Additional useful tools
Before we move on from this chapter, let's take a quick moment to talk about other tools you may want to set up to work with Unreal. None of these will be required by the projects in this book, but they're worth knowing about, so you need to know where to look when you need them.
A good robust text editor
Notepad just isn't going to cut it when you need to edit large text files or replace a lot of text in a file. We recommend that you set up a dedicated text editor for this purpose. Here are a few options:
- Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/) is a powerful, lightweight text editor that supports lots of languages and contains a number of useful text-editing tools. It's free.
- Sublime Text (https://www.sublimetext.com/) is a highly customizable editor with tons of custom integrations for various languages. It is $80, with a free trial.
- Atom (https://atom.io/) is a relatively new editor made by GitHub that supports tons of additional package installers for just...
