This is good, the roadmap looks very solid, the start was rough, but after the roadmap will be implemented it looks like FAB will be, finally, far better than the old marketplace ever was.
That said, i still see some minor and major things lacking from the FAB roadmap so i will share feedback of the things i think should be fixed/added.
The major issues
Lets not forget that FAB is the official UE marketplace and as such it is important to find content on FAB targeted for the use in UE, so i think we should have
- C++ content/search filter - to easily find ONLY c++ based solutions dedicated to UE
Summary
I have nothing against BPs, but it is important for many to be able to search for C++ solutions only, right now it is impossible, when u look for more advanced, complex or extensive systems, multiplayer, physics and things like that, no way to filter c++ based product only, and c++ provides many advantages in possibilities, performance, memory.
Please add possibility to search for c++ based products only
The second thing is to finally
- Allow to download UE assets without the need to install specific engine version in launcher
This is a very long overdue functionality and it connects also with the C++ thing, this is the best moment to finally fix this once and for all when we are still at improving FAB.
Summary
Many assets are not updated immediately after engine update, many ppl stick to single version of UE for the time of developing projects or use a source build of the engine, in all of those cases ppl dont want to be forced to download unneeded newer/older versions of engine, just to get the asset, and the engine is not small to download
Most of the assets just work, even if its is for a lower version of engine or even newer, ppl can make minor changes and make it work anyway if it doesn’t, like c++ plugins, but forcing to download the whole unneeded engine version to get the asset is unreasonable requirement from epic, i dont see the argument and epic always points out that there are doing everything for ppl, for devs to have it easier
Well then please, make it happen, im not sure why this is not already possible, there are already some workarounds, so why not make it official
There are also some minor issues/features
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Supported engine version filter on FAB should have the order reversed, from the latest UE version to oldest, not old to new, more and more ppl use UE5, less and less have some projects that are still UE4, every time there is a need to filter to have UE5 compatible asset only there is a need to scroll to bottom, this is inconvenient, please reverse it
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fullscreen FAB ‘F’ screenshots are not really better or bigger, its the same screenshots, but displayed fullscreen, but its not a better version, so the quality is actually worse as its zooms the not great size screenshots anyway, i dont think this is what ppl expected, we expected better screenshot quality in fullscreen at least
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add a Popular Week/Month assets FAB category, could be nice addition to know what’s trending currently, it would be also nice to have popular per category sorting
Thank you for the ongoing work.