working in the emitter directory

[Megabalta]

Would it be possible to make selecting multiple emitters at the same time on the emitter window (either with mouse cursor box or shift/ctrl), and copy/cut/paste/delete them? Right now it's only possible to work with one emitter at a time, which is very tedious if you've got 30-50 emitters.

Another very useful function would be "insert new/insert copied emitter", so that you don't have to rearrange every emitter if you want to insert a new one into a specific place on the list.

[Steiner0815]

Agree, that would be very useful!

[Megabalta]

@MikeLankamp could you tell if you'll have the time and motivation to add these features in the future? I'll need to rearrange the emitter directories of all the particles I've created to align with the fix you've made, and it'd be twice the time to do so without these functions.
I'd rather wait until it's done to spare hair on my head from pulling, if you say, you'll have time to work on the editor. On the other hand the modding community keeps buggering me to release the particle package, so they could use it.

[MikeLankamp]

@Megabalta: I might have the time in the future to work on the tools, but not right now. I'm afraid I'll be a while (maybe months?) before I can get around to it.

[Megabalta]

@MikeLankamp understood, I'll check back on a monthly basis then. Thank you for answering.

[Megabalta]

@MikeLankamp Hi, I was wondering if you've got the time in the near future, I'm getting an awful lot of requests for particles, but I won't necessarily continue until I can use the full potential of your creation.

[MikeLankamp]

@Megabalta: I don't have a whole lot of time recently; I've had a look at this issue before, and it's simply quite a bit of work to do, because my code from back then is so... well... primitive.
I'm afraid I can't give any promises, but hey, in theory anyone could do it, it's open-source after all!

[Megabalta]

@MikeLankamp To be honest, I don't see anyone else coming forward to add these features in the near future of 20-60 years. Well ok, people can wait, and I can live without these luxury functions, but solving the other two issues would be essential to greatly enhance the overall quality of the explosions in the game, and there's no workaround, since they're an exporting issue. Would those take that much work too?