Creat Gamemode content (Part2) (Gmod)

Menu Background Images

If you want to include backgrounds with your gamemode place them in gamemodes/<yourgamemode>/backgrounds/. They must all be jpg images.

Menu Logo Image

To supply a menu logo image place a png file in gamemodes/<yourgamemode>/logo.png. This image should be 128 pixels high and up to 1024 pixels wide. The default logo is 288 x 128.

Menu Icon

To supply a menu icon place a png file in gamemodes/<yourgamemode>/icon24.png. This image should ideally be 24x24 pixels but it can be up to 32x32. The server list displays the icons at 24x24 while the gamemode selection uses 32x32. Here's where it will appear.

MenuIcons.jpg

Init and Shared Files

Three files are needed for your gamemode to function properly. These go into your <gamemode>/gamemode/ folder.

Please note, that while we use shared.lua in the example below, it is completely optional. init.lua and cl_init.lua are not!

init.lua

This file is called when the server loads the gamemode. The example below tells the resource system to send the two files to the client, and then loads shared.lua.

AddCSLuaFile( "cl_init.lua" )

AddCSLuaFile( "shared.lua" )

include( "shared.lua" )

shared.lua

This file sets some common variables and creates the Initialize function. This is the only function you NEED to define. All others will be called from the base gamemode.

GM.Name = "Super Killers"

GM.Author = "N/A"

GM.Email = "N/A"

GM.Website = "N/A"

function GM:Initialize()

                -- Do stuff

end

cl_init.lua

This file is called when the client loads the gamemode. You would put client specific things in here. We load shared.lua. Note that you can only 'include' files here that have been 'AddCSLuaFile'd on the server.

include( "shared.lua" )

Deriving Gamemodes

If you are deriving your gamemode from something other than base, use this function to tell the engine that we do.

You must call the function on both, client and server, and since our shared.lua is included from both, cl_init.lua and init.lua, we can do it once, in shared.lua.

In the example below, let's say we derive our gamemode from sandbox, so we add this to our shared.lua, somewhere above all function definitions is a good place:

DeriveGamemode( "sandbox" )

Common Errors

Error loading gamemode: info.Valid

Your Gamemode Text File is invalid or was not found.

Error loading gamemode: !IsValidGamemode

The game could not find cl_init.lua or init.lua of your gamemode.

Game crashes/freezes on death

You have not assigned a playermodel to the player.