Awesome Unreal

A curated list of Unreal Engine resources

Contents

• Awesome Unreal Repositories
  • AI
  • Gameplay
  • Locomotion
  • Networking
  • Scripting
  • UI
  • Utilities
  • World Building
• Projects
• Resources
  • Articles & Documentation
  • Blogs
  • Books
  • Communities
  • YouTube Channels

Awesome Unreal Repositories

AI

• Charisma SDK - A tool for building conversational characters into your game.
• Reasonable Planning AI - Create an AI using a data driven editor.

Gameplay

• PBCharacterMovement - HL2-style, classic FPS movement for Unreal Engine implemented in C++.
• SPUD - Save game state and streaming level persistence solution.
• SUQS - Data driven quest system.
• UE4-CustomGravityPlugin - Custom gravity plugin.
• ue4-targetsystemplugin - Dark Souls inspired camera lock on and targeting system plugin.
• VaFogOfWar - A clear and simple solution of Fog of War for Unreal Engine.

Locomotion

• ALS-Community - Replicated and optimized community version of Advanced Locomotion System V4

Networking

• ObjectDeliverer - Data transmission and reception library for Unreal Engine.
• SMN2 - Character movement network prediction.
• SocketIOClient-Unreal - Socket.IO client plugin for Unreal Engine.
• Socketer - A TCP socket blueprint library for Unreal Engine.
• TCP-Unreal - Convenience TCP wrapper for Unreal Engine.
• UDP-Unreal - Convenience UDP wrapper for Unreal Engine.
• Unreal Fetch - Fetch API inspired HTTP client for Unreal Engine.
• VaRest - REST API plugin for Unreal Engine.

Scripting

• Unreal.js - Javascript runtime built for Unreal Engine.
• UnrealCLR - Unreal Engine .NET 6 Integration.
• Unreal Rust - Opinionated Rust integration for Unreal Engine.

UI

• Custom Shape Button - Allows you to make buttosn of any shape.
• MDFastBinding - A versatile and performant alternative to property bindings.
• Settings Widget Constructor - Automatically generate UI for your game settings.

Utilities

• Houdini Engine - A plugin to allow integration with Houdini Digital Assets workflows.
• Ultraleap SDK - Enables data produced by Ultraleap's hand tracking to be used by developers inside their Unreal projects.

World Building

• ProceduralDungeon - A plugin to build procedural dungeons.
• Street Map - Import OpenStreetMap XML data into your Unreal Engine project.
• UnrealSandboxTerrain - Smooth voxel terrain plugin.
• Voxel Plugin - Create fully volumetric, entirely destructible, infinite worlds in Unreal Engine.

Projects

• Aura - An example game built using the Gameplay Ability System.
• Bomber - Open-source Bomberman multiplayer game made in Unreal Engine 5.
• Eternal Crusade: Resurrection - Multiplayer shooter built using best practides from Lyra.
• Lyra - Example game built by Epic Games.

Resources

Articles & Documentation

• GASDocumentation - Helps fill in the gaps of the official Gameplay Ability System documentation.
• UE5 Styleguide - Guidelines for making Unreal Engine projects more consistent.

Blogs

• Tom Looman UE5 Tutorials - Various Unreal Engine focused tutorials.
• World of Level Design - A whole host of tutorials dedicated to designing levels.

Books

• Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine 5

Communities

• GameDev.tv Discord - A community focused on the GameDev.tv courses.
• Unreal Source - The largest Discord community focused on Unreal Engine.

YouTube Channels

• Ben Cloward - Focused primarily on shader creation tutorials.
• CodeLikeMe - A wide variety of Unreal Engine focused tutorials.
• Mathew Wadstein - Easily one of the most useful channels for Unreal Engine. Videos going over just about every major class and Blueprint node.
• Ryan Laley - Primarily Blueprint based Unreal Engine tutorials.
• Smart Poly - Large range of tutorials including a Survival Game course.
• The Cherno Project - While not specific to Unreal Engine, Cherno has tons of great C++ and general game engine content.
• Unreal Engine - The official Unreal Engine YouTube channel with weekly livestreams.
• Virtus Learning Hub - Unreal Engine focused tutorials with several lengthy courses.

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