This months free Unreal Marketplace assets lets you fight your friends sword and board style in a fancy Manhattan apartment!
Every month Unreal runs a promotion where a number of assets from the Unreal Engine Marketplace are made available for free download. These can range form modular gameplay systems, like this month’s Quest Editor Plugin by Alf and the Basic Multiplayer Melee Combat system by Rodrigo Mello, or more traditional asset packs like the Palace Hall pack by Dave Berg, the Safe House pack by Emran Arts, or the Archiviz Interior vol.3 by Next Level 3D.
These packs are all optimized and preconfigured for the Unreal Engine, coming with per-assigned materials and shaders, and typically including demo scenes that show off what’s achievable with the assets or systems included. This gives them a distinct advantage for developers and designers, especially when it comes to 3D asset packs, as if you download assets from third-party websites like Sketchfab or Turbosquid you might often have to spend a lot of time setting up the material with the correct maps and shaders, and assigning them to the correct meshes as the asset might not have been built for your specific renderer in mind (Unreal Engine). Check out my guide for best Unity 3d models to find out more about different 3d asset marketplaces (platform agnostic so it’ll be just as relevant for Unreal Engine developers and designers).
But let’s stop beating around the bush, here are the free assets on Unreal Engine Marketplace for the month of September:
Quest Editor Plugin by Alf
Quest Editor is a plugin to manage and create quests and dialog for NPCs (non-player-characters), features include the quest and dialog system, the ability to hold an track several quests a simultaneously, complete, fail and abandon statuses, optional paths for quests (multiple ending and start conditions), multiple quests per NPC, branching dialogue system, quest timers, rewards system, multiplayer support, progress save states, pre-made and customizable conditions. All in one handy and user-friendly node-based interface.
Basic Multiplayer Melee Combat System by Rodrigo Mello
Basic Multiplayer Melee Combat System is described as a set of actor components that facilitate creating multiplayer melee combat games, the pack consists of four main components and some blueprints designed to be a starting point for prototyping a simple multiplayer melee action game. Each feature is its own separate module to make implementation flexible and easy. You’ve got a basic montage sequence manager, a combat state manager, a ragdoll state manager, a simple lock-on, an animation synchronizer, and a projectile spawner.
Archviz Interior vol.3 by Next Level 3D
Archviz Interior vol.3 is a high-quality asset pack features 80 different photo-realistic objects, enough to build a fully realized modern apartment complete with a kitchen, a living room, and a bedroom. All the assets come with either baked Global Illumination for Unreal Engine 5.1 and blow users, or a lumen setup for 5.2 and above users. And of course, it comes with a demo scene sporting all the assets used in a stylish and modern apartment.
Safe House by Emran Arts
A more story and game-centric asset pack, the Safe House by Emran arts comes with more than 400 assets styled to fit in well in a post-apocalyptic world. Also photo-real in style, these assets are game ready and have a lot of texture, depth and variability to their materials meaning they’d well utilized for lighting and level artists to practice their skills and make fantastic dioramas. They’re all UE5 ready, comes with a demo scene (the one in the picture above) and the pack even comes with 16 “handy” blueprint tools to make level design easier.
Palace Hall by Dave Berg
Lastly, we’ve got the ornate Palace Hall by Deve Berg, styled after a Victorian estate we’ve got Roman columns, crystal chandeliers, polished silver candlesticks, and plenty of ornate detailing on walls, windows, furniture, and statues. The pack comes with 48 game-ready assets (with LODs), can be used with Lumen (after some adjustments in the settings) and comes with a large dining room demo scene.
I’ll be doing one of these articles a month when Epic makes new assets available for free, so stay tuned to Razzem next month for more.
