Making your own tool lists? - Help

Hello again Facepunch forums! I'm back with another questions for you all! I've actually been wondering this one for a while, and searches I've done never did yield any results... I'm wondering if it is possible to make my own custom tool list in Gmod. I mostly work with posing models, making scenery, and taking pictures. So most of the tools I don't use at all. I'm thinking I'd like to have a custom collapsible tool list, and leave the rest of the collapsible lists at default. So I could have all the lists collapsed, and just have my custom one open for the tools I use. Is this possible, and if so, how would I go about doing it? I also read that this sub-forum isn't for LUA scripting... I have absolutely no idea if this question would involve LUA or not, please forgive my ignorance on that. Any help would be appreciated, Isaak

You can make a spawnlist with all your desired tools. Just search their names in the search bar.

[QUOTE=Robotboy655;44081571]You can make a spawnlist with all your desired tools. Just search their names in the search bar.[/QUOTE] Thank you for the quick response, that does work, but kind of only halfway. I do now have all my most used tools in one place, and can easily switch between them, but I have two downsides now. Well the first is moderate, but now I have to switch to my tool folder on the left side of my screen to get my list, and drop whatever center folder view I was using for other items. But the second, which is major, the far right info panel, that will contain options and settings for the selected tool does not update when switching tools using this method, thus meaning to get those settings I appear to have to search for the tool back in the collapsible list anyway, defeating the purpose of collecting my tools into the folder. . . I already have a couple collapsible tool lists from tools I downloaded through the workshop, Is there a way I can just make a custom list there instead?

Well, I can fix the second problem, but if you really must have those custom categories, you will have to edit every single tool and change their TOOL.Category to whatever you need.

TOOL.Category huh? Now I have something to search for, thank you very much. ^__^ Would it be possible to have a tool show up in multiple categories with that method? Also I would love to hear how you would solve the second issue, I'm willing to keep working with the spawn list method you suggested and see how it works out.

[QUOTE=Isaak_Johnson;44092060]TOOL.Category huh? Now I have something to search for, thank you very much. ^__^ Would it be possible to have a tool show up in multiple categories with that method? Also I would love to hear how you would solve the second issue, I'm willing to keep working with the spawn list method you suggested and see how it works out.[/QUOTE] No, unless you copy the tool multiple times and edit it accordingly, but you should never do that. I've fixed that issue for me, I'll be uploading it to Dev branch sometime later.

Well I started up Gmod today and found another problem with the spawn-list method right away. Apparently all of the tools I sorted have forgotten what tool they are. All of them renamed themselves to "tool", and clicking any of them does nothing.

Thanks for the heads up, all will be fixed in the next update, or sooner on Dev beta branch.