Extract content from downloaded demos ?

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Good evening.

I’m a real begginer in UE4, and in the “creator side” of games in general.

I do not really plan to create a game (for now at least) but rather to use UE4 to build some scenes, experiment with the engine to try and make beautiful graphical results.

I know that you can get the content from downloaded demos from the workshop by launching them once and pick files from the project folder, but I’d like to know if there is another way to extract content (materials, textures, assets…) of demos without launching them even once.

I’d like to get to use the content of the open world demo, but I had a step back when I read “for really high-end computers”, my actual config could possibly not support the project to launch. As the demo is downloaded, its content must be stored somewhere on your computer, so is there a way to get it without launching a project ?

If not, can someone tell me if my actual config could run the said project without risks ?

CPU: Intel Core i5 3.5GHz (6960k I think, cant quite remember and I’m on mobile device as I’m writting)

GPU (that’s where I’m more worried): Radeon HD Sapphire 7870 (my one belongs to the serie that had a problem, making it crash sometimes)

RAM: 8GB

Hard-drive space: around 100Go (system disk). My other disk is dead but I’ll add a new 1To one as soon as I can. No SSD.

Thanks for help, and as a begginer, I also welcome any advice and tip about scene-making :slight_smile: I precise that I dont put money in it, anything I’d use as to be free.

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You don’t need to extract anything, you just go to your UE4 projects folder, there’s a content folder in each project and the assets are stored in uasset files. You can just copy those uasset files to your new project

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So I dont need to launch the open world project to find these files ?

What is the exact path of these files ? I searched in UE installation folders but the only uassets files I found were the standart ones (I think)

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EDIT

After searching folder by folder I managed to find the folder where downloaded content from marketplace is stocked.
In case anyone else went looking for it also, I’ll post it here:

C:\Program Files\Epic Games\Launcher\VaultCache (Or wherever you installed the engine -> Launcher -> VaultCache)

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When you want to use the content in your own projects, you will have to migrate it into your own one -> :slight_smile: