Selling assets.

Sell maps, interiors, models, textures and sounds like scripts: what a package holds, how each platform delivers it, what protection means for assets, and what it does not.

SDK scriptgo_version 0.1Source: scriptgo-sdk/docs/site/selling-assets.md

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What you can sell
Declare them
How each platform delivers them
Protection
Check a copy

A SCRIPT//GO package can carry assets: files players download and their game loads. That covers maps, interiors, vehicles, models, textures, sounds and translations. You sell them exactly like scripts: the same offers, licences, grants and refunds. A package can hold scripts, assets or both.

What you can sell

Assets are data. A package's assets cannot contain code: no .exe, .dll, .lua, .js, no script, no bytecode, whatever the file is named. scriptgo validate checks every file, including the files inside an archive. Code goes in scripts.

Whether you may sell a given asset is up to you and the game's terms. A model you made from scratch, an edit of the game's own files and a file taken from the game are different cases. Say which case yours is when you publish (scriptgo publish --asset-rights original|game-edits|game-extracted, or the release page): operators see it on the package page. SCRIPT//GO acts on reports.

Declare them

Add the files to scriptgo.lua:

lua

assets "media/*.png"                                   -- delivered where the platform takes plain files
environment_asset "open77" "dist/night_market.zip"     -- one platform's own format
environment_asset "fivem" { "stream/*", "data/night_market.meta" }
data_file "DLC_ITYP_REQUEST" "data/night_market.meta"  -- FiveM: load this file as data
game_build "fivem" "3095"                               -- the game build you made it for

Then check it:

bash

scriptgo validate .

validate lists, per platform, how many files each player downloads and anything the server needs (ArchiveXL, a map URL, FastDL).

How each platform delivers them

Platform	What you ship	What the server owner does
OPEN//77	plain files, and `.zip` preload packages of REDengine archives (`archive/pc/mod/`), tweaks and engine config	installs the resource and restarts; players download it before joining
FiveM	`stream/` files, data files with `data_file`	installs the resource
Garry's Mod	content in `materials/`, `models/`, `sound/`, `maps/` ...	copies the addon into `addons/`
Luanti	textures, sounds, models, translations	copies the media mod into `mods/`
BeamMP	BeamNG mod `.zip` files	copies them into `Resources/Client`
Rust	one custom `.map`	hosts the map at a URL and sets `server.levelurl`
Hytale	an asset pack `.zip`	copies it into the server's `mods/`
Standalone, LÖVE, Godot, .NET	files of the resource	nothing: there are no players to send them to

scriptgo pack . --target <platform> builds each platform's form. If a file cannot reach players on that platform, the pack stops and says why: nothing is left out without telling you. Each platform page says what was tested on its real server: see Environments.

Protection

For assets, SCRIPT//GO gives you:

A licence-gated download. Only licence holders can download a release.
A fingerprinted copy per buyer. Every buyer's download is different: it carries a signed record of its licence, so a copy found elsewhere can be traced back to who downloaded it.
Signed releases. The CLI checks a download is the one SCRIPT//GO published.
Takedown on report. Report a leak with the file; staff look it up and can revoke the licence, stop the server's deployment, and restrict or suspend the listing or the seller's store.

What it does not do: a game has to have an asset in clear to draw it, so a player who wants to can extract it from their game. Unzipping and re-packing a copy removes its fingerprint. Assets are licensed, fingerprinted and traceable. They are not encrypted, and nothing makes them impossible to copy.

An encrypted asset format exists in the SDK for platforms that build support for it into their game client (the spec). No platform has that support today.

Check a copy

bash

scriptgo assets fingerprint night_market-2.0.0.zip

It prints the licence each fingerprint names, and whether the signature is valid.