Thumbnails for model/place files

Feature Requests Studio Features
#1

On Windows 7 (and I assume later versions of Windows), image files including .pdn, .png, and .ico show you a preview of the image on certain explorer view modes:

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Frequently I’ll run across a place/model and although I thought I named the file properly at the time I don’t know what the file is in the present without opening it. It would be really handy for place/model files to use their ThumbnailCamera (if they have one) or CurrentCamera to generate a thumbnail of the file which can be displayed in the explorer without having to open the file. I doubt this is something hard-coded into the OS that only works with png/ico/etc files because paint.net images have previews too, which isn’t a program that was shipped with Windows 7 / endorsed by Microsoft, so it should be possible to implement for any type of file.

#2

That would be pretty cool.

Although that isn’t my most important request at this moment, it would still be awesome :stuck_out_tongue:

#3

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee330724(v=vs.85).aspx seems to have something.

Not sure how usable it will be though. Googling for this sort of stuff brings up a lot of junk responses. (I searched for ‘c# generate file thumbnails for explorer windows 7’ without quotes)

#4

What theme are you using?

#5

I’m using just the icons from HUD Evolution. The theme itself is a dark theme, which I wasn’t a fan of.