Advanced Inventory Management(AIM)

The purpose of this post is to act as a guide in the effective use of AIM. It's definitely one of the most powerful tools at your disposal that saves time on interacting with your environment and inventory. Knowing ALL of it's functions will significantly reduce the time you spend moving stuff around, and let's face it we all spend a LOT of time moving shit around!

For those of you unfortunate enough to not know AIM is accessible with the default hotkey " / "

The interface for AIM is a split inventory screen, it allows you to transfer items from one half of the screen to the other. Hitting " TAB " switches between the screens.

To change the tiles the currently highlighted screen interacts with you have several choices.

" 1-9 " Directional selection

These keys will show all of the Items on that square, if the square is a vehicle you can toggle between the floor and the vehicle with " v ".

" i " Inventory selection

Self explaining, shows your inventory, simple yet very powerful in combination!

" d " Grabbed selection

Shows the inventory of the currently grabbed object such as a shopping cart. ( Not sure how this works with multiple tiled vehicles, science needed!)

" a " All selection

Perhaps the most useful selection. This shows the items on all 9 tiles, vehicle and ground.

" w " Worn selection

Shows all the items currently worn on your person. Haven't used this much myself, but would be useful to take off multiple clothes at once without having to spam " T ".

" c " Container selection

Shows the contents of a LIQUID container, the other screen must select another liquid container mostly useless unless you have to unload a ton of bottles into one container.

After selecting inventory combination you desire there's a few more options available to help unconfuse the mess.

" s " Sort

This bring up a submenu allowing you to categorize the list on the currently highlighted screen only, so you can sort by volume on one side and by weight on the other. Or keep it all organized by sorting by category!

" f " Filter

This brings up a small help window and allows you to type in a text box at the bottom of the inventory, this is incredibly useful for finding a certain item from you giant unsorted pile of junk. Also allows you to show only a single category, c:Tools will show only the tools in that inventory.

Now that you know how to select the inventories you want to work with and have the proper sorting now you can do some moving. Of course there's some hotkeys make this easier to besides just hitting enter!

" , " Move all

One keypress and everything moved over to the other inventory, quick and simple!

" m " Move amount

Let's you move any amount you want from a stack. Have 500 scrap metal but only want to move 150, then this is what your looking for!

" M " Move stack

Moves a whole stack at once. Nice if you want to move that stack of 500 scrap metal without holding ENTER for 2 minutes!

That's it for the basics, but now onto some clever combinations of settings for different situations and discover how this command can become invaluable!

Your getting ready for a bank robbery, but one problem. You don't know where in the hell that stethoscope is, you know it's somewhere in one of the 5, filled to the brim, cargo carriers. V,f won't show you what's in those cargo carriers but AIM will! Set one side to your Inventory and the other side to All. Set the filter of All to steth and if any of the cargo carriers immediately next to you has it then it will show up on that side. One enter press and it's in your inventory! Since AIM saves state you can leave it in this configuration, which is how I leave it most of the time.

Another situation,

You finally finished up your death mobile and your ready to pack up everything into your trunks and hit the road for good. One problem you have junk everywhere in random piles and you want to quickly condense it all into a couple piles near your trunk and leave some of the heavier stuff behind. So AIM to the rescue again!

One side is set to the direct of your trunk the other side is set to all. Hit " , " on the all side and everything around you gets placed into that one pile in the direction you choose, after only a couple minutes you can condense even the most daunting junkyards. Once it's all by your trunk you can sort it out by weight, see what's to heavy to pack up for the ride by sorting the piles by weight and skim it off in some other direction. If you want to be fancy and organize the piles you can use the category option and quickly put it all where it belongs!