PrefabBrowser¶

Purpose¶

Owns editor UI systems for browsing, filtering, searching, and selecting prefabs inside Snap Studio Pro.

This territory provides the user-facing prefab browser experience while delegating prefab storage, thumbnail generation, and asset discovery to feature systems.

Owns¶

Prefab browser UI
Prefab filtering UI
Search workflows
Display mode selection
Thumbnail interaction UI
Prefab selection routing
Browser preferences
User-facing prefab navigation workflows

Does NOT Own¶

Prefab repository ownership
Thumbnail rendering implementation
Asset scanning implementation
Rendering implementation
Preview scene lifecycle ownership
Export workflows

Allowed Dependencies¶

PrefabBrowser may depend on:

Prefab feature systems
Thumbnail systems
Shared panel helpers
Infrastructure preference systems
Unity asset/editor APIs

PrefabBrowser should avoid depending directly on:

rendering implementation systems
export systems
preview lifecycle systems

Notes¶

PrefabBrowser owns how prefabs are presented and interacted with.

Prefab systems own: - prefab collections - repository behaviour - asset lookup

Thumbnail systems own: - thumbnail generation - thumbnail rendering - thumbnail caching internals

This separation keeps browser UI independent from production rendering systems.

Future Candidates¶

Continue isolating thumbnail rendering implementation from browser UI.
Keep prefab browser focused on navigation and interaction.
Avoid pushing repository ownership into PrefabBrowser.