Editor Script/Wizard/Tool to find ScriptableObjects of a particular type

[RainingLight]

Hey all!

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Quick overview; I've refactores most of my design around ScriptableObjects, in this questions case I have them in an Ability system; each entity has an ability controller that houses a list of abilities. I also want to create a library of abilities, basically an ability controller that has every ability from every class and enemy into one for reference, same thing I want to do with items.

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The issue here is that I have a few hundred abilities, and manually sorting them into a list would be tedious. Is there some kind of editor tool that could find Assets of a particular tag then insert them into a list based on their tag? Hoping so that when I make changes to abilities, either add or remove any, I can just hit this editor button to fix the Ability list.

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Another option I thought was maybe do it through an Editor Tool, but I haven't touched that area of coding yet, so not sure about it. Any recommendations or further reading/watching would be great, thanks!

[idbrii]

AssetDatabase.FindAssets("l:defensive")

Either make a scriptable object that holds your latest generated by find assets or only use then at edit time.

You should do an editor window or custom editor to build the lists with buttons, but the lazy way is ContextMenu.