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Changes

What’s changed in Garry's Mod in each patch.

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Features

  • You can now search maps by the name of the Workshop Addon they come from in Start New Game screen
  • Moved potentially conflicting addons detection to Problems menu - potentially conflicting means two addons have the same Lua file with different file sizes
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Improvements

  • “Unused Addons” problem will now tell you which files it recommends deleting
  • Attempt to prevent Entities and Weapons spawning out of map bounds when spawned through Spawn menu (Community Contribution)
  • Updated server browser recommendation icons (Community Contribution)
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Fixed

  • Fixed Lua error with Super DOF when activating 5 second hide UI and reopening UI before the timer expires (Community Contribution)
  • Fixed toolgun ghost preview not clearing when switching away from the toolgun using the spawnmenu (Community Contribution)
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Fixed

  • TTT: Fixed a bug with weapon respawning and updated language files (Community Contribution)
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Features

  • Readded missing mapIO outputs to airboat vehicle
  • Implemented CS:GO soundscape features: playlooping.position "random", playlooping.radius, fadetime
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Improvements

  • +vgui_drawtree now requires sv_cheats just like vgui_drawtree 1/0 does
  • Force OS Specific binary module load errors to English
  • Sandbox spawning and entity variable editing bypasses IsAdmin checks in singleplayer, so mods cannot accidentally interfere with basic Sandbox functionality
  • Some changes towards fixing/narrowing down the CSoundPatch update crash
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Fixed

  • Fixed "Steam overlay replacement" window opening links externally
  • Added nullptr safeguards to CMaterialVar::SetTextureValue
  • Unspecified security fixes
  • Fixed crashes when setting null model on players
  • Fixed crash when trying to render world model as entity model
  • Fixed a typo in detail.vbsp
  • Fixed gmod_language resetting to empty string on dedicated servers
  • Fixed in-code documentation comment of table.CollapseKeyValue (Community Contribution)
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Removed

  • Deleted Windows steam binaries (used by dedicated servers) as they are now shipped automatically by Steam
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Features

  • Added NPC:GetKnownEnemyCount
  • Added NPC:GetKnownEnemies
  • Added NPC:IgnoreEnemyUntil
  • Added NPC:GetTimeEnemyLastReacquired
  • Added NPC:GetLastTimeTookDamageFromEnemy
  • Added NPC:MarkTookDamageFromEnemy
  • Added Entity:GetAnimCount
  • Added NPC:NavSetGoalPos
  • Changed NPC:NavSetGoalTarget - second argument defaults to 0,0,0, sets correct goal type for the path
  • Added CLuaLocomotion:GetDesiredSpeed
  • Added CLuaLocomotion:GetGroundNormal
  • Added math.SnapTo (Community Contribution)
  • Added icons and select fields for DProperty_Combo (Community Contribution)
  • Added Entity:GetSequenceVelocity
  • Made Entity:GetSequenceMoveDist shared
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Improvements

  • ServerLog global now obeys sv_logecho convar
  • Save cookies on Lua state shutdown to prevent data loss when disconnecting
  • Render library underflow warnings are now non halting Lua errors
  • Clamped PhysObj:SetMass to safe values (0-50000] to prevent crazy physics
  • CreateConVar/AddConsoleCommand globals now ErrorNoHalt when command creation fails, instead of silently failing
  • Can no longer create concmmands/convars with blocked names
  • Made Player:GetPlayerInfo shared
  • Added snd_buildcache to blocked command list
  • Entity:DropToFloor now checks if the entity is inside world geometry - if it is, do not drop to floor. Should help with stuff ending up underground in certain places, such as NPCs on displacements.
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Fixed

  • Fixed crashes with certain Vehicle functions when used on unsupported vehicles
  • Fixed PhysObj:SetInertia causing unexpected zero-G behaviour when used on frozen physics objects or with invalid values
  • Fixed cam.End crashing when used without cam.Start first (will throw Lua error)
  • Try to end cam.Start calls that are left unended each frame (will display warnings in console when this happens)
  • Fixed CNavLadder & CNavArea's Lua objects not becoming null after removal, causing crashes
  • Fixed Material() not being able to access gamemodes/ folder
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Features

  • Added NextBot.GetLastKnownArea and NextBot.ClearLastKnownArea
  • Added OnHalfEmpty, OnEmpty and OnFull outputs to func_healthcharger, to match func_recharge
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Improvements

  • Allowed physgunning persistent props when persistence is disabled
  • Disallowed physics creation/destruction functions from being called on jeeps/airboats to prevent crashes
  • Improved save loading so it sets player ownership of spawned entities to a player in more cases
  • Put motionsensor.GetColourMaterial behind a clientside permission
  • Failing to save jpeg screenshots/posters actually says that it failed in console
  • Added console warnings when npc_apcdriver/npc_vehicledriver is removed due to it not having its vehicle to drive
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Fixed

  • Fixed Half Life 1 sentry ragdolls not cleaning up on map cleanup. Also fixed their collisions and inability to hit the player at certain player angles
  • Fixed a crash in the DSP system
  • Fixed a crash with NPC:SetNPCClass
  • Fixed a typo in hook.Remove error (Community Contribution)
  • Fixed security issues
  • Fixed DIconLayout counting border size 2 times when laying out icons (Community Contribution)
  • Flash the game window when loading screen disappears to let the player know the loading is finished
  • Fixed hook.Add giving a less than useful error when given a nil to second argument
  • Fixed vgui_slideshow_display crashing the game without materials to display
  • Fixed a crash when trying to play bad ADPCM .wav files
  • Fixed file.AsyncRead returning garbage when the target file has no data
  • Fixed an issue with halo library not resetting color of pp/copy, which in some cases makes usage of halo library fill the whole screen with a color
  • Fixed Lua errors when trying to activate non Toggle Camera or Dynamite from a tool Button that was loaded from a save in multiplayer
  • Fixed a regression with string.Comma where it wouldn't format huge numbers properly
  • Fixed func_healthcharger and func_recharge not updating its texture index
  • Fixed crashing with npc_apcdriver when it doesn't have its vehicle
  • TTT: Fix ammo ents blocking +use near other entities (Community contribution)