Search by type? What are the possible values for 'type'?

In the project search box, there is the option to search by "type". But I can't find any documentation on what the valid values for type are?
I'm trying to get all of the .unity files and put them in their own folder, since "file open scene" does not filter to just .unity files and typing *.unity into the file name box doesn't filter like other windows apps.
I've tried typing "unity" and "scene" into the search box, set to type, but that gets me nothing. "Shader" gets me shaders, but what is the type for a scene? Is there a list of all types somewhere?

komatii

 

I would love to know this as well. Things that seem obvious and needed like "prefab", "scene", "level", "object", "fbx", etc. do nothing. I'm trying to get all the root mesh objects (by type) so that all fbx import settings can be changed at once, but "mesh" and "object" give me too much other stuff to pick through ("gameobject" comes closest listing prefabs and base meshes).

 

Ok other than the one you mentioned, I found a few types by trial and error. So far I can't find a list anywhere.

So far we have

Object
Shader
Material
Texture
Font
Flare
Cubemap

Thats as far as I was able to check. You are right no way to search for scenes

 

Great... even worse.. some things that work in Hierarchy don't work in Project search and vice versa So some others that work (still all by type):

gameobject - gives prefabs and root mesh/object files
terraindata - in project view, just terrain in hierarchy
light - only in hierarchy view
animation - only in hierarchy ? lists anything with an animation component attached
collider - only in hierarchy ? lists anything with a collider (any type) component attached
renderer - only in hierarchy ? lists anything with a renderer component attached

 

Most components work pretty well, in my experience. I've even typed in a name of a script to find all objects that use that script. AudioSource is another useful one for me.

 

I too am a little surprised at how useless the type feature seems to be. I got it into my head that it would be useful to have multiple Project views, each with different types of things and so tried to use this option, but my first attempt was for a "script window" and so far I can't find its 'type'. So I too would like this improved and/or made more transparent.

 

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I just tried searching by type, and literally nothing works. My scene's got hundreds of objects in it, with a variety of scripts. This happens whether I'm searching by Type or by All. I'm using Unity 4.0.0f7.

 

Project:

1. If you just type a string, it will return the name of any corresponding item in a drill-down fashion.
2. If you look to the right of the search box, there is a drop-filter list that will do it per-type.
3. You can combine the two as well so:

a: Typing myStuff will return any mesh, texture, script etc., containing that anywhere in its name.
b: Typing t:scene will return all scenes in the project (which is what using the pre-made filters do).
c: Typing t:scene myLevel will only show any scenes that are named MyLevel.


Hierarch:

1. A string search returns object names similarly as will the Project Brower (updating as you type).
2. You can also search by type too, and you'll probably get renderers and other root components. However no results on the actual textures or shaders they use.
3. If you are searching for a script, the whole name has to be entered before it will show up unfortunately.

More importantly... for whatever reason the Hierarchy is case sensitive, whereas they Project Browser doesn't appear to be.

I'll file a bug on it next week.

Here's a link to the docs:
http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/ProjectView40.html

 

Thanks for the reply, Mike.

I see, I was just confused because it worked differently in the previous version I was using. I think it was 3.5 or 4.0 beta. I would just have to start typing my query in the Hierarchy, and results would start coming in, kind of like Google searches. This worked for search by Type as well. Was it a deliberate decision to make it so that you have to type the whole name of a script, and without any spaces? It just seems a little counter-intuitive to me, that's all. The old system worked really well for me.

More details:

I have to type out the whole name of any component I'm looking for before it will show up, not just for scripts. This applies to Renderers, Transforms, etc. Also, searches for default components are not case-sensitive. Only searches for scripts in the Hierarchy are case-sensitive.

Hope that helps. Thanks!

 

How can I find all Box Colliders in Hierarchy view?

 

Oh, sweet, I need to type it fully, not partially! I typed "Box", "Coll" and did not understand why it is not working

 

gonna revive this old thread. In Unity 5.1.1p2, I just noticed t:MeshFilter & t:MeshRenderer (or just t:Renderer) do not produce any results.

Is there a behind the scenes name I should be using?

 

Hey, right now im trying to write a script that finds all of the different 'Types' in a project for me to pick from in a ui dropdown box... Is what i am trying to do impossable?

 

t:renderer works.

Also, you can search for material references like this:
ref:relative/path/from/assets/to/material/material.mat

or a mesh like this:
ref:relative/path/from/assets/to/mesh.FBX

And probably a couple others.

 

It does now, in 5.3.4. Was broken before. Works with MeshRenderer and MeshFilter too now.

 

how can i search for all .blend files?

 

In the scene or in the project? In the scene, I don't think you can- however they should all be t:renderer. In the project, they would be t:mesh. Which will return more than .blends, but hopefully is closer to what you need.

 

t:model works, though you'll get all .fbx files as well as .blend files, if that matters.

 

thanks for the t:model hookup.

Should be able to search by file extension.

 

Anyone know if there's a way to do a hierarchy search on tags (not asset tags, project tags) or layers?
Thx

 

Any chance to do a search by folder? https://feedback.unity3d.com/suggestions/add-an-f-search-option-in-project-window

Like: "f:Models/Actors", "f:Models/Actors t:Mesh" and so on ...

 

Is there any detailed documentation for the hierarchy search? I can't find anywhere in the docs that mentions t:, ref:, etc, and I'm hoping there are more options. For example, I'd love a search that only returns active objects in the scene.

 

Not really, I mean there's nothing on this. Basically it looks like searches are just modifyable by the same things that buttons in the search bar do. I guess we really need an extension for this. There's one out there for searching for references to an asset. Might be a cool idea to extend that further with some regex searching or at least some conditional searching. Amazing that Unity hasn't implemented some better searching tools.

