Add glob, file type or regular expression-based search to the FileSystem dock

[TheConceptBoy]

Describe the project you are working on

A 3D game with a very large amount of assets, where you might encounter naming conventions like:
buidling_1.obj
building_1.tscn

building_2.glb
building_2.tscn

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

When placing assets either through the Quick Instantiation menu or File system, finding the asset gets tricky when there's all sort of unrelated content in the way.

For example if I want to place a building scene, I will likely get building.obj listed before building.tscn

I think it would be nice if we could in the least get some basic regular expressions where we can supply the * flag to filter out the right extentions.

This also helps with quick instance as when using quick instance window, GLB files also get considered as scenes and flood the list.

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

It helps immediately isolate the filesystem for only the file types you need - especially for isolating tscn files when building a level from props.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

Doesn't have to be full on reg-ex. Just in the least, let us use the * symbol to define any matching rules.

For example if I want to isolate only buidling scenes:
building_*.tscn

where * deliminates any possible variation like
building_1.tscn
building_2.tscn
building_tall.tscn
building_destroyed.tscn

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

Oh I'm pretty sure this is a must have to quickly find files.

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

The search bar is already in the file system, just needs a little love.

[Calinou]

We can use the type:/t: syntax to allow searching by resource type, similar to the Scene tree dock where you can filter node types this way. This would accept a resource name type (e.g. type:Texture2D), although file extensions could also be searched for as a fallback (so that type:jpg would work).

For example, grass type:Texture2D will search for all Texture2D resources that contain the string grass in their name.

On top of that, we can also allow for glob-based search which should be straightforward to implement using String.matchn().

[TheConceptBoy]

That would work as well. Yes.

[TheConceptBoy]

Perhaps not just the file system but also quick instantiate menu in the scene tree panel? Since you may want TSCN and not GLB files.