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But, but… what about the small assets that will barely be noticeable in the zoo 🥺

You make a separate zoo for them so you can easily spot them!

Reasonable 👌 How do you know which are small tho? Can you sort by bbox scale or something?

With only thumbnails: 1. It doesn't show the scale of the asset, especially relative to other assets. 2. It doesn't show the asset in lighting, for example what it looks like in dusk or dawn lighting, or its materials. 3. It shows the asset from only one angle, which is the angle in the thumbnail.

Using only thumbnails makes it much harder for everyone to work with the assets, and may even prevent some valuable assets from ever being used. It's a problem of data asset management, where the assets themselves may be great, but the user may not be able to find what they need.

Zoos on the other end, because of their 3D representation inside a level, make it possible to see asset's scale, their materials in lighting, and to move around the assets to see what they look like from any angle.