The One About GMod And Other Stuff

Jesus Christ it’s hot right now.

I played JetBoom’s Zombie Survival on his server a few days ago. 32 player server full. It was great, reminded me a lot of Sven Coop. We were all in an attic and there were breakable beams that needed like 20000 damage to break them. Even though there wasn’t any point in breaking them there were about 25 people standing around knifing them for 5 minutes until they broke.


I didn’t work on GMod so much last week, with it being Jesuses Birthday or something, but I got back into it on Thursday.

It seems that a lot of the slow loading complaints might be due to the SpawnIcons. When you load a game for the first time it precaches them so they’re there when you show the spawn menu. I never really had a problem with this before, but I guess now that people have tons of model packs, it could become a problem. So I made it not precache, instead they’ll load when they’re being viewed. It performs alright on my computer (but I kind of expected it to). Hopefully it won’t be that slow that it’d cause a problem. Much better than loading 2,500 icons you aren’t going to see or use anyway.

A couple of people requested some specific Lua binds, so I did that.. here’s my Test Frame.

The HTML thing should provide some interesting things.. Especially when people start rendering them to textures to make billboards or some kind of Online Skin Replacement thing. One thing I didn’t know about the HTML VGUI control is that you can clear it and shoot custom HTML at it. That could provide for some interesting stuff for scripters.

I messed around with the join box too. So when you’re downloading the Lua scripts you can look at a webpage that the server wants you to look at.

SteamReview posted some stuff about the achievements stuff coming to Steam. It’s nice to see the site getting updated again. I never quite saw what the big deal is with matchmaking. It’s easier than refreshing serverlists I guess. I’ve probably already said how much I love achievements on the 360. I’d do a white piss if they went through the old games and added them, it’d give me a reason to revisit them (To add a bigger number next to my name).

The Portal Device has continually been updated, and now it’s at 0.85b. I should really add some frustum controls for this poor guy.

I moved the DNS for garrysmod.com and garrysmod.org to freedns.afraid.org. You can join and pull off a subdomain for your server or some related site or something.

Oh yeah, hold onto your fucking hats, because Helk is finally gonna update his blog after a month of being bitched at by me.