Manual

Open Assets Explorer

Select the Assets Explorer menu item from the Tools -> A+ Assets Explorer 2 menu in Unity Editor

Assets Table UI

Search Assets

Search input. We can search assets via this control by typing condictions string into input and then press ENTER on the keyboard. It deault to seach asset name if there no seach field specific.

Search Condition Format

Searching in Assets Explorer supports multiple asset properties. For each property, the search condition format is

[AssetPropertyDataHeader]  :  [>|<]  [SearchValue]

For the above format:

• [AssetPropertyDataHeader] is the table header in Assets Explorer
• : is Required, it connects data header and its value
• [>|<] is not needed for string type property. For number type property, if it’s not specified, it will default to >
• [SearchValue] is the property value we want to search. For string type, if you have serveral keywords to search, use | to combine them

NOTE: if there are no valid search format, the input string will trust as the search vaule of Name property of assets.

Samples:

• Below are samples for searching for textures:

1. Name:icon means searching the textures whose name contains ‘icon’ chars
2. StorageSize:>1024 means searching the textures whose storage size is larger than 1024 KB
3. MaxSize:<2048 means searching the textures whose import parameter MaxSize is less than 2048

• For multiple conditions, each search condition will always be AND logic. Take textures search for example:

StorageSize:>1000 KB MaxSize:>1024

means:

search the texture with storage size is larger than 1000KB AND import parameter MaxSize is larger than 1024

• The multipe values sample:

Name: icon | body means search the texture whose name contains ‘icon’ OR ‘body’

Copy Actions Dropdown

Copy the name or path of selcted assets in table.

Change table Headers

Open the table header settings winwdow.

Locate Assets In Project window

Click this button, A+ Assets Explorer will select the selected assets in Unity Project Window

Delete Assets

Delete selected assets by this button. Delete assets action cannot undo.

Themes

Supports Unity Person or Professional theme.

Settings

General

Code File Extensions

The extension of files that assets explorer consider it whether its code file or not.

Blacklist

Both of assets and folders can be added into blacklist:

• If assets in blacklist, it will hide from assets data table view.
• If folder in blacklist, all of assets under the folder hide from assets data table view.

Add Assets / folders into Blacklist

Select the assets/folder in Unity Project Window, and then right click to choose Assets Explorer Blacklist -> Add

Remove Assets / folders from Blacklist

Two ways to remove from blacklist:

• Select the assets/folder in Unity Project Window, and then right click to choose Assets Explorer Blacklist -> Remove
• In Assets Explorer UI, click the Delete Blacklist Item button on the right corner of UI

Context Menu

Assets Explorer Blacklist

Add selected assets/folders to or remove selected assets/folders from blacklist cache.

Show In Assets Explorer

Show the selected assets in Assets Explorer. The menu item is disabled when one of below two conditions matched:

1. There is no Assets Explorer Window
2. Multiple type assets are selected. For example, two assets selected, one is a texture and the other is a model

Select Assets In Selection

Select the assets by type in current seleced objects in Project Window.

Find References In Project

Find the references assets of the selected assets, similar to the Find Preferences In Scene.

Find Unused Assets

Click Find Unused Assets button on Overview tab to trigger a build to find unused assets.

What assets are Unused?

When the assets satisfy one of below condictions are Used, others are Unused:

• In Resources folder
• In StreamingAssets folder
• Has AssetBundle assigned
• The Assets are the dependencies of an AssetBundle
• In Unity Build Report. Because of this one, we have to trigger a build to get the unused file

How Assets Explorer show the Used/Unused assets?

• When A+ Assets Explorer does not know whehter assets are used or not, Used column displays ? mark
• If asset is used, it will display black color nd Used column display ✔️ mark
• if asset is unused, it will display grey color and Used column display × mark

Data Exporter

Export assets data to a local file. Select menu Tools -> A+ Assets Explorer 2 -> Data Exporter, currently only CSV is supported.

Export to CSV

Select Tools -> A+ Assets Explorer 2 -> Data Exporter -> Export as CSV… to save all data to local csv files.

Quick Folder Opener

Select Menu Tools -> A+ Assets Explorer 2 -> Quick Folder Opener and select folder you want to open.

Supported Folders:

The Quick Folder Opener can following path in both of Windows and macOS.

• Application.dataPath
• Application.persistentDataPath
• Application.streamingAssetsPath
• Application.temporaryCachePath
• Asset Store Packages Folder
• Asset Backup Folder (the folder that Assets Explorer back files to when deleting assets)
• Editor Application Path
• Editor Log Folder

Table Headers

Below headers are supported by A+ Assets Explorer 2 currently. If you need more, welcome to send email to me.

Textures

Models

Animations

Audios

Movies

Materials

Shaders

StreamingAssets

Code files

Others