January 2023 Update - News

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Features

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Added "Select Page" option in Addons menu
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Added Half-Life 1 .357 Handgun & Shotgun to NPC usable weapon list (Community Contribution)
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Added links to Server and Modding guidelines to Legal tab in Options (Community Contribution)
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Improved Eye Poser (Community Contribution)

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Improvements

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Group NPC weapon overrides by category
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Improved ladder prediction
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Made NPC vs NPC killicon behavior consistent with NPC vs Player deaths
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Switched Outdated tags in server browser to use the network version, not the build version, better representing if a server can be joined or not due to an update
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Updated the server browser to no longer be limited to 256 servers per gamemode
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Display disconnect reason in a pop up when encountering a host error in singleplayer
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Reload spawnmenu on language change (Community Contribution)
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Made givecurrentammo always give secondary ammo
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If HUD is disabled, don't display "Something is creating script errors" overlay (Community Contribution)
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Improve word break for addon descriptions in the Addons menu (Community Contribution)
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Updated language files
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Removed the "Sorry! You can't spawn that NPC!" message when the server did not have requested NPC, to match behavior of other spawn functions
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Implemented automatic cleanup & limit translations, when they are missing (Community Contribution)

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Fixed

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Fixed a visual bug in Lua Errors section of Problems menu
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Fixed Gravity Gun ignoring spin_none interaction for props
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Fixed Gravity Gun preferred carry angles ignoring player's pitch angles
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Fixed vehicle collision group not being saved by duplicator
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Fixed addon size display when its over 2.1GB
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Fixed tooltip position with tall text (Community Contribution)

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Improvements

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TTT: Updated localization

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Fixed

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TTT: Fixed zoom keybind handling (Community Contribution)

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Features

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Added ClearAllOutputs input to all entities

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Improvements

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Added some crash checks to CShaderSystem::TakeSnapshot
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Added a message to dedicated server console when not having GSLT about its impact on server ranking
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Default weapon selection checks GMod's localization files
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Added more info to Overflow error writing string table baseline host error for debugging
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Defaulted scr_centertime to 5
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Replaced self.Owner with self:GetOwner() in base game (Community Contribution)
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Improved DAdjustableModelPanel movement (Community Contribution)
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* Removal of hard-coded keys
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* The cursor is no longer displayed when moving
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* Fixed a bug where the pitch did not stay between -90 and 90 degrees, which resulted in an inverted yaw
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* Space and control keys are no longer relative to viewing angle
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Toolgun improvements (Community Contribution)
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* toolmode_allow_ convars are now properly replicated to clients
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* Fixed TOOL:Holster being called twice in the name of releasing ghost entities
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* Fixed a bug where the toolgun does not call TOOL:Deploy on the first tool that is selected

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Fixed

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Fixed workshop fonts spamming pointless console messages trying to load from the .gma directly which won't work
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Fixed effects/base.lua being included twice
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Fixed ai_debug_enemies (and probably other NPC debug stuff) spewing nonsense to console
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Fixed crashes when trying get model sprite size with a null sprite/model (and when trying to get model bounds of null model)
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Fixed a crash when trying to spawn ai_node too early
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Fixed a crash when calling Spawn() on an entity that deletes itself in the Spawn() function
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Fixed crashes when an entity has negative skin value
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Fixed a crash with base NPC when holstering weapon and having no weapon
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Fixed NPC_CraneDriver crashing when the crane's magnet is removing
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Fixed prop_dynamic crashing the game when given invalid break usermessage names
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Added (Cheap)BreakModel user messages that some maps use
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Fixed Hammer Inputs/Outputs duplicating from base classes
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Fixed legacy CBaseEntity::FireBullets not setting attacker
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Fixed FCVAR_REPLICATED cvars resetting to default/keeping server value when joining a server and leaving
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Unspecified security improvements
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Fixed a crash on malformed maps to do with overlays on displacements
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Prop Spawn effect restores original Entity.RenderOverrides
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Fixed a bug with SCHED_HOLD_RALLY_POINT
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Fixed potential crashes to do with sounds
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Optimized some Lua code (Community Contribution)
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Removed usage of useless varargs (Community Contribution)
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Don't re-register net receiver for editvariable multiple times (Community Contribution)

