Epic Games has begun making select commercial assets available for free download from Fab, its new online marketplace, with a new set of assets due 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 cinematics, 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's Sponsored Content program
The new free content releases are a continuation of Epic Games' Sponsored Content program: an “important and popular” feature of the old Unreal Engine Marketplace.

With last month's launch of Fab, the company's new, broader-focused website that replaces the Marketplace, Epic 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 and then made available for sale again.

According to this post on the Unreal Engine forums, this cycle will now be accelerated, with new content being made available for free every two weeks for a two-week period.

If the first batch of free assets – available in the new “Free for a limited time” section of the Fab homepage – is typical, there will be three new assets per two-week cycle.

Licensed for use in any game engine or CG application
Unlike the old Unreal Engine Marketplace, the free Fab assets will not only be available on Unreal Engine, but for a wider range of applications.

This includes competing game engines like Unity – the first batch of assets includes native Unity files – and other CG software across a “selection of 3D file formats”.

The files are also licensed for commercial use in these applications as they are released under Fab's new standard license.

It allows the use of assets in “any engine or tool” for creating games and rendered content such as animations and VFX shots, subject to some restrictions set out in the Fab EULA: There are restrictions on the use of assets in completely open source projects, for example .

For more information about the changes to the Sponsored Content program, visit the Unreal Engine forums

Download Fab's new bi-weekly free content
(From the “Free for a limited time” section on the homepage)

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