Quixel Megascans Is Free. Again.

For those who don’t know the library, Quixel Megascans is Epic’s collection of photogrammetry assets. It turns real rocks, bark, ground, vegetation and props into digital models, surfaces and decals. On Friday the 13th, when a workstation has just made a noise normally associated with a dying refrigerator and the shot still needs a forest, this is one of the first libraries we’d open.

The full Megascans library on Fab is going free again. Free, paid, free. To me, to you, to me, to you, to me, to you. The Chuckle Brothers usually managed this with a ladder. Epic used a marketplace.

The price tag does another lap

When Epic brought Quixel into the fold in 2019, it made Megascans free for use in Unreal Engine. Fab opened up the library under its Standard License during the 2024 giveaway. Most of it went back behind price tags in January 2025, with an initial free selection of more than 1,500 assets. We covered that switch at the time. Quixel’s new announcement makes the entire Fab catalogue free again, with the listing updates slated to finish on 12 November.

If you bought Megascans or a Quixel Bundle on or after 1 January 2025, Quixel says it will refund those purchases to your Epic Account Balance by the end of 2026. Sign in and accept the latest terms if you haven’t already. You keep the licence, and the credit works across Epic products. Existing custom studio agreements continue under their own terms.

A very good place to find a rock

More than 23,000 assets: You can dress almost an< environment with scanned props and rock meshes, build out a ground surface with scanned materials, then break up repetition with decals and smaller bits of debris. Those real-world textures and irregular silhouettes are why we’d reach for it when a VFX shot, game level or architectural visualisation needs convincing detail in a hurry. Someone has already done the fieldwork, and the rock has already sat for its portrait.

Check the listing for its formats and maps. Megascans meshes are available in formats such as FBX and glTF, so the files can go into compatible tools outside Unreal. The Fab Standard License allows commercial projects and sharing with collaborators working on the project. Standalone redistribution of the assets is prohibited. Quixel also announced that the updated terms permit training AI models on Megascans and Megaplants. Use the applicable terms for the assets and account you’re working with.

Fab, Bridge, Mixer and the trees

Fab in Launcher handles browsing, local downloads, batch operations and export to supported DCCs or engines on Windows and macOS. Sign in with an Epic Games account, including for free items. Direct export depends on the host, the listing’s file formats and the applicable export plug-in. A local download also gives you a route into a compatible host when direct export isn’t available.

Quixel Bridge was the old browser and delivery tool. It still serves previously acquired legacy assets, while Fab is the route for new Megascans. Quixel’s final offline release of Mixer, the tool for layering and authoring materials, is available from the Quixel account page. Its installer offers optional packs with more than 800 assets. Quixel has ended Mixer development.

Quixel Megaplants is the separate free procedural vegetation library for Unreal Engine 5.7 and later. It ships as Nanite-compatible Unreal assets for the Procedural Vegetation Editor. If the brief calls for a rock to drop into a Blender scene, start in Megascans. If it calls for editable procedural vegetation inside Unreal, start in Megaplants. Either way, test a representative asset in your target scene and renderer. Check scale, texture colour space and the geometry budget before committing the whole forest.

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