[UE4]Tools and Plugins, Documents and Blogs

Suite of tools for Autodesk Maya to help with skeleton creation, skeleton placement, rig creation, and final animation.
https://github.com/EpicGames/ARTv2

The official Animation Compression Library Unreal Engine 4 plugin.
https://github.com/nfrechette/acl-ue4-plugin

Root Motion Guide
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/root-motion-guide

Vertex Anim Toolset
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/vertex-anim-toolset

RMAMirrorAnimation
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/rmamirroranimation

UE4 Scene

WorldMachine + UE4: Full Workflow
https://80.lv/articles/worldmachine-ue4-full-workflow/

Interactive Tree Creator
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/interactive-tree-creator

Dungeon Generator V2
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/dungeon-generator

Ultimate River Tool
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/ultimate-river-tool

Procedural Ivy Generator
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/procedural-ivy-generator

Gothic Mega Pack by Meshingun Studio
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/gothic-mega-pack-by-meshingun-studio

UE4 Procedural

Dungeon Architect
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/dungeon-architect

Procedural Water Foliage Tool
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/procedural-water-foliage-tool

This project aims to provide a framework and a solid implementation of different techniques for generating complete seamless procedural cities with interiors for all buildings.
https://github.com/magnificus/Procedural-Cities

Easy Voxels: Cubic
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/easy-voxels-cubic

Easy Voxels: Marching Cubes
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/easy-voxels-marching-cubes

Voxel Plugin PRO (Recommended)
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/voxel-plugin-pro

Easy Voxels provides a fast, multi-threaded and reliable way to generate Voxel Geometry using various algorithms.(Recommended)
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/easy-voxels https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/easy-voxels-marching-cubes

UE4 Procedural Mesh

UE4.7 Procedural Mesh Generation plugin
https://github.com/SRombauts/UE4ProceduralMesh

Procedural mesh examples for Unreal 4
https://github.com/SiggiG/ProceduralMeshDemos

Runtime Mesh Component
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/runtime-mesh-component

Solid Geometry Lib
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/solid-geometry-lib

UE4 Procedural Landscape

Landscape Auto Material
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/landscape-auto-material

Automatic Landscape Material
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/automatic-landscape-material

Automatic Landscape Deserts
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/automatic-landscape-deserts

Advanced Procedural Landscape Material
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/zh-CN/slug/advanced-procedural-landscape-material

Automatic Landscape Material
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/automatic-landscape-material

Procedural Landscape Generator
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/procedural-landscape-generator

Landscape Pro 2.0 Auto-Generated Material (Recommended)
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/landscape-pro-auto-generated-material

AutoLandscapeMatAlpine
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/autolandscapematalpine

An Unreal Engine 4 implementation of the Polygonal Map Generator for generating islands
https://github.com/Jay2645/Unreal-Polygonal-Map-Gen

Easy Voxels: Marching Cubes
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/easy-voxels-marching-cubes

Replicated Sublevel Instances
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/replicated-sublevel-instances#

Mesh to Terrain Converter
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/mesh-to-terrain-converter

Open World Bakery landscape generator
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/open-world-bakery-landscape-generator

Fast and easy system that is fully automatic, has the ability to paint textures, and add up to 2 overlay textures that can easily be mapped to fit your landscape!
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/ios-automatic-landscape-material

UE4 Materials

Unreal Engine 4 smear frame material effect
https://github.com/LuggLD/SmearFrame

Bake and merge Skeletal Mesh and Static Mesh materials and sections (Materials Optimization)
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/meshbake

UE4 Textures

RMATextureResizer
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/rmatextureresizer

UE4 Mesh

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/profile/Mary+Nate

Pivot Tool
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/pivot-tool

Prefab Tool
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/prefab-tool

Instance Tool
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/instance-tool

Mesh Tool
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/mesh-tool

UE4.21 tool to automatically merge large meshes and instance smaller ones
https://github.com/alexismorin/MergeVolume

Mesh Morpher
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/mesh-morpher#

Gore System Plugin (BlueprintExposed)
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/klian-s-gore-system-plugin

Ambient Lighting/Dynamic Light Probes(Cheap Ambient Lighting System)
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/ambient-light-probes

