The editor
The editor is made of panels you can drag, dock and tab together. Window reopens a closed panel and resets the layout.
Panels
| Panel | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Hierarchy | The open scene's entities as a tree. Drag to reparent or reorder — later siblings draw on top. Search with t:Sprite to find entities by component. |
| Scene | Edit the scene: select, move, rotate, scale. The bar above it switches to the Game view, shows layers, snapping and the canvas frame. |
| Game | The scene through its cameras, as players will see it — pick a device to preview its screen and safe area. |
| Inspector | The selected entity's components, or the selected asset's settings. Add Component at the bottom. |
| Assets | The project's files. Drop files in to import them; right-click to create scenes, scripts, animations and more. Marks show which assets the active build uses. |
| Console | Logs, warnings and errors from the editor and your scripts. |
| Animation | Keyframe the selected entity's fields over time. |
| AI | The assistant. See Working with the AI. |
Moving things
The tool strip on the Scene view's left edge:
| Key | Tool | |
|---|---|---|
| Q | View | Drag to pan. |
| W | Move | Drag an arrow to move along it, the square to move freely. |
| E | Rotate | Drag the ring. |
| R | Scale | Drag an axis cube, or the centre cube to scale evenly. |
| T | Rect | Drag edges and corners to resize (Shift keeps proportions). |
| X | Switch the handles between local and world axes. |
The mouse wheel zooms, F frames the selection and Home frames the canvas.
Prefabs
Drag an entity from the Hierarchy into Assets to save it as a prefab, then drag the prefab into scenes to place copies. Instances show in blue; a field you change on one instance is an override, shown bold with a blue bar. Open a prefab to edit every instance at once.
Play
Play (Ctrl+P) runs the scene in the Game view with the active build profile's settings. Pause and Step Frame (Ctrl+Alt+P) let you inspect a moment. Stopping puts the scene back the way it was. The arrow beside Play can run it in a browser tab instead.
Settings
- Project → Project Settings (Ctrl+,) — design resolution, physics, layers, feature cropping, splash screen and more, for the whole project.
- Edit → Preferences (Ctrl+Shift+,) — your own settings: snapping, external tools, and the editor's theme under Appearance.
Shortcuts
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Save scene | Ctrl+S |
| Undo / redo | Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y |
| Duplicate | Ctrl+D |
| Rename | F2 |
| Delete | Del |
| Toggle active | Alt+Shift+A |
| Go to anything (files, entities, commands) | Ctrl+K |
| Build | Ctrl+B |
| Play / stop | Ctrl+P |
| All shortcuts | F1 |