UnrealEd 2

This article covers the UnrealEd 2 (UT) user interface. See also:

UnrealEd Interface for the UnrealEd 3 interface
UnrealEd versions
UnrealEd bug list
UnrealEd suggestion list
Actor Overview covers the basic of working with actors

Main Window

The areas of the UnrealEd main window are:

Title bar and UnrealEd Main Menu
Along the top: the toolbar
Down the left-hand side: the toolbox
The UnrealEd Viewport area: each viewport is one window in the main section of UnrealEd.
the Console bar, which includes the UnrealEd Console, grid control and a few other buttons.

Controls

Floating Windows

Many of UnrealEd's functions are accessed through floating windows.

2D Shape Editor: a powerful tool for creating brush shapes
Actor Search: find actors in a map by name, tag or event.
Build window: options for rebuilding the level.

Property Windows

These are called up from the View menu. In addition, the Actor and Surface properties can be summoned from the toolbar or by right-clicking actors or surfaces and selecting 'properties' from the right-click menu.

Actor properties window (also F4 and on the toolbar)
Surface properties window (also F5 and on the toolbar)
Level properties: settings for the map as a whole
UnrealEd Advanced Options: contains some deep UnrealEd mojo

Resource Browsers

These allow resources to be loaded & then selected to be placed into a map. All of these windows maybe be docked into a master browser window for convenience.

Tool Windows

Some of the items in the toolbox have associated windows.

right-clicking on one of the brushbuilders in the toolbox opens a parameters window
right-clicking on the 'Add mover' button in the toolbox pops up a list of mover types.
the lower-right button in the brush operations group opens the Add Special window when clicked