Garry's Mod News Feed

Ink Monday

Thu, 3 Jul 3:49:45 GMT-6 2008

From the visionary director Daniel Marcel Gaina (DMGaina) comes forth a revolution. A hybrid of both Comic art and Machinima. The birth of Ink Monday.

Inspired by the art of Metal Gear Solid, DMGaina decided to take forth an adventure that no member has even dared to venture upon. His hopes are high and wants to demonstrate this new medium through the means of a youtube video. His supporters and fellow fans are cheering him on as he completes and gives birth to a whole new revolution.

Ink Monday
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Novint Falcon support in GMod?

Tue, 1 Jul 3:52:56 GMT-6 2008

According to Garry's blog once Valve get round to updating their games so this is part of the Source engine he may be able to implement it into GMod. What is Novint Falcon? It's a force feedback controller doohickey, that's what.

Garry: From what I understand it�s going to be part of the Source Engine. So yeah. Once Valve updates their games with it, I�ll update GMod with it.

I don�t know how great it will be with GMod, whether you�ll be able to navigate the menus etc.. but I guess we�ll see. One of the things that interested me with the Falcon is the ability to �feel� things. So maybe once the code is in I�ll bind it up to Lua and we can have some gamemodes based around it or something. Here�s an example.

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Combine Collective Trailer.

Tue, 1 Jul 3:43:18 GMT-6 2008

Combine Collective is a new machinima being developed by Cell 12, a group previously known for RPing, servers, models and other things. However, we have recently spread out into making films, and Combine Collective will be our first real attempt at doing this. We aim to one day be like lit fuse, making excellent quality films that a larget number of people will enjoy.

Anyway, here is the trailer:

Thanks for watching, and I hope you enjoy it![...]

Gm_scrapbuild_v2

Tue, 1 Jul 3:39:45 GMT-6 2008

Hey there GMod Players, Gm_scrapbuild_v2 is not very popular right now, so im posting this News article on Garrysmod.com, to show you guys how cool my map actiolly is.

New Stuff:
-Changed the sky(didnt really like the origanal)
-New Grass
-Dock Added on the Drag Strip
-Skatepark
-Map Icon!

Included:
-Big Building
-Drag Strip
-Pleaty of Room to Build in
-Large Amount of Water
-Dry Dock
-Grass Room
-Garage

Removed:
-DJ room
-Some lights in the big building

And Heres the download link:

Well, anyway enjoy![...]

Resource Browser 2.0 Released

Tue, 1 Jul 3:37:36 GMT-6 2008

Resource Browser 2.0 has been released!

Resource Browser is a client side mod that allows you to quickly browse through all files mounted by Garrysmod at run time. This is extremely useful for Lua developers and common users alike, from finding materials for models, sounds for sound emitters, or anything for a game mode, this browser will help you find what you're looking for.

Not only can you find files, but you can open them, too! Resource Browser features many readers for opening text, sound, materials, and others!

Downloads:

Preview Images

Changes from v1:

[Add] Find in files

[Add] Options

[Add] History for folder locations

[Add] Preset examples for filters

[Add] Image Viewer

[Add] Folder tree on the left

[Change] Text viewer greatly improved:

- Line numbers toggleable

- Word Wrap toggleable

- Vertical and horizontal scrollbars

- Copy to Data shortcut

[Change] Improved material viewer

- New look

- RGBA modifiers for images that support it

[Change] Improved Properties Viewer

[Change] Improved sound player interface

[Change] Improved map changer interface

[Change] Browser and Text Viewer are resizeable

[Fix] Address bar buggyness

[Fix] Derma compatibility

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First steps of a MingeBag.

Fri, 27 Jun 4:26:41 GMT-6 2008

A video I have done. Rather, a music video, which is about a MingeBag, who just received the game Garry's Mod, and now explores gm_construct for the first time.

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Out of what?

Thu, 26 Jun 3:29:52 GMT-6 2008

Out of the Box!
We are a new community-based web site where we make videos every two days!
You can check out our website for news, forums, and a blog. Here: Out of the Box Home Page
We are a group of talented and funny people bound to making videos.
Here's how we work: I have a youtube account set up (OutoftheBox) and we all upload our individual videos through there one of us makes a video every two days.
Here's a sample video:

And our steam group is here![...]

gm_botmap_v2

Wed, 25 Jun 0:18:26 GMT-6 2008

We the gm_botmap team have been taking suggestions from the public to upgrade version 1 of gm_botmap. Now introducing gm_botmap V2 with all new features and many improvements so upgrade or download it for the first time now!

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Even More Epic Rube Goldbergs

Wed, 25 Jun 0:18:12 GMT-6 2008

These Rube Goldbergs where made for the old Rube Goldberg challenge, and have not been seen for a long time. They are very unique, because they use ent_fire to trigger the next events. Ent_fire is mostly a lost art, though there are still a few that practice it. They were made in Garry's Mod v9.0, before fancy lua addons made building a lot easier.

One thing to note is that absolutely zero thrusters were used.
The second one is much more complex, and much better, so I am putting it first.

In order to reduce lag, all ropes and pulleys were deleted. This would repeat again and again without any input from me. Only vanilla (standard) props and entities were used, though a ton of console hacking was put in to make it work.

