Awesome UE4

This is a curated collection of articles, assets, and libraries that have been created for use with Unreal Engine 4.

Contents

• Awesome UE4
  • Assets
    • 3D Modeling and Tools
    • Analytics
    • Animations
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Audio
    • Build
    • Editor Extensions
    • Forks
    • Gameplay
    • Networking
    • Sample Projects
    • Scripting
    • User Interface
    • Utilities
  • Resources
    • Coding
    • General
    • Style and Conventions
• License

Assets

3D Modeling and Tools

• ARTv1 - Specialized tools and scripts for use with Autodesk Maya.
• ARTv2 - Experimental scripts for skeleton, rig, and animation authoring in Autodesk Maya.
• VelocityGridExport - A tool to export vector fields out of Houdini.

Analytics

• GameAnalytics Integration - Plugin for integrating with GameAnalytics services.

Animations

• Animation Starter Pack - A basic set of character animations for humanoid shooters.

Artificial Intelligence

• tensorflow-ue4 - Train and use TensorFlow in your UE4 project

Audio

• FMOD UE4 Integration - Plugin for integrating FMOD assets for realtime playback in-engine.
• Wwise Unreal Plug-in - Plugin for integrating Wwise assets for realtime playback in-engine.

Build

• LoadingScreen - Plugin for creating simple loading screens with movies and advice text.

Forks

• NVIDIA GameWorks - A fork of UE4 offering various integrations of NVIDIA's GameWorks package.
  • Note: Your GitHub account must be a part of the Epic Games organization in order to view this.

Gameplay

• ue4-targetsystemplugin - Dark Souls inspired lock-on/targeting system for cameras
• PBCharacterMovement - Recreation of HL2 movement in UE4 (from Project Borealis)

Networking

• Epic Online Services - Leverage Epic's game services for your own game (e.g. analytics, player data, player help desk, matchmaking)
• PingPlugin - ICMP ping hosts with Blueprint nodes
• TwitchAuth - In-game Twitch authentication plugin
• VaRest - A simple REST API client with support for automatic JSON deserialization.

Editor Extensions

• UE4GitPlugin - Integrates Git as a source control provider.
  • The initial release, v1, was integrated into the engine in engine version 4.7.
• UE4PlasticPlugin - Integrates PlasticSCM as a source control provider.
• UnrealFastNoise - A runtime noise generation plugin based on the excellent FastNoise from Auburns.

Sample Projects

• Epic Games' Learning Resources - Sample content and projects provided by Epic Games.
• Epic Survival Game Series - C++-based survival game project - completed version of Tom Looman's tutorial

Scripting

• SkookumScript - Plugin for integrating SkookumScript as a scripting language.
• Unreal.js - Plugin for integrating JavaScript as a scripting language.
• UnrealEnginePython - Plugin for integrating Python as a scripting language.

Utilities

• BlueprintUE - Paste and share UE Blueprints with others (like Pastebin, but for your Blueprints)
• Joy Machine's Repo of Things - Collection of modular gameplay scripts for UE4 and tools relating to game development.
• UE4 Console Variables and Commands - Quick reference for CVars and Commands available in stock UE4 with help text

Resources

Coding

• C++ Coding Standard - The Epic Games C++ Coding Standard.
• Gameplay Framework Reference - A high-level view of the concepts you'll work with in UE4.
• GASContent - Collection of notes and references for working with UE4's Gameplay Ability System
• Setting Up Visual Studio for UE4 - A guide for installing and configuring the advanced Unreal Build Tool. (UBT)
• ue4-gitignore - Example .gitignore, .gitattributes configuration for UE4 development with Git LFS
• Unreal Engine 4 for Unity Developers - A mapping of Unity3D concepts to Unreal Engine 4 concepts.
• Unreal Engine 4 Network Compendium - A guide for authoring networked gameplay in Unreal.

General

• Community Content, Tools and Tutorials - The community resources pool on the Unreal Engine forums.
• Unreal C++ - A large collection of tutorials covering common features implemented in C++
  • Harrison/unrealcpp contains source code for all of the tutorials contained above
• Unreal Development Guides and Tips - Collection of tutorials from basic to optimizing your code and your development workflow with UE4
• Unreal Engine Blog - Main feed for all news relating to Unreal Engine
  • Unreal Engine Technology - Deep-dives and technical showcases on features or strategies used by select studios
• UnrealSlackers - A Discord community of individuals working in UE4
• Reuben Ward - Reuben provides both short and long-form tutorials covering a variety of topics involving gameplay and related systems
• Tom Looman - Tom's blog provides a mixture of tutorials and personal development updates on the work he's doing

Style and Conventions

• UE4 Style Guide - A reference style guide for organizing and naming your project and code.