Resolved The Assets/Create menu

Assets/Create is an absolute and utter mess. It's grown over the years, and there's a million things there with no rhyme or reason to where they are.

A lot of it requires better sorting, or just removal, but the real problem is that there seems to be no rules about what level of grouping should exist.

For example, UI Toolkit has been nice and placed everything UI Toolkit related under one menu, nice:


While both Animation and Timeline is naughty and has all their stuff on the main menu:


Really, these should all be under "Animation" (Timeline goes under Animation, not Sequencing! Nobody will look for it under Sequencing! You messed up under Window/, don't mess up here!)

Rendering is fun because it's a category and a header at the same time:


Jikes!

I could go on. It's really hard to find things here, and we do have to scroll in the menu. Is there any plan to actually fix this? I know that it's a problem because the menu items are owned by a million different teams, but it's been bad for a very long time, so maybe it's time to bite the bullet?

 

Second this, The create asset menu need a way of sorting, It certainly waste many many user's time just by looking for the right asset.

 

Agreed, really hard to find things. Especially if some have a SRP and non SRP version which both are visible (why not put the old built in stuff in a legacy or build in drop down when using SRP?)

 

The create asset menu could provide a new string field called "group", forcing people to have to put their stuff under a group.

I also like this quote in particular, because it's not even "scrolling", it's awkwardly clicking on the arrow in the bottom. Making me wonder, why does this menu not have a scrollfield yet?

 

How I personally would envision the right click / create menu:

mockup:


a little bit explanation:

• Context Sensitive
  • who cares about "Open Scene Additive" when you've not selected a scene.
• Most Used Options should use the fewest clicks
• Easy visual cues
  • categories with labels
  • some colorful elements that make it easy to identify a color with a specific menu section
• Customizable
  • I'd like to have more control over which options should be prominent.
    Maybe I'm an artist and regularly need to create materials, shader graphs or the Animator related things.
    Maybe I'm mostly doing UI stuff and just need the UI Elements things.
  • Either way: Whats in the root level should be customizable in the Preferences. (E.g. just a list of path's (and a color) that are promoted to root level.) Everything else will be in "Other"