Useful Unreal Editing Tools and Resources
Last Update: 15 April, 2008

Disclaimer
We hope these articles and resources will prove useful, but your projects are your responsibility. Always make any necessary backup of your work to revert to incase things go horribly wrong.

Introduction
This article is a small and ever expanding collection of all the useful tools & resources that may help you in different aspects of creating levels with UnrealED. All of these tools are free. If you know of a tool or resource that deserves to be featured here, please feel free to contact me using the e-mail address at the bottom of each page.

Identify Colour - Tool for Colour Blind Mappers

HDRShop
By the University of Southern California - http://ict.usc.edu

A small program that can be used to manipulate HDR images, and warp images to and from different panoramic formats. Can be used to convert skybox textures into skydome textures, as described in our tutorial.

Download (384KB .zip)

Identify Colour - Tool for Colour Blind Mappers

ATI CubeMapGen
By ATI - http://ati.amd.com

A tool for importing, filtering, visualizing, and exporting cubemaps. Enables you to stitch together skybox textures into a 'sky cross'.

Download (ATI CubeGenMap Homepage)

Identify Colour - Tool for Colour Blind Mappers

Identify Colour - Tool for Colour Blind Mappers
By Hazel Whorley - http://www.hazelwhorley.com

A small program that uses numerical values to identify colours, and provide a description.

Features:
- Open or paste images for colour choosing (press print screen then ctrl+v to paste a screenshot)
- Displays hue, saturation, lightness and a description
- Hover over the image to "search", left-click to select a colour
- Generates a text light actor which can then be pasted into UnrealEd

Download (16KB .rar)

Unreal Tournament Cache Extractor

Cache Extractor
By Granite Mountain Software - http://gms.cyberrock.net

This cache extractor will extract items downloaded from servers, and place them in the correct folders. For all versions of Unreal Tournament.

Download (Cache Extractor Homepage)

Unreal Unit Converter

Unreal Unit Converter
By 'The Alien' - http://www.angelfire.com/games3/thealien/

A useful and easy to use tool for converting Unreal Units to real measurements, for all versions of UnrealED.

Download v0.8 Beta (16KB .zip)

REAL2UNREAL

REAL2UNREAL
By Steam Labs - http://streamlab.info

Another newer but more difficult tool for converting Unreal Units to real measurements, for all versions of UnrealED.

Download v0.3 Beta (2.5KB .zip) or use the Web Version

Name Generator

Name Generator
By Nicolas Forsell - http://travel.to/niclas

This little tool generates a wide variety of random names of different length. This can be especially useful if you're needing unique character, building, map, or place names.

Download v2.11 (128KB .zip)

TerraEdit

TerraEdit
By Andrew Scheidecker

This older tool lets you create BSP based terrain easily, to import them into UnrealED. Useful for earlier games such as Deus Ex and Unreal Tournament, which included versions of UnrealED where terrain wasn't possible.

Download v0.5 (13KB .zip)

TerraGen

TerraGen + Skybox Script
By Planetside Software - http://www.planetside.co.uk

This program generates amazing and realistic terrain - together with the skybox kit, you can create great skyboxes for your level.

Download (TerraGen Homepage)

Skybox Creation:
Terragen 1 Users: Download SkyBox Script (1.11KB .zip)
Terragen 2 Users: SkyBox Tutorial

MayaPLE

MayaPLE (Personal Learning Edition)
By AutoDesk - http://usa.autodesk.com

MayaPLE is the free version of Maya, Included on all copies on UT2K4 (Check CD6's 'extras' folder). There is also a plug in available that will let you export models to UnrealED with ease.

However, the PLE version, like GMax, is crippled slightly, it saves in an different format than Maya Complete so you can't transfer files, and there is a large watermark on the modeling window at all times.

Download (MayaPLE Homepage)

Blender

Blender
By The Blender Foundation - http://www.blender.org

Another free modeling tool, simpler than Maya/Max, but still capable of great models. If you have problems with Maya/Max, you may want to give this a try. Small download size is a nice plus.

Download (Blender Homepage)

Map Manager

Map Manager (UT/UT2K3)
By Nasty PC - http://www.nastypcs.com

Map Manager is a program for installing, listing, and converting files for Unreal Tournament, and Unreal Tournament 2003. It includes a cache converter, installation for downloaded archives, and lets you rename and tidy up files.

Download (Map Manager Homepage)

G16ed

G16ed
By Martin Bell - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martingbell/

A height map editor that works directly with the UEd3 G16 format (16-bit greyscale.) Provides editing tools not found in the UEd3 terrain editor, allowing you to Cut, copy, paste, rotate & flip all or sections of a height map, add noise, and easy ramp creation.

Download (30KB, .zip)

UnrealED Tools

UnrealED Tools
By Rachel 'Angel Mapper' Cordone - http://www.angelmapper.com

This is an UnrealED add-on that adds the following, very useful, buttons;

1. Selected surface scale *2
2. Selected surface scale /2
3. Transform permanently - Useful when the red brush disappears while scaling.
4. Stat render - Shows polygon and rendering statistics when in Real-Time Preview mode.

Download (12.8KB, .zip)

ASE to T3D

ASEtoT3D
By Daire Stockdale - http://www.solosnake.com

This program handily converts .ASE files (Discreet's Ascii Scene Exporter file format) to .T3D. It is designed for the importation of textured brushes into the editor. For example, you can convert a mesh into a brush, to be used as the collision of a mesh.

