If I click at “I hold down shift here”, then press SHIFT and then click on “I click here”, the old explorer would select all of the items that are inbetween those two.
The New Explorer doesn’t do that if the items are within the same hierarchy, but differently parented.
Re-production Steps
Replicate the instance hierarchy like in that image.
Click on “I hold down shift here” so it is selected.
Hold down SHIFT
Now move your cursor to “I click here” and then click on it (make sure you’re still holding down SHIFT)
This is an intentional change that we are experimenting with–the intent is that we suspect this provides more useful results when changing properties. It’s something we might change in the future, but this is as intended. It would especially help if you had use cases where this is undesirable. In addition, box select intentionally does not do this behavior.
Selecting multiple Instances of multiple different types will show and merge together in the Properties. Model doesn’t have BrickColor so it’s fine for example
It will only affect Parts if I quickly want to alter the BrickColor, assuming it only contains Parts.
Otherwise if it’s mixed, you can filter out a specific Instance Type, like Part and still do the shift selection (if it would work in the New Explorer).
Otherwise you have to deal with CTRL + SHIFT click combos, but if there’s a hierarchy like this, it’s more painful
Along with that Select children… and Select parents thing is gone that was present in the old explorer.
If I wanted to move a certain amount of instances somewhere else, I have to either manually select all the child roots 1 by 1. But I can also shift-select them if they’re on the same hierarchy level.
But for different hierarchies this might not be the case.
Maybe there could be an option to customize box select preferences.
I’ll have to agree with HealthyKarl on this one. I myself find this very annoying too. For example, if I want to select all the parts inside certain tree models, I could just click “Tree” and then Shift-click on the very last “Trunk” for a quick selection. After the new update, It wouldn’t even select at all and if I click on the first “MediumTree” then shift-click the last “MediumTree”, it would only let me select the model instances, which makes it way more painful and I don’t see any “Convenience” here
