Newbie with many questions. Looking to create an FFA-style deathmatch game

[SKL2002]

I finally got Garry's Mod on the Steam sale. I see a lot of wonderful things I found on youtube and websites regarding player's creativity using this program. Obviously, I have a lot of learning and practice to get anywhere near as you guys.

I have several questions, and any/all input is appreciated. A great tutorial site. I did some youtube videos, but still cannot find answers for what I am looking for (below). I saw many custom maps on Steam Workshop, and with any map, how can I:

[B]1)Create FFA (Free-for-All) rules (like timers, death counts, etc), kinda of like when play a Quake arena or any other typical deathmatch game?

2)How to I create random play spawn points (or fixed spawn points but randomly chosen by the server after respawn)?

3)Weapon spawn points (like in typical deathmatch games, and timers)?

4)How do I put custom weapons I nabbed from Steam Workshop onto this list of weapon spawns?

5)Power ups (like you see in some deathmatch games, i.e. Quake Arena);

6)When a person joins the game, they have a list of custom player models they can choose from to play that I provide (and not their own, if possible)

7)Speaking of players model, how do I do classes (like if you pick a model, it comes with certain weapons already for that player, preferably custom weapons I nabbed from Steam Workshop)

8)How do I modify a weapon's stats (i.e. their strength/damage, recoil, rate of fire, etc) - I presume this is script writing, which I do not yet know how to do (unless there is an addon that makes life easier in this aspect).

9)And when I host a game like this, is it hosted via Gmod, or do I need to run a separate game to run a server like this (i.e. Half-Life Source for example)? If so, how do I do that?[/B]

Thank you for your time reading this. I can't wait to enjoy this program.

[Sestze]

All of these things are possible, but require you to do a bit of (or a lot of) coding in lua to make it work appropriately.

Look into GM:PlayerInitialSpawn, GM:PlayerSpawn, GM:Think, and GM:PlayerDeath as ways to look for the events you're referring to. You may need to code your own custom entities for Q3A style powerups.

[Wildo]

if you don't know the answer to these i suggest doing what EUWarServer does, rename sandbox to Team-Deatchmatch and call it custom

[editline]30th November 2015[/editline]

[QUOTE=Wildo;49216485]if you don't know the answer to these i suggest doing what EUWarServer does, rename sandbox to Team-Deatchmatch and call it custom[/QUOTE]

if you really want help with this reply with your steam profile and i might be able to help

[SKL2002]

[QUOTE=Sestze;49215851]All of these things are possible, but require you to do a bit of (or a lot of) coding in lua to make it work appropriately.

Look into GM:PlayerInitialSpawn, GM:PlayerSpawn, GM:Think, and GM:PlayerDeath as ways to look for the events you're referring to. You may need to code your own custom entities for Q3A style powerups.[/QUOTE]

Thank you. I am starting to get into learning Lua, which I figured I need to learning coding anyways. Wasn't sure if there was already an addon/tool someone made to help simplfy this. No biggy. But also, thank you for letting me know the events, that is very helpful!

[QUOTE=Wildo;49216485]if you don't know the answer to these i suggest doing what EUWarServer does, rename sandbox to Team-Deatchmatch and call it custom

[editline]30th November 2015[/editline]

if you really want help with this reply with your steam profile and i might be able to help[/QUOTE]

Thank you. I just started to get into this and will look into the EUWarServer and see how that is like. I am also going to try to learn Lua so I would understand what the sandbox is programmed and will be able to modify as necessary. Thank you for this tidbit, I am going to look into it!

[Wildo]

[QUOTE=SKL2002;49217770]Thank you. I am starting to get into learning Lua, which I figured I need to learning coding anyways. Wasn't sure if there was already an addon/tool someone made to help simplfy this. No biggy. But also, thank you for letting me know the events, that is very helpful!

Thank you. I just started to get into this and will look into the EUWarServer and see how that is like. I am also going to try to learn Lua so I would understand what the sandbox is programmed and will be able to modify as necessary. Thank you for this tidbit, I am going to look into it![/QUOTE]

that was meant to be sarcasm but take it seriously if you want, sandbox is a great way to make a tdm server, personally i made mine from base gamemode