Untold Editor v0.22.0 — Viewport, Multi-Selection & Editor Redesign

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Untold Editor v0.22.0 is now available.

This release continues the Editor redesign with major updates to the Hierarchy, Inspector, viewport, scene navigation, and multi-selection workflow.

It also improves the asset cooking pipeline, Console diagnostics, and project plugin builds.

Editor Redesign

v0.22.0 continues the Editor UI redesign, focusing heavily on the parts of the Editor used during everyday scene creation.

Hierarchy & Scene Navigation

The Hierarchy has been redesigned around the currently loaded scene.

• The hierarchy tree now starts at the loaded scene.
• Entities can be hidden directly from the Hierarchy.
• Entities can be locked to prevent viewport selection or movement.
• Added hierarchy filtering and entity counts.
• Added H and ⌥H visibility shortcuts.
• A new scene tab bar above the viewport shows the project's scenes.
• Modified scenes display an unsaved-changes indicator.

Inspector

The Inspector has been reorganized around component sections.

• Components now appear as clearly separated sections.
• Components support Reset, Copy, and Paste.
• The Transform inspector now uses a committed transform grid.
• The entity header includes pinning and visibility controls.
• Mesh Renderer and Material controls have been redesigned.
• Materials now include a live-shaded preview sphere.

Viewport & Camera Controls

The viewport received one of the largest updates in this release.

Input is now handled directly by the viewport, providing a more predictable foundation for mouse, trackpad, keyboard, camera, and gizmo interactions.

The updated viewport includes:

• Left-click selection and gizmo manipulation.
• Right-click camera navigation for look, pan, dolly, and orbit.
• WASDQE fly navigation.
• Mode and tool switching with ⌥1–4.
• Shading controls.
• Projection presets.
• Adjustable camera speed.
• F to frame the current selection.
• World and Local transform axes.
• Transform snapping.
• A locked View > Camera game-camera preview.
• Viewport overlays for mode, statistics, navigation, and shortcut hints.

The viewport now owns its input directly as a first-responder canvas, replacing the previous combination of gesture recognizers, application-wide monitors, and per-frame input polling.

This gives future viewport interactions a single, predictable input path.

Multi-Selection

The Editor now supports selecting and transforming multiple entities.

Entities can be selected using:

• A drag-selection rectangle.
• ⇧-click to add or remove entities from the selection.

Each selected entity displays its own selection bounds, while a shared gizmo allows the entire selection to be moved, rotated, or scaled together.

Group transformations are recorded as a single undo operation.

Play Mode

Play Mode now keeps mouse and keyboard input focused on controlling the active viewport camera without modifying the scene.

The Editor also correctly restores the game camera after using Explore mode.

Cooking & Asset Workflow

Asset cooking received several workflow and diagnostic improvements.

• Imported sources are now cooked into the folder where they were imported.
• The Cook sheet now includes an Include hidden objects option.
• Failed exports now show their complete output in the Console instead of truncating it.
• Warning counts are collected across export, texture baking, and reference-patching steps.

These changes make it easier to keep imported assets organized and diagnose problems when cooking fails.

Component Plugins

Project component builds are now more resilient to changes inside Untold Engine.

The Component SDK automatically passes every C module used by the Editor's engine build to the project plugin compiler instead of assuming CShaderTypes is the only required module.

This means adding new C modules to Untold Engine will no longer unexpectedly break downstream project component builds.

Looking Ahead

v0.22.0 continues the work of turning Untold Editor into a faster and more predictable environment for building and debugging scenes.

With the Hierarchy, Inspector, viewport, camera controls, and multi-selection now sharing the redesigned workflow, the major pieces of everyday scene editing are beginning to come together under the new Editor experience.

As always, feedback, testing, and bug reports are welcome.

Thanks to @miogds for contributing, testing, and helping improve Untold Editor.