Dynamic Bounce Lighting
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/dynamic-bounce-lighting

Real Neon Sign Creator
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/real-neon-sign-creator

Ambient Occlusion Decals and GI Bounce Light
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/ambient-occlusion-decals-and-gi-bounce-light

Video Ambient Lighting
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/video-ambient-lighting

Debug & Trace & Optimization & Insight & Profiling

Memory Tracing Software
https://github.com/deplinenoise/ig-memtrace
https://wessamfathi.com/2017/11/04/integrating-insomniac-games-memtrace-tool-into-unreal-engine-4-part-1/
Integrating Insomniac Games MemTrace Tool into Unreal Engine 4 – Part 2
https://wessamfathi.com/2017/11/23/integrating-insomniac-games-memtrace-tool-into-unreal-engine-4-part-2/

microprofile is an embeddable profiler
https://github.com/jonasmr/microprofile

UE4 Run-time

Runtime Gizmo (Transform Tool)
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/runtime-gizmohttps://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/explainer-video?lang=en-US

Runtime FBX Import (Asynchronous)
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/runtime-fbx-import-asynchronous

RuntimeMeshImportExport
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/runtimemeshimportexport

UE4 Multiplayer

Steam Party
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/steam-beacons

UWorks
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/uworks

Multiplayer With Blueprints (AWS)
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/aws-cognito-dynamodb-gamelift-lambda

UE4 Level Design

Prefabricator
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/prefabricator

UE4 Water

UIWS - Unified Interactive Water System
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/uiws-unified-interactive-water-system

UE4 Foliage

UIPF - Unified Interactive Physical Foliage
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/uipf-unified-interactive-physical-foliage

UE4 Landscapes & Terrain

North Terrain Brushes
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/north-terrain-brushes

StitchingOfLandscapes
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/stitchingoflandscapes

UE4 Export

ExportObjectPlugin
https://github.com/Allar/ExportObjectPlugin

UE4 Assets Manage

Clean Project
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/clean-project

Asset Batch Edit Plugin for UE4 Editor
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/asset-batch-edit-plugin-for-ue4-editor

UE4 Scripts

lua dev plugin for unreal engine 4
https://github.com/Tencent/sluaunreal

A feature-rich, easy-learning and highly optimized Lua scripting plugin for UE4.
https://github.com/Tencent/UnLua
UE4热更新：基于UnLua的Lua编程指南
https://imzlp.me/posts/36659/

Write your game with TypeScript in the ue4 or unity
https://github.com/Tencent/puerts

UE4 Audio

Explainer Video
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/explainer-video

SoundToolKit
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/soundtoolkit

UE4 Video

Video Player 360 (2D, 180, 360, Stereo)
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/video-player-360-2d-180-360-stereo

LiveVideoCapturePlugin
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/livevideocaptureplugin
Playing Live Video Captures
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/MediaFramework/HowTo/UsingWebCams/index.html

Projectionist
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/projectionist

Stereo Panoramic Player
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/stereo-panoramic-player

Media Framework plug-in for NewTek’s Network Device Interface (NDI).
https://github.com/ue4plugins/NdiMedia

The Blackmagic Media plugin enables users to natively send SDI video in and out of Unreal Engine.
https://github.com/ue4plugins/BlackmagicMedia

UE4 Record Screen (Capture Video)

FrameCapture - Screen Capture and Video Recorder
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/framecapture-screen-capture-and-video-recorder

Take Recorder
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Sequencer/Workflow/TakeRecorder/index.html

Rendering Out Cinematic Movies
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Sequencer/HowTo/RenderMovies/index.html

UE4 VOX Format

MagicaVoxel VOX Format import plugin for Unreal Engine 4
https://github.com/mik14a/VOX4U

UE4 Run-time GI

Global Illumination - Enlighten
https://www.siliconstudio.co.jp/middleware/enlighten/en/

Sky & Weather

The ultimate, award winning, real-time sky & weather renderer.
https://simul.co/truesky/

Hemisphere is a sky and cloud plugin based on real life high dynamic range recordings featuring physically accurate lighting values. Get the plugin and timelapses here!
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/hemisphere-plugin
https://gumroad.com/wouterweynants

