Asset Hunter (Project cleaning tool)

Hello,

meaby i handle it wrong, i deleted the red marked rows.. this was wrong?

 

Asset hunter doesn't change your build at all, it only allows you to delete project files. So all the rows you deleted through Asset Hunter should be fine. My guess is that you create your build outside the project folder structure, if so, my tool wont change any build files.

My best bet would be that your build actually failed at some point if you are missing files next to the executable.

It is a PC build you are making?

 

Is the Resource folder ignored?
I can't seem to find it listed even though My build draws pretty much everything in the build from with in the Resource folder in a sub folder.

 

Hi Mike

Yes, the resource folder is ignored since Unity by default adds everything in that folder to the build. The reason for that is that you can load anything from that folder using "Resources.Load(path)" at runtime. Therefore Unity has decided that everything in Resources folder is included in build.

Hope this makes sense

 

Hi, Does your tool work in OSX? As i can't seem to get it to I'm running Unity 5.4.1. And the Asset Hunter window consistently says I need to make a recent build.

I initially wondered if the problem was due to my project set to build for IOS, so i've changed it to OSX, but it still doesn't seem to realise a recent build has indeed been made

Thanks

 

Hi Percy

Been a while since I've made a OSX build myself, but I've had no issues reported. I'm at my day job atm, but I'll give it a spin as soon as possible.

If possible, could you mail me a screenshot (contact@heurekagames.com) of how Asset Hunter looks after you have created a new build.


Thanks

 

Hi Kristian, thanks for the quick response, I actually have bootcamp running as a virtual machine, so installed the same version of Unity 5.4.1 there and copied the project across. On Windows it does indeed seem to work properly, so i'm guessing it's an OSX issue rather than user error. Have linked a screen grab from OSX. The window is always like this, no matter what I build (IOS, OSX, Windows). https://we.tl/UVgAXGXCU2

 

Thanks, helps a lot. I will try to figure out whats going on

 

Thanks for clarifying, that's too bad since Unity won't let me move the assets out of the resource folder on this project.

 

Hi Percy

I haven't forgotten about you, but I need some hardware issues I need to sort out before being able to properly test.

 

I click "load Build Log(Required)" after i build and i get the spinning pinwheel for about 2 seconds then nothing... Now what?

 

Hmm, it seems like my tool is unable to find (Or parse your build log)

Try to:
Start Unity
Open Asset Hunter
Create a build
Press the "Log updated (Refresh button)" if avaliable
Press the "Open Log" button in Asset Hunter
Copy the content of the log and send that to me (Either here or to contact@heurekagames.com)

Thank you

(Also, if you could provide me with some info like, Windows/Mac, Unity version, Asset Hunter version and your current build target)

 

email sent..

 

Email received. Will take a look as soon as possible

 

Holly Jesus... I really needed this asset hunter 30gb project, I'll post how much I cleaned, allready waiting 10 min.

 

Yes, I'm also often surprised how much obsolete stuff is in my projects when I run Asset Hunter.
The wait is partly because of a memory restraint from Unity, that forces me to clean up memory once in a while (Which has a time overhead)

 

When i make some folders to exclude, why it scans assets again? cant it just hide or something that folders, and just fully exclude on other scans?

 

Yes I agree, that would make more sense. I will add that to the backlog

 

Also found that it wants to delete my using prebaf and its material, but not original .fbx file. Altho I am not completly sure if I really use it. Furthermore, then I change something in scene and then revert it, like put some prefab just to check everything on it and then delete and save it, in asset hunter, in select mode every item goes blank, only foldershave names. Not sure why is it so.

 

So this is how much space it deleted. Thanks for this great plugin.

 

With regards to prefab being unused and fbx being used, I'm not 100% what going on there. Perhaps the FBX is used in a different prefab? I'm heavily relying on Unity's build log to identify used stuff, and it would seem your FBX is added to build.

With regards to the "blank item" I will try to see if I can repro

 

That's great to see. Thanks for sharing

 

Actualy o saw that i had double asset folder, the end size of project is around 9gb

 

Hi, just a quick question, does Asset Hunter 2 support Asset Bundles?

I only have one bootstrap scene in my project, and all other scenes are loaded through Unity's Asset Bundle mechanism.

Regards,

 

Hi, great asset, but I can't find the assets referenced in my scenes, even I know that the asset is in use. This is what I'm receiving:

Asset not referenced in any scene, most likely a part of the "resources" folders

 

Hello, I make a build of my game. Still it displays red button saying "Load Build Report(Required)".

 

Hi,

Anyone experience the slow response when working on Asset Hunter tab/windows? For me, every time the AH tab is active, the mouse cursor and button response are very slow.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B036Tx7FVzzVRkc4d0x3Y2NPdFU/view?usp=sharing

 

Hi Miquel

I will actually have to test this out, but i'm 99% sure it will since Unity is either including them in the build or downloading them externally.

NB: Sorry for the (Very late reply) for some reason I have not received any mail about new messages in this thread for quite a while.

