Unreal Engine 5.2 - FREE Paragon Assets (REVIEW)

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Hello guys welcome back to another video. In this video we will be checking out all of the FREE paragon assets inside of Unreal Engine 5.2
Paragon was a game developed by Epic Games that was shutdown years ago, and so Epic decided to make all of the character models, assets etc. FREE for people who use Unreal Engine. These are very high quality AAA assets, and in this video, we will go over each one of them!
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1:01 - 2:14 - Survival Game Course
2:15 - 3:28 - Everything Included
3:30 - 4:21 - Kwang
4:25 - 5:14 - Wukong
5:16 - 5:34 - Terra
5:36 - 6:01 - Countess
6:03 - 6:24 - Muriel
6:26 - 6:43 - Boris
6:45 - 7:37 - Kallari
7:40 - 8:18 - Drongo
8:20 - 8:47 - Fey
8:50 - 9:37 - Sparrow
9:40 - 10:07 - Serath
10:10 - 10:32 - Revenanth
10:35 - 11:04 - Shinbi
11:06 - 12:30 - Murdock
12:34 - 13:36 - Khaimera
13:38 - 13:54 - Wraith
13:55 - 14:28 - Sevaroth
14:30 - 15:00 - Feng
15:03 - 15:30 - Dekker
15:32 - 16:27 - Twinblast
16:29 - 16:53 - Yin
16:55 - 17:46 - Crunch
17:50 - 18:43 - Grux
18:45 - 19:05 - Zinx
19:10 - 19:50 - Greystone
19:52 - 20:36 - Belica
20:39 - 21:22 - Grim
21:25 - 22:17 - Iggy
22:20 - 22:36 - Phase
22:38 - 23:34 - Gideon
23:38 - 24:37 - Steel
24:40 - 25:12 - Morigesh
25:15 - 26:09 - Narbash
26:14 - 26:54 - Aurora
27:00 - 27:37 - Riktor
27:40 - 27:55 - Turret Meshes
28:00 - 30:18 - Paragon Minions
30:22 - 31:16 - Final Thoughts

[@SmartPoly]

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[@madar382]

Hi SP, I bought your course like 7 months ago and it's awesome!!! I wanted to suggest something, yesterday I was scrolling through the Quixel bridge and saw so many various 3D models of vegetables so maybe you could add farming to the course? I think it would be great. thanks for reading🙏

[@ourmotivation8200]

Are all video tutorials with english subtitle? My listening not so good in english.

[@mishovy1599]

wow, imagine if every discontinued game did this. epic games is setting a good example with this one

[@tadartader9944]

It would be so good like vainglory should do that also

[@CasalGamerGG]

They only do itbecause they can get some money back when You develop games using UE.

[@Aaron86v]

This is really cool seeing this being a former Paragon player. It makes me appreciate all the work they put into these characters, especially how varied the skins were.

[@steveeasy8775]

I like when you review assets in detail and give your honest assessment. Thank You.

[@donduck1]

Thanks for this video. It takes a lot of time to download, load the project, and compile shaders, so this is really helpful. If you could make a video about animations, that would be amazing. I would greatly appreciate it. I'm particularly interested in locomotion animations. And btw the minions also have unique locomotion animations.

[@XAHAK]

thank you for doing this, i usually go through thumbnail to see if they got anything interesting. i really appreciate an animation showcase for all characters

[@rayloh8259]

Me, too. (Animation Showcase)

[@cg_kungfu]

Thats aweseom! Thanx a lot for that review! Would be amazing to see all animations also, but it will take forever to do this for sure, but would be priceless!

[@MR3DDev]

NGL I wish there was a project with all the characters laid out like this. Thanks for the breakdown.

[@BlackDragon-fl2ig]

A video for the animation and sounds would be great!!

[@johanverm90]

I can only find around 40 on market place ? Do I miss something ?But so happy with these free assets .Thanks Paragon.Thanks for the video Smart Poly

[@kajusberghof]

funnily enough the assets are not supported for UE 5.2 right now. as of writing this comment the only supported engine versions are 4.19 - 4.27, 5.0 - 5.1. Is there a way to use them in 5.2? just migrate them and hope it works?