This is the first one, which is quite simple. It was more of a prototype for the second.

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Epic Rube Goldberg

Thu, 19 Jun 23:52:46 GMT-6 2008

This is a run-through of the most epic Run Goldberg machine on the internet. Words can't describe how epic this is, check the video out:

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Leet World Season Finale Pt1

Wed, 18 Jun 15:21:19 GMT-6 2008

Smooth Few Films has released the first instalment of their three week Season Finale for The Leet World, a CSS/Gmod show where Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists live together, reality-style. In this episode our contestants face off against a new challenger, in order to find out who wins the competition for the season.

For extras, community features and release information, go visit theleetworld.com![...]

Achievements

Sun, 15 Jun 16:45:08 GMT-6 2008

A new mod by rabidtoaster is the achievements mod. (Like in TF2)

You need to do things to gain achievements, like killing 100 Combine npc�s, or being killed by props 50 times.
And there are achievements special for gamemodes, like zombie survival.

This is completely clientside and works on almost any server.

Updates are with SVN.

Links:
Release thread
Request thread

Svn:
http://gmodachievements.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Download (not the most actual version, get the SVN!):
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GMod Update 43

Fri, 13 Jun 2:55:33 GMT-6 2008

An hastily created patch has been released so you can play the game again.

Fixed crash on startup

Fixed broken particles

Removed server crashing console commands

Fixed 'Touch' Lua errors on some custom SENTs

Spectated entities are now automatically added to PVS

Added pl_goldrush to map menu

Gamemodes can now organise their maps on the map screen

Added example gamemode 'melonracer'

ents.FindInBox now shared

ents.FindInSphere now shared

Added ents.FindInCone( vPos, vDir, fLength, fConeDegrees )

Added access debug overlay library (Only displays when developer!=0)

debugoverlay.Line( pos1, pos2, duration=1, color=white, skipdepth=false )

debugoverlay.Box( origin, mins, maxs, duration=1, color=white )

debugoverlay.Cross( origin, size, duration=1, color=white, skipdepth=false )

debugoverlay.Text( origin, text, duration=1 )

debugoverlay.Sphere( origin, size, duration=1, color=white, skipdepth=false )

Added PrintMessage( msgtype, text )

Added better built in framework for team based gamemodes

Fixed ply:KillSilent() not working as intended

GM:PlayerAuthed should now be reliable

Added Player:GetPData( , ) (persistant data)

Added Player:SetPData( , )

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Crashing On Startup

Fri, 13 Jun 2:00:15 GMT-6 2008

The latest wave of TF2/Portal updates from Valve seem to have broken GMod. I'm looking into this and will hopefully have it fixed before the end of today.

Update: The problem has been found and a patch is being built.

Update: The patch has been built and sent to Valve.[...]

Garden Gamemodes

Wed, 11 Jun 17:54:20 GMT-6 2008

A quick roundup of the gamemodes (that people started and actually managed to finish) in the Garden Gamemode contest.

Mole Invasion

By HazyUK. Multiplayer. Kill the most moles. Download. Thread.

County Fair

By grea$emonkey. Multiplayer. Grow the most crops. Download. Thread.

Omnivora

By mahalis . Multiplayer. Grow the biggest plants. Download. Thread.

Scarecrow

By andyvincent. Multiplayer. Eat the most worms/stop them. Download. Thread.

Fruti Drops

By Kathar/Anima/Blackjack. Multiplayer. Collect the most fruit. Download. Thread.

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Half-Life 2 Nightmare

Wed, 11 Jun 17:54:09 GMT-6 2008

Hey everyone. The sequel to the machinima video Half-Life 2 Anxiety (Hitchcock meets HL2) has been released. Check it out.

LINKS TO WATCH IT AT:
Youtube
Machinima.com

The video continues where Anxiety leaves off, in which a citizen is mistaken for Gordon Freeman and unknowingly to him, the two are paired up. The Half-Life storyline continues to be manipulated by the intrusion of this character while he continues his adventure in this second machinima homage to the director Alfred Hitchcock and his films.[...]

Garden Gamemode Contest

Wed, 11 Jun 15:10:45 GMT-6 2008

As you may or may not know, we have been running a Gamemode coding contest over on the forums.

The general theme of each gamemode to be created was 'Gardening' - We had many entries, but in the end only 5 made it to the deadline. After a week of playing 5 completed games, the judges came to their final decision and awarded Kathar/Anima/Blackjack the winners with their gamemode Fruit Drops.

You can read the judges reviews right here.[...]

Sea Battle Challenge

Mon, 9 Jun 19:41:20 GMT-6 2008

Due to a seriously good suggestion in the forums it's time for people to get ship-building.

Create a sea battle using GMod and go to the challenges section and post it.

Try to put some effort in as the challenge is a two week long one to allow people to build something impressive.[...]

The Idiots Of Garry

Mon, 9 Jun 18:54:47 GMT-6 2008

This has been out for a while, but here's a sketch show based on/in GMod.

For more details the thread can be found here.[...]

Boxes Can Confuse

Sun, 8 Jun 16:41:07 GMT-6 2008

This is a quick short I made using 2 boxes, and superimposing my face onto them. In this little short, one box confuses the hell out of the other. Made using After Effects.

The previous episode can be found Here
Forum post can be found Here[...]