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As it currently stands I’m not willing to buy anything again on the Marketplace
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I’ve made a number of purchases that ended up being less than ideal because they used too much or too little of whatever rendering , and couldn’t be made to blend with my overall scene. There’s lots of “shrubs” and “grass” and “open landscape” products, but they don’t really blend with each other at all, assuming vastly different lighting setups, and I’m too lazy to edit every shader to try to make it work better. (There’s a reason I pay for things on the marketplace …)
Just like there’s an “Epic Skeleton,” it would be great if there was an “Epic outdoor lighting setup” that content could be tuned/measured/screen-shotted with, and perhaps also an “Epic indoor lighting setup” for different kinds of assets. Use whatever you want for your hero scene, but show screen shots of the items under a known lighting setup against a known backdrop!
That being said, I’m not terribly sad, because each of the purchases is measured in “dozens” of dollars. I’m not going to get an artist to make me custom art for that price – the going rate for outsourcing is $30-$60 per hour AFAICT, and there’s a lot of chaff on the outsourcing market that can easily waste all your money on training up their new hires.