Creating Custom Layouts in Unity

Harvey Limbo
2 min readMar 20, 2021

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Default layout in Unity

For today’s article, we’ll be going over how to change the default layout in Unity to a custom layout that fits your needs.

In Unity, navigate to the top right area of the editor and select the drop down area named Default. Pick the Tall layout.

Tall layout

Using this layout, we will change a few settings around to make a more developer friendly layout.

Move the Game Tab below the Scene Tab:

The height of the Game window can be adjusted to your liking:

Next we will bring back the Console tab which is useful for reading the Debug.Log messages while debugging Unity games. Navigate to Window > General > Console

Dock the Console Window as a separate tab next to the Inspector Tab

Finally, save the Layout as My Custom Layout or to whatever name feels best:

After adjusting the sizes of each window in the Editor, make sure to save the Custom Layout to keep the changes next time Unity boots up.

Final Layout Example

Thanks for reading :D

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Harvey Limbo
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