Model List Organization

[DRx3D]

It would be really good to have some sort of organization to the list of models. There is a tremendous variety of items there from test models to production-quality ones. This list is sufficiently long to (85 items, I think) that it is easy to miss the ones that should be seen. Several different orderings and information could be displayed, depending on the space and structure that is available.

in general I think the production-quality models should be listed first, perhaps in reverse chronological order; and the system test models last, probably in alphabetical order.

[ghost]

Given that we regularly add test models, the overhead of maintaining separate categories (in folder structure, configuration and UI) is not negligible.

[DRx3D]

This work is currently happening. It needs to remain open.

[UX3D-nopper]

@UX3D-eckerlein This is not part of the maintenance, however this is currently planned in the Khronos tooling group. So, let's keep this open.

[UX3D-haertl]

@DRx3D is this still relevant?

[javagl]

I don't know exactly which further organization @DRx3D had in mind when opening this issue. Maybe some sort of "hierarchy" in the dropdown list, like

Showcases:    (not selectable)
    DamagedHelmet
    BoomBox
Test Models:   (not selectable)
    Triangle
    SimpleMaterial
...

that reflects the categories (tags) in glTF-Sample-Assets?

I also wondered whether hovering an entry could show the screenshot of that entry in a small popup (or ... maybe, depending on the screen size, the screenshots or thumbnails could be incuded in the list to begin with).

But in view of further possible "restructurings" of the Model List:

• There could be a link to the glTF-Sample-Assets, just to have to connection, and users know where the selectable models come from
• There should be a hint that it's also possible to drag-and-drop models into the viewer area
  (c.f. Can't find the way to import my own glTF & textures into the compressor glTF-Compressor#24 , which should probably be tracked here, depending on how glTF-Compressor and glTF-Sample-Viewer will be aligned)

For example:

With one caveat:

When users are dragging-and-dropping a model, then the selection in that model list should reflect that, and turn into something like
"[User-provided]"
or so, and the "Flavor" selection should be disabled then.