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Sjeiti
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Has this been mentioned yet?.... I've experienced this numerous times. I spent ages making nice presets, then I decide to tweak something on the filter itself. Instead of the default preset I have some other preset active. I tweak the filter, save the filter and the default preset is overwritten by the current settings smile:evil: .
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Zephos
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I've experienced this quite a few times myself and agree. It does kind of make sense that saving will override the default, but I know personally that for every time I remember this fact, there are two times when I forget X_X and bye-bye main-gun preset X_X. Since it's saved too, it's something that can't really be undone. It would be nice if there was an option to lock the default preset to not update/change when saving.
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uberzev
not lyftzev

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Yeah, that's a good point.
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Vladimir Golovin
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Sjeiti, this is complicated. We tried numerous approaches to this, and went with the current one simply because it was 'less evil' than the others.
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Kraellin
Kraellin

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even though i've goofed up like this also, i'd prefer the current method wasnt changed. this is a 'user error' and when programmers start trying to correct user errors with code, we tend to get goofy programs.

i find that making a duplicate of the default tends to help this situation out. just make a copy of the preset somewhere down in your presets and if you wipe the default (like i did yesterday), you've got a backup.

what i'd rather see is a warning message when you hit 'save filter' that prompts you to save as another name for the filter so you dont overwrite an existing whole filter from the editor. (and i think this was mentioned by someone else months ago and made it onto the list).
If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!

Craig
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