Hey!
I’m new to unity, and am watching tutorials to learn. I was learning about workspace layouts, and using the drop down menu at the top right next to the ‘layers’ drop down. In the video I was watching, they had lots of preset workspace layout options in that dropdown, like ‘2 by 3’ , ‘Tall’, and ‘Wide’. When I checked mine, I just had ‘Default’, and no more. How can I also get those other layout options - without having to create and save a bunch of layout options myself?
I tried searching for the answer, but couldn’t find it anywhere (especially since 'presets. It is doing my head in, not being able to find the answer to this seemingly simple thing. Would love some help!
Thanks for any help you can give!
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It could be that the person who did the recording did just that and made a bunch of layouts themselves manually. Was this an official tutorial made by Unity or a tutorial made by a third party?
We do have a docs page on customizing layouts here: Unity - Manual: Customizing your workspace
Hmm maybe - though it is an official tutorial. It looks to me like one of the most popular courses on Learn Unity: "Create with Code’ (Create with Code - Unity Learn).
The teacher goes through it in Unit 1, Lesson 1.1, step 8.
It isn’t the biggest deal, but it seems odd to me when the biggest unity tutorials don’t reflect what I’m seeing in my own screen. I could have done something along the way, or maybe the presets were removed in a later version of unity?
Otherwise the tutorial has been really great!
Thanks for the link. It looks useful for learning about layouts, though it doesn’t talk about the whether there are meant to be any layout presets saved by default.
Absolutely fair point. I’ll raise this feedback for you internally as I do appreciate that it could make things confusing if the layouts are different between the teacher and the person learning.
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Thanks for passing that on Maru. I found out something interesting. The problem arose when using Unity version 2018.4.19f1. Later I opened another project, which uses Unity version 2019.30f6, and it had the layout options that the video was talking about: ‘2 by 3’ , ‘Tall’, and ‘Wide’ etc. It also looks like layout presets that you create and save yourself are not kept when changing versions of Unity.
I ran into this issue too. I selected Revert Factory Settings from the Layout dropdown, and it restored the other view options.
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wow, I was having the same problem and that solved it haha
thank you!
Thanks for the hint … this worked out for me. too.
This totally worked for me to! So simple, this should be flagged as the answer.