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A curated list of resources for working with Unreal Engine 4. (Awesome Unreal Engine 4)

Awesome UE4

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

Suggestions and recommendations are welcome to be filed via the GitHub issue tracker for this repository. For more information, see the contribution guidelines.

Inspired by awesome-unity, awesome-design, awesome-cpp.

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)
• SubsystemBrowserPlugin - Exposes subsystem properties to the editor
• 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.

License

This is also reflected in LICENSE.md for visibility.

To the extent possible under law, Terry Nguyen has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

awesome-ue4's Issues

Consider paid products for inclusion

There are various paid products for UE4 that are worth considering acquiring a license for. One example of such is Coherent GT, an HTML5-driven UI framework.

The spirit of this awesome list is to maintain a list of free and well-maintained resources, which is why paid assets were initially excluded. It's important to call attention to paid assets in order to create a more comprehensive list of resources. Paid teams do have the advantage of (hopefully) being able to create a better maintained product that is better supported via e-mail or forums or what-have-you.

Tasks

• Gather paid products (in this issue tracker)
• Integrate them into the awesome list
• Clearly designate paid products as such

Which is the correct Awesome UE4 repo?

Hi, I found 3 repos all claiming to be the Awesome UE4 repo. They all contain slightly different content and none seem to be a direct extension or fork of the others.

• https://github.com/terrehbyte/awesome-ue4
• https://github.com/insthync/awesome-ue4
• https://github.com/aiekick/Awesome_Unreal_Engine_4

It's not clear to me as a user which is the correct one to use or what the difference is between them. When I searched Google for Awesome UE4, the insthync one came up as the first result, but this one has more stars and seems older.

Part of the reason I am asking is that I am planning on creating a list of OSS/SSS UE4 games/projects and not sure if it's appropriate to host alongside Awesome UE4 or separately.

Evaluate Descendent Studios' OSS plugins for inclusion

@DescendentStudios, the makers of Descent: Underground, have open-sourced a number of smaller modules or utilities that were developed as a part of the development process for the aforementioned game. These works are scattered across multiple repositories associated with their GitHub entity.

Most of these projects seem to have only been last updated last year, 2016, and show no indication of being maintained on a regular basis in accordance with Unreal Engine's fairly frequent releases. However, that may only be because they merely require no work for use in the latest version of the engine.

Works for Review

• PingPlugin
• BlinkenPlugin
• ExtraConfigPlugin
• DSUtilityPlugin
• CommandLineParametersPlugin
• XMPPChatPlugin
• UE4JoystickPlugin

The above works should be reviewed to see if they meet the guidelines and be considered for inclusion in the list. Some of them, at first glance, seem a little sparse on documentation, so they'll likely be excluded for that, but others do seem promising...

I'll probably look at including a few of these in my own projects and adding them to the list if they seem solid.

Add TwitchAuth

Hi there,

I made a plugin to let developers be able to handle Twitch user authentication for extra content, etc.
Maybe it's something that could fit this list.

GitHub: https://github.com/mrbandler/TwitchAuth
Marketplace: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/twitch-auth

Touch Component

https://github.com/irajsb/UE4_TitanTouchComponent