Feedback I wish the editor allowed me to search for game objects with specific components.

Suppose you accidentally have two audio listeners, and your warning doesn't even tell you where they are? Or you get an error claiming a script is missing, but it never gives you the name of what it's missing on.

Anyone else think there should be a way to actually type in components in the editor to show where they are being used?

 

Some tertiary googling tells me this feature does in fact, already exist. Perhaps try the same.

 

I think you can just click the error message and it highlights the game object.

 

The 2 audio listeners one does not.

I only see this feature for coding in game, not for in editor.

 

search in the hierarchy: „t:AudioListener“

 

How did that work? Why didn't it work all day, then?

Still, it doesn't show where missing scripts are, even in the error.

 

Open the console. Enable warning messages. Hit play. Wait for it to appear. Double-click it.

 

I double-clicked and nothing happened.

 

It selects the game object that has the component with the missing script. I tested it just before I posted.

 

Google better.

I searched "Unity find component in scene editor", and this was the first link: https://blog.theknightsofunity.com/can-search-scene-objects-components-type/

And despite being a bit old, the functionality still exists, and works fine:

 

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/search-overview.html

 

It directs me to Sample Scene- the root of the entire scene. That can't be right.

 

You've still been shown multiple other effective ways to find specific components in the scene.

 

@Pathojen please post screen shots and Unity version, as you must be doing something wrong.

 

After double-clicking. Sorry about that wrong post earlier.

 

You might be running into the issue where the script is missing on a hidden object. If so, you will need to unhide the object first. You can use this script:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8s70bf5ighi8p3/HiddenObjectExplorer.cs?dl=0

See more info at: https://answers.unity.com/questions/1291622/object-in-scene-not-in-hierarchy.html

 

That feature could save people from scrapping whole projects over errors about missing items. Will try it out.