Upon joining the server, if you're not already subscribed to or have the addons you're forcing the player to download you should see yourself downloading workshop addonsĪnd then for those of you who sound more like option 2, I would recommend watching the tutorial linked below that will show you had to create a resources file for custom content. Once done, save the file and then restart your server. In this new file you need to create the following for each addon ID resource.AddWorkshop('IDHERE') so for example resource.AddWorkshop('391383735') - You need to do this for each addon ID, one per line. You now need that list of addon ID's for this next step. Once you've got your list of addon ID's you want to go to the file manager in the control panel and navigate to garrysmod -> lua -> autorun -> serverĬlick create new file, and title the file a For example - At the end of the URL you can see the ID which in this case is 391383735 If you're in Steam looking at an addon on the workshop right click on the page and select copy page URL, and then paste it into a browser.

If you are option 1, and you would like to force players to download certain workshop addons when connecting to your server you need to do the following:-Ĭreate a list of all the ID's of the addons you want your players to download.

None of my addons / custom content are from the workshop, and I've separated the content (models/materials/sounds) from my addons into separate models, materials and sounds folders within the Garrys Mod folder.

I don't use any custom models or materials that I've uploaded into new models and materials folders within the garrysmod folder.

All of my addons / custom models and materials that I use on my server are from the workshop.

You need to establish which one of the following options you are:. However, FastDL has been rendered fairly useless in the past year by the introduction of workshop that most people are now using for their custom addons, maps and content packs Setting up FastDL on our Garrys Mod servers is easy to do and can be as simple as running the fast downloads sync in the control panel, and then removing the // from the beginning of the sv_downloadurl line in the server.cfg file. Within Source based games such as Garrys Mod, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike and so on there is something called fast downloads / FastDL.įastDL was introduced into source games to give server owners a faster way to deliver custom content to their players which would mean they were not limited to the 30Kb/s download rate that Source is limited to.

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