Earning From Your Work
The Unreality3D platform supports two ways to earn directly from your creative work, and they're set up for different situations.
In-scene tools like Tip Jars let visitors support you while they're inside your experience. You add one to your scene from the Creator Dashboard, visitors click it, and the donation processes automatically with the 95/5 split—95% to your PayPal account and 5% to the platform. No external storefront, no separate visitor account, no commercial hosting required.
The U3D Market is a platform-hosted storefront where you sell packaged 3D assets for other creators to download and import directly into their own Unity projects. The U3D Market handles browsing, purchasing, and downloads at unreality3d.com/market, with the same 95/5 split on every sale.
The U3D Market
The U3D Market is where you turn finished assets into something other creators can buy and immediately use in any Unity 6+ project. Since you're publishing from an Unreality3D template project, your assets are perfectly suited for use in any other U3D project—but they also work in other Unity 6 URP-based projects like Vertex Form 3D and VRChat.
If you've built a character avatar you're happy with, a set of environment props that make a space feel alive, a library of hand-animated clips, or textures, materials, and shaders you consistently reach for in your own work, those are exactly the kind of things the U3D Market is for. Buyers browse the storefront, purchase, and download a .unitypackage file they import directly into a Unity 6+ URP project. You can keep earning from your work without having to arrange each transaction.
What You Can Sell
The U3D Market is currently set up for art and media assets:
- Character models and avatars
- Props and environment pieces
- Animations
- Materials and shaders
- Textures
- Audio
- Unity particle effects
Custom scripts and code-dependent assets are out of scope for this version—portability gets complicated when code is involved, and that's the direction for a future update if the demand is there.
Compatibility and Rights
Assets must be compatible with the Unity Universal Render Pipeline (URP) setup used in the U3D template, and you must own the legal rights to sell everything you include.
Packaging Your Assets
The packaging workflow lives in your Creator Dashboard, under the Publish tab, as a "Package for Market" option alongside the standard Publish flow for scenes.
Select the assets from your project you want to include. The tool runs a compatibility check, resolves dependencies, and flags anything that won't work portably for a buyer before you upload.
Review the compatibility report and confirm your rights to everything included. Then export the package locally and upload it. The platform validates it.
Go to your listings page to set a title and price and make it live. Upload a thumbnail through the listings page. No convoluted artwork requirement or submission process.
A Few Things Worth Knowing
- The minimum price is $5.00. The PayPal maximum is $10,000.
- You can update your listing title, thumbnail, and price at any time from the listings page.
- Going live, taking a listing down, and republishing are all available from the listings page.
- If you need to fix something in a package, start fresh from the U3D Market Packager in the Publish tab to create a new listing draft. The old listing stays active until you manually delete it.
How Buyers Experience the U3D Market
Buyers can browse the U3D Market without an account. Purchasing requires a U3D account, and PayPal offers multiple payment methods. After the transaction completes, buyers can download the package up to 3 times. If they need more, they can re-purchase to add 3 more downloads—and you earn the same 95% on each re-purchase.
The download limit exists because downloads are where the platform incurs hosting costs. Every listing explains this clearly to buyers before they purchase.
In-Scene Tip Jars
Tip Jars are for visitors who want to support your work while they're inside your experience. They're a natural fit for creator support in a "buy me a coffee" style, multiplayer spaces where visitors want to contribute to something they keep coming back to, student projects accepting community encouragement, and any situation where the right moment to say thanks is while someone is actually there.
Adding a Tip Jar
Open Creator Dashboard, go to Project Tools, and select the Monetization tab. Click Apply next to "Add Tip Jar." A worldspace UI Tip Jar object with pre-configured text, panel, and button elements appears in your scene.
In the Inspector:
- Set a minimum donation amount (defaults to $5)
- Set a maximum donation amount ($25–$100 is typical)
- Customize the button text if you'd like (PayPal conducts the actual transaction)
Position the Tip Jar object somewhere visitors are likely to be when they're enjoying your work. Near your most impressive content tends to work well.
How It Works
A visitor interacts with the Tip Jar, approves the amount displayed, and sends the payment through PayPal. 95% lands in your PayPal account automatically, and the platform split is shown up front. Visitors don't need a U3D account to donate—accounts are only required for commercial transactions through the U3D Market.
The 95/5 Transaction Split
95% to you on every transaction
95%Every tool. Every size. From the first dollar.
The 5% covers infrastructure, hosting, and processing costs. It's not a fee you have to opt into or qualify for, and there's no threshold before it applies. Every transaction, every size, splits the same way from the start.
The split is voluntary in that nothing blocks you from implementing your own payment solution outside the platform tools. Using the platform split is what keeps those tools available and what keeps the platform running, so it's appreciated, but it isn't a condition of publishing or using the platform.