Force Clients to download a workshop collection

[snickepie95]

Hey,

I added a workshop collection with >100 Items to my Garry's Mod Server and I want to force clients to download all Items if they join the server.
I could write a .lua with resource.AddWorkshop("Id") for every item into lua/autorun/server/ but that would take days and I would have to change this file everytime I add or delete items from the collection...

So i found a code (I allready put in the collection ID [884764080]:

 function util.GetWorkshopCollectionIDs(collectionid,callback)
	if collectionid == nil || callback == nil then return end
	http.Fetch(
		"http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id="..collectionid,
		function(source)
			local source_ = string.Explode("<div class=\"workshopItem\">",source)
			local t = {}
			for k, v in pairs(source_) do
				local source__ = string.Explode("\"><div",v)
				local insert = string.Explode("id=",source__[1])[2]
				table.insert(t,insert)
			end
			table.remove(t,1)
			callback(t)
		end,
		function()
			return false
		end
	);
end

util.GetWorkshopCollectionIDs(884764080,function(ids)
     for k, v in pairs(ids) do
          resource.AddWorkshop(v)
     end
end);

I put this code as workshop.lua into lua/autorun/server/
But somehow this does not force clients to download the workshop collection.

What am I doing wrong?

[JasonMan]

[URL="https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Workshop_for_Dedicated_Servers"]No reason to complicate things[/URL]

[snickepie95]

This is how to force the Server to download the collection...
I want to force the clients to download the collection.

[snickepie95]

Thank you.

My idea is slow because of the delay caused by webpage connection, right?

[LegendarySoldier]

Make a single addon with everything you need and then do what JasonMan told you to do. You'll also want to add this to the client. Stops you needing a massive list. Also if you're actually trying to truly force them to do something just remember that you can't force the client to do anything.

[zippy36jr]

A little tip use this website to get the lua file that you would use in the autorun file
[URL]http://www.configcreator.com/create/gmod/resources.lua[/URL]

-Edit
Didnt see the website was posted already XD

[VXP]

This code will force download of all server addons (which has been downloaded from Workshop collection). But before you should connect your server to one of collections ([url]https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Workshop_for_Dedicated_Servers[/url]).
Put it in a file in autorun\server folder and restart your server.

-- Purpose: Restores Workshop ID from addon's filename, if wsid equals 0
local function restoreWSID( addon )
	if tonumber( addon.wsid ) > 0 then return addon.wsid end
	return string.match( addon.file, "[%d]+" ) or 0
end

local function updateClientAddons()
	local addons = engine.GetAddons()
	if table.Count( addons ) <= 0 then return end

	for _, addon in pairs( addons ) do
		if addon.mounted then
			local id = restoreWSID( addon )
			if tonumber( id ) == 0 then continue end

			resource.AddWorkshop( id )
		end
	end
end

hook.Add( "InitPostEntity", "WorkshopClientInit", updateClientAddons ) -- Can be Initialize too

[Nyhu]

Rofl... Please, give the choice to the player if they want to download or not addons... Cause 3go of addons with a poor connection (if you force the download before join ofc) = "Raaaa f*** off" ~disconnected~
Juste put on the famouse "ressources.lua" the base hud addon content.

Make a little scripte who look at cache and downloads/server if addon is here and mount, then make a for loop to download missing addon.
it's may be nice for the no-fibre players ^^.

(engine.GetAddons is realy usefull for this think)

[jack ralph]

I really wish gmod would make the client stream in content while they have already downloaded the essentials to join map/gamemode files.