List of commercial Asset Store items that has since BECOME FREE!!!!!

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I was just randomly browsing the Asset Store today (as always! :smile:) and discovered an asset extension that I have always wanted has since become free!!! That got me thinking - just how many previously commercial Asset Store items have now since become free?? I tried to search with ā€œFREEā€ as search term in the Asset Store but it always return with just items that are always free, and the search result is not even the complete list because those items that have since gone free are not in the result.

Anyway, without further ado - A list of Asset Store items that I have discovered that was previously priced that have since became FREE!

First, Directional Ambient Tools might be buggy - read the comments in Asset Store and use it at your own risk!!!

Directional Ambient Tools $50 (NOW FREE!)

LightShape $15 (NOW FREE!)

PS: Please share your own list if you discovered some! :smile:

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Found another one!
I am not too sure about the price, I remember it was around $100 bucks but it was buggy and not as good as Strumpy Shader Editor (which is always free).

Try it at your own risk!

ShaderFusion $100 (NOW FREE!)

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Does it count if old versions are free, but not the current ones? NGUI 2.7 is free, for example.

http://www.tasharen.com/?page_id=140

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Thanks!

Typo in this link:

bolded part: www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!%21/content/5587
correct one: www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/5587

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Gawd damn I am on a roll tonight! :smile:
Just found another one I wanted that has since gone FREE! :smile:

Magical Box $100 (NOW FREE!)


BEWARE !! READ THE DESCRIPTION !! Magical Box isnā€™t fully compatible to Unity 4.3 because it uses some now obsolete functions (mostly Undo), but otherwise it should work well with 4.3! So try it at your own risk!

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I suppose so! :slight_smile:

Thanks Chelnok! Fixed! :slight_smile:

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I was gonna try Directional Ambient Tools, but i found something from Assetā€™s original thread:

Does this really mean that plugin effects not only one project, but all projects?

edit: link to thread: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/directional-ambient-tools.170033/

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Looks like it, in the manual here states that it requires you to REPLACE the default UnityCG.cginc file which replace ALL of Unityā€™s default built-in shaders and global variables and helper functions. Make sure you backup the original UnityCG.cginc.

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Another one that fit the billā€¦

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FPS Constructor - Unity Asset Store - The Best Assets for Game Making

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Advanced Fantasy AI 2.0 - It was originally $50 I believe.

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no more support or update ā†’ free

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Sweet thread, I love free! Since most of these are free because they are no longer supported, it would be awesome if the developers open sourced them and threw them up on GitHub. Then they could at least be somewhat maintained by the community.

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Yes, those who have paid for would get another kind of support, that would be a good solution.

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Strumpy Shader Editor is Free and Open Source.
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/strumpy-shader-editor-now-open-source.56180/

Last release was in Unity 3, but its open source so I guess you could re-jig it for Unity 4?

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A bit different, but Fluvio has a free edition out there. It has full support and gets updates along with the other editions, too.

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NGUI Infinite Pickers

UMA Helper

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This never did cost anything, but thereā€™s a lot under the hood here for a free asset: LightShape.

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Scroll up - itā€™s already listed it in my first post! :wink:

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LOL ā€¦ Thatā€™s right ā€¦ I saw that the first time I looked at this thread ā€¦ :slight_smile: