I know that toy-box will soon be replaced by workshop for GMod 13, however I was wondering if workshop will work the same as toy-box did, were you go to the tab in the q menu in-game, or will it work differently. If workshop will work the same as toy-box did, here is one thing that I think everyone would love to see
Make workshop available on multiplayer servers!!!
I know that the main worry about adding either toy-box or workshop into GMod multiplayer will possibly cause all the servers to have trolls and go though and destroy everything on that server using some of the highly overpowered weapons in the toy-box, such as owner gun.
Although I know that this is true, I think it would be nice if the admin of the server would be able to get the option weather or not to allow access to the toy-box\workshop from a setting in the server properties, this way there if the server admin wants to allow it or not allow it, they have the choice.
The main reason I would love to see toy-box\workshop in multiplayer is because most of the really cool stuff I would like to share with my friends (especially the helicopters) but I can not do so because I can not find them on the regular addons website.
Hope you take this into thought for GMod 13 and I can't wait for the release! Hope to see it!!
First, I can confirm workshop works for multiplayer (there are a couple files that say "Only works in single player" or "Doesn't work in multiplayer", those addons, obviously, don't work in multiplayer)
Second, workshop is nothing like toybox. If you download something from the workshop, a weapon for example, you have to restart the current map in order to use it/for it to apear in your spawn menu. If it is a map, you need to restart garry's mod for it to show up (otherwise, you can just type "changelevel newmap" without restarting).
Workshop acts exactly like dragging in new folders into the addons folder. Likewise, if you and your friend add the same files to your addons folder, you two can use those addons in multiplayer. Same with workshop.
People who have "HAX GUNS" or whatever from the workshop, who try to join a server without that addon, simply won't be able to use the addon, so there is no griefing.
There is no point in trying to "disable" workshop for some servers, since there is no way to really "enable" it like there would be with toybox.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask and I will respond.
Ok, so workshop is kind of like the actual addons website, only its in game? There are about 5 helicopters that are only on the toy box that I really want to use in multiplayer with my friends to make GMod movies and war games, but I can't find them on the addons website, and I can only get them for single-player. That is why I wanted to find a way to get toy box in multiplayer so I could do that.
Is there any way to download addons from the toy-box and save them in your game so you can access them in the multiplayer?
Yes, workshop is closer to garrysmod.org v2.0, with a bunch of new features that make loading addons a million times better.
I tried doing what you want to do with toybox a while ago, and it wasn't easy. I know that if it is just a model, eventually you can get it working, but if you hope to get lua code you are out of luck.
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