September 17 (Portaltic/EP) –
Epic Games has announced that will officially launch the new Fab content marketplace, that will replace the Unreal Engine marketplace in mid-Octoberso developers can now start migrating their products through the Fab publishing portal.
Fab is a new content market that the video game developer presented last year at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) which, as defined, offers content creators a space to “discover, share, buy and sell digital resources.”
Specifically, it is a content market that will replace the current marketplace for Unreal Engine, Sketchfab, ArtStation and Quixel.com platformsand will unify them under a single brand, designed to meet the needs of all digital creators from different sectors.
In this sense, Epic Games has announced that Fab will be officially launched in mid-Octoberso developers will be able to begin migrating their products and creations through the Fab publishing portal in a phased manner.
To prepare for @Fab launch, we’re opening the Fab Publishing Portal in phases.
Starting today, we invite Unreal Engine Marketplace creators to migrate their products over to Fab. pic.twitter.com/iJpW9fZSbV
— Fab (@fab) September 17, 2024
As he explained in a statement on its website, at the beginning of October the New editors will be able to register and start uploading and creating content. They will also launch a Migration tool for the Sketchfab communityso that developers can easily port their content to Fab.
For its part, the marketplace community of ArtStation will be able to continue using the platform as usual until next year 2025, when they will be able to start transferring their products to Fab, as the video game developer has clarified.
However, the company has already made a Fab publishing portal available to creators of the Unreal Engine marketplacethrough which they can begin to migrate their products.
In addition, Epic has recalled that Fab is designed for “prioritize creators”, as well as creating real and sustainable businesses, which will offer a revenue sharing of 88 percent of profits. However, since the launch of Fab in mid-October, until the end of 2024, Epic has announced that the Editors will get “100 percent of the distribution” from sales revenue of Fab’s standard licensed products.”
With all this, the new Fab market will allow developers Get various digital assets including 3D models, materials, plugins, maps with templates, environments, sound and visual effects, among other things. Thus, as Epic has emphasized, it will support “Support for all major game engine formats and digital content creation tools.”
Also, native integrations and API connection to major content creation tools “They will streamline processes and enable creators to manage their digital assets in Fab.”
As for AI-generated content, Epic has noted that one of Fab’s features is that the Developers will be able to decide whether their products can be used to train generative AI programs or notAlong these lines, it will require sellers to indicate whether their products have been generated with the help of generative AI programs.
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