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Update Preview Changelog

This page contains upcoming changes to the game in the next update. The update date is available on the Steam News section for Garry's Mod.

The update is already accessible on the dev beta branch, and possibly on the prerelease beta branch.

Game Changes

Additions

  • Nothing so far

Fixes

  • Fixed leading spaces in a console command not adding it to the console autocomplete history
  • Updated Metrocop player model so the model actually has a shadow
  • Physics Gun rotation and Camera zoom/roll now work consistently independent of client FPS
  • Fixed Resistance Turrets being in Combine Overwatch NPC squad (Spawn menu)
  • Fixed pink or green artifacts appearing on certain decals when spammed in one place a lot
  • Bonemerged models inherit lighting origin from parent - makes view model hands match lighting of the view model itself
  • Fixed incorrect player aiming animations for other players sitting in vehicles
  • Restored functionality of m_filter (No longer forced to 1)
  • Fixed non ASCII characters in "Unknown command X" console message appearing as "?"
  • Update RPG Launcher world model to fix muzzle flashes not playing, or playing at incorrect times

Changes

  • Prevent throwing props immediately when using +USE pickup if holding left or right mouse buttons while picking up something
  • Made Combine Energy Balls bounce from frozen props in a more consistent fashion
  • Made crossbow bolts bounce from indestructible props, frozen and unfrozen
  • Faceposer uses localized string for "Other" category
  • Minor optimizations to Problems panel, ability to close it via ESC key or clicking empty space around it (Community Contribution)

Deletions

  • Removed "Use Bloom" checkbox from Video options, as it was not bound to any convar or setting, meaning it did nothing
  • Removed No HDR but use bloom from Video Options since it doesn't do anything

TTT Changes

  • Nothing so far

Technical Changes

Additions

  • Added -mountcfgfile launch parameter that allows overriding filename of cfg/mount.cfg file to be loaded as mount.cfg (for example, -mountcfgfile mount2.cfg would load cfg/mount2.cfg)
  • Added host_writeconfig_lua console command (blocked from Lua)

Fixes

  • Fixed a case where voice chat would cease to work if voice_enable is set to 0 and back to 1
  • Fixed clientside errors happening before LevelInit not being sent to the server
  • Fixed commas in AddOutput map IO input causing the input text to be truncated (Now uses the special ESC symbol internally, like Hammer VMFs do)
  • Automatically delay HTTP calls until SteamHTTP is ready (for dedicated servers)
  • Queue lua_error_url messages until SteamHTTP is available (for dedicated servers)
  • Do not render drag'n'drop overlay for engine panels when UI mouse input is not active
  • Fixed ragdoll boogie (flopping around due to being touched my mega gravity gun) happening from +USE pickups/throws through Lua
  • Prevent crashes when trying to write too much data into a small texture
  • Fixed an infinite loop in weapon selection HUD with certain weapon names
  • Fixed mat_luxels 1 producing unusable results
  • Fixed a crash issue with close caption HUD
  • Fixed crashes to do with PCF loading due to weird formats
  • Fixed crashes with PCFs using ELEMENT_INDEX_EXTERNAL
  • Fixed crashes with point_worldtext during saving
  • Improvements for >2GB file support on non-Windows OSes
  • Prevent ToGL crashes on Linux when encountering a debugger break

Changes

  • Tell the player if garrysmod.ver is read only, which could lead to inability to join servers
  • Log workshop addon mounts (count only) in console for debugging purposes
  • Micro optimization for cam.Start2D() (Community Contribution)
  • Remove most of usage of deprecated deprecated CSteamAPIContext on the client
  • Apply more strict checking of invalid Lua states in CLuaObject
  • Make Lua print() and error() text colors in console the same
  • AvatarImage keeps track of textures it creates and reuses them, preventing exhaustion of texture name symbol list
  • Add WriteTempEntities overflow warning from CS:GO
  • Do not force "rate" cvar to 100000 on start up (from 1000000), and remove archive flag from it
  • When dealing physics stress damage on characters, set inflictor and attacker if possible
    • Will try to set the inflictor/attacker to something more useful than "World". In case of multiple props, it will be the first one.
  • Truncate killfeed names to 512 bytes to prevent net message overflows
  • Register private animation events as client events too, so they call the clientside SENT hook for model animation events
  • Reject empty or near empty .gma files with a nice message
  • Bump internal render data buffer from 64k to 80k to prevent rare? crashes
  • Improve performance/memory usage of Lua mat proxies
  • Added some sanity checks around for unclosed Lua ISave/IRestore blocks