 

Hi Piina

I had someone else mention this problem in November (Through mail). He ended up figuring out that his project was in some way corrupted. He copied his files into a new project and everything worked. I will post his mail reply here:

I may have been wasting your time.
I’ve just tried the project again, and sure enough it told me to make a new build. This time I built it for IOS, but did ‘Replace’ instead of ‘Append’ to the Xcode project.

Having done this, Asset Hunter now changed to the red button to load/update the log. And it all seems working!

I’m not 100% convinced if it was because of the replace vs append build option, or if it was a simple case that restarting Unity (having tried the test project where it worked) that fixed it.​

Hopefully this can help you, if not please let me know - Here or through mail.

NB: Sorry for the (Very late reply) for some reason I have not received any mail about new messages in this thread.

 

Hi dmargs

That means that the file lives in "Resources folder" which Unity includes by default, so all scenes can potentially reference those assets through code.

NB: Sorry for the (Very late reply) for some reason I have not received any mail about new messages in this thread.

 

Hi LeGiangAnh

I have a hard time actually noticing the response slowdown, but that's not saying it doesn't happen. When creating asset hunter I had similar problem if I had large projects and I expanded all folders inside Asset Hunter. The reason for that is drawing a very large amount of Unity IMGUI on screen is slow. To counter that I made sure all folders are collapsed to begin with, and you can then choose which folders to expand.

Please let me know if this helps you, and if not, please send a couple of screenshots so I can see how the AH window look (How many folders are open, and how many files are visible) Also if you could tell me your CPU

 

Hey Kristian, Did you ever wind up verifying asset bundle support?

 

Didn't at the time - but just did. And as much as hurts me to admit, my 99% certainty didn't pan out. Asset Hunter does NOT support AssetBundles.

Never really used assetbundles and didn't realized that way Unity is loading assetbundles prevents me from actually detecting if they have been used or not.

So no, doesn't support asset bundles

 

Hey, someone might've already done this but I figured I may as well put it out there. Made a script to check the project for materials that are using a shader. Of course, shaders can be used by other shaders or through scripting, but its nonetheless useful.

Naturally it could be fancied up allot, sent to a background process (edit: or not - system.io would be efficient though), etc.

Think it'd be a nice addition to asset hunter, I can imagine it'd be a neat thing to check through the context menu for individual assets (well, ideally the project view right click menu) for a couple other things as well.

 

Hey LittleSettler

I'm at my daytime work right now, but will definitely give it a look through when I get home. Thank you so much for sharing

 

Hiya! Been a while... so long in fact I even forgot my past posts and forgot that AssetHunter 2 doesn't seem to work on OSX (still keeps asking for a build to be made). I've just updated to latest version and is sadly still the case. Just thought i'd let you know, would love a solution (Other than going into windows/bootcamp )

 

Hi Percy

I can remember your problem, but I also seem to remember we had an email correspondence where you said the problem was solved (Something about replace/appending to xcode?).

If that is not the case, let me know and we can try to figure out whats going on.

NB: Any new project you create seems to work, right?

 

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I've been looking for a tool like this, thanks heaps!

 

Glad you found it useful. Enjoy!

 

Love this tool, but Asset Hunter is throwing compile errors in 2017.1.0b9

 

Thanks for letting me know. Will submit a fix today (Will probably be available for you in 3-4 workdays)

If you just want it to compile now, find this code in "AssetHunterMainWindow.cs":

Code (CSharp):

1. #if UNITY_5_3_OR_NEWER
2.                 m_window.titleContent.image = m_window.m_UISmallLogo;
3.                 m_window.titleContent.text = "Asset Hunter";
4.  

Now replace the lines immediately after with this:

Code (CSharp):

1. #else
2.             m_window.title = "Asset Hunter";
3. #endif

 

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EDIT: Just got update, will give it a go.

 

The update should do the trick.

 

Hi,

I get these messages:

"A meta data file (.meta) exists but its asset 'Assets/Gizmos' can't be found. When moving or deleting files outside of Unity, please ensure that the corresponding .meta file is moved or deleted along with it."

How do I find the corresponding .meta to be deleted in the project folder?

Cheers,
Nikola

 

Hi Nikola.

I'm pretty sure its not a problem that relates to Asset Hunter, seems like it happens when moving/renaming files from within monodevelop/Visual studio.

https://connect.microsoft.com/Visua...uses-asset-database-refresh-warnings-in-unity

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42137624/unity-metafiles-errors


My best guess is there is a file in the "Assets" folder that is called "Gizmos.meta", if there is, try to delete that

 

Hi, Just a quick question.
Is this compatible with playmaker?
Someone on the playmaker forum got this asset and his build (windows) crashed right away.

 

I have had playmaker in projects that I've used Asset Hunter on with no problems, and cant say how they would be able to be incompatible. Never heard about anyone having such a problem.

And even if you would encounter such a problem you can choose to ignore the "Playmaker" folder in the Asset Hunter settings

 

The crash indeed is not related to playmaker and Asset Hunter.

I do not own Asset Hunter (yet) so i could not test this.
Thats why i asked here

 

Hi Djaydino

Thanks for letting me know