If you can't see your addon in the list there, click Browse and head to your Garry's Mod addons folder and select the addon from there. If the addon is purely lua, close this tutorial as lua is distributed directly to the client through the server.After you've done that, open up GMAD Extractor GUI that you downloaded earlier and click on Open. You can keep the model inside the addons directory on the server though.ĭownload the addon you want from Workshop, both to your server and to your computer. If you would have a file inside addons/someaddon/models/model.mdl, the server would tell the player to download models/model.mdl, and that's why you have to upload the model directly to the models directory and NOT into addons/someaddon/models on your FastDL. And as so, your server doesn't tell your players this when they join. Everything inside of it is "mounted" on your server, as if their files were in the root of your server. Read this block below and you'll understand why:Īs the title says, the addons folder is emulated on your server. No addons folder, no lua folder, no other folder at all! This is where most people makes a mistake, by having their files in an addons folder like they do on their server. Note that this is how your FastDL folder structure should look like. To the tutorial! The player will only look for certain file-types in certain folders on the FastDL mirror, which are:
I have modified the batch script to support recursive compression.įox-Warrior's Resource Generator - This tool generates gma file, returning a legacy addonīzip2 - This is what you will use to compress the files.
GMAD Extractor GUI - This tool allows us to extract the. One step wrong and you will notice that it won't work.Note: You can still use Workshop Content on your server while having a FastDL, with +host_workshop_collection_id and all. Web Hosting or Web Server with FTP AccessĪs I stated earlier, FastDL's are very, VERY fragile.
In this tutorial, I will cover how to properly setup a working FastDL mirror for your game server.It is important that you read everything here, as FastDL's are very fragile
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