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Just got an email that Quixel is reinstating Megascans on Bridge! The battle has been won lol Now to download everything since I can't trust them to handle themselves properly in the future lmao

This is a little bit of a rant but this was one of my biggest concerns with Fab coming out. Constantly making changes without considering major workflows is really frustrating in an industry that is make or break around good workflows. At least with changes to the engine you dont have to upgrade to the new version if they remove or change something you use or need... but with Fab it has the potential to retroactively ruin workflows for everyone no matter where you are coming from. I hope that they can make Fab like bridge for all quality content because that should be or is the whole goal/selling point of Fab in my opinion. But so far with the release of Fab it has only justified my initial worries and concerns! I dont mind new work flows but they should render the old ones obsolete by pure function and sheer adoption rates before becoming the standard and so far Fab has been nothing but a thorn to my workflows by basically sending them back in time and thats just not what you want to see from what is supposed to be the next big thing. I hope it will get where it needs to be soon because I do see the potential in it. But come on! In my opinion it is a terrible first impression.

I need more drama

Agree. FAB is trash for artist. We need bridge back.

Not to mention the fact that we cannot even remove assets we have added to our library or hide them or have a favorites list. Fab is so bad!

Very good info, now I'm scared to open some old UE projects. Unrelated, but I am very interested in environment creation and your work is insanely good, so I figured I'd ask. I have done some vfx work, can find my way around Blender or C4d and am most familiar with compositing. I was wondering if you can recommend any courses or recources. Also for film/vfx would you recommend starting with GAEA , World creator or even houdini?

Really appreciate the effort you've put into this so far. I think it's also worth bringing up how the "collections" (or "environments" as they are called now on FAB) are much more different. On Bridge you can open up a "Collection" page and see all the used assets and individually download them with all the great functionality you mention in this video. On Fab you cannot see or download any of the used assets individually. Of course as the final nail in the coffin, once you actually download the whole collection from FAB there is no thumbnail images in any the folders. That, paired with the inability to search up model IDs makes collections utterly useless for anyone that's not working with UE.

bye to my 3 second exporting to blender, even the name fab sucks

Whoever made the decision to replace the marketplace with this deserves to be fired, it is such a bad idea

It's quite unbelievable they didn't care about how this would disrupt workflows, I don't even feel like working right now, I feel stuck

A replacement or continuation of Bridge really is needed as this video points out, we've gone backwards!

Guys, the community need exactly more of this, WE HAVE TO REACT... I just think EPIC as owner of Unreal Engine somehow might have interests that people dont use other tools like 3ds max, Cinema 4d, Blender etc... So I guess as now they own all megascans assets, maybe this is them trying to force people into Unreal. Anyway I would still buy assets for 3ds max if it would be rolled back as it was in Quixel. Poor guys who created Quixel must be super sad to see whats been happening. Aaron big thanks for speaking up, big fan here! Love your work.

Yea it sucks. What was epic thinking... I believe they purposefully hamstrung it for tools outside UE5 and it sucks inside UE5 as well btw. Just slightly less so.

Abby is AI

Fab e absolute trash rn, it's so bad

You're right. I just want the Bridge to work

Thanks for making this video. I was excited to discover how Fab would be better than Bridge and was baffled to see the abomination they created

Absolutely disastrous launch, it's so bad.

The hard lesson I learned about Epic, after moving from Unity to Unreal is that they have a tendency to change or remove something before coming up with viable replacements for it. And when the community outcry is MASSIVE, they all just completely ignore the people who are complaining.

Will Epic listen to their users though? My experience after requesting over many years that the vault would be more manageable with a better per item (not package) search but they hardly changed a thing. This is not progress and will just slow everyone down. Epic do incredible things and I fully support them as a company but we need better communication and tools that address all our issues. Quixel once allowed channel packing too but Epic removed it. I really miss that feature too.

Yea, i don’t see how this even benefits us UE users

I can't export any twinmotion 2024 projects to unreal 5.4. For me, only the datasmith twinmotion plugin appears and the twinmotion content plugin does not appear for me. What do I do?

