Megascans experience on Fab is horrible. HORRIBLE!

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Hi everyone,

Once again, I’d like to share some thoughts as a professional game developer working on commercial projects. It’s becoming clear that the development process is being impacted in countless ways by the sheer lack of care and responsibility from Epic Games and their teams managing the UE Marketplace, Fab, and even Quixel.

My Quixel Bridge workflow is gone. GONE!

I genuinely thought they would at least keep Bridge available for us developers who have relied on it for years, ever since its debut with UE4. But no, they went ahead and moved the library to Fab, which, frankly, is a disaster. Fab is a masterclass in amateur marketplace design, poor web development, and subpar integration with industry standards. It shows a glaring disconnect from the needs of the people who actually invest in and support the ecosystem required for a platform like Fab to survive or thrive.

Fab lacks everything we need. EVERYTHING!

  • The curated collections created by the Quixel team? GONE.

  • Helpful filters for environments, vegetation, or even decals? GONE.

  • Meaningful details like models scaled next to a human figure? GONE.

  • A somewhat decent grid interface for visualizing model thumbnails? GONE.

I’m not saying Quixel Bridge was perfect, it wasn’t. Epic has always been amateurish when it comes to content distribution for professionals and companies. But Bridge was a viable suite of tools for any UE developer, especially for those working on photorealistic games or environments. It was also crucial for understanding how to integrate Megascans assets into projects efficiently.

What’s needed? What can be done?

Ideally, there should be a dedicated, high-quality environment for Megascans assets and all things Quixel. The Quixel team is outstanding, their work is incredible, and their products deserve to be presented in a carefully designed interface tailored to Unreal Engine developers. It could include minor export tools for other software, but the focus should be on those of us who have invested significant time and money into their ecosystem.

But since that seems unlikely, considering the mess we’ve seen with Fab, the least they could do is bring back the features we relied on in Quixel Bridge. Reintroduce proper filtering systems, curated collections, and intuitive tools, even if it’s within Fab. Mimicking the functionality of Bridge is the bare minimum they should strive for.

Truth be told, Epic should be ashamed of themselves and I know they’re not. That’s the beginning of their villain arc.

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I agree with your post 99%. It’s been such a huge oversight with what the product was prior.

But this quoted note should be universal. We are all affected equally, and just as Bridge had unbiased support, so should whatever comes next. In film and vfx we are just as dependent on Bridge in our alternate DCC’s as you amazing Unreal folk.

I’ve sent a dozen emails, a bunch of forum posts and 2 YouTube videos as I really hope to see the needle swing back to Quixels original vision, for the artist. I’ve been told “something soon will be announced” so I’m crossing my fingers it’s a drastic step in the right direction.

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Quixel & Bridge should be back in the coming weeks now.
Source: Access legacy Megascans on Bridge and Quixel.com

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Thanking everybody who helped us get today

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I hope this becomes a permanent thing. Trying to find assets in Fab absolutely sucks. There is so much stuff in there that you can’t find anything you need. Things for sale should not be mixed in with Quixel assets period.

It was so much easier to find what you need and add them to your project. There really needs to be a better way to filter out megascan assets.

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I haven’t used Bridge in a long time, but the modus operandi of any large tech company is to replace the legacy application well before the new thing has reached feature parity.

Except, AFAIK, there is not even a new application in this case, technically.

Is there some way via Fab to import specific lods of quixel assets like Bridge could do?

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yes and yes! bring back the bridges, it worked fine. the solution for this already exists and it worked.

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