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Hi. I find so critical bug. Unity 2022.1.20 HDRP 13.1.8
I make game scene with many objects. After that, I try to find all hierarchy objects with monobech script.

1. Put in filter:h: prefab t:mono
2. Switch to Query builder mode and click to type|mono button
3. Quick search and start cashing something (make dropdown I think)
4. I have errors.
5. After errors almost my level game object stays invisible and I can't switch it back
Also, I has the invisible objects in new scene.

My project is corrupted now Please help !

Link to google drive with Editor log and Scene screen (I selected a few game objects)

Update: I found the reason why the meshes were not displayed.
My Scriptable Render Pipeline Settings (in Project settings - Graphics) will be empty.
I think this field is clear after errors. After manually filling the field, my scene renderers stay visible.

 

Thank toy Sébastien. Yes, it's happened. I use legacy search for now.

 

Tried my old script in 2021 LTS and it doesn't work. Any ideas? Ref doesn't work for me at all.

#edit nvm this is better https://forum.unity.com/threads/experimental-dependency-viewer.1158899

 

Sorry for the long reply.
I can't 100% reproduce the issue in the empty project (hdrp asset clear in random time) BUT I think the issue starts after a quick search try to add a component and calling the Reset function after showing the quick search main window or first-time use of Query Builder. You can watch GameObject:AddComponent call in Unity editor log file (empty project) bellow.


I have an error in a situation where my UIHudCross component was added to a Canvas image in the scene and I search with a filter
h: prefab t:mono in Query Builder.
After that, I have an error in the public void Reset() function and my Project settings pipeline asset field was empty (in work project 100% | in the empty project with little chance)

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using UnityEngine.UI;
3.  
4. namespace UGame.UI
5. {
6.     public class UIHudCross : MonoBehaviour
7.     {
8.         [SerializeField] private Image image;
9.    
10.         private Color _defaultColor;
11.  
12.         public void Reset()
13.         {
14.             image.color = _defaultColor;
15.         }
16.     }
17. }

Unity editor console error (empty project):

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

UGame.UI.UIHudCross.Reset () (at Assets/UIHudCross.cs:14)

UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr, Boolean&)

Unity editor log file (empty project):

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

  at UGame.UI.UIHudCross.Reset () [0x00000] in D:\Projects\Temp\QuickSearchIssue\Assets\UIHudCross.cs:14 

UnityEngine.GameObject:Internal_AddComponentWithType(GameObject, Type)

UnityEngine.GameObject:AddComponent(Type)

UnityEditor.Search.SearchUtils:GetTypeIcon(Type&)

UnityEditor.Search.QueryTypeBlock:SetType(Type&)

UnityEditor.Search.QueryTypeBlock:.ctor(IQuerySource, String, String, QueryListBlockAttribute)

System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo:InternalInvoke(RuntimeConstructorInfo, Object, Object[], Exception&)

System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo:InternalInvoke(Object, Object[], Boolean)

System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo:DoInvoke(Object, BindingFlags, Binder, Object[], CultureInfo)

System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo:Invoke(BindingFlags, Binder, Object[], CultureInfo)

System.RuntimeType:CreateInstanceImpl(BindingFlags, Binder, Object[], CultureInfo, Object[], StackCrawlMark&)

System.Activator:CreateInstance(Type, BindingFlags, Binder, Object[], CultureInfo, Object[])

System.Activator:CreateInstance(Type, Object[])

UnityEditor.Search.QueryListBlockAttribute:CreateBlock(String, String, IQuerySource, String)

UnityEditor.Search.QueryBuilder:CreateBlock(IQueryNode&)

UnityEditor.Search.QueryBuilder:ParseNode(IQueryNode&, List`1, Boolean)

UnityEditor.Search.QueryBuilder:ParseNode(IQueryNode&, List`1, Boolean)

UnityEditor.Search.QueryBuilder:ParseNode(IQueryNode&, List`1, Boolean)

UnityEditor.Search.QueryBuilder:Build()

UnityEditor.Search.QueryBuilder:.ctor(String)

UnityEditor.Search.QueryHelperSearchGroup:Add(ISearchQuery, QueryType, Texture2D)

UnityEditor.Search.QueryHelperSearchGroup:Add(String, QueryType, Texture2D)

UnityEditor.Search.QueryHelperWidget:PopulateSearches(IEnumerable`1)

UnityEditor.Search.QueryHelperWidget:.ctor(Boolean, ISearchView)

UnityEditor.Search.QuickSearch:CreateQueryHelper()

UnityEditor.Search.QuickSearch:get_queryHelper()

UnityEditor.Search.QuickSearch:DrawQueryHelper(Single)

UnityEditor.Search.QuickSearch:DrawHelpText(Single)

UnityEditor.Search.QuickSearch:DrawItems(Event, Single)

UnityEditor.Search.QuickSearch:DrawPanels(Event)

UnityEditor.Search.QuickSearch:OnGUI()

