If you want to keep up to date with the development of the new GMod version I’m regularly dumping my screenshots to this folder on my website.
So here’s a few highlights of what’s in there so far. We’re working on Lua at the moment (I want to see how much of GMod I can program purely in Lua – it should make developing it faster and easier).
Scripted Weapons
Scripted weapons are about the same, except they have client-side scripts. These allow you to draw effects/draw to the HUD/do prediction.
Movement/View control
Because we have Lua on the client now we can control the movement/camera without it being all laggy like crap. This allows for some new gamemodes. The ‘commander’ view opens up a lot of possibilities, gamemode wise.
Scripted Entities
Scripted entities are like scripted weapons, only entities. They can be accessed just like any other entity (give entity_name, ent_removeall entity_name etc). You can put them in your map and use them like real inbuilt entities.
You have pretty much total control over them. In the draw look you can draw the model and stuff on it, or leave out the model and draw other stuff.
This working turret gun is 100% scripted, see the FULL Lua source code here.
Scripted Effects
The scripted effects allow you to override existing special effects, like bullet impacts/tracers etc or make a new one to be used with your SWEP/gamemode. This is still a WIP and I’ve only just got it implemented, but here’s what I managed to wrangle so far.
Bear in mind that these are both processed and drawn using Lua.. so they’re 100% customisable.
Possibilities
All this shit opens up a lot of new possibilities using Lua in GMod. One of the gamemodes that will be released in the next version is a crazy golf gamemode. This uses pretty much everything mentioned.
The ball is a scripted entity. This is so we can draw a sprite instead of a ball model, we can make it a perfect sphere and we can change the physics to make it bounce more. When the ball hits an edge it make a cartoony wack sprite. The hole is a scripted entity that pulls the ball into the hole and tells the gamemode that we’ve scored. It uses the new commander interface, you click on the screen with the cursor to aim, fire to shoot.
First post!…and hot..>;(
hahaha, cool.
I think I just got a hard on? hmm… Second Post? And hotter!
hahahaha,cool.
Great work Garry!
BTW
Look at my latest post in the Ideas and Suggestions section on Facepunch Forums. It is definately something you should add to Garry’s Mod. Seriously.
I can also say it will be very easy to script things now, things make much more sense. So it will be very easy to pick up, if you already knew how to script things for GMod 9.x!
Just look at the scripted entity code – it’s really easy to understand, plus it’s not much code at all.
Brilliant.
Wow. I just wanted to say that like that’s really impressive like mad props to you like 14 props at least. Wow like if you were to show me that on the streets, I would just give you the money in my pocket just by how impressed I am.
Wow….LUA is a very flexible coding language, I think I might suggest this to my mod team for our unreal tournament 2k7 mod.
You never stop amazing me with your new ideas. I really can’t wait now. Were those balls that you had next to the lake on construct real entities or were they just drawn clientside, OR were they drawn real entities?
*Nerdgasm*
Wow this is gonna be the 2nd best Gmod update ever. The first of course being 9.0.
Sweet!
Can’t wait to play Gmod Golf!
This should be GMod 10, not 9.1 The updates are so huge..
Nerdgasm eh? Yeesh i’d hate to see what that looks like… nnnnGLAVEN
and 2nd best? from the looks of things its gonna be the best Gmod yet.
BRING ON GMOD X
It’s… Awesome !
Garry, I LOVE YOU ! :P
And, can scripteds entities be scripted without LUA ?
(Sorry for my english, I’m french ^^)
Wow. That’s very, very impressive. You should be making a lot of money, Garry. And if you are, you should be earning more.
Haha this is SO excelent!
I love you garry!
Definatly the best mod ever!
Jesus christ has blessed us with GMod.
Wow that is just the most amazing thing that has ever happend. You are the best coder out there I wish I could give you all my money but im not giving it. With the new commander view and the cartoony thing and sprites you can make Half life 2 into a whole lot better game with awsome effects!
So facewound has died for the time being?
sharpshark 28 said,
‘Wow this is gonna be the 2nd best Gmod update ever. The first of course being 9.0.’
No. The best update was version 6.
Now why is it that the Illuminati are testing the newest updates and not the gold members, as well? You (Garry) have stated many a time that if there is a change of some kind, or a new version soon to come, that we (Goldies) would be the first to know… But we are as far into the dark as any other members, here :( Oh my…
I think this will be the best update. Garry has gone back to the start and made the game better. plus putting new stuff in there. This must be Gmod 10! ^^
You are my new god, Garry. you rule so damn much.
That looks so damn great Garry. Good luck with development.
