Can you give order/priority to Editor Tool ?

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Hey!

Does anyone know if we can give order/priority to custom editor tool? There aren’t any parameters to do this in the attribute EditorTool. I am using Unity 2022.2.

Edit: The only way I found is to rename the classes like this: “01_CircleTool” and “02_BrushTool” but it’s a bit messy.

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I’m back 1 year later with the “solution”. They added a priority parameter to the ToolAttribute but only from the 2023.1 Unity version.

The class name workaround that I mentioned in my previous post didn’t work in the long run.

If you’re like me and you are stuck in 2022 or less, here’s a quick hack to do it:

  • Remove all EditorTool attributes from your tools.
  • Create a EditorToolContext.
  • Override “GetAdditionalToolTypes” and give it your EditorTools in the order you want.
[EditorToolContext("Terrain Editor", typeof(TerrainEditor))]
public class TerrainEditorContext : EditorToolContext
{
    public override IEnumerable<Type> GetAdditionalToolTypes()
    {
        return new List<Type>()
        {
            typeof(Tool_01_TerrainBrushTool),
            typeof(Tool_05_TerrainRectangleTool),
            typeof(Tool_06_TerrainCircleTool),
            typeof(Tool_07_TerrainStampTool),
            typeof(Tool_08_TerrainFlattenTool),
            typeof(Tool_10_TerrainSelectionTool),
            typeof(Tool_11_TerrainResizeTool)
        };
    }
}

With this, you’ll need an extra click to access your tools which is not nice. I set the active context in the initialization of my tool to avoid that. Maybe it’s not the best location to do it but I did it in the CreateInspectorGUI of my custom inspector:

EditorApplication.delayCall += () => ToolManager.SetActiveContext<TerrainEditorContext>();

Hope it helps someone!