I can't export any twinmotion 2024 projects to unreal 5.4. For me, only the datasmith twinmotion plugin appears and the twinmotion content plugin does not appear for me. What do I do?

This feels like developers from the year 1990, were asked to build an asset site. FAB looks like it was built by soneone who should be on the show, 'American Hoarders." There is no real organization. Everything is just dumped into huge unsorted piles. An the a positive note, I'm being forced to learn howbto fix problems with assets, myself.

This FAB is a garbage, how they even make this new service and not prepare any plugins

Agreed

Im useless without quixel bridge to be blunt

The pace of development on Mixer really made me wonder about Quixel, so I avoided Bridge. Dodged a bullet, for once.

they've already removed the custom asset import/export features in bridge. that's a huge blockade for individuals

epic feeling like they're turning into EA

agreed 100% let's send that link every days to epic

Fab has done what I feared it would do. Turn all Epics stores into SketchFab; a dumping ground for low quality garbage flooded to the point of unusability, topped off with a mountain of copyright infringement. Already stumbled across ripped assets from Tarkov, Zelda and PUBG

Ye man this is such a shame to see. I got into ue when 5.0 came out and absolutely loved how easy it was to open up bridge inside the editor and quickly drag and drop and see in about a second if a rock was the right rock for my scene. Not only does importing take alot more time now but its gone from something brainless to something tedious and draining on your mental when creating. What a shame

Search in UE marketplace is completly boring expirience and unfortunately we got this with Quixel now(

As an Unreal user, I'm glad that all the wonderful things from Sketchfab are now included. Who doesn't like digging through other people's trash?

I watched one of your first videos on this and before watching I literally just thought I was doing something wrong and that I didn't understand the workflow.

I just knew as soon as I saw the FAB name that this was going to be a car crash of epic proportions. (pun not intended)

Also not to mention that stuff on Fab is supposed to be behind the paywall soon. Their move (and announcement) for Fab is basically strip down everything proven and good about Bridge and Megascans and put a price on it at some point soon and allow Fab to be saturated with generative AI as a cherry on top.

This is so true. Firstly: Where the f are the filters and the categories. Secondly you cant find sh** what you want because of that. Thirdly the Unreal marketplace was specific for Unreal Engine users like me wich is was super easy to use AND it was in the Epic Games launcher, not in your browser or a stupid plugin. Thirdly the Megascans plugin in UE5 was/is so brilliant and easy to use, so why are they taking that away from us?

F-cked And Broken

It's clear that Bridge needs to be reactivated while they sort this rather than just telling users to deal with it.

And why would you buy something on FAB that's only available in FBX format, when the exact same model is 10% cheaper on CGTrader. It's going to take them months to put this right.

they emailed me today saying, 'if you didnt know, we encourage users to manually set up assets'

Thankyou for making these videos man, tempted to make a video too. The more of us that make it known how bad this is the better.

I can see this massively effecting art teams across most industries that depend on this stuff. What a mess.

I wonder if the people at quixel regret selling Quixel to epic games?

Fnck Fab

Also: When using Bridge now for anything that you didn't download before it just shows this "Get it on Fab" button. Then when you press that 9 out of 10 times it just goes to the Fab Starting page where you then have to retype the name (because search with assetID returns 0 results) and are bombarded with dozens of assets where you then have to eyeball which one looked like the one from bridge? And most of the times you can't even find it there then. So this "Get it on Fab" button leads to nowhere in most cases. And even if you find what you need then you are supposed to download the separate Zip files and put it in your own folderstructure on your hard disk and keep remembering it was there for the next months to come?

Why does eveything that was great always turns to crap

FAB is such a shitshow, I was in the middle of a project using bridge and now I lost all that functionality mid work... And yeah the shitty assets being mixed with quixel assets is a pain in the search engine. But as you said, the worst thing is the downloading. Bridge was amazing, why in gods name did they get rid of it.....