UnityEditor.HostView:InvokeOnGUI(Rect)

UnityEditor.DockArea:DrawView(Rect)

UnityEditor.DockArea:OldOnGUI()

UnityEngine.UIElements.IMGUIContainer:DoOnGUI(Event, Matrix4x4, Rect, Boolean, Rect, Action, Boolean)

UnityEngine.UIElements.IMGUIContainer:HandleIMGUIEvent(Event, Matrix4x4, Rect, Action, Boolean)

UnityEngine.UIElements.IMGUIContainer:DoIMGUIRepaint()

UnityEngine.UIElements.UIR.RenderChainCommand:ExecuteNonDrawMesh(DrawParams, Single, Exception&)

UnityEngine.UIElements.UIR.UIRenderDevice:EvaluateChain(RenderChainCommand, Material, Material, Texture, Texture, Single, NativeSlice`1, NativeSlice`1, MaterialPropertyBlock, Boolean, Exception&)

UnityEngine.UIElements.UIR.RenderChain:Render()

UnityEngine.UIElements.UIRRepaintUpdater:Update()

UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualTreeUpdater:UpdateVisualTreePhase(VisualTreeUpdatePhase)

UnityEngine.UIElements.Panel:UpdateForRepaint()

UnityEngine.UIElements.Panel:Repaint(Event)

UnityEngine.UIElements.UIElementsUtility:DoDispatch(BaseVisualElementPanel)

UnityEngine.UIElements.UIElementsUtility:UnityEngine.UIElements.IUIElementsUtility.ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr, Boolean&)

UnityEngine.UIElements.UIEventRegistration:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr)

UnityEngine.UIElements.<>c:<.cctor>b__1_2(Int32, IntPtr)

UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr, Boolean&)



(Filename: Assets/UIHudCross.cs Line: 14)



[LicensingClient] Successfully resolved entitlement details

C:\build\output\Unity-Technologies\mono\mono\eglib\gpath.c:115: assertion 'filename != NULL' failed



Asset Pipeline Refresh (id=afbf3840294aef64d91a63bc89359a8c): Total: 0.016 seconds - Initiated by RefreshV2(AllowForceSynchronousImport)

Asset Pipeline Refresh (id=18ed49df43f4b974fbdaf136f3c89cec): Total: 0.011 seconds - Initiated by RefreshV2(AllowForceSynchronousImport)

 

It seems that the `[SearchContext]` attribute doesn't clear when the search window is closed, so using two different search contexts won't clear when the second one is selected for object picking.

Simple example code with results image, clicking Search2 object picker, then closing it and clicking Search1 object picker, the Search2 context remains.

Code (CSharp):

1.     [SearchContext("Resources")]
2.     public GameObject Search1;
3.    
4.     [SearchContext("Prefabs")]
5.     public GameObject Search2;

 

Is there any way to search in the scene for things that reference other things in the scene?

I can do

h: ref:GUID

to get all the things in the scene that references the asset with that guid. I can also to

h: id:ID

to find the GameObjects with that instanceID. But I can't find a way to combine them into something like "hey, which objects in the scene are referencing this other object in the same scene?".

We can find this information now by either a) searching through the .unity file in a text editor or b) creating a SerializedObject wrapper for every object in the scene and searching through all of their SerializedProperty children, but both of those are slow and cumbersome, so something as convenient as

ref:thing

would be nice.

 

Hi!

Thanks, that is good to know. What we were looking for were some way of solving the eternal problem of "something in this scene is deactivating this GameObject, but we don't know which script is responsible". In those cases, we don't know the property name, or really anything else than that the object has probably been referenced by something.

 

Bit OT but here's how I usually tackle these cases: Deactivating a game object or disabling a script is done in-line with the originating call. So you can put a log in or break on the script's

OnDisable

message and the stack trace will tell you the offending call site. With the debugger you can just check up to stack for which instance it is, otherwise you can add a

Debug.Log("message…", this);

to the offending script to narrow it down.

 

Where to add this don't see a preview package for it anywhere in 2022.1

 

aah.. and there was me thinking there was no quick search built in because I found some documentation on unity saying "To launch Quick Search use the Alt + ' shortcut" ... :/ and that didn't work.

 

Can you make the hotkey Ctrl-K close the window if it is already opened.. would be useful...can ctrl+k ..search.. ctrl-k close it out the way.. on the off chance what I search for had nothing to click on or go to.. being able to just get rid of the window with the same shortcut is useful.. can have the shortcut icon.. a held down icon to shows its already opened somewhere.

 

The quick search window is a game changer as it is a whole new way of interacting with project data.
Sadly I encountered a lot of problems and errors while using it.
I got the feeling that this feature is so unknown and underused that some pretty obvious errors slipped through.

