Temple (Temple, Cathedral, Temple Interior, Cathedral Interior, Dungeon)

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Note: The Professional License is currently available. This options might be removed like last time and converted to Standard License

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You need to add ?context=homepage to the blade link or it won't work at all.

Either way thx for sharing.

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Thanks, it has been updated now

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thanks

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Very exhaustive list for game dev related Starter kits for your bluesky account :
https://linseyray.notion.site/BlueSky-GameDev-Starter-Packs-12721c74d80380b8ba81d95d01c8d9d6

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Thanks - nice starters

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Thank you

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You're welcome

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This weeks free asset from Unity Asset Store

Hybrid Action Music Pack Vol.3

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thanks mate

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