[Version 2 RELEASED] A+ Assets Explorer - Know Your Assets In Project Better

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Why I create this asset?

The idea was inspired by the pain during development and performance improvement:

  1. Hard to find large assets. For example the large textures and models with high vertexes count
  2. Hard to find assets with specific property. For example the materials with specific shader
  3. Hard to find assets references
  4. Don’t know where the Unity special folder is, like persistentDataPath and also annoying to find and then open them in Windows Explorer/Finder again and again.

and more …

What can this asset do?

A+ Assets Explorer is aim to deal with the pain above and more others… it has tools to manage assets and improve workflow. And It is ready for large project.

Buy
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/a-assets-explorer-573355

Or buy in MianBaoDuo (China Only) with lower price.

Want To Try It First?
Just download free version from AssetStore

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Features
✓ Assets searching and sorting, multiple properties searching is available
✓ Assets multiple selection
✓ Assets blacklist - hide assets if you don’t want them show in Assets Explorer
✓ Assets renaming - allow rename multiple at one click
✓ Assets data headers customization - show the properties you want
✓ Assets statistics in few seconds
✓ Export data to CSV file
✓ Find assets references in Project and Hierarchy
✓ Find unused assets to make project clean
✓ Window style and color theme customization
✓ Workflow improvement tools
✓ And more…

Workflow Improve Tools
✓ QuickFolderOpener: open unity special folder quickly
✓ Build Manager: Scene overview, navigation and build settings config/save/restore
✓ Prefab Tool: Bulk operations, like creating, apply and revert etc.

Any QUESTIONS or ISSUES, or FEATURES REQUESTS, welcome to send email to me or reply this thread. I will reply ASAP.

Important to Find Unused Assets:

If there are multiple Unity Editor opened, the find unused feature may not works in the Unity Editor instances except the lastest opened one, due to only the lastest opened Unity Editor will write logs to Unity Editor log files, but the previous are not.

So if there are multiple Unity Editor opened, recommend re-open the Unity Editor of the project you want to find unused assets.

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1.0.6 was released with 50% off sale for this release. One more thing is that shader support was added into this release.

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Hi, I just bought this and I like it, however I’m trying to select all materials of a certain type for example “mobile/diffuse” so i can change them to standard. I can get a list of the type of materials but I can’t bulk select them, I’d need to select each material one by one & i have other 1000 materials in my project so this will take some time, is there a way like shift clicking to select multiple materials at the same time?

Thanks

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Hi derkoi, thank you for using A+ Assets Explorer. Sorry that we cannot bulk select in this release. But I have added it into my TODO list and this features will come in next release.

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Ok, glad to hear you’ve added it to your todo list, i really think that’s the only thing missing. Great asset, thanks.

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Asset looks really polished, nice work :). Is bulk select not working on materials only or it does not work with any other components? Would love to get this asset but as @derkoi mentioned, bulk select is important for large projects. Any time frame on when you would be able to implement this feature?

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Hi, iamsm. The featue is almost done. I plan to submit a new release with the feature in next few days.

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Purchased it. Excellent well designed asset.

@Amlovey Sounds good, looking forward to the update.

One suggestion. It would be better to have an option/preference as to when the plugin starts to cache data. I saw that it automatically started when you import the plugin/import a new asset or play a scene (might be other cases too). I found that a bit bothersome as it broke my normal workflow.

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@iamsam , thank you for your great suggestion. It’s in my TODO list now.

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@iamsam , @derkoi , I just submit a new packages with the bulk selection feature.

And @iamsam , i have updated the logic of cacheing data, perhaps the new release will not break your normal work. :slight_smile:

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Hi, 1.0.7 is available on Asset Store now.

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You should double-check the menu on your web site for a Freudian slip…

:wink:

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:):). Typo was fixed. Good catch!!!

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@Amlovey The update looks great and thanks for updating the logic of caching data.

A few suggestions:

  • Would it be possible to make the window dockable/full screen. This makes it easier to manage when using a laptop.
    – Also currently the window is only shown when Unity has focus, as soon as you click outside Unity the window disappears. Would it be possible to have an option to change this behavior?
    – The asset works quite well, great job! However for large projects, it hangs most of the time while sorting data or doing a multi-select, you may need to use additional threads so that it is responsive when analyzing a large array of assets.
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@iamsam , Thank you very very much for your suggestions. :slight_smile:

For you suggestions:

#1, In my first implement of Assets Explorer, I want to use a dockable window to host the UI of explorer, but for some unknown reason, unity will crash when window is docking… I still investing the issue, but have no progress till now…

#2, It’s controlled by Unity Editor, i will take a deep look at to check whether we can change it or not.

#3, I agree the performance for large data is not very good. A TODO item already in my list for this improvement. I Will try to include it in next release.

Thank you ver much again. I like any suggestions to improve Assets Explorer :slight_smile:

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@iamsam , I just sumbit a new packages on asset store. In new release, Assets Exploer can handle large data list efficiently (have test on 10000+ items), no UI hangs any more.

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version 1.0.8 is available on Asset Store now

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Update post:

  1. Added free trial version download link to the post with feature limiation, so that person can try it before purchase.
  2. New video for up coming release.
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1.0.9 is available now, big updates for this release, and it’s ready for large project.

Updates post： add more video preview

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free version is on asset store now https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/68761