[@PatrickTheDM]

I've looked at these several times, but I had no idea they included visual FX and sound FX!

[@thatdurbanvibe1697]

PLS DO A FPS/TPS COURSE. I WILL SIGN ON IMMEDIATELY. LOVED UR BEGINNER AND INTERMEDIATE COURSES

[@johnvfx143]

wow. I have a few of these free assets. didn't realize what a massive amount of characters are available. would like to be able to take these into Blender (still need to learn Blender), and customize the skins to my different game ideas with some of the themes.

[@AllesLatte]

i would Love an overview of all different vfx/animations!

[@kenalpha3]

Ty. I could have used this a year ago. #1) Can you do a vid explaining how to/how they setup the Cloth Physics 3:30? (Idk the name that final UE4.27 uses in terms of cloth, or whatever gave it the high quality look. So can you point out the 1) Assets that affect cloth phys, 2) the settings, and 3) anything we need to know to Export/Harvest or setup or own Cloth parts in Blender? > to Import in UE4/5?) #2) Can you go over texture memory stats/requirements for this type of high Mat asset? (Im assuming that back then, phones could handle the Mem load for all the textures. So can you give us tips on what we need to set in UE4 project/settings, to manage that amount of Text mem? I only know of increasing the texture pool in INI. Anything else we need to do?)

[@user-ew4ut5mu1f]

Is there any expectation for Korean subtitles to your courses? :) and would I find it hard to go through the survival courses with UE 5.3 version? 'casue im planning to apply Nanite and lumen as long as i could

[@MOJOD0J0]

Have you made a video on how to use those in a project ?

[@michaelderosier3505]

Good review.

[@joekraphel5113]

Could you do a video on how to retarget the animations? I had some real issues trying to retarget the feng character

[@Tuggsie]

Agreed. I immediately get errors when loading in one of the characters

[@infiniteskies22]

paragon was so fun. there’s a version up on steam but it’s not the same and sadly is getting taken down in april :(

[@paluxyl.8682]

Are there any rules how the characters are allowed to use or not to use ? For example is it allowed to make ultra violet games (similar like Mortal Kombat) or remove their clothes to make adult games ? And what about removing parts like the big wheel from Gideon's back 22:47 ? Is it allowed to recolor them ? All I know is that it's only allowed to use them in the Unreal engine without mentioning Paragon in any way.

[@DailyPaily]

Cool, animations retargerting time !

[@maddened3746]

i tried mix'n'matching a few of these different characters, but i dont understand how rig & combine them .... Maybe make a tutorial like that ?? would be pretty epic considering the possibilities for it are endless

[@troy7954]

Yes

[@shootemupgaming5418]

Is there a way to download all of them in 1 file or I got to download them 1 by 1.

[@CultivationPath]

Would love to see some Workflow to extract the meshes and implememt them on ue5 skeleton. I tried but the results are really bad

[@kenalpha3]

+1 workflow vid.

[@CultivationPath]

@@kenalpha3 This one sort of do something like that, may be useful. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJesiXuCg5x7h8k

[@henrik123098]

agreed

[@erwin5126]

Thanks for the video but it’ll be awesome if you could include or add file size for each character in the description

[@EdVizenor]

My 12 year old son bought your game course with his own money, but got stuck because it's an older version and quit. How can he get help? Forms may be hard for him.

[@AztekIsTheBest]

how did you get all of them in one place? did you download one by one and made it? or is there a project with all of the characters

[@SmartPoly]

I downloaded them all and put them all in one level

[@CasalGamerGG]

So.. have You ever made the video about the effects?

[@Justlivin00]

Can we please get the advanced blueprints video? Thanks for all the content

[@rudeboy5000]

maybe a vid on taking what we want in blender ?🤔

[@tadartader9944]

Sir, I have a question can we use this assets and optimize this game for mobile devices.And can we just make a moba out of this assets

[@abludungeonmaster5817]

Which pack has the turrets?

