Top 5 Plugins for Unreal Engine

Unreal engine plugin helps you to create your own games.

Unreal Engine provides an amazingly easy way of building your own videogames or interactive experiences. To make it even easier there are an array of shaders, addons and assets available, many of which you can grab from the UE marketplace.

But in this article, we’re taking a look at the dedicated plugins that bolt onto UE and help game designers and artists add effects that would otherwise be hugely time-consuming to create or code by hand. 

1.Datasmith

Datasmith is a collection of tools and plugins that help you bring content into Unreal Engine 4.

Datasmith is designed to solve the specific challenges faced by people outside of the game industry who want to use the Unreal Engine for real-time rendering and visualizations — in industries including architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, live training, and more. But it also may be of interest to game developer.

2.Substance Plugin

Anyone who creates assets for a game that is not using the Allegorithimc substance suite is doing its own work. Substance Designer and Substance Painter are excellent tools for generating process materials and then painting UV maps using those materials.

The Substance plugin provides a conduit between applications, allowing you to adjust and modify textures on the fly. The Substance workflow is fast becoming the industry standard for the creation of Physical Based Representation (PBR) content, and if it is an independent study, you can use the entire suite, called Live Substance, for only $ 20 per month in a rent based on.

3.Dungeon Architect

This ingenious complement to the Indian developer Ali Akbar allows you to create levels either procedurally or manually but automates most of the steps so you can quickly build and iterate your game design. The levels can be generated randomly or you can use the custom editing tools to create a drawing and then let Dungeon Architect build the level around it.

The complement uses a system of 'themes' based on nodes that binds specific meshes to the floor, walls, doors, stairs, etc., so the game creates a fully textured level as it progresses, and you can change the appearance of different areas use volumes, or have a completely different level of appearance changing to a new theme. It supports different heights for a more varied level design, and even generates a navigation map for the AI ​​characters. If you are shooting in the first person for fun, tell us again why you are not using this.

4.PopcornFX

PopcornFX is the real-time FX solution for particle effects multi-platform & cross engine for games, films & AR/VR/MR.

This recently released plugin provides a conduit between Unreal Engine and the standalone PopcornFX Editor. The editor is free download and lets you generate and modify any number of particle effects – from swarms of butterflies to lightning branches to fire and smoke, explosions, dust, rain, gunfire, magic strikes… you name it.

The finished effect is saved and then imported into UE using the plugin, which then lets you alter its attributes as you see fit. If you need any major changes you simply go back into the PopcornFX editor, make your alterations, save the effect and it’s automatically reimported into UE, ready to be used. Again, the end results look well worth the investment. 

5.NeoFur

Neoglyphic (developers of the Sunborn Rising franchise) recently released its skin plugin in real time. Like other patented systems, Neofur uses multiple process envelopes, densely placed one on top of the other to create the effect of the fibers, a technique that was first introduced in 2004.

The complement offers simplicity of drag and drop, and can be applied to static or skeletal meshes with support for hairstyles based on grooves, length and thickness of the material, dynamic shadow, environmental occlusion and LOD control. The basic physics of the skin can also be simulated and is compatible with the wind and radial forces of Unreal Engine. So, if you need a hairy character, hair, vegetation or carpets, Neofur is a simple and affordable solution.