*Drooooooooooooo….*
2 hours later
*…oooooooooooooooooo……*
5 days
*snooorrreeee…. “Hm? OMIGOD GARRY IS DOING LIEK TEH TEST WORKZ!!” Droooooolll….*
Heell yeah!
I’d like to see a save feature for multiplayer…. but that’s never gonna happen.. hehe :P
And how about some HDR in gm_construct?
:)
When garry keeps saying things like “It’s all clientside/serverside..”, or whatever, what exactly does that mean?
My guess: We will be able to use mods in servers that don’t have our mod or We can say, customize the beam’s color and it will be how you customized it . But that also leaves problems (sweps, abuse) People making “ultra-sweps”.
Not Aside from that, that would be cool if garry actually did my view if my view is wrong and named it Multiple Version Garrysmod (MVG)
Anyway, Good Friggin’ Job Garry! Must be hard.//stupid paypal\\
:)
I’m fairly sure my question will go unanswered, but are these things sprites or are they cell shaded objects? http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/4056/gmconstruct00442ys.th.jpg
“I’d like to see a save feature for multiplayer”
I can see that now…you’re in the middle of something and then *poof!* Some random guy loaded a previous multiplayer gMod build that you happened to be in when said guy saved. Heheh…
Oh my god, you sad suck up bastards! Get a life! What’s so amazing anyway? I think GMOD is going in completely the wrong direction and you idiots are so annoying, “omg garry have my babies cos I want to look cool in front of the other nerds by having a better praise!”
It’s absolutely pathetic… I’m not against GMOD or it’s creator, it’s a great mod but not God’s gift to geeks, you people need lives.
Come back when u got a life dude fuck you.
We say what we want do you ever think of that people say things they dont mean to get things faster? Fuck you man!
I agree with Jeff, GMod is going in the wrong direction, whats so special about some cel-shaded balls besides more minge spamming stuff, also that SWEP looks like spam trouble as well, ill be keeping gmod 9.04 when this is released so at least i have a refuge, also the new SWEP thing is going to result in tons of DM’ing (at least right now servers can control if SWEP’s are spawnable) also i hope we can now spawn explosion effects and create smoke trails as well, also im thinking im gonna take a huge performance hit with the new bullet impacts. just my thoughts.
There’s only one downside I can find to this update, which is, Gmod is getting too far away from its roots, it was origanally made as a construction modification, now its everything you can think of. You’ve made all these new things, but you’re also leaving the construction aspect that people origanally fell in love behind. Maybe you could develop new tools or something. Make it easier for people to rotate things on one axis rather than all of them. And as for the SWEP deathmatch problem, you could put a password on it that the admins have to type in to enable them or justa button to enable them.
So, what I’m saying is, the construction section needs to catch the freak up. Think of all the people who joined back when all the gamemodes didn’t exist(like me.)
This is cool and all, but what are they builders going to do?
I have to agree…GMod is really getting less constructive..Now people pretty much just want to play with SWEPs..And minges are gaining more power with those SWEPs. Spamming is getting worse and building is going down dirrastically. Like name with-held said..I might keep my GMod 9.0.4..Jeeze….
This made me droll all over the house.
I don’t think you “GMod is about construction” guys understand what I’m doing with Lua here.
I’m trying to make it so most of GMod is built using Lua. Giving more power to developers. This benefits all of the builder idiots, roleplay idiots, poser idiots, comic idiots, Lua idiots and the idiots that just want to have fun.
It’s true that I haven’t shown you any of the new “real” GMod stuff.. but I think you’ll be really happy with the shit that the new Lua stuff makes possible.
As for minges with SWEPs. Turns SWEPs off. Jesus how hard is it?
Hey Garry, What version of Visual Studio do you have? like, 2003 or 2005 or something.
Hmm, scripted entities. Does that mean we can make scripted npc’s too?
The point is Garry, we want to control what SWEP’s people have access to in the first place, i dont mind if someone is using a SWEP that i have but i have problems some guy coming on and using his own uber SWEP’s he made, so in closing arguments, only let servers decide what SWEP’s are availble for other people to use. Also it would be nice if theres a way for server admins to keep those ball thingys from being spawned by some spammer as well.
I think you’re missing what clientside Lua means.
People won’t be able to use their own weapons on your server. That’s crazy talk.
Garry said:
I don’t think you “GMod is about construction” guys understand what I’m doing with Lua here.
I’m trying to make it so most of GMod is built using Lua. Giving more power to developers. This benefits all of the builder idiots, roleplay idiots, poser idiots, comic idiots, Lua idiots and the idiots that just want to have fun.