[@kevincantrell6295]

So, all I have found are characters and the monolith. Didn't see a whole project or the sound files you showed.

[@michaelderosier3505]

I can't find the Paragon Turret Mesh. I used the link in the description but no luck. Can someone share a working link please.

[@natecoet3291]

Cool but weapons are linked to the characters, so unless you want to use blender it's something to keep in mind.

[@mahmoudalsayed1138]

Very interesting Is the course it Blueprint or C++? Also BTW these aren't supported in UE 5.2

[@SmartPoly]

they are. you can add any asset to any project despite it saying “not supported”

[@Souless-Monster]

@@SmartPoly When I try to add to project, it shows me only my 5.1 projects but not my 5.2 projects. Downgrading a project atm because of this.

[@Tuggsie]

Any info on how to actually use the animations

[@UnrealQW]

What about facial animation? Is there facial rig?

[@RodGudge]

What pack did the huge turrets come in?

[@lifeoftraderlot5647]

yes sure how to use these already vfx effective as damage projectile ? please make video for it valuable content idea

[@YaBoyThrill]

How did you import different skins?

[@roydash5657]

Please I am really needs your help. If you making this tutorial I will so grateful for you and supported you! Please.. You can make a tutorial about a character from the ground picking up some weapons and using them. Different weapons sword, pistol and axe. And each weapon will have its own animation without the inventory system, but each weapon will be activated with buttons. For example the Q button of the gun and the R button of the ax and the T button of the Hammer to attack. Like in Bloodborne, dmc and dark souls

[@kingking3857]

Hello, I want to buy the floor. Is it complete, because or not?

[@yurisilva2014]

Is it even allowed for commercial purposes? That's dope.

[@TheSicklyOne]

please do animations! would really be helpful.

[@XAHAK]

how much storage this project consume on your HDD?

[@SmartPoly]

92 GB

[@RohitRohit-mc2qd]

May I use these assets in my game. Please someone tell me about it.

[@yearight1205]

The Paragon assets just have 1 flaw, they have bones in the face instead of blendshapes. So I have no clue how to do facial mocap with them.

[@shapeshifterstudios884]

Have you tried re creating them in Metahuman & Replacing them in Blender?

[@Sky-hl8iw]

@@shapeshifterstudios884 hmm....is there any link for that tuts perhaps?

[@Impaczus43]

you missed Rampage

[@CultivationPath]

For everybody that wants the animations, there's a vídeo on KZbin from a guy that already retargeted everything and uploaded it to github

[@UnrealQW]

Link?

[@Tuggsie]

Dam you coulda atleast directed us to the link lol

[@CultivationPath]

@@Tuggsie you are correct, my bad. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXise4uAp9yGpJY

[@CultivationPath]

@@UnrealQW kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXise4uAp9yGpJY

[@Soheil2030]

Please continue Layra battle royale

[@CarlosDavid0510]

Does your course have subtitles for Brazilian Portuguese?

[@SmartPoly]

yes

[@AndreAquila]

@@SmartPoly Awesome!!! I will check it out. In what pack do i find those Turrets?

[@scott2375]

only thing wrong is epic made them hard to get rid of the weapons would be nice if they were essentially plug n play

[@paluxyl.8682]

You can try to shrink the weapons and push them in the body of the characters. I have similar things many years ago with characters that weared long cloaks, I have shrink the cloak in an editor (can't remember if it was in Blender).

[@miskliy1]

Great vdeo but paragon was a pc game not amobile game infinty blade was the mobile game epic did for movile and also gave away the assets

[@TheDesknight]

Where is Howitzer tho ?

[@SmartPoly]

who is that

[@TheDesknight]

@@SmartPoly Nooo they did my boy dirty, Howitzer is a Paragon champion, he's like a big racoon/kangaroo with a cigar piloting a mech.

[@XAHAK]