A couple of simple things that I believe would significantly improve the unreal editor workflow, which isn’t particularly fluid at the moment:
When you create a new blueprint by default have the text box selected so that users don’t have to click to the text box to begin searching for a particular class. Another part of that is that when you are typing to narrow the number of results why isn’t anything selected? If I type in the name of the class that I want to turn into a blueprint the editor should select the class, that way you can just hit enter to select the class and create a blueprint from it. So the normal workflow would be to type enough of the class’s name into the search field that the editor finds the class that you want to derive a blueprint from and then you can quickly make a blueprint from it by hitting enter.
Next, while other people might have different experiences I believe that the thing I make all of the time in the editor is blueprints, I would really, really appreciate if there was a nice hotkey that I could use to create one in the currently selected folder. However, I don’t think that this is necessarily the best idea as it doesn’t solve the large issue, so instead it would be better to removed the create level hotkey (ctrl-n) and replaced with a “Create New…” popup where once more you are selected on a text box for searching and you can quickly type in what you want to create. For instance: typing “blue” would highlight blueprint for you, at which point you could then hit enter to proceed into the blueprint creation popup (where, once more, you are, by default, selected on the search box, allowing us to quickly jump to what we want to create). Another example: if you type in “mat inst” the search should be able to recognize that the space means you are searching for two terms, in which case the result should be the selection of the material instance class, which, once more, could then be created by hitting the enter key. The solution for creating a level could easily be folded into this; search for “level” at which point you will have two options in the search, default level or empty level, then you could continue typing “level e” for empty or “level d” for default, word order should matter in this case “d level” and “e level” should find the exact same results as their counterparts.
Thank you for the time you have spent reading this, I really hope this is seriously considered and then promptly added, for the sake of everyone’s user experience.