It’s true that I haven’t shown you any of the new “real” GMod stuff.. but I think you’ll be really happy with the shit that the new Lua stuff makes possible.
As for minges with SWEPs. Turns SWEPs off. Jesus how hard is it?
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Oh, I see… leaving us slightly in the dark to give yourself the element of suprise. *suspence*
And as for the SWEPs, I didn’t know you could turn them off, no one told me. So, I guess, now I have nothing to complain about. BUT I’LL BE ON THE LOOKOUT! (Joke, funny, laugh.)
Sorry for the critisizm and the longish comment.
About sweps: simply, the server has some swep, when someone joins, he downloads whatever part of script should be ran on his computer (to get a lot less lag), stuff like hud and swep predeciton (what’s that?) or special effects, etc.
By now everything swep does happens on server, and it sends alot of information about it to players, the clients. If part of the script would be run on their mashines, sending that info would be unneded.
No, you can’t use your own sweps on server, unless it has those sweps you both have a script to upload your sweps to eachother (possible now, but do you realy need it?)
A thing I’d really like for the next version is maybe a custom sound effect that means the loudest spot effect in HL2 and indeed the history of gaming doesn’t accompany every single action you perform.
Garry, do you have a Estimate Release Date
Oh, and my birthday is next week! April 5!
WOW! are this real bots??? awesome!!
I bet it would be heck of a lot easier to make the GMod 2D thingy with this upcoming new version than the current one.
Come to think of it, it might even be IMPOSSIBLE to do it in the current version.
sry but what is the release date? :S
im wating and waiting every day im on your page GARRY
:D
a. You can tell from the screenshots that a release is at least somewhat far off. Looks like it’s coming along very well but it definitely isn’t nearly finished.
b. Making release dates before it’s done = making either a deadline or a pure guess. Deadlines can ruin the quality of the final product , and pure guesses piss people off when they’re not accurate..so like every other mod, it’s most likely “done when it’s done.”
I’m looking forward to it a lot too though.. it’s going to be amazing.
Garry you fat bastard get off your ass and stop eating so much.
From you know who…
so that means i can colour or put something in the model ive spawned? or something?
I think all the lua stuff is great and fun but maybe after you’re done with all that lua stuff you can pay more attention in the building area and stuff.
so wheres our april fools joke garry?
garry will there now be a VGUI text-input?
I really wanna know it :)
And then there was some other stuff coming along:
Scripted Entities: Including brushes? I mean making fully costumised objects. Is that possible?
Even if not it’s just great :D
Oh yes i can’t wait for this. You might want to take a look at ideas and suggestions over at facepunch, there can be some pretty cool ideas over there. Do you have an estimate on how much longer we have to wait? Because waiting for this update is like trying to hold your in for 7 hours :P
omg this is not hapining all of my dreams shaterd garry atleast drop the price to 5 dolars or 6
where can i atleast find a place to by the mod im still ******* pist off thow
Garry i cant believe you would sell out. gmod was not ment to be about money it is ment to be about creativity and having fun. not havinh to pay for it. it is an outrage how you can charge people money for the pleasure of using gmod. garry i love gmod 9 and think if you sell out you will not make much money and you will just have alot of people who hate you for what you did to their beloved gmod. just give it to us free that is all it was ment to be in the first plase. i cannot believe you would make peole pay for it.
Why Garry? Keep the mod free! You are discrasing the Gmod Commuity with this and calling the free version a DEMO. Create A new Mod with a different name so know one cares about it.
“Those who have said in the past ‘I would pay for Garry’s mod’ (such as me) will now get to carry out their proposal. Personally, I think it’s justified, but I predict a riot in the comments section. Cue controversy!”
Your Mod is to popular for this! Your going to lose more then half of the Gmod commuity. Sure it’s $10 but not meny people will pay for this.
By the way
>>>Didn’t they say that you get payed 50% for the mod every time someone buy’s it?
garrry i have a good idea sell the mod for free than charge for new maps or updates like new models or somthing that way you will make alot more than you think
I think $10.00 is a fair price for a new Gmod, considering that before this Gmod was essentially finished, bugs and all. I’ll gladly fork over a ten for a fully functional, bug-free Gmod. It’d be a solid investment at twice that price, compaired to some of the junk available on Steam. There’ll still be a free version out there for those who don’t want to pay, and I’m sure most of the current Gmod community will still support it. All told, I’m excited about the new one though.
how much is the new gmod in uk money??????????????????????
thnx
sry i dident look above just dont look at my thing bye
boo