I did already report some of this through the Unity bug reporter but I am unsure if all of these are bugs or if I did sth wrong (for example with indexing)

- "has:" filter does not work (https://unity3d.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2/IN-30810)
- "p:" does not work ("t:SceneAsset" shows 172 project assets "p: t:SceneAsset" shows 0)
- "t:SceneAsset" (172) works but "t=SceneAsset" (0) does not
- Grid views lost all their columns after closing and reopening Unity although the docs state that they should be persistent
- Prefab change indicators (blue bars) are shown left on the left border of the search window instead of the left border of the search windows inspector.

I am using Unity 2021.3.16f1 and these are my indexing settings:





Also unsure if I need both of these indices or if one with all options checked would be enough.

 

The blue bars are actually in your image. Just not where they are supposed to be. Have a look at the left edge of your search window ;-)

 

Thanks for digging into it. As I said I really love the search window and I am sure I will get a lot out of it when it works for me.

If you do have access to this Bug report (https://unity3d.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2/IN-30810) I uploaded my index files. Maybe they help in reproducing the issue.
Not sure if they work properly without the full project.

Thanks for clearing that up. I did not understand the difference betweem "has" and "t" after discovering it can filter by component.
Maybe the docs should be updated to state that "has" should not be used anymore.

I will try to reproduce this issue.
This is a really important feature to me and I setup some nice tables for my Game Designer before I lost it all

 

I just created the columns again and saved it both to the existing project search file and to a user search, closed Unity and after opening Unity again all the columns are lost.

After creating the columns these were the only changes to the search file:

Those changes do not seem to contain any info on the added columns.
Here is the bug report: https://unity3d.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2/IN-31459

 

Trying to explore this new search and its functionalities and I have to say the first impression is not great.
The tool seem to be full of capacity but the documentation is really lacking.
Especially I tried to do a custom provider to sort and do actions on some specific assets of our project, and the examples to do so are not great. It would benefit for a sample that is working as-is so that we can dig into as the whole setup for these classes is unlike anything else in Unity, so harder to just take a guess.

Also some of the examples still refer to QuickSearchTool and old APIs ^^;

 

My first google search led me to the package version, then to the manual, not the scripting API.
And this part is still referencing quicksearch. https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.1/Documentation/Manual/api-action-handler.html. It would be great if this section pointed to your github repo.

We're still in 2021.3, we'll switch next week and I was waiting for that to get more in depth with our plugins. For now I got by with the editor github project, but as always a good chunk of the helpers and utility that are used are in internal classes.

 

Wow. Thank you for the quick turnaround. Looking forward to use it

 

Hi, I'm trying to use the scene/hierarchy search inside a PreviewSceneStage which is necessary for the tool I'm working on. But the search only returns the hierarchy/scene objects from the Main Stage.
How to include the search to look for objects in the PreviewSceneStage hierarchy? I can't find any details on the docs.

 

Not a bug but more of a feature request - could you make SearchQueryAsset not internal please?

I want to have an editor window for example that lists all the art search queries in the project, but there's no way to find assets of type "SearchQueryAsset" cause that class is not accessible. That leaves me with hacky workarounds - the best I can do is AssetDatabase.FindAssets with the type written down as a string (whereas I usually use typeof()). Though then for the resulting assets I then have no access to their data (icon, query, etc.).

 

Hi @sebastienp_unity, I just submitted as a bug and attached the project:

"IN-34480 - Quick Search does not work when using custom PreviewSceneStage"

Thanks for your support!

 

Awesome, thank you!

 

Does this work recursively on scripts? eg finding everything that's connected to a selected editor script? find the monobehaviour, the gameobjects that use the monobehaviour, etc

 

Hello,
I ran into a problem today and I don't know what to do.
I tried with the help of another developer to solve it, but at the end we cannot resolve it.
So I tried in the index manager, "Build" and this not help to find prefabs in custom path.
With this command it's nothing find it:

Code (CSharp):

1. p: ("Assets/Custom/") and (prefab:any)

(I have prefabs in the nested folder "Assets/Custom/...")
I'm using 2022.2.16 version of the Unity.
I'll be glad for any information about it.
Thanks

 

Sadly it's still not found it after once again rebuilding (reindexing).
There is a screenshot:
If you get any another idea I'll try it.

 

Hi, I have some feedback. Apologies if it's already been posted/addressed, I didn't read all 18 pages of forum.

When I search files by name, I think Folder Name should "score" less than file name. It happens very often that the results at the top of the list are not the ones I'm looking for, specifically because their director path contains a folder match.

For example here, I'm looking for the bow item, but some audio assets are listed first. Any human would know that I'm probably looking for the prefabs since they have Item in their names, like in my search.

I think directory name matching should only be used to break equality between items that score the same with file names only.

EDIT: Let me know if I should make a separate post and delete this.

 

I understand here is the result:


For this fragment:

p: dir="Assets/Custom" t:prefab 

result is empty.

So I'm going to updating to a newer version of Unity.

 

Still persist after updating to version 2022.2.19
This not works

Code (CSharp):

1. p: dir="Assets/Custom" t:prefab

This works

Code (CSharp):

1. p: dir="Custom" t:prefab