[BUG-231664] Visual Asset Browser

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How would you like the feature to work?

Basically I'd like a secondary interface window for 2D and potentially 3D assets to give a visual representation of the texture or obj in question to make it easier to find assets in my 15 year old collection of things I've made/bought.

Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?

Because as someone that builds a lot and creates a lot of my own assets it is sometimes very hard to find stuff I made 10 years ago because I've forgotten the names of it and in the amount of time between then and now I have never had the time to sit down and categorically inventory all my assets.

Original Jira Fields

| Field | Value | | ------------- | ------------- | | Issue | BUG-231664 | | Summary | Visual Asset Browser | | Type | New Feature Request | | Priority | Unset | | Status | Accepted | | Resolution | Accepted | | Reporter | Suzanna Soyinka (suzanna.soyinka) | | Created at | 2022-01-13T21:54:21Z | | Updated at | 2022-01-19T18:54:13Z | ``` { 'Build Id': 'unset', 'Business Unit': ['Platform'], 'Date of First Response': '2022-01-17T09:56:29.428-0600', 'How would you like the feature to work?': "Basically I'd like a secondary interface window for 2D and potentially 3D assets to give a visual representation of the texture or obj in question to make it easier to find assets in my 15 year old collection of things I've made/bought.", 'ReOpened Count': 0.0, 'Severity': 'Unset', 'Target Viewer Version': 'viewer-development', 'Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?': "Because as someone that builds a lot and creates a lot of my own assets it is sometimes very hard to find stuff I made 10 years ago because I've forgotten the names of it and in the amount of time between then and now I have never had the time to sit down and categorically inventory all my assets.", } ```

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davidventer commented at 2022-01-17T15:56:29Z, updated at 2022-01-17T15:56:49Z

Yes please. This will make inventory management a lot easier. No need to rez hundreds of thousands of objects in order to figure out what's what. Give us a full-render preview floater when hovering over an object in inventory.

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Suzanna Soyinka commented at 2022-01-18T13:47:23Z

There is already a 3D preview for obj files prior to upload although it can be somewhat buggy, far as 2D assets goes this wouldn't be any more complicated than a file viewer that simply supports the image formats SL supports.

Also while I am coming at this from a designer/builder perspective, this could also be applicable to wearables in regards to the asset market too, maybe adding a low lod 3D representation of the object in question so people can find that pair of shoes they forgot the name of and so on and so forth.

Overall the inventory system could use some modernization, especially for power users with large asset collections that become literal week long projects to full manage and re-organize at times after large projects/build cycles.

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Kyle Linden commented at 2022-01-19T18:54:14Z

Thank you for the suggestion. We may implement some version of this at a future date.