Links
Learning resources, discords and utils that I’ve bookmarked.
A neat tutorial about creating and blending between SDFs.
The gold standard for style guides in Unreal. Many studios refer to this guide for structuring their project, naming assets, and more.
A wrapper for any shell application (I use it around Git Bash) that adds some much needed formatting and functionality benefits like tabs, summoning via hotkeys, etc.
A driver that allows the use of PlayStation controllers (as well as many others) on Windows.
The official community for forums, tutorials, and other docs related to Unreal.
Some nice tech art / sdf tutorials.
A huge collection of professional AI publications from top studios and games.
Thousands of job postings from tons of studios in the games industry.
The GameplayAbilities plugin now comes with a README that is great for onboarding. It links to the official developer docs as well as tranek’s open source GASDocumentation.
Interplay of Light is a graphics blog by Kostas Anagnostou. These three great articles detail how Unreal renders a frame from start to finish.
Co-creator of shadertoy and an incredible resource for learning to write shaders and think about graphics programming.
A massive amount of notes and links about unreal, c++, and many other languages and technologies. The unreal notes doc was a good first read when starting to dip past the surface of the engine.
A tool for generating signed distance field textures.
The famous documentation detailing how multiplayer networking works in Unreal.
Condensed and thorough documentation on multithreading and general performance.
The best life and project organization tool out there. Amazing for design docs and similar.
Orfeas’s site is another gold bookmark with many unique c++ tutorials for Unreal, covering some uncommonly found topics.
Tool for creating reference and mood boards.
Tech art blog by Ryan Brucks at Epic.
Great tutorial consolidating a lot of experience in adding new shading models and lighting features. I used very similar techniques to accomplish Creature in the Well and Stonefly’s look.
One of the most important Unreal C++ learning sites around. Tom’s work can teach you everything you need to know about Unreal.
Supplemental documentation for diving deeper into Slate and UMG.
This list would be incomplete without the official Unreal Engine documentation. It gets better with every release, don’t ignore it!
Formerly benui.ca — a learning site with a huge number of great Unreal tutorials and resources, mostly focused on UI, but covering a variety of topics in the engine.
Formerly benui — A great Unreal developer discord, largely focused on UI but with experienced devs from all other areas as well.
A massive discord community for Unreal Engine users.
A great resource for all things UI. Contains books, learning resources, and career advice.
WinMerge is an excellent tool for diffing one folder against another in Windows. It’s a great way to ensure consistency when performing large copies, integrates, syncs, etc.
An unbelievably faster alternative to WinDirStat. Displays disk usage so you can clear up drive space quickly on Windows.