bevy_workbench

Current Status: 🚧 Early Development (Initial version in progress)

bevy_workbench — A mid-level editor scaffold for Bevy, between bevy-inspector-egui and Unity/Godot editors.

Introduction

bevy_workbench is an egui-based editor scaffold designed for Bevy game projects.
It provides a structured editor layout with panels, theming, and extensibility — without imposing heavy scene management or asset pipeline opinions.

With bevy_workbench, you can quickly set up a development editor for your Bevy game with inspector, console, game view, and menu bar panels.

Features

• egui_tiles dock layout — Drag, rearrange, split, and close/reopen panels freely
• Rerun-inspired dark theme — Dark UI theme ported from Rerun's color system, plus Catppuccin and egui presets
• Menu bar — File/Edit/View menus with Play/Pause/Stop toolbar
• Inspector — Entity hierarchy and component editor powered by bevy-inspector-egui, with undo support via reflection snapshots
• Console — Tracing log bridge with severity filtering
• Game View — Render-to-texture viewport with focus isolation and correct coordinate mapping
• Editor modes — Edit / Play / Pause mode switching with GameClock and GameSchedule
• Undo/Redo — Layout changes, inspector edits, with undo history panel
• Custom panel registration — Implement WorkbenchPanel trait and call app.register_panel()
• Configurable keybindings — Click to re-record, add alternative bindings
• i18n — English / 中文 built-in, extensible with custom Fluent FTL sources
• Theme system — Per-mode themes with brightness control, multiple presets
• Layout persistence — Save/load dock layouts as JSON
• Custom font support — System locale detection with configurable font path
• Settings panel — UI scale, theme, locale, and font configuration

How to Use

1. Add to your Cargo.toml:

   [dependencies]
   bevy_workbench = "0.1"
   

2. Basic setup:

   use bevy::prelude::*;
   use bevy_workbench::prelude::*;
   use bevy_workbench::console::console_log_layer;
   
   fn main() {
       App::new()
           .add_plugins(
               DefaultPlugins.set(bevy::log::LogPlugin {
                   custom_layer: console_log_layer,
                   ..default()
               }),
           )
           .insert_resource(ClearColor(Color::BLACK))
           .add_plugins(WorkbenchPlugin::default())
           .add_plugins(GameViewPlugin)
           .add_systems(Startup, |mut commands: Commands| {
               commands.spawn(Camera2d);
           })
           .run();
   }
   

3. Run the example:

   cargo run -p bevy_workbench --example minimal
   

How to Build

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.85 or later
• Bevy 0.18 compatible system dependencies:

  # Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)
  sudo apt-get install -y g++ pkg-config libx11-dev libasound2-dev libudev-dev \
      libwayland-dev libxkbcommon-dev
  

Build Steps

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Bli-AIk/bevy_workbench.git
   cd bevy_workbench
   

2. Build the project:

   cargo build
   

3. Run tests:

   cargo test
   

4. Run examples:

   cargo run --example minimal
   

Dependencies

This project uses the following crates:

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Whether you want to fix a bug, add a feature, or improve documentation:

• Submit an Issue or Pull Request.
• Share ideas and discuss design or architecture.

License

This project is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.