Suggestion: Child Nodes Collapse Parent Branch

[amarraff]

In my project, I'm currently working on a forest environment. This means I have dozens of trees and bushes duplicated underneath parent nodes. Each time I duplicate one of these nodes, it re-opens their respective branch. Since my trees and bushes are in separate branches, I have to collapse each parent manually. I can do this by scrolling to the parent, or by searching its name in the hierarchy. Both of these options waste time; it adds up when having to do it multiple times in one development session.

I am aware it's possible to disable "auto expand to selected" in the Editor Settings, but I like having it on. Most of the time, it's a helpful feature. It's only in cases like what I've described where it can be a problem.

My proposal, if feasible, is to add a "collapse parent" option right underneath the "expand/collapse branch" button seen when right-clicking a node. This would allow a child node to collapse the branch it's inside of.

This would be a big time-saver for complicated scene hierarchies with a lot of nodes collected under one parent. Being able to quickly collapse a branch without having to scroll to its parent or search for its name would be blissful.

Thoughts?

[AThousandShips]

For collapsing the parent this is as easy as clicking the left direction key

[amarraff]

For collapsing the parent this is as easy as clicking the left direction key

I genuinely had no idea that was possible, thank you. I still think having a GUI option like I described might be a good idea, since you can quickly click on the node instead of taking your hand off of your mouse.