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Enhancement: Combine "Open File" filetype dropsdown into 1 option.

Open Trico-Everfire opened this issue 3 months ago • 0 comments

What would this enhancement be for?

Hammer

Describe your enhancement suggestion in more detail

When opening a file in Hammer, it shows you .vmm and .vmf files. But in the dropdown there's also an extra option for .vmf_autosave. This suggestion is to combine the dropdown and allow the open file dialog to open all 3 file types. Hammer autosaves shouldn't conflict with regular saves. Users should create a separate autosaves folder in their /maps folder or somewhere else to keep them separated. Even when they're in the same folder, it's hard to mistake the numbered.vmf_autosave file for your actual file. The only reason I imagine is folder clutter when you go and open a map. If this is that big of a concern. Have 3 dropdowns. 1 with all 3 filetypes. One with only vmm and vmf. And one with only autosaves. But have the default be all 3. Because half the time, in Hammer, it will crash and you want to open your autosave. For the instance file dialog autosaves shouldn't show up so clutter there shouldn't exist.

Overall. It'd be a good QoL feature to allow all 3 types to be openable by default.

Trico-Everfire avatar Sep 27 '25 17:09 Trico-Everfire