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Features

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Added surface.GetTextureNameByID
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Added NPC:SetMaxLookDistance
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Added NPC:GetMaxLookDistance
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Added Entity:ClearAllOutputs
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Added Entity:SetSurroundingBounds
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Added Entity:SetSurroundingBoundsType
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Added Entity:GetSurroundingBounds
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Added optional surfaceprop argument to Entity:PhysicsInitMultiConvex, Entity:PhysicsInitConvex, Entity:PhysicsFromMesh, Entity:PhysicsInitBox. All of them now also get correct physical volume set which helps physics behave correctly
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Added util.IsBinaryModuleInstalled (Community Contribution)
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Added string.StartsWith (alias of string.StartWith, for consistency with string.EndsWith) (Community Contribution)
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Added an option to player_manager.AddValidHands to match hands skin to player model selected skin automatically (Community Contribution)
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Added "readonly" option to DProperties properties, for editable entities editor (Community Contribution)
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Added Panel:SetTextSelectionColors for RichText panels
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Added physenv.GetLastSimulationTime
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Added Player:DisableWorldClicking & Player:IsWorldClickingDisabled (Not currently networked)
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Added second argument to string.Comma (Community Contribution)
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Added Tool:RebuildControlPanel
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Added Tool:GetClientBool
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Weapons and Entities can now set their own classname via ClassName property (Community Contribution)
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Added string.Interpolate (Community Contribution)
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Added DSlider ConVar support
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Added DSlider:OnValueChanged

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Improvements

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Made player_manager.AddValidHands skin/body arguments optional
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Added gmod_language to blocked convars (can still read it)
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Added sv_password to list of convars Lua cannot read
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WEAPON:HUDShouldDraw is no longer required to return true to not break HUD (Community Contribution)
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Minor adjustment to DCheckBox:Toggle's internals (Community Contribution)
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String extension optimizations (Community Contribution)
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Cache ConVars created by tools (in TOOL.ClientConVars and TOOL.ServerConVars ) and use them in Tool:GetClientInfo/Tool:GetClientNumber/Tool:GetServerInfo in appropriate realms

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Fixed

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Fixed NPC:AddEntityRelationship priority argument reading from the wrong argument. Also made it optional (defaults to 0)
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Fixed non halting Lua error when Derma_Install_Convar_Functions panels attempt to set empty console variable
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Fixed static CLuaParticles not updating their lighting
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Fixed a crash when setting player's hull size to nothing
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Potential fix for a crash with steamworks.DownloadUGC
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Fixed a bug with Panel:SetCaretPos
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Fixed IRestore:ReadString having a limit on string length, affecting weapons and others on map transition
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Fixed potential Lua error in Derma drag'n'drop system (Community Contribution)
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Added color support and fixed a bug with table.Sanitise/table.DeSanitise (Community Contribution)
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Made ents.FindByModel support wildcards, and work better clientside
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Fixed VMatrix:GetTransposed implementation
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Fixed certain old addons failing to extract with steamworks.DownloadUGC
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Fixed a crash in DListView with fractional column width
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Fixed markup text alignment inconsistency (Community Contribution)
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Made sure Panel:GetChildren table is always sequential
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Fixed TOOL.Information being modified by code that uses it

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Fixed

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Fixed procedural textures of size 32768 trying to allocate way too much memory
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Disallow loading of procedural textures above 64k on any side (with a warning)
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Added more info to "CFontTextureRegen: Failed to allocate X bytes" warning (and should also be less crash prone when it happens)
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Simplified gmod_tool concommand code
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Call TOOL:ReleaseGhostEntity on holster even when TOOL:Holster doesn't
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TGA loading: do not try to read data if overflowed - Simply displays better warning, it wasn't actually reading any data
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Made string.ToTable work with numbers again
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Fixed timer spam from medkit weapon (Community Contribution)
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Unspecified security patch

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Improvements

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Update Steamworks API to v1.57
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Added sv_cheats requirement to some console commands and variables that are either unuseful, or should only be used for development

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Fixed

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Fixed a Lua error about "derma_icon_browser.lua"
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Fixed a regression with language getting reset to Steam's language if your chosen in-game language is English
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Fixed an issue with handling of asset:// URLs
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Fixed various crashes

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Features

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Added Panel:Set/GetTooltipDelay (Community Contribution)
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Added vgui.Exists (Community Contribution)
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Added the Derma Icon Browser (derma_icon_browser console command) (Community Contribution)

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Improvements

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Refresh language files on gamemode change
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Reworked how workshop item info timeout works for server downloads to hopefully make it work more reliably
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Throttled CreateFragmentsFromFile messages to 1 a second to avoid lag
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Expanded the 'Your map differs from the servers' kick reason with more info
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IncludeCS now returns result of include() (Community Contribution)
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Use snd_musicvolume instead of volume for loading screens (Community Contribution)
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Contain DButton's image size if it's too big (Community Contribution)
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Refactored weapon_medkit so it is easier to change/extend (Community Contribution)
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Security fixes

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Fixed

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Fixed ToolGun:GetToolObject returning local players values for other players clientside
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Fixed potential Lua errors with PropSpawn effect
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Fixed an infinite loop with util.TableToJSON when a table has __index that always gives non-nil output
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Fixed crashes when barnacle m_hTongueTip's m_pSpring is null
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Fixed a server crash to do with invalid vehicle scripts for airboats
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Fixed a crash when accessing self.loco of a deleted nextbot
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Try to prevent crashing when (re)loading textures from .png
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Menu support for util.IsBinaryModuleInstalled (Community Contribution)
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TTT: Fixed ironsight position when in singleplayer (Community Contribution)