#HOW TO MAKE A ADDON FOR GMOD HOW TO#
#HOW TO MAKE A ADDON FOR GMOD MOD#
#HOW TO MAKE A ADDON FOR GMOD UPDATE#
#HOW TO MAKE A ADDON FOR GMOD DOWNLOAD#

So you are still in the bin folder of your gmod installation where gmad.exe was, but this time you will run gmpublish.exe to upload your gmodaddon.gma file: So you have at hand your gmodaddon.gma (your addons) and your image. The image for the workshop in jpg format and with dimensions of 512x512 we will name it addon_image.jpg in this example. You need an image for your addon on the workshop: If you have this gma under the elbow to publish it you can go to the next step.Д«eware it doesn't work if you forget to put the addon.json file inside. After a little processing time you will get a confirmation that your gma has been created and will find your gmodaddon.gma in the same folder where your addon folder was. Gmad.exe create -folder C:Users/user/Desktop/gmodaddon In this example my addon folder is on my desktop:ДЄnd we're going to run gmad.exe and point to the folder gmodaddon to compress it to. You will need to go to the bin folder of your gmod installation where gmad.exe is located and enter the command :Д¬d /Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/GarrysMod/bin.To open the command prompt: Press Windows+R and type cmd in the Run window.The content of the addon.json file will be editable from the addon page on steam. The first to go to a folder, the second to compress (create your GMA), the third to upload.Д«efore typing the commands to turn your folder into gmodaddon.gma you'll have to put one thing at the root of your addon folder :ДЄ text file that you will name addon.json, I use :

To do this you will have to do it via your command prompt and so doing everything step by step is a piece of cake there are only three commands. In this explanation we're going to call the addon : gmodaddon.gmaД«efore you can publish your addon you will have to compress your folder into GMA, because it is this GMA file that you will upload, so our first goal is to get the famous gmodaddon.gma. We assume that your addon is already working, if you are new here is the structure of the folder already explained here : File structure Or include it in a collection I also took the care to explain below. The user can also 'Subscribe' on the addon page.

There are several methods of sharing, via the Lua file described in this documentation below. To solve this, he will need to have the contents of installed on his computer, for this you can put its contents in an addon to share its elements easily.

When you upload models, materials, maps on your server, the content is only for your server, if a player joins your server and he is missing his resources, he won't get the sounds, textures problems (Pink and Black), red MODEL ERRORS, in short, all that means he is missing something on his hard drive.

#HOW TO MAKE A ADDON FOR GMOD HOW TO#

HOW TO CREATE AND PUBLISH AN ADDON ON THE WORKSHOP?

#HOW TO MAKE A ADDON FOR GMOD MOD#

HOW TO CREATE AND ADD A COLLECTION TO A GARRY'S MOD SERVER?Дў.1 What is a collection on the workshop, what is it for?Дў.2 Create a collection of addons for Garry's ModДў.3 How to find the collection identifier on the workshop?Дў.4 How to add a workshop collection to your Gmod server?.

#HOW TO MAKE A ADDON FOR GMOD UPDATE#

HOW TO CREATE AND PUBLISH AN ADDON ON THE WORKSHOP?ДЎ.1 What's an addon on the workshop, what's it for?ДЎ.2 How to create the GMA file to upload?ДЎ.4 How to find the addon ID on the workshop?ДЎ.5 How to force the upload of addons to your server?ДЎ.6 Publish an addon update on the workshop.

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#HOW TO MAKE A ADDON FOR GMOD DOWNLOAD#

With this documentation you can create an addon(gma file), upload it, update your addon on the workshop, create a collection, associate a collection to your server, force your users to download the addons you created. Hello! I've been asked far too much that I decided to make a documentation of it in order to share the solution as well as possible to avoid repeating myself in my tickets.

How to make a addon for gmod