Explorer Search Improvements

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#44

This is one of the things we always wanted.

One day I even made a Find Similar script that could find all instances in the game that were similar and had the same properties because I could not find them. Now I dont need it anymore, I can just use this.

Very nice update. Keep up the good work!

#45

You can search for instance names with special characters with quotes. If you had that as a name, you could search "Anchored = true"

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#46

This is fantastic! Iā€™ll be using this every developing session I do! Thank you!!

#47

Oh that is awesome thanks for the updates !

#48

I have a workaround for this:

#49

This will be very helpful for developing, but something I would like to see is the ability to select all of the instances that is filtered/searched for in the explorer.

Example:
Search for: ā€œXeonLightPartā€
Right click and a button appears to select all of searched instance.

#50

Yes-- The new Explorer Search Improvements Beta should allow you to select all filtered instances with Ctrl + A if Explorer is focused.

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#51

Poke on this-- answered right above this reply

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#52

use cases almost everywherešŸ™
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#53

You have no idea how helpful sorting by tags and properties is. :100:

#54

This is amazing!

One thing I would die for is a search history! Almost exactly like how the command bar works, I would like that kind of functionally.

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#55

Man do I need this feature!

Right now, Iā€™ve been searching up terms, then individually Control + Left Clicking every single object I need to select- very inefficient! Now I will be able to mass edit duplicated models without taking a tedious amount of time.

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#56

Hi, you still didnā€™t answer me, sorry if Iā€™m being annoying but itā€™s just that I would like an answer to my question

#57

I think you meant Explorer [Selection and Navigation Beta]

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#58

I think @kirazeee325 meant to share this link Explorer [Selection and Navigation Beta]. Let us know if this helps!

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#59

Sorry, it doesnā€™t answer my question still, my question is if there will be a feature like Replace All for thsi new feature, as it would be very helpful

#60

To clarify your feature request ā€“ would you want to replace whatever has been searched? (e.g. if you search for all instances with a certain name, replace all instances that have that name with another name; if you search for all instances that have a certain property value, replace all those property values with another value?) And what are the most frequent scenarios in which youā€™d use this feature?

Thank you for your feedback!

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#61

Ok, Iā€™ll give a few examples, the killbrick exampel has already being said so hereā€™s some:
I have trees in my map that look bad, they are there as a placeholder, I just created a new tree mode but thereā€™s 100 trees, what I would do is:
Select all trees, and copy the new tree I made, thsi saves a lot of time as I dotn have to change every tree with the new one, also possibly keep its properties, most importantly position and orientation, but also names and attributes and everything can be useful
I have a Script under a part, the problem is that it looks for the part, but with the wrong name, this means I either have to:
Change all of the scripts, which would be done similarly to the killbrick example, or cahnge the name of all the parts, which in this case would be:
myPart.Name = ā€œNameā€
for example, I think thsi woudl be useful if it woudl show a box where you can write the Name or something like that, and also I didnā€™t see something that allows you to se e properties, it woudl be useful also, another use case is:
If thereā€™s a lot of parts that have the worng parent, I woudl select them and change their parent

Thsi are a few use cases taht came to my mind just now, probably others have more, but that is my use cases

#62

Are you certain that packages would not suit your needs?

#63

Sorry but what is a package?