Filtering Hierarchy for important objects amongst masses of prefab clones

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Hi there, I’m using Unity for a game that has a significant amount of weapon fire prefabs that are spawned at run time (much like many other games I assume).

So the hierarchy view is an awesome tool at run time to see whats going on in your scene, I find having it flooded with prefab clones very unhelpful.

Is there a best practice solution for this? I’m hoping some kind of filter I can apply in the tool. If not do people attach them to a parent entity to keep them out of the root hierarchy or is it standard practice just to put up with it?

Thanks for any insight you can provide on this.

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Check this thread for new Hierachy ordering functionality via script.

To this point, in the alphanumeric system, a lot of people use one-character prefixes z or _ to force them to appear at a certain place in the hierarchy.

_GameObject
GameObject
GameObject
zGameObject

You might be able to make a custom order via script that suits you better.

Using Parenting to recreate a windows-style Folder hierarchy is ill-advised.