Expose a managed interface to modeldoc, hammer, other tools.

[dtzxporter]

This would make it extremely easy for the community to extend / improve the development tools.

Modeldoc could use a lot of shortcuts / easy way to add import format support.

Could easily support hotloading dll's that augment the tools.

[garrynewman]

Spreading modding abilities into tools is a no brainer. It's not as easy as all that though, we need to put some consideration into how to do it.

[dtzxporter]

Would the facepunch team be open to an RFC?

[garrynewman]

It needs to fit into our plans but sure

[aylaylay]

One issue to solve is UI. The tools use QT and to do certain things requires codegen on the C++ side. I think there's ways around it though.