I want to put a request in here and have some discussion around the ability to use the replay system to extract our games. Creators are not new to having games be meticulously recreated 1:1 and shipped as such. Replay will be able to be used to extract entire games into Blender / UE / UEFN. My concern stems from as we continue to develop our games, pay artists to create assets etc, people will be able to pull our custom assets and designs and worlds into their games to use themselves.
The ability to manually disable replay mode on our games could give us the security that we would not have this happen.
Here’s an example: someone extracted the entire Kid Laroi Wild Dreams concert in just a few hours.
Current Creative has shown very little care for 1:1 copies, and even those would take time to manually rebuild, but now there’s tools available that can streamline copying is a serious concern, hopefully it’ll be taken seriously
Edit: This should also go for our V1 maps, don’t want people to easily be able to steal those once the editor becomes public
THIS IS A MUST. Working for hours on assets for people to rip them for free would be completely unacceptable.
Replay mode should be an option that we, as creators, choose to have.
Not sure how much this would help but maybe you could add watermarks to any models that are custom made and/or textures/materials. This way if someone does rip your stuff you can prove its your work even further and then maybe with help of Epic they could remove it?
