CryEngine Humble Bundle

[SchnitzelDude]

Hey guys!

As you may have already seen, with an upgrade of CryEngine the Engine becomes free. Most of us will stick to UE4, because from my point of view it’s by far the better engine in a lot of aspects. But we can benefit from this liberation too.

Humble Bundle offers a bundle with about 20k Assets. Some packs include Maya files, some FBX, MAX, PSD or WAV files.

All assets included are yours to use as many times as you’d like in any commercial project and are completely royalty free!

Madison Pike, LLC Asset License

When you lawfully acquire our Asset Packs (listed below) as part of this Humble Bundle you are granted a non­exclusive, non-­transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide and perpetual limited license to use the acquired Assets for your commercial or non-commercial projects developed on any game engine and to use, license and exploit such projects developed on any game engine with the embedded Assets in any way and in all media.

These projects shall be defined as without limitation a User’s movie or video or game or app or product that uses Assets or character model(s) that you have incorporated into your project in a way that the Assets and/or character model(s) cannot be extracted to allow further distribution, reproduction, modification or use of the Assets outside of your projects. You shall not use the Assets in any other way than indicated above, including without limitation:

• offer the Assets for sale or license or any other use except as embedded in your projects;

• offer the Assets in any other way in which the Assets can be extracted and implement in other projects.

The above license shall apply to the following Asset Packs:

Plants and Shrubs
Trees
Environment Props
Prototyping Kit
Textures, Decals, & Visual Effects
Audio Kit
Vehicle Pack SE
City Pack SE
Weapons Pack
Vehicle Pack HQ
City Pack HQ
Character and Animals

I think it’s worth to take a look.

What you should know before you’re spending money:

@order66;494076

Just a quick reminder: the mocap animations can only be used with CryEngine

@unit23;494208

Btw. The included Birds, the Elephant and the one soldier character inside of these packs can not be opened in 3DSMAX, you probably need to open them inside of CryEngine.

**If you thought the packages from CryTek would be nice, you better skip, because of issues with the file format (*.CHR) and legal uncertainties. **

[order66]

Just a quick reminder: the mocap animations can only be used with CryEngine

When you lawfully acquire our Assets (in this case the FPS Paintball Project and our Basic Military Rifle - MoCap Animation Pack) as part of this Humble Bundle you are granted a non­exclusive, non-­transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide and perpetual limited license to use the acquired Assets for your projects developed on the CryEngine and to use, license and exploit such projects developed on the CryEngine with  the embedded Assets in any way and in all media.

These projects shall be defined as without limitation a User’s movie or video or game or app or product that uses Assets or character model(s) that you have incorporated into your project in a way that the Assets and/or character model(s) cannot be extracted to allow further distribution, reproduction, modification or use of the Assets outside of your projects. You shall not use the Assets in any other way than indicated above, including without limitation: 
offer the Assets for sale  or license  or  any other  use  except  as  embedded in your projects; 
offer the Assets in any other way in which the Assets can be extracted and implement in other projects.

[SchnitzelDude]

@order66;494076

Just a quick reminder: the mocap animations can only be used with CryEngine

Thanks, that’s a good point!

[MaxiHori]

Thanks a lot! Bought it! totally worth 25$

[Nobody]

There is a lot to download from the Asset Packs alone. Just tried to import some Assets into UE4 and Model and Textures work without any problem. Some of the Models are .MAX and .MB only (glad I got Maya and 3ds Max installed), so it would be wise to have those installed to export to FBX or OBJ for use in UE4.

[Ben_Cykyria]

I couldn’t find any license information except “Royality free” and “use commerically”.

Just to be sure: those of you who bought it, is there any license file included? I expected this stuff to be bound to use with Cryengine only.

[SchnitzelDude]

@btengelh;494108

I couldn’t find any license information except “Royality free” and “use commerically”.

Just to be sure: those of you who bought it, is there any license file included? I expected this stuff to be bound to use with Cryengine only.

Yea they include license files. You can see their content in my first and in @order66 Post.

[knockknock]

License files are included and can be downloaded in the purchases of the pack.

It says: “When you lawfully acquire our Asset Packs (listed below) as part of this Humble Bundle you are granted a non­exclusive, non-­transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide and perpetual limited license to use the acquired Assets for your commercial or non-commercial projects developed on any game engine and to use, license and exploit such projects developed on any game engine with the embedded Assets in any way and in all media…]”

[Ben_Cykyria]

@SchnitzelDude;494113

Yea they include license files. You can see their content in my first and in @order66 Post.

man, thanks. never post before first coffee…

[SchnitzelDude]

@btengelh;494128

man, thanks. never post before first coffee…

No problem. That’s the reason why I’ve started this thread, for me it was a bit unclear what awaits me when buying these packs.

