Epic Games to share new free assets on Fab every two weeks

Epic Games has started making select commercial assets from Factoryits new free-to-download online marketplace with a new set of assets payable every two weeks.

The first three free downloads, which include a pack of over 100 modular assets for building military airport environments for games and movies, are available until November 19, 2024.

The assets are available under Fab’s standard license, which allows commercial use in games, animations, VFX and motion graphics projects created in any CG application or game engine.

An update to the old Unreal Engine Marketplace sponsored content program
The new free content releases are a continuation of Epic Games’ sponsored content program: an “important and much-loved” feature of its legacy Unreal Engine Marketplace.

With last month’s launch of Fab, the company’s new, more broadly focused site that replaces Marketplace, Epic has also updated its Sponsored Content program.

Previously, five new commercial assets from the Unreal Engine Marketplace were made available for free each month for a period of one month, after which they were put up for sale again.

According to this post on the Unreal Engine forum, that cycle will now accelerate, with new content available for free every two weeks for a two-week period.

If the first batch of free assets – available in the new ‘Limited-Time Free’ section of the Fab website – is anything to go by, there will be three new assets per week. two-week cycle.

Licensed for use in any game engine or CG application
Unlike in the old Unreal Engine Marketplace, instead of Unreal Engine alone, the Fab-free assets will be available for a wider range of applications.

That includes rival game engines like Unity – the first batch of assets includes native Unity files – and other CG software via an “assortment of 3D file formats”.

The files are also licensed for commercial use in these applications as they are published under Fab’s new Standard license.

It allows the use of assets in “any engine or tool” to create both games and rendered content such as animation and VFX footage, subject to a few restrictions specified in Great EULA: there are restrictions on the use of assets in completely open source projects, for example.

Read more about the changes to the Sponsored Content program on the Unreal Engine forum

Download the new free content every two weeks from Fab
(From the ‘Limited Time Free’ section of the website)

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