Dockable Panels
Studio's panels — Hierarchy, Scene, Inspector, Asset Browser, Profiler, Output, Welcome — live in a dockspace you can freely rearrange, the same way you would in VSCode, Unreal, or Unity.
Rearranging panels
Drag a panel's tab by its title to move it:
- Drop in the center of another panel to combine them as tabs in the same slot.
- Drop near an edge (top/bottom/left/right) of a panel to split that area and dock alongside it.
- Drop near the outer edge of the whole window to split the entire layout on that side.
- Drop away from any panel to float it in its own window — drag it back onto the layout to re-dock.
A translucent highlight shows exactly where a panel will land before you let go.
Tabs, closing, and floating
Panels that share a dock slot show as tabs along its header, just like document tabs. Most panels can be closed with the ✕ on their tab (shown on hover, or always for the active tab); Hierarchy and Scene are always present and can't be closed this way, but can still be dragged elsewhere or tabbed together with other panels.
Closed or floated-away panels aren't gone for good — see View below.
The View menu
View lists every panel with a Show/Hide toggle, so you can bring back anything you've closed without hunting for it, plus:
- Reset Layout — discards your current arrangement and rebuilds the default one (also available in Turian ▸ Settings).
- Capture Screenshot — unchanged from before.
The Welcome panel
When Studio opens with no project loaded, it shows Welcome instead of the usual Hierarchy/Scene layout — there's nothing to edit yet, so it surfaces what you'd otherwise have to hunt for:
- Recent Projects, each with its icon, name, and full path, one click to reopen. A trash-can button next to an entry removes it from the list without opening it.
- New Project... / Open Project... buttons.
- Documentation & Community links — Documentation, Blog, Changelog, Discord, Matrix, and the issue tracker — opened in your default browser.
- The current Turian Studio version.
It disappears automatically once a project is open, and can't be closed with the ✕ while it's the only thing on screen. To bring it back later (say, to jump to a different recent project), reopen it from View like any other panel — it then behaves as a normal, closable dock tab.
The project selector
The current project's name (and icon, if it has one) sits in the top bar, next to the hamburger menu. Clicking it opens a dropdown with:
- The current project, marked with
*. - Your recent projects, each showing its icon, name, and full path on hover.
Two small buttons sit at the end of each entry:
- A ↗-style button opens that project in a separate Studio window, instead of switching the current one — handy for comparing two projects side by side, or keeping one open while you poke around in another.
- A trash-can button removes it from the list without opening it.
- Open Project..., for anything not in the recent list.
Switching projects (from here, the File menu, or the Welcome panel) discards the current one's in-memory state. If you have unsaved changes, Studio prompts Save All / Don't Save / Cancel first — the same prompt you'd get quitting with unsaved changes.
Your layout is remembered
Studio saves your panel arrangement automatically whenever it changes, and restores it the next time you open Studio — a machine-wide preference (not tied to a specific project, since it's about how you like to work). If the saved layout can't be read (missing, corrupted, or from an incompatible version), Studio quietly falls back to the default arrangement instead of failing to start.