Asset Browser

Overview

Conveniently browse 2737 sounds, 114 VFX, 185 projectiles, 268 blasts and 102 animations with dedicated rebindable buttons from inside the game.

How to use

Press a key, hear or see the asset, read its name and details in the notification. Defaults:

Key	Action
Down / Up	Next / Previous
RightCtrl+Down / RightCtrl+Up	Jump forward / back 25
Insert	Replay current
Left / Right	Previous / Next group (sounds only)
End	Write current to the log as a keeper
Home	Cycle SOUND → VFX → PROJECTILE → BLAST, and ANIMATION (if enabled)
Delete	Clear any lingering asset

Configuration Manager

General:

• Turn off the Master switch if you want it installed but idle
• Set a Filter to browse only the assets whose name contains it — cleared when the game restarts
• Turn on Enable animations and Allow harmful animations
• Change the Jump size
• Change the Auto-stop seconds
• Change the Projectile lifespan and Projectile force
• Move where a preview spawns with VFX position, Projectile position and Blast position, as X / Y / Z

Keys:

• Rebind any key

Animations

Off by default. This one drives your own character, so it is opt-in. Turn on Enable animations and ANIMATION joins the Home cycle.

Six of the 102 are hidden because they have real results: DeathIndirect, EnterBed, ExitBed, EnterInnBed, ExitInnBed and SetAsleep. Allow harmful animations un-hides them if you want to browse them anyway.

WARNING: DeathIndirect kills your character.

The casts from AxeLeap onward are not spells but weapon attacks, and the game runs them through a different system. These are labelled (weapon attack) and some need weapons in hand.

A (refused) note on a spell cast means the game turned it down.

Keeping what you find

Everything played is written to BepInEx/LogOutput.log, so the log doubles as a record of what you auditioned. The keep key writes a line ready to paste into an XML:

KEEP  <Sounds>SFX_SKILL_BoonSpell</Sounds>
KEEP  <VFXPrefab>VFXAetherBomb</VFXPrefab>  (or <StartVFX>VFXAetherBomb</StartVFX>)
KEEP  <BaseProjectile>TrogArchMageBoon</BaseProjectile>
KEEP  <BaseBlast>BlastFire</BaseBlast>
KEEP  <BaseBlast>HyppoFlamethrower</BaseBlast>  (cone)
KEEP  <Animation>Rupture</Animation>  (SL_PlayAnimation, or CastType on an item)

The same lines, without the KEEP prefix, are appended to BepInEx/AssetBrowserKept.txt next to the log, under a dated heading for each session — so a browsing session leaves a file to paste from rather than a log to search.

Sound groups

Sounds are grouped the way the game groups them and the folder is the name prefix:

Group	Count	What it is
SFX	391	Skills, impacts, weapons
ENV	156	Ambient and environment
FT	134	Footsteps by surface
BGM	68	Music tracks
LOC	18	Localised voice
UI	17	Interface
CS	1953	Cutscene dialogue

VFX, projectiles, blasts and animations have no grouping, so the group keys do nothing in those modes.

With a Filter set, groups holding nothing that matches are skipped.

Notes

• Long sounds are cut after 5 seconds, and stepping to the next entry cuts the previous one first, so loops and ambience do not pile up. Configurable
• Only one VFX preview exists at a time; the previous is stopped and destroyed before the next
• VFX previews do pass your character, so prefabs that read it behave as they would in game — some re-anchor to you and ignore the offset, and some emit from your equipped weapon's mesh, so they look different depending on what you are holding
• A VFX preview is parented to your character's root, at the feet. A status effect anchors a metre higher, so a prefab carrying its own vertical offset sits a metre higher in game than it does here. Set the VFX position to 0, 1, 0 while browsing and the preview matches what a status effect will show
• Blasts show their shape after the name — (cone), (ground), (lingering), (turret) and so on. The shape lives in the prefab, not in the effect that fires it. 207 of the 268 are plain spheres and are left untagged
• Projectiles are fired forward from your character — speed, arc and trail only show in flight. Lifespan and launch force are configurable. 21 of the 185 are mines, which sit still by design
• Projectiles and blasts are fired with no effects attached and no owning character. All 185 projectiles and all 268 blasts were fired at enemies and none dealt damage
• All weapon attack animations were used on enemies with equipped weapons and none dealt damage
• Requires SideLoader — the asset enums live there

Contacts

• Join our Outward modding community discord server
• If you have any bug to report or you want to give feedback, here's my discord workshop channel