Scene View Workspace: Save & Switch Presets, Smart Isolation

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Tired of resetting the same Scene View settings every time you switch tasks?
Lighting, Gizmos, draw mode, grid snap — toggled by hand, over and over.

Scene View Workspace is an Editor extension that saves your entire Scene View setup as task-optimized presets and restores it in one click.

🚀 Key Features

Why choose Scene View Workspace?

• One-Click Scene View Preset Switching: Switch your whole Scene View setup from a dropdown overlay right inside the Scene View.
• Smart Isolation Auto-Switch: Enter Unity's Isolation view (Shift + H) and the switch happens for you — the right Workspace is picked by the selected object's name, tag, or layer. Exit, and your previous view returns.
• Captures Every Scene View Setting That Matters — Including the Camera: From the camera viewpoint down to every per-component Gizmo toggle. Full list below.
• Non-Destructive — and Your Original Setup Is Safe: Only Editor-side Scene View state changes — never your Scene or assets — so your Git history stays diff-free. Your original setup is stashed automatically, one click away.
• Fully Customizable Rules: Build auto-switch rules from And/Or conditions — Equals, NotEquals, Contains, StartsWith, EndsWith, and Regex. Reorder by drag-and-drop; disable any with a checkbox.
• Ready-to-Use Presets: UI, Modeling, Lighting, Overdraw, and Capture Workspaces work the moment you import. Customize, overwrite, or reset them to the defaults anytime.
• Export & Import as JSON: Back up your Workspaces and rules, or share them across projects and teammates.

💾 What a Scene View Workspace Saves

• Camera pose — yes, the viewpoint is saved: pivot position, rotation, and zoom, restored instantly with no fly-over animation. A Workspace doubles as a viewpoint bookmark that takes you back to where you were working — or turn Apply Camera Pose off per Workspace to switch settings only and keep the camera where it is. Moving the camera never marks a Workspace as modified.
• Projection & mode: 2D/3D mode, perspective/orthographic, camera rotation lock.
• Camera settings: Field of View, near/far clip planes, dynamic clipping, occlusion culling, navigation speed range, acceleration, and easing.
• Draw mode: Shaded, Wireframe, Shaded Wireframe, Overdraw, and every other built-in mode.
• Scene View toggles: Scene Lighting, Audio, Grid visibility, the Scene Visibility master toggle, and the master Gizmos toggle.
• Effects: Fog, Skybox, Flares, Image Effects, Particle Systems, Visual Effect Graphs, Always Refresh.
• Tools: active tool, Pivot/Center, Local/Global, handle visibility, and the layer visibility mask.
• Grid & Snap: grid axis, opacity, size, grid pivot, snap toggles, and the move/rotate/scale snap increments.
• Gizmos window, in full: every per-component gizmo and icon toggle, plus 3D icons, icon size, gizmo fade, selection outline/wire, and Light Probe visualization.

🔄 Getting Back to Where You Were

The setup you already had is the thing you cannot afford to lose — so it is protected before anything is applied.

• Automatic stash. The first time you activate a Workspace, your current Scene View state — down to Gizmo toggles, layer mask, and snap settings — is captured. No need to save it first.
• One-click revert. Choose No Workspace from the dropdown to restore that state in full — the setup from before you started using Workspaces, not just one step back.
• Isolation restores itself. Exiting Isolation rolls back its auto-applied Workspace — to the Workspace you were in, or to your own pre-Isolation state.
• It survives a restart. The stash persists across script compiles and Editor restarts.
• Undo is not supported. Revert a manually applied Workspace from the dropdown, not with Ctrl + Z.

🎯 Use Cases — A Workspace for Every Task

• UI work: Flat 2D view with lighting, fog, post effects, and gizmos off — true UI colors, Rect tool ready.
• Modeling & level layout: 3D perspective with grid and snapping on and shaded wireframe for precise placement.
• Lighting & look-dev: Skybox, fog, and effects on, gizmos hidden, for a clean, in-game-like viewport.
• Performance checks: Drop into Overdraw mode at the crowded spot you always check — without touching a toggle.
• Screenshots & trailers: Your hero angle without gizmos, grid, or selection outlines, in one click — the same shot after every art change.
• Team standardization: Export your Workspaces and share the file, so everyone reviews the Scene the same way.

Built for developers who wear every hat.
Whether you're a solo creator juggling UI, gameplay, lighting, and VFX, or part of a studio standardizing Scene View setups across a team, Scene View Workspace is designed to cut context-switching out of your Unity Editor workflow, reduce cognitive load, and keep you in flow.

💬 Support

Questions, bug reports, and feature requests are all welcome — send me an email. Including your Unity version and what you were doing when it happened gets you a useful answer fastest.