Epic Games has announced the acquisition of Quixel. In addition, the companies have announced that the Megascans library is now completely free for use with Unreal Engine.
This basically means that if you are using Megascans with UE4, you get free, unlimited, and instant access to all of Megascans through Bridge and Mixer, and a wealth of Megascans packs on the Unreal Engine Marketplace. Epic Games shared today ten high-resolution packs for free on the Unreal Engine Marketplace. Furthermore, additional asset packs will be made available for free on the Marketplace.
Last but not least, Bridge and Mixer 2020 will be 100% free for everyone.
Quixel has also released a video regarding this acquisition that you can find below!
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best news i heard all day. downloading asap!
they have the most photo realistic assets in the world.
Now every UE4 indie game will look the same. Good job Epic.
I think you mean less the same. They added 10,000 assets to the already large database. They didn’t take any away.
people who didnt make their assets already were buying premade assets of lower quality , also how dare they make it easier for devs to make games in their engine
Megascans has thousands of assets, and you can mix them together to make new textures in seconds…
Yeah these guys arent bright enough to recognize the benefits. Clearly too busy posting memes they’ve been dying to use while riding their desperate bandwagon. Morons
Excellent acquisition by Epic, Quixel’s Megascan library is truly impressive.
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Goddamn that fortnite money must be insane
Yeah… a disgusting shitload of money
this is seriously big news. the accuracy of their in-game assets are are practically 1 to 1. at which point the greatest game ever made could be made to a high degree of microscopic perfection.
They are buying it with their disgusting dirty money, you PoTrash
Good, but the name “Epic” reminds me of a certain store!!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7b7c60f6e54f53f4f3db2833d569132271f3f2ea86f40244b14fe80e4acfdff6.png
Epic news for my daily dose of nerd rage.
Im sure all those kickstarter scam artists are very happy with this. .
And people like me that purchased the Indie Studio license for 200$ get it up the a*s? WTF
You would know the answer to this if you had bothered to watch the freaking video. In short, no you are not getting it up the a*s.
Classic headline based opinions.
I have this as well, Quixel SUITE for CS6 still works Me. I think we are fine?
[ Update ] so their web site is the Epic Store log in now 🙁 , I also can’t find any of My purchases I think your right…
Trying to find the original installer of Quixel SUITE 2.3 and see if it works on My other Dev boxes.
[ Update 2 ] I found My installer and their old licence web page still works: licensing DOT quixel DOT se SLASH dashboard SLASH online
So at least this software seems fine if you still have the installer, I have no idea about their other stuff.
Yes I’m still able to login to my Suite 2.3 and use it.
My Purchase also does not show up on the new website.. I found my old purchase receipt in my emails from 2014. I suggest finding and holding on to it incase epic decides to deactivate our purchased licenses. You just never know these days…
This is actually a big move. Finally they do something smart with their Fortnite money.
Yeah. Buying everything so other ppl cant use it…. Wp….
Anyone can use it. It’s now free to use just like the Unreal Engine.
Free if you use UE though.
You might want to educate yourself on something before spouting BS. Non-UE4 users still get access but now at half the price as it used to be. So this is better for everyone.
You might want to educate yourself on something before spouting BS
This is EGS…
I bet there is a catch they dont do this cuz they are so nice..
Hey moron, Quixel has thousands of different assets all made from super high quality scans, and they have tools which let you create unique texture and material variations by mixing different textures + adding custom variables.
Quixel’s stuff is literally used in big budget movie production, so having all those assets in UE4 for free, along with very affordable commercial licenses, is a huge deal.
Making materials and environment assets is one of the most time consuming and expensive parts of game dev, most devs already buy premade assets, just far lower quality.