Modular Prototree? Maybe a more convenient way to create one?

[vestasol]

First of all, thank you for this amazing addon.
However, I'm a little confused about Prototree creation. I've heard that manually doing same things in programming is a bad habit, and it made me wonder - is writing each item down manually in the JSON is the most optimal way to work with it? The thing is that I plan my game to have dozens of various items, but the idea of putting each item manually gives me shivers. I was thinking of making a tool that generates a Prototree based on my game's hierarchy, but before I get started I'd love to ask if there's any better solution rather than declaring each item manually? Or maybe there's a way to breakdown the tree in a few separate files, kinda like "prototree_weapons", "prototree_food" and so on.

[peter-kish]

Splitting protosets into multiple files would help in this regard, but it's not yet implemented (#227).
However, prototype inheritance does work and it could reduce some copy-pasting within the protoset by grouping some common prototype properties into a base prototype.

E.g. this protoset:

{
    "glock": {
        "ammo_type": "bullet",
        "weapon_type": "ranged",
        "fire_mode": "semi_auto",
        "one_handed": true,
        "damage": 10,
        "mag_size": 20
    },
    "revolver": {
        "ammo_type": "bullet",
        "weapon_type": "ranged",
        "fire_mode": "semi_auto",
        "one_handed": true,
        "damage": 10,
        "mag_size": 6
    },
    "desert_eagle": {
        "ammo_type": "bullet",
        "weapon_type": "ranged",
        "fire_mode": "semi_auto",
        "one_handed": true,
        "damage": 9001,
        "mag_size": 7
    }
}

becomes:

{
    "handgun": {
        "ammo_type": "bullet",
        "weapon_type": "ranged",
        "fire_mode": "semi_auto",
        "one_handed": true,
        "damage": 10,
    },
    "glock": {
        "inherits": "handgun",
        "mag_size": 20
    },
    "revolver": {
        "inherits": "handgun",
        "mag_size": 6
    },
    "desert_eagle": {
        "inherits": "handgun",
        "damage": 9001,
        "mag_size": 7
    }
}