Our own collection of tools and background material can be found here:
ftp://12.39.48.62/UScript/
at least until our generous friend decides to take down the public FTP, but I'm sure Carnage could find a mirror...? Warning though, it's quite a large archive! And I'm sorry for NOT sorting it, it's kinda just what I collected myself over the years.
Hmm how to get started? The best is, read exisiting codes! UScript is an object oriented language, so any knowledge about C++ or JAVA will help indefinitely. That's kinda how I got into that... along with the docs on that FTP
Other areas such as modelling, mapping or texturing are totally out of my horizon so go ask someone else