Content browser

The lower-left panel lists the open project's game assets. It reads the asset registry. It does not walk the disk itself, and it does not decode a source file just to draw a row.

jarvig_core writes Intermediate/AssetRegistry.jarvigregistry (schema jarvig.registry, version 1). The record keeps a stable AssetId, the project-relative path, kind, subtype, byte size, modified time, and any triangle count already stored in Content/Assets/catalog.jarvigassets. A mesh that is already in that catalog keeps the catalog id, so the level and the browser name the same asset. A second open reuses those rows when the path, size, and modified time still match. It does not reimport the glTF.

Visible roots are the project's content directory, its config directory, and Source/ when that folder exists. Intermediate/, Saved/, DerivedDataCache/, target/, Build/, docs/, and .git/ stay out. catalog.jarvigassets stays out. Files that are not a texture, model, material, level, prefab, audio, shader, source file, or config file stay out. Kind comes from the file type and the name, not only the folder. stone_n.png is a normal map even if it does not sit in a Normal folder.

The panel has type filters, a search box, and a metadata line. A texture or an already-resident model base color is reduced to a 128-pixel thumbnail with thumbnail_rgba. The full image is not kept as a browser copy and is not uploaded for the sake of the panel. Lighting Lab's loose Content/Textures folder is empty; the shop row uses the base color that the mesh library already holds after project open.

Dragging a model into the viewport places one mesh actor through place_existing_mesh. That placement is one Place Mesh transaction on the editor undo stack. Ctrl+Z undoes it with the other edits. Levels, source files, and config files do not spawn. Material and texture assignment onto a slot is not in this slice.

The scan runs on the existing background job queue as Scan Project Content. --content-check opens Lighting Lab, checks the list, places the townshop mesh, undoes that placement, and prints CONTENT_BROWSER_PASS.