Garry's Mod online?

[`unreal]

Yea the title is self-explanitory - It would be REALLY fun if there was a way to hook this up online... maybe via HL2: DM or the first hl2 little beta online play thing. Im not sure about anything like this, because i haven't given it much thought. But I'm wondering, since it's a small mod, it can be easily done?

Any thoughts and suggestions on how?

BTW this wouldn't really be an idea for mass-online play, like CSS, but i would like to do it with my mates sometime.

 

[B-MAn]

Yeh GREAT IDEA, hope some one knws

 

[Zeus]

Someone got jbmod online so I'm sure they could do the same with garry mod.

 

[Dumb Dude]

Online play with the GarryMod would be pretty cool, but at the same time, its gunna be lame. Think about what people would do, they would use the rocket launcher and flood the screen with objects, or use the shotgun to put tires all over the place. Not to mention the Manipulator might be able to freeze people in place. People would also be welding other people to walls and stuff. It might be cool in the right hands, but there are always people that ruin things.

 

[joshsmog]

you can just start a server in garry mod like everyone used to do before half life 2 dm came out.

 

[simmo]

you can just start a server in garry mod like everyone used to do before half life 2 dm came out.

yeah, the net_start method...me and my bro made some buggys each and raced em!

 

[`unreal]

you can just start a server in garry mod like everyone used to do before half life 2 dm came out.

Yea thats what i was thinking (when i was talkin about beta multiplayer jibberish) so i will do a quick search on that in a minute.

Concerning the usual prats online, i totally agree and i am aware of that, which is why i know it wont be popular mass-game online. The only real reason why i would be interested in this is for the small house LAN i have, and with a few local mates.

In fact i cant even get hosted games to work on my comp (my router, and i have already opened the ports :angry: still wont work) but i will see what i can do

 

[Shadow][]

yeah, the net_start method...me and my bro made some buggys each and raced em!

i tried typing net_start in console buy it just made the game paused all the time, and i couldnt see the sever in lan games

 

[simmo]

Theres other commands also that you gotta do...but I cant remember em

 

[Alieni²]

Commands:

net_start 1
maxplayers "?"
map "?"
password "?"
restart

 

[Shadow][]

still doesnt work, while im in garrys mod i do "connect x.x.x.x" but it says cannot find my lan server

 

[`unreal]

:O ah man

simmo, were you referring to doing that on the mod, or just the normal game (which i think you were)

well im leaving it for the night,will try 2moro, and see if any of you clever bastards out there manage to work out a way to do it.

 

[Deemo]

make sure to set sv_lan 0

then other people can connect to your listen server. it works with everything, whether it be jbmod or garrys

 

[Dench]

It's not going to work unless you limit the amount of objects that are spawned, or else hang up h@%%.

 

[Kakashi]

Hmm... I have to try this with my bro, hah it'd be fun

 

[Big Fat Duck]

clicking in multiplayer garry'smod would probably crash it

 

[tearinox]

Well I did this (in order):
net_start 1
sv_lan 0
password blah
map buildingblocks_final
restart

But it doesn't work. I port scanned myself and its not picking up 27015 as open. Any ideas?

 

[ydoucare]

I've been doing this with jbmod and garrysmod with my buds by simply starting the game, and typing the following in the console:

net_start
deathmatch 1
sv_lan 0
maxplayers 5 (or whatever you want)
map mapname

You'll obviously need your ports open/forwarded if you are behind a router.

 

[tearinox]

No I portforwarded it. I figured out that the windows firewall in sp2 was blocking it (annoying how it doesn't tell me). Now its working.

 

[`unreal]

How do you portforward it and portscan your computer?

Edit: Ah wait, http://www.garry.tv/garrysmodforum/viewtopic.php?t=136 explains it

thanks alot guys