How To Upload Gmod Gamemode

1 of Garry'southward Modern main selling points is the vast variety of gamemodes that have been built upon it. This article will cover how to install whatsoever gamemode on your GMOD Server.

Info: If you're looking to install "Trouble in Terrorist Town" or "Sandbox" gamemode, yous tin can skip the "Irresolute your Server'southward Default Gamemode" section of this commodity equally both of these gamemodes are already included with Garry'southward Mod by default.

INSTALLING GAMEMODES

METHOD i: INSTALLING GAMEMODES FROM THE WORKSHOP

Many gamemode authors choose to publish their gamemodes direct to the Steam Workshop. For case, you can find the popular Murder gamemode on the workshop here.

You tin can install a gamemode from the workshop on your server simply by adding information technology to your server'southward collection. If you lot don't already have a collection, yous can gear up one up by post-obit our How to Add a Steam Workshop Drove to Your Garry's Modernistic Server tutorial. You should also strength clients to download the gamemode to prevent missing avails equally detailed in our How to Automatically have Players Download Workshop Addons tutorial.

In one case yous've added the gamemode to your workshop collection and workshop.lua file, you tin skip to the "Changing your Server'southward Default Gamemode" section of this article.

METHOD 2: MANUALLY INSTALLING GAMEMODES

Alert: On the internet, everyone may create and distribute a Garry's Mod gamemode. Information technology is possible to introduce backdoors and other unsafe code into GMOD gamemodes, therefore only install gamemodes from authors you lot trust. GmodStore and the Steam Workshop, for example, are typically safer.

Download the gamemode you wish to install onto your computer.
Excerpt the gamemode by right-clicking the ZIP and selecting "Extract All" from the carte du jour that appears.
Make up one's mind if the gamemode should exist installed into the gamemodes binder or the addons binder.
1. If the gamemode should be installed into addons, the binder y'all extracted volition contain a folder named gamemodes.
2. If the gamemode should exist installed into gamemodes, the binder yous extracted will incorporate a text file with the name of the gamemode.
  Warning: If the binder and the text file do non have the aforementioned name, rename the binder so that it has the same name as the text file.
Connect to the server's FTP. We recommend using FileZilla. Locate the server's addons and gamemodes folders past double-clicking the garrysmod directory within the remote site department (correct side past default) of FileZilla.
If the gamemode is to be installed into the gamemodes directory, drag the folder from your file manager and drop it into your server's gamemodes folder. If the gamemode is to be installed into your server's addons binder, drag the folder from your file manager and drop information technology into your server's addons binder.
Continue to the next department of this article.

Changing YOUR SERVER'S DEFAULT GAMEMODE

Login to your command panel.
Click on the Files > Config Files tab on the left.
Open up the Garry'south Mod Server Settings config file.
Adapt the Gamemode to the name of the gamemode folder that yous would like to load.

If you lot uploaded the gamemode into garrysmod/gamemodes, and then this is the name of the folder you lot uploaded.
If you uploaded the gamemode into garrysmod/addons, this is the name of the folder inside the gamemodes folder within the folder you lot uploaded (garrysmod/addons/<folderYouUploaded>/gamemodes/<useThisName>).
If you used the workshop drove method to install the gamemode, check the workshop particular's description or installation instructions.
If you would similar to load Sandbox or Problem in Terrorist Town, employ sandbox and terrortown respectively.