Anatomy of the screen
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ TitleBar window chrome: minimize / maximize / close │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ TopNav menu bar + tool rail + Animate/Insert menus │
│ ToolOptionsBar contextual options for the active tool │
├───────────┬──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────┤
│ │ │ │
│ Left │ Workspace (viewport) │ Right Inspector │
│ Sidebar │ • ViewportHeader │ (7 panels) │
│ (4 tabs) │ • Canvas + overlays │ │
│ │ • corner overlays │ │
├───────────┴──────────────────────────────┴───────────────────┤
│ BottomTimeline Timeline / Graph Editor + transport │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ StatusBar info readout · FPS meter · VU meter · account │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘Menu barToolbar & toolsThe viewportLeft sidebar panelsThe inspectorTimeline & graph editorCommand paletteStatus bar
Docking
Every region is a dock. Panels register themselves into a region rather than being hard-coded into it, which means:
- Tabs reorder by dragging.
- Panels move between the left and right sidebars.
- Panels close and reopen from the Window menu.
- Any panel can be popped out into its own window. The pop-out stays live-synced with the editor, so a second monitor is genuinely useful.
The layout is JSON-serialisable and persisted between sessions. View → Reset Layout restores the defaults, and Window → Customize → Workspaces saves the current arrangement as a named preset you can switch back to later.
Region toggles
| Menu item | Region |
|---|---|
| View → Toggle Scene Panel | Left sidebar |
| View → Toggle Inspector | Right sidebar |
| View → Toggle Timeline | Bottom timeline |
Global overlay hosts
Four things are mounted once at the root of the app rather than inside any panel:
| Host | What it does |
|---|---|
| ModalHost | The modal stack — export dialog, composition settings, Customize, Plugins |
| ContextMenuHost | Right-click menus, clamped to the viewport, closing on Esc or an outside click |
| NotificationHost | The toast stack, with auto-dismiss |
| OnboardingOverlay | The first-run tour |
Plus the command palette, which owns its own key listener so it opens even while a text field has focus.
Where every panel lives by default
| Panel | Default home |
|---|---|
| Scene · Assets · Library · AI | Left sidebar |
| Transform · Style · Rigging · Effects · Graph · Presets · Settings | Right inspector |
| Timeline / Graph Editor | Bottom |
| Project | Left sidebar, on demand — Window → Project |
| History · Render · Plugins | Right inspector, on demand |
A panel that is registered but not docked is not missing — open it from Window, and it will dock wherever you drop it and stay there.
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