 

There's more than just the buttons in the search bar, because there's no button for searching by reference, like ref: does. So the search might be able to do a lot more than we know about.

 

I'm trying to export all my Assembly Definition files. That would be trivial if I could do something like t:AssemblyDefinitionFileImporter or whatever. Unfortunately, this doesn't quite seem to work. I'm not even able to find the type of assembly definition files. I can't do a simply *.asmdef (which would be the most obvious and easy way to search for these files).

Is the Unity Project Browser really getting no love at all?

 

@jashan same problem here. I've read somewhere, that you can search by extension, but docs don't have that information. Search by extension seems like a logical thing to have.

 

The type of assembly definition files in the editor is AssemblyDefinitionAsset, so "t:AssemblyDefinitionAsset" works.

Edit: but, yeah, file extension is obvious and should be supported.

 

This is great, why is it not in here tho? Thanks Baste, i can finally remove the "Assembly_" prefix from my Assembly Definition asset filenames x).

 

You're asking me? I could ask you the same thing!

The really dumb thing is that AssemblyDefinitionAsset inherits from TextAsset, and has no methods or fields. The natural thing would be to allow for editing the asmdef files from script, but the best way to do that now is to create a type with the same fields as the .asmdef files have, and parse the file with JSONUtil.

 

^ this made my day XD
thanks again))

 

thnx

 

How to search for .DLLs, for example:

t:Managed or
t:ManagedPlugin or
tLL or
tlugin or
tynamicallyLinkedLibrary

thanks.

Hmmm... not sure why the capital letters are showing as emoji

 

I really want t:Audio
Why doesn't this exist?

 

It does. But the type is AudioClip, not Audio. So it's t:AudioClip.

And the forum software apparently doesn't know that and will usually have spaces before and after, so it converts those also when the appear inside of words, like tLL or tlugin. Let's see if wrapping it in a code snippet fixes that:

Code (CSharp):

1. t:DLL
2. t:Plugin

EDIT: It does ;-)

EDIT2: Let's see if this also works with inline code:

t:DLL

EDIT3: It does, too ;-)

 

Is it possible to filter by ScriptableObject, or a specific type of ScriptableObject?

 

Yes

 

2020 ... we still don't have file-extension searching?. Has anyone found a way to do file-extension searches, considering the project view is a list of files?

(I have a wayward C# project file somewhere in my project, that's confusing Unity's VS integration. It's quite likely a .sln or .csproj or one of the other many VS files has somehow crept in. So ... i try to search by type to find it.)

 

Does anyone know if its possible to search mesh renderers using a specific mesh? say I want to find a renderer using a mesh named mymesh?

Ive got a couple large objects I need to find and its been bugging me for weeks, would be easy id exported the meshes but they are unsaved probuilder ones so can just go to its folder either

 

You could write an editor script that iterates over all scenes and all prefabs in the project and then logs those gameobjects / prefabs that use that specific mesh (the mesh is actually in the Mesh Filter, not the mesh renderer but that's just a small detail to be aware of).

Depending on your project, you might actually get away with just doing it for the currently loaded scene (and then doing it manually for all relevant scenes).

 

Related: there is a "secret" API that is much, much better for doing this stuff, but Unity has officially decided we're not allowed to use it (I discovered it, filed a bug asking them to make it public, and got rejected: https://forum.unity.com/threads/bug...-internal-preventing-us-from-using-it.971961/ )

I haven't tried doing extension-searches using the hidden API, but it (SearchFilter) appears to be what's providing the string-based searches we see here (AssetDatabase currently has no methods for Find'ing assets - they're all hidden inside the private API (you could get them with reflection, but...) - instead you have to convert your method calls into string values and send them through the same string-parser that the Editor windows are using in this thread. Ugh)

 

There exists, for some years already. It's called QuickSearch. Here's a link to the package manual: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.quicksearch@2.0/manual/index.html

 

I read the docs, twice. Found nothing that said it allows search-by-type. Can you be more precise?

 

search-by-type has always been available, that's t:typeName. Works both in old search and quick search.

Quick Search also supports regex, so I'm pretty sure *.txt should work as expected.

 

Well, yes, from context, I meant "file type" not "C# subclass"

Anyway, QuickSearch doesn't appear to work . Trying to open it right now in Unity Editor LTS triggers 85 compile errors and then permanently fails, the feature cannot be used (just generates compile errors on Unity's own code) - this is apparently not a production-ready feature.

 

is there anyway to search for .unitypackage file? I'm trying to import a package using Editor script. And I need to get the path to the package

 AssetDatabase.ImportPackage(package, false);

 

Sorry for the Necro.

I can confirm that even today (29/03/2023, 2021.3.10f1) is not actually possibile to search by file type.

Example, i was writing my cool localization tool and i'm in need to find a specific extension in my editor files.

Using AssetDatabase, you have to use the editor filters like these:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/search-additional-searchfilters.html

Funny Thing Part 1)


It doesn't work as is, documented. Is quite subtle, but YOU NEED and to specify a Unity Object

Funny Thing Part 2)
Ok you need to specify a Unity Object. Ok let be TextAsset. Well you know? Is not a Unity Object as Texture or Model or Material

Maybe i should write my AssetDatabase extensions method to retrieve files info in editor using System.IO

 

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but it should be working. Did it not work when you specified "TextAsset" as the type?

I wrote a version that uses reflection to uncover the API the Unity staff refused to let anyone use (if your case is extreme, I'd recommend doing that - you have to decompile the FindAssets method calls and see how they work internally, and then use Reflection to improve on them), but mostly I have simple cases these days where I just use wrappers like this one: https://github.com/adamgit/Publishe...WorkaroundUnityMissingAssetDatabaseFindAPI.cs