Work and stuff

I got a list of shit in my head to sort out. Here’s some of it.

Acheivement Icons

The icons sometimes don’t load properly. I dunno exactly why. I think I might be calling the function to get them too early or some shit. They seem to pull down avatars and stuff instead. It works properly if I publish them from Steamworks.. but then they slowly fuck up again. I’m gonna have a mess with it. Seems like it would be a Valve problem, but at the same time it seems like they would have noticed if it was happening in their code aswell.

GMod Engine Version

GMod uses an older engine than every other Source game. I dunno why this is. I think Valve are scared of breaking GMod with TF2 updates. Which is fair enough I guess. Anyway, this has left all GMod servers exposed to all the exploits that they fixed earlier this week. I emailed them and they’re looking into a way to balance between being up to date and not fucking up. They know this shit better than me.

garrysmod.com wordpress

We’ve been kicking the idea of converting garrysmod.com’s news system over to a wordpress system.. which would allow for comments and stuff. The old system was useful when it was jut me approving new, but now we’ve got a real dedicated team of news posters it makes sense to go with something a bit better. I know people will bitch about this idea, saying oh no, fucking comment spam yadda yadda. But sharrap and get over it.

garrysmod.org speed

I regularly get emails saying that the speed on garrysmod.org is shit. And that’s true. But that’s because it’s using a free mirroring service. I’d like to make some kind of mirroring script, so people that want to help mirror files can, easily. But to be honest I can’t really be bothered to do this. Anyone want to help set this up? Anyone good? Better than me? For cash?