Getting an overview as a beginner: Is there any 3rd party client / program I should start playing around with as a beginner or does UE has everything? For making characters, levels, actions, lights..

[J.Svanholm]

Hello,

I´m looking to start learning game development making a super easy / simple characters, maps and actions and have a short question before / while getting started:

Is there any 3rd party client / program I should start playing around with as a beginner or does UE has everything? For making characters, levels, actions, lights.

If I can do everything in UE, that´s awesome - but if there is a third party client / program I will “have to” learn later anyways, it would be nice to start checking it out

Thanks for all feedback, highly appreciated!

[Shmoopy1701]

Photoshop or Gimp for textures / materials (there’s probably something better that’s free now than Gimp?)

Audacity for sound effects and music

Blender for models

Account on FreeSound.org for a ton of great sound effects (Freesound is in many movie credits)

[J.Svanholm]

Thanks a lot, I’ll check them out!