I’m definitely happy to see that improvements are getting made, and especially happy to be able to turn off the beta when I face issues such as these (some other recent changes were pushed way too early). The speed of the old explorer certainly needed to be addressed, and I’m glad the new one is decent as-is.
I do wish there were a public issues page (such as JIRA or GitHub Issues), as the DevForum search is a little finnicky when trying to check if a bug has been reported or not. It would also help developers know whether they have been heard or not.
For betas you don’t have to worry about this. You can be quite confident that beta projects are tracking every single piece of feedback which has shown up somewhere in the beta announcement post.
Of course, that doesn’t mean the team will have time for or agree with every piece of feedback but for betas it’s unlikely that any feedback is slipping through the cracks. If anything the teams often wish more people would try the betas / post feedback than actually do.
Couple bugs I just encountered. Not sure if these have already been mentioned:
Go to drag an object from one place to another in the explorer and keep your mouse still after picking up the object; you are unable to scroll the explorer with your mouse wheel. Then try the same thing but while randomly moving your mouse; you are able to.
While a script is open in the editor, you are unable to delete objects with Backspace or Delete and unable to duplicate with Control + D; but if instead you right-click on an object in the explorer while a script is open you can still perform those actions from the context menu.
I can’t seem to fast scroll, like before you could just hold shift or something and scroll very quickly to the bottom on the explorer. Now you seem to can’t.
I’d like to see the ability to drag items to the top/bottom edges of the explorer window to be able to scroll it up and down, like you could in the original explorer. It’s currently impossible for me to move an object elsewhere if the target destination isn’t in view.
“Performance upgrades,” you say? As if Id believe in that!
So here’s the scoop: I enabled the beta Explorer in the beta features, restarted Studio, joined into an old baseplate template, and oh my god! My FPS dropped from 244 (With old explorer) to 180 . Guys, seriously, are you secretly running crypto miners on our pc’s?!???
And oh boy, even worse, after a couple of minutes of me testing the new explorer out, and doing some random stuff, i managed to stumble upon more than ten bugs. I get that the Explorer is in beta, but dude, did yall guys learn Lua from a random kid on Youtube and got accepted at your job? Because that is the only explanation I can think of!
To top it off, every time I move my mouse around in the Explorer GUI, my FPS plunges drops to 80. Guys there is no point of hiding that anymore, either you are skids at scripting or there is secret crypto a miner…
No offense, but it should be renamed from ‘Next Gen Explorer’ to ‘Gen Z Explorer’.
Searching for a file that previously used to be found instant, now takes nearly 5 seconds, long enough that you think it wasn’t found. Actually impressive it can even be done so slow.
Lol this made me chuckle a bit. I’m gonna assume most of this post is for jokes, but yeah, the performance while scrolling with the new explorer is unsatisfactory.
I was seriously impressed with this Next Gen Explorer. I saw noticeable improvements in the time it took to search for objects.
One big negative I found is that after searching for an object, selecting it, and then removing the search query, I was disappointed to find myself back to the top of the Explorer having to scroll down thousands of instances to find what I just searched…
Please make it so either you are automatically shown the children of the instance you searched for, or, after selecting the instance, and removing the search query, you are automatically taken to the instance you just selected.
Hello! When I was working with my plugin and wanted to save the changes, I noticed the save option missing from the menu. Is this going to be added soon?
This has been so much faster overall than the previous explorer for some bigger projects I’ve been working on, love it!
There are a few small things I encountered:
“Hide Service in Explorer” context menu doesn’t seem to work
The scrollbar can become incredibly thin and hard to see. More contrast and wider would be appreciated.
Smooth scrolling feels really nice but I’d like to turn it off probably
F2 to rename feels unresponsive compared to previous explorer
There seems to be a delay when clicking on an item in explorer to change its name, it feels unintuitive
Using the arrow keys to traverse between different items is slow and can stutter and visually skip over items
The “Show Orientation Indicator” option in the context menu was removed. I just set a key bind to use it now and I imagine others don’t use it enough to fit somewhere that important though.
The behaviour whenever dragging something into the viewport could be confusing, I liked the that was there previously
Really, hm? Either you have a NASA PC so you dont feel the difference between the old explorer and the Gen Z one, or you are just a terrible liar . Also check what I sent before:
Currently working on this. There’s some nuance to it but it’ll be out in a couple weeks. Expect box select close by as well.
Do you have an example place file or similar? We have not measured any difference here in our large places.
Should’ve been fixed already but I have noticed this as well so I’m looking into it again.
The fix for this ought to deploy tomorrow.
We agree, would like to axe it or make it configurable before release.
Can you show the skipping? The bug I know of related to this is fixed.
This should be the same one that is in the existing explorer. The point is that we have to wait to make sure you aren’t double clicking on it before we can be sure you are intending to rename, but we could try shrinking that window down.
Yeah this is an intentional omission–it’s still in the 3D context menu.
I really like this change, though I’m currently working on some plugins and these settings are currently missing from the context menu in the new explorer:
Unless I missed them. If I did, they should be a lot easier to see.
(With old explorer) to 180 
. Guys, seriously, are you secretly running crypto miners on our pc’s?!???
that was there previously
. Also check what I sent before:
