Hi,
I have used the Epic Launcher for many years now and I am very unhappy with how it performs and how little love it seems to have received over this time.
With many assets in the vault I am suffering with:
- Every time the launcher is loaded and Library clicked the Vault has to re-download all vault items which is very slow.
- Where are the filter options? All we have is search. If the package title does not include a specific word then your search is useless.
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Searching for “vehicle plugin” will show every pack that matches it perfectly but should really return both everything with “vehicle” or “plugin”.
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If you search for “plugin” you will only get packs that have “plugin” in their title but not if they actually are a plugin : /
- No categories is a big headache. Packs should be part of multiple categories like Materials, Plugins, Vehicles, Effects and many more… what about making custom categories that I control and can add the packs to them myself?
- Version controls so that I can see which packs support Engine 4.25? Currently you would have to view every tiny info icon on each pack panel to view its supported versions.
- Tracking in which projects a pack is used.
- Uninstalling a pack from a project if no assets from that pack are used
- Optionally adding only some assets from an entire pack. For example: Add 5 static meshes from a village pack with hundreds of assets.
- Better gallery view of the packs images so that you can make a better decision if the pack has the assets you need with possibly a viewer of asset previews.
- Packs should contain tags that the developers can add so that when you search the tags are also searched.
- The vault should be separate to the library so that it is a panel/section entirely different to the library.
Anyway I really hope that Epic listen to my comments because they do such wonderful things and the launcher is letting the side down from a developers point of view.
Thanks.