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Installation and Set-up

When I set up a Dev environment, I like to keep everything together. There are other advantages to doing this that we'll see later when we go through the installation process, so I strongly advise you to follow a similar pattern.

Create a modding folder

I have a dedicated 1TB SSD on my machine that I have mounted as E: and I have a dev folder where I keep all my dev work. I created an unrealdev folder for all my Unreal Engine related tools.

I suggest creating a folder structure like this somewhere on your computer:

└── 📁UnrealDev
  └── 📁FModel
  └── 📁retoc
  └── 📁UAssetGUI

We'll refer to this folder structure as we go through the guide.

What to install

Remember, you don't need to install everything, only the tools you need for the mod you're creating.

For the purpose of the simple tutorial, I strongly suggest you install and configure these tools, in the order listed:

  1. Github Desktop (and also create a git repo)
  2. UE4SS
  3. FModel
  4. Visual Studio Code with the LUA extension

You don't need to install the full Unreal Engine to get started, but there's no harm in going through the process to give yourself a full UE modding environment that's fit for all your future modding needs.