Hello,
I have been googleing an issue I have just been having with my server but I have had no luck so I decided to ask for help/others with more knowledge on the subject here. (LT;TR at bottom)
I have been running my server for years now, and the FastDL has always worked, I have known the entire process of adding addons, putting the materials and models into the server folders as well as the lua files in the autorun/server folder. This even worked correctly yesterday morning, I added 4 new addons and did the entire process and everything worked like a charm, the files are downloaded quickly to all clients and everything works.
The issues started in the afternoon however. My server had long experienced some downloads that were continuously repeating because I was too lazy to add assmod's icons and some other addon's icons to the fastdl. I added these correctly just like I did in the addons the same morning, however these files refused to fastdownload correctly, everytime I rejoined the server these files would forcibly redownload. I brushed the issue off as me doing something wrong and left it as it was since nobody really minded. What annoys me now however is that I have added 4 more addons this morning (small ones adding props) and properly put them in the Fastdl and made a lua file for fastdl and put them on the server etc, but the Fastdl is not downloading anything, not even forcing me to redownload it at all or anything. I tested the addons in singleplayer and they work fine, but I am unable to spawn them on the server even though I installed everything correctly.
As far as I know I have not gone anywhere near the limit of addons, my server currently runs about 40 addons (fairly small ones that I could technically combine into bigger ones) and the fastdl has about 800 files on it (of which about 220 are not working)
To explain my process of installation and fastdl setup:
- I Install an addon
- I drop the materials and models into the server directories if necessary (with addons adding only props)
- I drop the materials and models into the fastdl folders
- I open up my general fastdl lua in the autorun/server folder (I have tried splitting the file, did not work)
- I add my paths like so:
resource.AddFile("models/items/w_medkit.vvd")
resource.AddFile("models/items/w_medkit.xbox.vtx")
resource.AddFile("materials/scope/scope_normal.vmt")
resource.AddFile("materials/scope/scope_normal.vtf")
- I delete the .dua file on both the server and fastdl cache folder
- I restart the server and tranfser the .dua file from the server cache to the fastdl cache.
- I join the server to test the changes.
Dua transfers correctly at all times and I never get server misconfigured errors.
I have ran out of ideas here and I have no idea what I am doing wrong. Is there some kind of max fastdl files limit? is there some lowered addon limit? (I thought it was 99 or something) Does someone know what I am doing wrong?
TL;TR: My server always did FastDL fine, I added stuff yesterday but when I try to add stuff now it just does not work and it seems files just don't exist on the server yet I install them correctly, halp?
resource.AddFile("models/items/w_medkit.vvd")
resource.AddFile("models/items/w_medkit.xbox.vtx")
resource.AddFile("materials/scope/scope_normal.vmt")
resource.AddFile("materials/scope/scope_normal.vtf")
you need to add mdl files to models?
You ONLY need to add mdl files for models and ONLY need to add vmt's for textures.
Other than that, some "Starting to add downloads" / "Done" debugs and then a console log please.
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