Download (265KB, .zip)

ModPlug Player

ModPlug Player
By Olivier Lapicque - http://www.modplug.com

32-bit music MODule player for Windows. Can be used to listen to and convert .umx files to .wav.

Download v1.42 (259KB, .zip)

ModPlug Tracker

ModPlug Tracker
By Olivier Lapicque - http://www.modplug.com

A 32-bit tracker application for Windows capable of up to 48 KHz, 16-bit, stereo output. Can be used to open Unreal .umx files for remixing, editing, or extracting samples. Many other formats also supported.

Download v1.09 (561KB, .zip)

gUnrealTools

gUnrealTools (GUTs)
Jeffery Bakker - http://www.sf.net/projects/gunrealtools

GUTs is a single program which provides GUI tools for UT2K4 in Linux. These tools are a cache manager, a umod unpacker, a uz2 compressor/decompressor, and a dedicated server launcher.

Download (SourceForge Project Page)

TexAlign

TexAlign
By Robert Wey

A very useful program that assists with aligning textures. Allows you to align textures perfectly and quickly to awkward BSP faces using useful tools such as texture skewing and pillar wrapping. Communicates directly with UnrealED.

Download v2.00 (376KB, .zip)

UTXGaffer

UTXGaffer
By Dennis 'Luftpumpe' Grass

Allows you to view the contents of texture packages much faster then having to open them in UnrealED. Does not need UnrealED to be open. Also allows you to export textures.

Download v2.1 (196KB, .zip)

T3D Viewer

T3D Browser
By Carlos Cuello

Allows you to view custom .t3d brushes (prefabs).

Download (252KB, .zip)

WOTgreal

UT2K4 Message Colourizer
By Neil P "Hyrulian Hero"

Small program that makes it easy to copy and paste the codes needed to colorize your messages in Unreal Tournament 2004. Can no longer be used for Say/Teamspeak, as this functionality has been disabled by Epic in later patches. Can still be used within maps.

Download (1.4MB, .zip)

WOTgreal

WOTgreal
By Dean Harmon - http://www.wotgreal.com

WOTgreal is a fully featured IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for UnrealScript. Can be set up for any Unreal Engine Based game.

Download (WOTgreal Homepage)

Other Useful Items & Resources

Mesh Maker
MeshMaker is a Windows-based Unreal and Unreal Tournament editing tool that converts UnrealEd brushes (or prefabs) to decoration meshes.
[Download] (506KB, .zip) By Mychaeel

UTRota
A command-line based utility which rotates and mirrors UnrealEd 3.0 height maps and alpha layers. UTRota supports uncompressed .bmp and .tga files as exported by the UnrealEd 3.0 texture browser.
[Download] v0.80d (34KB, .zip) By Strider - http://www.stelcontar.net

.UMX Decoder
Winamp plugin - allows you to play .umx files in WinAmp. Also allows you to convert the file to .wav (through WinAmp). See our Audio Conversion tutorial [Link] for audio format conversion tools.
[Download] (v0.6, 73.5Kb, .zip) by (Author Unknown)

Code & Scripts

Old Skool Monsta Tools
This set of tools allows you to create single player adventures with progressive objectives conquering puzzles, traps and monsters for Unreal Tournament 2004; all within a very small package. Can also be used to implement complex monster behavior in any gametype. [More Info]
[Download] (v1.4, 499Kb, .zip) by Glenn 'SuperApe' Storm

Team Specific Actors
The actors in this package treat players on different teams in a different way. Includes team specific nodes, jump pads, teleporters, weapon lockers, and more. Full documentation in the readme file. [Download] (207kb, .zip) by 'Jrubzjeknf'

Dynamic Weather
This great piece of work will enable you to add a large amount of dynamic weather effects, including, but not limited to; Triggerable weather, lighting, fog, and sound, lightening, earthquakes, meteors, and tornados (!), and much more. Unfortunately the official site (and documentation) is down, but you can still get it here: [Download] (140kb, .rar) by 'MarZer'

Blender to .ASE Script - [Download] (v1.0, 30kb, .py) by 'Doc Holliday'

Vehicle For All
This package will enable you to add vehicles within all game modes. Includes full instructions and example map [Download]. (v1.0, 2.74MB, .zip) by 'Ausbrecher'

Textures & Skyboxes

Hourences IndusX Texture Pack (55MB)
An industrial themed texture pack containing 140 high quality textures from Hourences [Download]. Also available is a pack for UT, in a smaller, separate download, [here].

Photo-Realistic Texture Pack / Lego Texture Pack (124MB)
The photo realistic pack contains over 2000 seamless realistic textures. Also available is a Lego texture pack, containing 162 textures [More Info].

Hazel.H Texture & Skybox Packs
A collection of good quality textures and skyboxes for download. [More Info].

Mayang's Free Textures
Whilst not tileable, these super-high quality photo-realistic textures can be very useful, and fit very nicely into a map. [More Info]

Pi Design
A smaller site containing around 200 (At last count) tilable textures. [More Info]

Additions, Alterations, Broken Links..?
Feel free to contact me using the e-mail address at the bottom of each page.