GMod Stories: The making of Trouble in Terrorist Town
Over the years, Trouble in Terrorist Town has been one of the most enduring Garry's Mod modes, if not to play then certainly to watch. We got in touch with TTT's creator Stefan (aka Bad King Urgrain) to talk about how it came together, how it sprung from another mod, why people are still playing his duplicitous deathmatch, and what Gabe Newell thinks about it.
What if Gordon Freeman didn't exist? That's the premise behind Haven, a 40 minute experimental machinima that has just been released, filmed in Garry's Mod. I wasn't even 10 minutes into watching it when I started making notes to send to the creator, because I had so many questions about how something like this was possible.
Come and watch the whole thing, and read how film-maker Daniel Schetter crafted one of the most impressive pieces of machinima you'll ever see.
Fixed particle crashes on map load related to the recent Team Fortress 2 update
Fixed a couple exploits, including one that can prevent your game from starting up
Fixed a crash related to Awesomium ftp:// link redirects
Fixed halo effect Physgun on bouncy balls being square instead of circular
Reduced user's ability of being able to exploit the "Remove" property to delete everything on the map on servers with clientside Lua enabled
Update errors
If your anti virus detected any game files as a potential virus - It's a FALSE POSITIVE. This is a common problem with FREE anti virus software. Report it as such with your anti virus program. You can also add the game ( or those files ) into exceptions.
To restore the wrongly deleted files, simply verify the game cache integrity through Steam.
Gmod Stories: Crazy Knife's Scenebuilds
Hello! We're back with a look at the work of Crazy Knife, another scenebuilder whose work completely blew us away.
His obsession lies in bringing the real world into Garry's Mod, turning real rocks into in-game backdrops, remaking real-world frescoes, or tweaking architecture into impossible shapes. He's worked on builds that could be a snapshot of a real world street, but has also crafted surreal structures, sci-fi brutalist landscapes, and more. We really enjoyed hearing about how he turned mashed potatoes and Renaissance symmetry into Garry's Mod art, and we hope you will as well. Read about him and his work here.
The Mega Builder of Garry's Mod
Not a patch! Sorry if you're looking for a bugfix. No, we're here to share the work of Vioxtar, a Garry's Mod player who uses the game to make extraordinary things. He's broke the game more times than you can imagine, lost sleep, and worked for months on a single scene trying to bring the sandbox to life.
We've just pushed another small update. This updated fixes some insecure code and a crash related to models. Read about it here.
It can take up to 15 minutes for updates to appear in Steam.
Fixed crash when rendering models with invalid flex rules
Fixed remote-code-execution exploit discovered by One Up Security
July 2017 Hotfix
We've just released a very small hotfix for the game. You can read about it here.
It might not appear in your Steam client for up to 15 minutes.
FIXED - Linux clients no longer crash on startup when a joypad is connected to the computer
UPDATED - gui.OpenURL now asks users for confirmation before opening a website
July 2017 Update
Hey, we're pushing an update for Garry's Mod right now. You'll still be able to play on any servers that have not yet been updated.
There's some more in-depth information on the update here.
It might take up to 15 minutes for the update to pop up on Steam.
Game Changes
NEW - Preset support for Utilities menus
NEW - 'Quick Preset' button - allows for easier access to the preset system
NEW - Addons menu can now manage multiple addons at once (e.g. bulk unsubscribing)
NEW - Demos, saves, and duplications menus now list items that the user is subscribed to
NEW - Addons menu now has a search bar to quickly search through subscriptions
NEW - The '-notty' startup parameter on Linux servers will send console output directly to stdout
UPDATED - Weapons no longer turn upside-down when zooming in too far
UPDATED - Improved support for CS:GO/Portal 2/TF2 maps
UPDATED - Game returns to DirectX 9 mode if '-dxlevel' is not specified in the command-line
UPDATED - Improved relationships between Half-Life and Half-Life 2 NPCs
UPDATED - Improved behaviour of collisions between players and 'no collided' entities created by tools
UPDATED - Added more information to crash dumps (.mdmp files)
UPDATED - r_eyes_* console variables are no longer saved
UPDATED - The emitter tool's explosion effect no longer creates sounds
UPDATED - Bots can longer be created before the InitPostEntity hook has fired
UPDATED - Improved how serverside ragdolls are handled on the client - hull traces can hit them now
UPDATED - Updated the Half-Life Model Viewer to have newest features from Team Fortress 2 version
FIXED - Odessa no longer has female voices
FIXED - Fixed errors caused by the spawn menu's search feature not having access to certain directories
FIXED - Fixed many crashes related to NPCs trying to use non-existent entities
FIXED - Checkboxes and radio buttons in HTML panels are now displayed properly on Linux/macOS
FIXED - Half-Life Ichthyosaur can now cause damage
FIXED - Half-Life Tentacle NPC no longer continues playing sounds after being removed
FIXED - Fixed massive FPS drops when missing sounds are playing on servers
FIXED - Fixed crash that occurs when console variables created by Lua are removed too early on level change
FIXED - Fixed late loading of memory allocator on Linux causing the game to crash for some people
FIXED - Impulse 200 command no longer crashes when the player has no active weapon
FIXED - Fixed prediction errors when firing weapon_357
FIXED - weapon_357 now has the 'revolver' holdtype
Lua API Changes
NEW - Entity:PhysicsInitStatic( ... )
NEW - Entity:RemoveCallback( ... )
NEW - Entity:GetCallbacks( ... )
NEW - CLuaEmitter:IsValid( ... )
UPDATED - Entity:PhysicsInit* methods now return either true or false based on success
UPDATED - Entity:Remove() can no longer remove the world
UPDATED - Weapon:IsScripted() will now return false instead of no value when ran on non-scripted weapons
UPDATED - Player:Give( ... ) no longer fills a player's gun with ammo when asked to not give ammo to players
UPDATED - Entity:GetBoneCount() and Entity:GetBoneParent( ... ) will now return -1 on failure
UPDATED - Entity:TranslateBoneToPhysBone( ... ) will now return -1 on failure
UPDATED - Entity:SetSaveValue( ... ) now returns false on failure
UPDATED - Entity:DispatchTraceAttack( ... ) will now trigger an error when passed invalid parameters
UPDATED - Entity:HasBoneManipulations() and Entity:HasFlexManipulatior() return false on failure
UPDATED - Entity:GetBrushPlaneCount() will now return false on failure
UPDATED - Entity:GetFlexScale( ... ) now always returns 1 on failure, rather than just sometimes
FIXED - Entity:GetBrushPlaneCount() and Entity:GetBrushPlane( ... ) now work on brush entities
FIXED - PathFollower:Compute() no longer leaks Lua references
Hammer Changes
UPDATED - Improved performance of 2D/3D views
UPDATED - 2D views are now rendered during scroll operations, rather than after
UPDATED - Increased max render distance from 10,000 to 32,000
UPDATED - Vertices no longer need to be in the exact same location to be merged
FIXED - Blended textures are now rendered correctly - it should be identical to in-game
FIXED - Model browser no longer freezes after being opened multiple times
FIXED - Overlays no longer flicker when rendered in 3D shaded mode
FIXED - Scrollbars on 2D views are now correctly sized when zoomed in
