Interface overview and project settings

In this section, we will give you an overview of all the menus and panels inside Unreal Engine 5’s UI. Please note that we will not go deep into every command. We will learn specific commands that are useful to us and how they work during the learning process in this book. Don’t worry if you don’t understand some words or concepts because we will cover everything later.

When Unreal Engine is open, you will find the following UI:

Figure 2.1 – Unreal Engine 5 starting UI

The UI is fully customizable. All the panels are floating panels and you can move them by dragging them with the left mouse button (LMB). You can leave them floating on the screen or dock them in the Viewport. As we will see in a minute, you can save your own Viewport layout.

Figure 2.2 – Floating panels

The UI is divided into the following key panels:

• The Menu Bar
• The...