Modding

The Unturned II Dev Kit is a modified version of the Unreal Engine 4 development kit, and is the central modding tool.

Getting started

• Coding standard / Naming conventions

Recommended programs

• Unreal Engine 4
  • Particle effects are made in the Niagara Editor.
• Autodesk Maya

Optional programs

• Blender

Public assets

• U4-Maya plugin: https://github.com/SmartlyDressedGames/U4-Maya

Documentation

This documentation was originally used for Nelson's personal reference, as well as a reference for modders.

• Rail systems
• Creating meshes + animations: Denizen setup
• Wearables
• Inventory (Item menu builders)
• Interaction
• Props

Notes

• All static meshes should be inside blueprints, even if they do not require additional data.
• Normal maps are not currently being used.
• Animating meshes inside of Unreal Engine is acceptable.
• Public access to the car mesh, alongside proper car documentation, will be released sometime soon.
• Building LODs are being created manually. For anything else, if the results are good enough with Unreal's automatic LOD generation then that is suitable.
• All mods should have a top-level folder for its content similar to how Unturned II's content is stored in a top-level folder named "UE4".
• Roads and tunnels are built using splines. Static meshes are used for road intersections.
• Most objects should only need two LODs.
• Unturned II will have no visually openable containers except for a few specific static props.
• Destructible props are planned.