Zbrush - custom UI: copying subtool list and layer list?

Cremuss

Hey! I've been toying with custom UI in Zbrush for a while and I've been wondering for some time if it's possible to copy the subtool list or layer list into a custom subpalette? I'd love to stop using the awful tool menu. There's just too much buttons and palettes and subpalettes and a tons of features I never use but for that I'd need the subtool palette and layers. Using the N key doesn't satisfy me.

Pretty much like here: http://polycount.com/discussion/129482/zbrush-custom-ui-copying-sub-palettes

I googled a lot and I couldn't find a proper answer. Maybe there is a way to copy the master menu Tool into a custom menu and remove what I don't want ? I also tried to open some UI .cfg files hoping it was plain text so I could copy some parts but it's not.

Any ideas?:)
Thanks a lot!

fuzzzzzz

no, that's not possible at all,
you should have to create a panel as zscnmanager plugin author has done using custom dynamic library etc...

Cremuss

fuzzzzzz > Oh shame. Thanks for the answer! I'll take a look at zscnmanager plugin.

fuzzzzzz

you can get it here :
http://exoside.com/zscenemgr/zscenemgr-download/

RickReed123

I was able to add a custom sub-menu called Subtool Operations, then add a sub-sub-menu to it called SubTool List.  I added the subtool scroll bar to the sub-sub menu, along with the actual subtools (I added a few and then they all seemed to show up from then on, just like the standard Subtool menu. I added the other standard subtool buttons to the outer sub-menu (the same one the sub-sub-menu is in, and it seemed to have replicated the standard subtool section in my customer menu.

RickReed123

Addendum: Well, whenever I delete all the subtools from the custom menu list I made, it crashes ZBrush. So BEWARE if you choose to do what I did.