I just threw up 50,000 more beta keys to the account website.
I’m hoping they last longer than the 20,000 I put up a couple of weeks ago.
.. and be kind in your criticisms please :)
I just sent update 19 to Valve. I’ve tried to quash the main annoyances in this update. So finger posing now works (on NPCs too!), face posing now works, eye posing now works (on NPCs too!) and the colour picker panel now works.
There was a pretty big bug in the addon installing system that meant that sometimes addons weren’t getting extracted properly - and so failed to install. This should now be fixed!
Mac and Linux should be working again. I’ve got to be honest - I’ve tested neither of them - but they both work in theory.
A big addition in this update is the Demo Renderer. You can read more about the technicalities here. It allows you to render a demo to a movie file. You access it from the demos and saves option in the main menu. Open up a demo and click on the render option. You’ll get a box with a lot of options. This isn’t polished, but bear with it. Once you click the render button it should start playing through the demo - if it doesn’t there’s something wrong with your settings (look in the console). Videos are saved in your garrysmodbeta/videos/ folder. You can see an example of a movie I made here. And here.
There’s also a new frame blending option for you to try out in the post processing menu. You can read more about that here.
Finally MaxOfS2D is giving our animations a polish. Something went wrong though and he broke the player’s left arm. Which I thought was funny so I shipped with it anyway.
Full Changelog:
I sent an update to Valve.. here’s the changes..
I spent most of my time getting the workshop saves and demos showing up in the menu. I haven’t paid a lot of attention to the look and feel of it yet, I’m just getting it working. And it does, kinda. There’s issues with the file listings. Receiving a list can be slow, and it isn’t filtering by tag properly. I’ve had to reach out to Valve about this - but I don’t think it’s fully implemented on their side yet (workshop is kinda new).
But anyway - when you record a demo (bind a key to gm_demo) or save a game (gm_save) - it’ll store them away in the demos and saves area on the main menu. From there you can play them, or publish to workshop.
Demo playback is a bit ropey - but that seems to be a problem enginewide right now. The first playback can result in a lot of models being missing for some reason. I will look into it - but a quick search shows it happening in TF2 too - so we might need Valve to do their thing unless I can find a workaround.
Demos and Saves now have a little icon on the bottom left of their preview icon too - to help differenciate between them.
I added a function that allows you to get the volume coming from a player’s voice com. I’ve used this in two places. On the HUD a player’s voice notification box will bounce green with their volume. And the player’s mouth bounces up and down with their words too. It’s hacky but it works, and it looks kinda real too.
For the roleplay servers I’ve added “sv_alltalk 2” - which makes it so that the sound comes from the player in the world - rather than playing right into your speakers. This was possible to do in GMod12 - but I think I’ve made it a bit more accessible.
I’ve replaced the scoreboard. Sandbox no longer has its own custom scoreboard [and it no longer has player ratings]. The default scoreboard is a lot more simple but should do everything you want to use it for. Including MUTING - which a lot of people have been requesting! Clicking on avatars will show the steam profile page too! Don’t be too harsh on it though, there’s still a few things I’ve got to improve on there.
I had a rant the other day on twitter about games starting up in 1024x768 full screen when my monitor is 1920x1080. Someone pointed out that GMod does the same thing. It now defaults to desktop resolution, windowed noborder.
The Beta has updated, here’s the changes:
This update is mainly rounding off edges as we start to strap in for the big switchover. I have added demo and save sharing via workshop. This isn’t finished yet - you can upload them to workshop from ingame but you can’t download or view them. So yeah give it a try (bind a key to gm_demo to record a demo - press to start, press to stop [I’ll add a ‘recording’ icon to the HUD in the next update].
I added a what’s new thing to the main menu too. It just shows you these pictures. So hopefully people won’t be caught too off guard when they can’t find the bone manipulator tool.
Something of note is sbox_persist. Set it to 1 on your server and people will be able to make props persistant. Which means that when the server restarts, or the map changes, the persistent props will still be there (make props persistent via the properties menu). This is an experiment.
Have Fun!
I just added 20,000 Beta Keys to the account website. If you haven’t got a beta key yet you should be able to log into the website and grab one.
I’m expecting that this should be enough keys for everyone - turning this into practically an open beta.
I’d like to see people moving over to Garry’s Mod 13 now, as I’m rounding off the edges and heading towards the actual release, I’d like to find any big problems sooner rather than later. So if you run a server please consider upgrading.
For more details, including how to report bugs, take a look at this.
