I appreciate the new shelf, it is a huge improvement. However, is there any particular reason why it's not possible to create a new folder by right-clicking and selecting "New folder"? This is standard practice in any file browser.
The current way of creating a new folder at the import stage is overly convoluted in my opinion. And the logic when it creates a new folder instead of a keyword (or prefix, whatever the difference is...) is "not clear" at best. Prefix and path in the same box? On top of of that the whole thing is undocumented.
So lets say I want to create a new folder called materials\MyOwn and place the materials in there which are already in the shelf (from a previous version). How do I do this? I have to re-import them? I followed the instructions in the video to import a non-needed asset, just to create a folder, but it did not create a folder at all. So how do I create a folder and place my assets in there? How can such a simple thing be so difficult?
You can't drag and drop a material into a folder inside SP. But you can do this in windows Explorer...
You can't delete a texture from a folder inside SP, even though it is not used in the project. You can delete it in windows Explorer, but it will still show up in SP unless you restart it.
And lastly, when I create a new folder on disk (using windows Explorer), the new folder does not show up in the shelf, even after restarting SP. Seriously?
You would expect you can right click on a material, texture, etc. and edit the search keywords, but no.
Right clicking a folder should give you a context menu with handy stuff.
When renaming a new folder, both the new name and the old name are visible when you type, looking jumbled. You can even see this in the feature video.
I have a bunch of material presets (in folder "shelf/presets/materials") but if I go to that folder in windows Explorer, that folder is empty. The saga continues.
I imported a material (just to create a directory, which failed) and the material is now visible in SP (but not in the directory I told it to go, see above), but it is nowhere to be seen on the disk (windows Explorer). Right clicking on the material it states it is in "shelf/materials" but the directory structure in Explorer is "shelf/allegorithmic" which is inconsistent with how it is displayed in SP. I just want to delete the material but right clicking on it does not give me the option to delete it, even though it is not used in the scene. This whole thing is just plain unclear and undocumented.
I get the impression that you do this whole folder thing internally with a json and it is not a real folder structure at all. Bugs everywhere.
This whole folder thing is a fail in my opinion. Please improve. The rest is great though :-)
