resource.AddFile confusion

[shoffing]

I'm trying to send a material file that's in my gamemode's content folder to clients so they don't see a huge purple and black square covering a fourth of the screen, but the resource.AddFile() page on the gmod wiki says:
[quote="Gmod Wiki"]This will NOT send files that are in a gamemode's content folder. You must copy them into the root folder for this to work.[/quote]

So is it impossible to do this with materials in your gamemode folder? Or am I meant to use lua to copy them into the root folder? If that's the case, then how?

Thanks.

[Entoros]

That's wrong?

Inside a gamemode, it treats the content folder as a part of the root folder.

So if you have a material at

gamemodes/your_gamemode/content/materials/mat.vmt

Then in your init.lua you can do

resource.AddFile("materials/mat.vmt")

[Willox]

This is the same for addons aswell I believe

[shoffing]

Thank you both.