Too Long Animations List in Inspector

Hi, Is there other way to edit animation clips in Inspector other than drop down list?
Now, when I have 250+ clips, then I have to tediously and slowly wait for the list to scroll down and reveal that one animation I'm looking for? Any ideas? Thanks

 

I can think of a few (S***ty) workarounds:

• Pressing a letter key might jump you through the list to the first entry starting with that letter.
• Make a separate Animator Controller to just put in the clips you want to edit. Or make a script that implements IAnimationClipSource so you can just throw them all in an array instead of needing to make lots of states and stuff.
  
• It would probably be possible to do some editor scripting using reflection to access the animation window so you can make a better interface for it, but that would take a bunch of effort.

 

Thanks for the ideas!
1/ unfortunetly won't work
2/ that's interesting idea, thanks I'll explore this
3/ oh no, but it would be perfect

 

Can resonate with this issue. It is brutal to find your callback function. Should have forward search matching.

 

Wat about having a nice tool with a tree-like controls, like the new Input System has?

 

Is there any asset that can help improve this inspector ? I have the same problem working on a pixel Art game and with all direction you have few hundreds animations to look into ... Even just a scroll option would help a bit

 

I managed to create a custom editor window with buttons to select animation clips.
For my project, all I needed was:
1 get currently selected AnimatorController
2 get the path of folder where controller is
3 get all AnimationClips from that folder
4 display all in window

Below are my code snippets for inspiration

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Code (CSharp):

1. public static AnimationClip[] GetAllMotionsForController()
2.                 {
3.                         AnimatorController controller = GetCurrentController();
4.                         GetControllerInfo(controller, out string controllerPath, out string controllerFolder, out string controllerName);
5.                         return GetAllInstances<AnimationClip>(controllerFolder);
6.                 }

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Code (CSharp):

1. public static AnimatorController GetCurrentController()
2.                 {
3.                         AnimatorController controller = null;
4.                         EditorWindow[] tools = Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll<EditorWindow>();
5.                         int i;
6.                         int count = tools.Length;
7.                         for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
8.                         {
9.                                 var toolType = tools[i].GetType();
10.                                 var controllerProperty = toolType.GetProperty("animatorController", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);
11.                                 if (controllerProperty != null)
12.                                 {
13.                                         controller = controllerProperty.GetValue(tools[i], null) as AnimatorController;
14.                                         return controller;
15.                                 }
16.                         }
17.                         return null;
18.                 }

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Code (CSharp):

1. public static void GetControllerInfo(AnimatorController controller,
2.                         out string controllerPath, out string controllerFolder, out string controllerName)
3.                 {
4.                         controllerPath = AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(controller);
5.                         controllerFolder = controllerPath.Substring(0, controllerPath.LastIndexOf('/'));
6.                         int controllerFullNameStart = controllerPath.LastIndexOf('/') + 1;
7.                         int controllerFullNameEnd = controllerPath.LastIndexOf('.');
8.                         string controllerFullName = controllerPath.Substring(controllerFullNameStart, controllerFullNameEnd - controllerFullNameStart);
9.                         controllerName = controllerFullName.Split("__")[0];
10.                 }

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Code (CSharp):

1. public static T[] GetAllInstances<T>(string parentFolder) where T : UnityEngine.Object
2.                 {
3.                         string[] guids = AssetDatabase.FindAssets("t:" + typeof(T).Name, new[] { parentFolder });
4.                         T[] a = new T[guids.Length];
5.                         for (int i = 0; i < guids.Length; i++)
6.                         {
7.                                 string path = AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(guids[i]);
8.                                 a[i] = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<T>(path);
9.                         }
10.                         return a;
11.                 }

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Code (CSharp):

1. AnimationWindow animWin = EditorWindow.GetWindow<AnimationWindow>(false, "Animation", false);
2.                         AnimationClip[] motions = GlobalMethod.GetAllMotionsForController();
3.                         int count = motions.Length;
4.                         int i;
5.                         for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
6.                         {
7.                                 if (PEGui.Button(motions[i].name, PELayout.V0, m_displayWidth, 18f))
8.                                         animWin.animationClip = motions[i];
9.                         }

 

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