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One small change I am going to make this morning is to leave the file names the same, by default, unless a duplicate file name is encountered. If that happens it will have a dash and number added to the end like this:

truck.mdl

truck-2.mdl

 

I think this might turn out to be handier in some situations, and it works the same. It will check for existing file names, so if you really do have a file with that name, it will increment the suffix and check again.

Sounds good.

You guys won't believe this. You actually can't have two files with the same name, ignoring the file extension. For example, you can't use both "goblin2.tex" and "goblin2.mdl". I guess my original random name design was best.

Extension is just a part seperated by any character. Nowhere it is said you should use "." as extension seperator, but you could use as well "-" or ":", etc....

So "goblin2_tex", "goblin2#tex" or "goblin2@tex" should work?

Yeah, but at that point, does it matter whether the file name is goblin2-3_tex or FIDHJDJHFKJDF? You can just run the publish tool from the editor again if you want to modify something. I don't really expect people will be poking around in the projects/android/res/raw folder anyways.

Of course, if the real file name does not matter to the user, it can be anything. But maybe sometimes some debugging is needed, and then a human-readable filename hint would help a lot?