So we have a small asset somewhere in our game world with a piece of code attached that has a small error in it. We need to take the code off it and indeed delete the asset but we can't find it as its hidden - does anyone have any tips for finding hidden assets?

If you know the asset but are having trouble seeing it or getting to it you can use ( Clip Mode ) "Tab + ctrl+ scrl mouse " to see inside buildings etc then use the "lock" feature for any assets in the way so you can select and delete it ..... And not forgetting free flight mode to get right into buildings etc

If you have no idea which asset it is then its really down to trial and error but I usually have a fair idea of things I attach scripts to so I would just pick on those really ...

Myke just had another good idea .... You could build a standalone and run it just to start it, and the log will display which assets were used. You can at least then see what you have on your map in a text format ..

I came across this once a while ago, I put a realy tiny object on the map and couldn't for the life of me remember where it was. I knew what it was so I took it out of the game folder before I loaded the game and then loaded the game. This effectively deleted the entity so that I could put it in again with a fixed script.

You will have to take the DirectX, fpe, dbo and bin files out to accomplish this but it does work.

if it's not too much of a pain to replace any duplicate models of the one causing the issue (if it's a not a tree in a forest etc) then this is by far the best method.

another option is to simply replace the broken script code with an "empty" script with the same name? (keep the function _main(e) _init(e) calls too)

Thats a nice easy solution smallg, wish I had thought of that.

Some great ideas there guys - thanks for the input

Saint

Its too bad GG has absolutely no way to search for an asset, that you can't find manually.

The Inventory system is currently Number 8 on the voting list which is higher than I expected...
So its probably going to happen sooner than later ..

As luck would have it Lee showed a workaround on how to do this in yesterdays Twitch broadcast - (in the Q&A at the end) - bit of a hack but nonetheless very workable and similar to Tazman and small's ideas.