Hierarchy Inspector

Hierarchy Inspector turns Unity's Hierarchy window into a fast, readable, and good-looking workspace. Style every row, organize complex scenes with virtualization folders, bookmark important objects, and theme it all to match how you work. Editor-only, render-pipeline agnostic, and zero runtime cost.

WHY HIERARCHY INSPECTOR

Unity's default Hierarchy window is functional but plain. On large scenes it becomes hard to scan, hard to navigate, and hard to organize. Hierarchy Inspector adds the polish and tooling you'd expect from a modern editor without locking you into a workflow. Every feature can be turned off, retuned, or restyled.

FEATURES

Per-object gear popup

- 8 color presets plus a custom color picker

- Built-in icon library and custom project icons

- Notes per object (visible in the popup)

- One-click folder and bookmark toggles

- Multi-select editing across many objects at once

Virtualization folders

- Editor-only folders for grouping scene content

- Stripped automatically at build time, zero runtime cost

- Conflict detection warns when scripts get attached by mistake

Bookmarks

- Per-scene bookmark list

- Navigate from a star button on each scene's header row

- Survives scene reloads and domain reloads

Style clipboard

- Copy and paste color, icon, and folder state

- Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V

Indicators

- Prefab tinting and override dot

- Missing-script highlight

- Auto-detected separators from ---Section--- naming

Row visuals and animations

- Alternating stripes, hover highlight, depth shadows

- Tree connector lines, dim-on-disable

- Custom focused and unfocused selection colors with optional glow

- Hover slide, fade-in on create, rename flash

Theme system

- One ScriptableObject per theme; switch per-user via Edit > Preferences > Hierarchy Inspector

- 4-tab theme inspector (Rows, Icons, Indicators, Customization) with conditional fields

- Ships with four bundled themes: Default, HighContrast, Minimal, and Vibrant

- Make your own theme in seconds; share it with your team

COMPATIBILITY

- Unity 6+ (6000.x). Developed and tested on Unity 6000.4.3f1.

- Built-in Render Pipeline, URP, and HDRP (editor-only tool, render pipeline does not matter)

- Windows, macOS, Linux editors

- All build targets (no runtime code ships in your build)

WHAT YOU GET

- Full source (no DLLs)

- 4 bundled themes

- Welcome window with documentation links and a demo scene shortcut

- In-editor docs button on the theme inspector

- GitBook documentation covering every feature and every theme field

SUPPORT

Documentation: https://overgast.github.io/spacewhale-docs/hierarchy-inspector/getting-started/

Issues and feature requests: https://github.com/OverGast/Hierarchy-Inspector/issues (grab it free from the github repo!)

Email: [email protected]