BetterOutliner is an editor-only Unreal Engine plugin that gives you deliberate control over large World Outliner hierarchies.

Lock a folder or actor subtree and keep the exact expansion layout you chose. Viewport selection, refreshes, filters, sorting, World Partition updates, Landscape activity and drag-hover will not unfold protected branches behind your back. Actors stay selected and the Details panel remains synchronized.

KEY FEATURES

• Dedicated native-style BetterOutliner tabs; Epic’s stock World Outliner remains untouched.

• Red lock controls for folders, actor hierarchies and supported World Partition rows.

• Manual expansion and collapse always remain available inside protected hierarchies.

• Reveal Selected Actor Once temporarily opens the path to an actor, then Restore Protected Layout returns to the saved arrangement.

• Four independently dockable profiles with per-user remembered layouts.

• Automatic Landscape hierarchy protection and configurable actor-class rules.

• Local persistence that does not modify maps, actors, source-control files or packaged runtime content.

• Editor-only architecture with no runtime module.

QUICK START

Open Window > Open BetterOutliner, collapse the hierarchy you want to preserve, then click its lock-column icon. The lock turns red and automatic expansion is blocked while your manual arrows continue to work.

COMPATIBILITY

• Windows 64-bit

• Unreal Engine 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8

• Editor-only plugin

Documentation:

https://grimsoft.co.uk/BetterEngineTools/documentation/betteroutliner

Support:

https://grimsoft.co.uk/BetterEngineTools/support

The Mafia Barn environment shown in the promotional media is demonstration content and is not included with BetterOutliner.