Main Layout

As soon as your project loads up, you’ll land in the main editor layout. What you see in the level might look different depending on the template you chose — but don’t worry, the layout stays pretty much the same.

For this example, I’m using the First Person template, just so things are consistent while we walk through the basics.

#	Name	What It Does
1	Menu Bar	The top menu where you’ll find actions like saving your project, opening new levels, accessing tools, debugging options, and launching different windows.
2	Main Toolbar	Your quick-access strip for common tools — like entering Play mode (to test your game), saving, and packaging your project.
3	Viewport Toolbar	This one lives inside the viewport. It gives you tools to move, rotate, and scale objects, toggle between camera views, and adjust how stuff snaps or aligns.
4	Level Viewport	This is your main stage — where you see and build your actual level. It shows everything from meshes and lights to cameras and characters.
5	Outliner	Think of this like a scene hierarchy. It lists everything in your level, from lights to meshes, in a structured, searchable list.
6	Details Panel	When you select something in the level, all its settings show up here — position, rotation, mesh, material, physics, and more. What shows depends on what you’ve selected.
7	Content Drawer	This is where all your assets live — textures, meshes, materials, sounds, Blueprints — everything you’ve imported or created.
8	Bottom Toolbar	Gives you access to the Output Log (for debugging), the console, and shows you info like source control status or data cache updates.