📂 Hierarchy panel

A live view of the scene tree, DontDestroyOnLoad included. Expand through children, then click a GameObject to open it in the Object Inspector and edit its components while the game runs — which is the point when you’re on a device and the Editor’s own hierarchy isn’t there.

🧰 Utilities panel

Tools

Button What it does
UI Scale + / - Resize the runtime overlay. The fix for a wrongly-detected device DPI — see Troubleshooting
SafeArea + / - Nudge the safe-area inset. Only appears in the runtime overlay on a device that actually reports a safe area
FPS Monitor Toggle the floating FPS graph. Click it to flip between fps and ms; right-click to collapse / expand
Memory Monitor Toggle the floating memory graph. Click to force a GC, double-click to unload unused assets, triple-click to collapse / expand
GC Collect Force a garbage collection now
Resources UnloadUnused Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets()
Copy / Email / Export Text Logs Dump the log history. Customize the contents with IConsoleLogExportFormatter — see Logging
Types inspector Search loaded types and inspect their static members. Hidden when the Object Inspector is disabled for the build

Player Prefs

Type a key to read, edit or delete its value (int / float / string), or Delete All. Keys you’ve viewed are kept in a history dropdown.

Unity can’t enumerate PlayerPrefs keys at runtime, so supply your own list for the dropdown:

NjConsole.Settings.PlayerPrefKeysProvider = () => new List<string> { "playerName", "musicVolume", ... };

Info screens

App Info, Screen Info, Device Info, QualitySettings, Graphics Info, Other SystemInfo and About — handy in a bug report from a device.

Not all of it is read-only. Anything with a setter can be changed live, which makes these a quick way to reproduce a device-specific problem without rebuilding:

Screen What you can change
Screen Info width / height (applies via Screen.SetResolution), fullScreen, fullScreenMode, orientation, brightness, sleepTimeout, targetFrameRate
QualitySettings Quality level, vSync, anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, shadow quality / distance / cascades / projection, LOD bias, pixel light count, particle raycast budget, mipmap streaming, async upload
App Info targetFrameRate
Device Info, Graphics Info, Other SystemInfo Read-only — straight SystemInfo dumps

Read-only values within an editable screen (Screen.dpi, currentResolution, safeArea, activeColorSpace) just render as text.

Resizing via Screen.width / Screen.height only works in the runtime overlay — the editor window shows “See in runtime overlay” instead, since resizing the Game view from there isn’t meaningful.

Show all at the bottom of App Info, Screen Info and QualitySettings opens the whole type in the Object Inspector, where you can reach everything else on it. Some properties won’t show in a player build due to native binding.

Features > In Player Utilities Panel disables the whole panel for player builds.

🔍 Object Inspector

The shared view for looking at — and editing — a live object. It opens from several places:

  • Clicking an object link in a log
  • Clicking a GameObject or component in the Hierarchy panel
  • Right-clicking a GameObject in Unity’s own Hierarchy → Inspect in ⌨ NjConsole (Editor only)
  • /inspect in the Command Line
  • Utilities > Tools > Types inspector, to reach static members of any loaded type
  • From your own code: Ninjadini.Console.UI.ConsoleInspector.Show(someContainerElement, myObject);

Screenshot of the object inspector

  • Read and edit fields and properties. Types that aren’t supported yet show read-only.
  • Follow references into nested objects; ◀ walks back.
  • Call methods, including ones taking parameters.
  • View static members via the View static members > button.
  • Types — search loaded assemblies for any type to inspect its statics.
  • ⌨ — send the object to the Command Line as the current scope, ready for /call, /store and the rest. See Accessing Logged Objects.

Auto read properties — the toggle at the top. Reading a property can have side effects (Renderer.material duplicates the sharedMaterial), so some aren’t read until you ask.

Features > In Player Object Inspector turns it off for player builds — that switch also covers log object links, hierarchy component detail, and the type search.

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