Why does everything turn gray in the scene view when doing search?

It is annoying that Unity grays-out everything in the scene view when doing a search for something in the hierarchy.




Thanks.

 

Why is it annoying? It only greys out things you're not searching for.

 

It's like "Why when I'm looking for specific file, only this specific file appears? It's annoying", incredible sentence.

 

I'm with @OP on this one though, there should be a toggle for greying out the scene view during search. Sometimes it's useful, sometimes not.

 

Good Idea. At least someone else also thinks this is not always desired behavior of the editor.

 

+1

The behavior is not always useful. A workflow case: When viewing search results of a search in the hierarchy view, I want to be able to cycle through selecting them and view their positions relative to the scene. With the rest of the scene objects grayed out (disjoint/excluded set), it's very difficult to do this unless I clear the query results (losing my place).

I would request two changes...

1. Allow setting of the color of the excluded set of searched objects, in Editor Preferences (other than gray). Given this option, I would immediately drop the alpha of that gray.

2. Provide a toggle in the Scene and Hierarchy views for turning on/off excluded set graying.

- thanks

 

This is one of the most annoying "features" of Unity. I'm constantly searching for something, then having to undo the search to see *anything*. This is basically what I see when I search... pretty impossible to tell what's what.

 

I found a solution. Edit > Preferences > Scene View > Enable filtering while searching.

Just toggle that off and it will be the normal view when you search.