Hand-inked workshop sketch introducing the four Pixel Doodles tools — Grab & Move, SizeUp, LevelSmith and FaceSnap — pinned to a drafting table under the note “four little tools, one habit: place things right.” Pixel Doodles four little tools, one habit: place things right. Grab & Move SizeUp LevelSmith FaceSnap

The free base

SizeUp – Selection Inspector Free

SizeUp is the editor panel every Pixel Doodles tool communicates through: one clear place in the main Unreal Engine window showing what an operation is changing, instead of four plugins each bolting on their own widget. On its own it measures whatever you select in the viewport: real-world size, distance to floor, distance between two actors, one-click Transform copy, a live Transform card with undo/redo, and a warning when duplicate meshes are hiding inside each other. Free, because the others need it to be readable — and it's out first.

Hand-inked sketch of a selected object being measured — its dimensions, its height above the floor and the distance to another actor, annotated “sizes up!” 120 95 80 floor 0 dist 214 sizes up!

The tools

Grab & Move In development Requires SizeUp — free

Move, rotate and scale objects the way you do in a DCC: modal, keyboard-first, with snapping and numeric entry. Then the composition tools you can rarely do without when dressing a scene: mirror, align, random…

Modal transformsLive previewPer-actor pivotMarking menu
Hand-inked sketch of a crate being dragged along the X axis with a live offset readout and a ten-unit snap, annotated “grab… move!” X Δ 142 grab… move! snap ×10
LevelSmith In development Requires SizeUp — free

Click to drop a mesh — or a selection of meshes — perfectly seated and tilted to the slope you're working on, or scatter them on the fly. Placement follows the surface normal: nothing floats, nothing sinks. Gravity-based placement and HISM optimisation too. Scatter mode varies rotation and scale so a selection lands randomly, never in a row, for the most natural result possible when building a level.

Smart placeScatterSurface-aware
Hand-inked sketch of a prop settling onto uneven ground at its natural angle, annotated “lands right!” and “no grid here” ~19° lands right! no grid here
FaceSnap In development Requires SizeUp — free

Snap pieces face to face and put modular kits together with incredible ease: surfaces snap and orientations line up perfectly, so kits almost assemble themselves. You no longer spend time assembling, only designing.

Face snappingModular kits
Hand-inked sketch of two kit pieces meeting flush surface to surface, annotated “faces meet!”, “no grid, no fuss” faces meet! no grid, no fuss

Not released yet

They ship on Fab once they've been tested every which way, in every configuration — SizeUp first, and free. Early builds and release dates land on the Discord and in the Devlog section of the site.

These came out of building the dungeons for Islands of the Blessed — that story is in devlog #05.

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