Operations & Analytics

Microsoft Azure PlayFab
https://github.com/PlayFab/UnrealMarketplacePlugin

Camera

Cine Cam
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/cine-cam

Advanced Third Person Camera
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/advanced-third-person-camera

Computer Vision (Face Recognition & OpenCV)

Integrating OpenCV Into Unreal Engine 4
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Integrating_OpenCV_Into_Unreal_Engine_4

OpenCV integration with UE 4.19. In progress
https://github.com/Batname/UE4OpenCV
https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/work-in-progress/1467754-plugin-opencv-plugin-for-ue-4-19

C++ project for face recognition with OpenCV which compiles into native library for Android and works from UE4 project
https://github.com/rnixik/face-recognition-ue4

A simple OpenCV plugin that integrates the OpenCV library into UE4. The plugin includes some blueprint classes that demonstrate how OpenCV can interact with the engine.
https://github.com/Brandon-Wilson/OpenCV-Plugin

Demo for integrating OpenCV and UE4 using conan-ue4cli
https://github.com/adamrehn/ue4-opencv-demo

Ocean & Water

Oceanology
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/oceanology

UIWS - Unified Interactive Water System
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/uiws-unified-interactive-water-system

Realistic Ocean Simulator
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/realistic-ocean-simulator

Speech

Text to Speech
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/text-to-speech

Map & Real World

COALA - map plugin with real world integration
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/coala-map-plugin-with-real-world-integration

Blueprint Assist

Node Find and Replace
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/node-find-and-replace

Rama’s Victory BP Plugin
https://github.com/EverNewJoy/VictoryPlugin

A plugin to help you to create node graph faster and easier in unreal engine 4.
https://github.com/pdlogingithub/UE4-Node-Graph-Assistant

Generic graph data structure plugin for ue4
https://github.com/jinyuliao/GenericGraph

Export Recast navigation data from UE4.
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/exportnavigation

Export ue4 navigation data to outside.
https://github.com/hxhb/ue4-export-nav-data

3D navmesh generation and pathfinding plugin for UnrealEngine.
https://github.com/midgen/uesvon

AI

Hierarchical Task Network Planning AI
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/hierarchical-task-network-planning

Networking (TCP, WebSocket, HTTP)

ObjectDeliverer
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/objectdeliverer

unreal engine 4 websocket plugin for both c++ and blueprint developer
https://github.com/feixuwu/UEWebsocket

Web

Web Server for Unreal
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/unreal-web-server

PDF

Widget Documentation Plugin
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/widget-documentation-plugin

File System (Directory)

Easy File System (Blueprint Library)
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/easy-file-system-plugin

Easy File Manager - EFM
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/easy-file-manager-efm

Workflow

Customize, Optimize, & Automate. Significantly enhance and accelerate your Unreal Engine real-time workflow from start to finish by using OPTIM!
https://theia.io/optim/

Container (Docker)

Windows and Linux containers for Unreal Engine 4. Docs: UE4 Docker
https://github.com/adamrehn/ue4-docker

Example Dockerfiles for using Unreal Engine containers
https://github.com/adamrehn/ue4-example-dockerfiles

Multi-threading

Multi Task Pro
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/multitask-pro

Noise Functions

Noise Plugin
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/noise-plugin

ECS (Entity Component System)

Huge space battle using an ECS library for the logic. Built on UE4
https://github.com/vblanco20-1/ECS_SpaceBattle

UE4 GUI (Interface)

UIParticle Plugin 5.1
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/uiparticleplugin

LGUI (Lex GUI) - 3D UI System for UE4
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/lgui-lex-gui-3d-ui-system-for-ue4

View Projection

iLocalPlayer4UE4
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/ilocalplayer

Compression

UE4 ZStandard Compression Plugin
https://github.com/hxhb/ue4-zstd

UE4 Content Tools & Scripts

UE4 Pivot Painter Tool

Pivot Painter Tool 2.0
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Content/Tools/PivotPainter/PivotPainter2/index.html

UE4 Documents

Naming

Gamemakin UE4 Style Guide
https://github.com/Allar/ue4-style-guide

Pivot