[nkey]

Will be interesting to compare performance on same scenes with same assets

[unit23]

Some downloads are missing a license

I bought this pack for the Ryse Roman Pack and Animal Pack, and World Builder Pack, but those are missing a license, are from Crytek.

It is unclear what the situation is regarding those assets

The downloaded Crytek packages include a license, called “LIMITED LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR THE USE OF THE CRYENGINE”

This is a license which does not necessarily applies to a separate sold content package.

The license does not mention, that it prohibits the use of CryEngine Assets in other engines:

It mentions this

“CryEngine Assets”: the audiovisual files included in the CryEngine as distributed by Crytek in its sole discretion.

So what the **** does this mean?

This basically means that the included license sold at “Humble Bumble” does not apply, it is a license for the Cryengine, for the distribution of the CryEngine. But we bought Assets from the CryEngine, not obtained via the Cryengine distribution pipeline.

Grant of License
2.1. Grant: Subject to strict and continuous compliance with the restrictions of this Agreement Crytek grants to Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, limited license (the “License”) only:
2.1.1. to install and run the CryEngine pursuant to the CryEngine Documentation;
2.1.2. to develop, maintain, extend and/or enhance CryEngine pursuant to the CryEngine Documentation;
2.1.3. to develop Games using CryEngine and to render such Games in object code form (including the CryEngine Assets and the CryEngine Redistributables) pursuant to the CryEngine documentation;

Now lets read this part from the Humble Page again

All assets included are yours to use as many times as you’d like in any commercial project and are completely royalty free!

Because the included license (inside the downloaded CryEngine Assets from HB), is for the CE, the legal rights of these assets sold at HB are not defined. It would be nice if CryEngine or the Seller could clarify. The package sold in 6 figures, the chance is thus high that a game will be published (not made using CE) that facilitates CE Assets through this “sole discretion”.

[SchnitzelDude]

@unit23;494168

I bought this pack for the Ryse Roman Pack and Animal Pack, and World Builder Pack, but those are missing a license, are from Crytek.

It is unclear what the situation is regarding those assets

Did you checked if the license file is inside the Ryse-zip-container? Haven’t downloaded it yet but thanks for your info.

[unit23]

@SchnitzelDude;494181

Did you checked if the license file is inside the Ryse-zip-container? Haven’t downloaded it yet but thanks for your info.

There is a license called “LIMITED LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR THE USE OF THE CRYENGINE”, and this license is only effective it apepars when you:

The Agreement is made effective beginning on the date on which you, the Licensee, first accept this agreement or download, install, load or otherwise use the CryEngine as defined below (whichever occurs first).

But i never downloaded CryEngine, and i never accepted this agreement.

[es]

@SchnitzelDude;494181

Did you checked if the license file is inside the Ryse-zip-container? Haven’t downloaded it yet but thanks for your info.

Ryse archives come with Crytek license. Question to native English speakers, are there any chances to use Ryse stuff in UE4?

[unit23]

Btw. The included Birds, the Elephant and the one soldier character inside of these packs can not be opened in 3DSMAX, you probably need to open them inside of CryEngine.

**If you thought the packages from CryTek would be nice, you better skip, because of issues with the file format (*.CHR) and legal uncertainties. **

The Tree package comes with Maya file format.

[SchnitzelDude]

@unit23;494208

Btw. The included Birds, the Elephant and the one soldier character inside of these packs can not be opened in 3DSMAX, you probably need to open them inside of CryEngine.

**If you thought the packages from CryTek would be nice, you better skip, because of issues with the file format (*.CHR) and legal uncertainties. **

That’s really disappointing, even if I’m not interested in these packs. Thanks again for pointing that out! I will quote it in my OP, so everybody will see it.

[unit23]

The included Audio Pack (with license attached) is pretty good.

[Archerx]

Looks like bad news from Crytek

CRYENGINE

I want to buy this but I don’t want to use the cryengine

[Naveed]

@Archerx;494252

Looks like bad news from Crytek

https://mobile.twitter.com/cryengine/status/709874255010267136

I want to buy this but I don’t want to use the cryengine

That tweet seems to contradict the included license:
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“When you lawfully acquire our Asset Packs (listed below) as part of this Humble Bundle you are granted a non­exclusive, non-­transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide and perpetual limited license to use the acquired Assets for your commercial or non-commercial projects developed on any game engine and to use, license and exploit such projects developed on any game engine with the embedded Assets in any way and in all media.”*