Downloading Marketplace Assets on Linux

Distribution UE Marketplace
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BEST OPTION for me at least (and only for UE assets download) so far is this one, it even looks the closest to the real launcher and is maybe easier to use for people like me next to a shell alternative. (I remember having some login issues at the beginning but closing and starting it again pushed the login popup to the front I think, or simply reinstall it quickly, the solution was fast as I remember):
https://forums.unrealengine.com/unre…he-marketplace

I’m downloading UE4 Assets into the cache by right clicking an asset and choose to download to cache. cache folder is inside the ue4launchers directory and is named “cache”. From there I copy the assets manually to my custom UE4Assets folder. From there I copy the ones I need to my UE projects. Easy enough.

But just now I came across the real launcher working with lutris:

So far it’s working great, but haven’t yet tried to download any assets/games/whatever but the launcher so far seems to work flawlessly… Of course you do not want to install the Engine as you wanna compile that on and for linux directly, but might come in handy for assets and games maybe as well? :slight_smile: I hope because I’ll have to play Kena in August!!! :slight_smile:

Edit: Best option stays best option even after testing the real launcher in wine. The problem with the wine version is that there’s no engine installed and I’m certainly not going to install one. Problem: Assets that are already a “project” can be downloaded by choosing “create project”. This will download the asset and put it into the project folder you specified, working without engine, files are on the disk. Then there’s assets that can be added via “Add to project” button. For those you already need a project. So download first an asset that creates a project, then you can download assets that need a project via “add to project” button. That’s already a bit annoying. But then come assets that have the “Install to engine” button, and for that, you guessed it, an engine needs to be installed. So that’s not gonna work. Maybe but just maybe some games from the game store would run, haven’t tested that yet.