Deletions

  • Removed Novint Haptics Device integration
  • Remove voice_modenable in favor of voice_enable. There's no reason to have both, it only creates confusion.
  • Removed unused console variables that did nothing to prevent confusing players:
    • r_fastzrejectdisp, mat_shadowstate, mat_maxframelatency, mp_usehwmvcds, mp_usehwmmodels, r_threaded_client_shadow_manager, r_threaded_renderables, r_decal_cullsize, r_drawopaquestaticpropslast, r_threaded_renderables, snd_mix_async, mat_parallaxmap
    • mp_teamlist, mp_teamoverride, mp_defaultteam, mp_allowNPCs, mat_disablehwmorph, sv_contact, sv_consistency
    • joy_yawsensitivity_default, joy_pitchsensitivity_default, option_duck_method_default, sv_stickysprint_default, mp_autocrosshair, mp_allowspectators, mp_friendlyfire, mp_fadetoblack, mp_chattime, mp_waitingforplayers_time, mp_waitingforplayers_restart, mp_waitingforplayers_cancel, mp_clan_readyrestart, mp_clan_ready_signal, mp_readyrestart, mp_ready_signal, mp_forcerespawn, mp_fraglimit
    • cl_burninggibs, r_propsmaxdist, cl_first_person_uses_world_model, mat_max_worldmesh_vertices, showparticlecounts, cl_team, cl_class, cl_SetupAllBones, cl_forcepreload

Developer tool changes

Hammer

  • Added inputs to light_environment, removed point_clientcommand and point_servercommand since they do not work in Garry's Mod.
  • Fixed 3D grid not rendering correctly in Hammer due to recent changes
  • More colors for Lightmap Grid in Hammer for super small (red) and super large (green) lightmap scales

Map Compile Tools

  • Nothing so far

Other

  • Increase MAXSTUDIOSKINS for studiomdl.exe from 32 to 64

Lua API Changes

Additions

Fixes

  • Fixed double clicks not invoking GM:VGUIMousePressAllowed hook
  • Player:VoiceVolume works for local player without voice_loopback
    • This only works when using Steam voice, and only when not recording voice to file. (The default state)
  • Fixed IGModAudioChannel:GetPos returning invalid values sometimes
  • Fixed Player:GetAimVector clientside for non local players in vehicles always pointing in the same direction relative to the vehicle

Changes

  • Throw a non halting Lua error when giving invalid types to Entity:SetNetworkedVar (and the other SetNetworkedX functions)
  • Throw a non halting Lua error when trying to read net message past its end (Limited to lua_strict being set to 1)
  • Added engine_no_focus_sleep to blocked convar list
  • On dedicated servers, BRANCH returns "unknown" instead of "prerelease"
    • Since the builds are identical 99% of the time, "unknown" is the more expected value. This way, it's incorrect only in 0.01% instances of servers using the prerelease beta, instead of most of the time when not using any beta.
  • Apply changes to type() function for speed improvements (Server/menu) (Community Contribution)
  • CUserCmd:GetMouseY/X values on the server are now independent of client FPS of the associated player
  • constraint.Motor accepts a bool for "toggle" parameter (was only accepting 0 or 1)
  • Do not try to run HTTP requests with invalid URLs at all
  • Run GM:PlayerBindPress for unbound keys too
  • numpad library discards bindings to KEY_NONE (Community Contribution)
  • Remove tostring call on the argument of player.GetBySteamID64, since it is supposed to be a string at all times anyway (Community Contribution)

Deletions

  • Nothing so far

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