What is a "Steam ID"? Just about everything that is on Steam's game launcher has a unique ID number associated with it, like the license plates on cars. Every game, every mod in the workshop, every community group, and every player account. Many games can use those Steam ID numbers for player accounts to quickly and easily identify players on your server. Those...
Valve now requires certain game servers to register a server with a specific Steam account. They acomplish this with a feature called Game Server Login Token or GSLT. This token will uniquely register your server with your Steam account. Creating a GSLT First you simply need to head over to the following link and login to your steam account: https://steamcommunity.com/dev/managegameservers Next...
Some addons for Garry's Mod require that additional content from other Valve source games be made available, in order for those addons to work correctly. This content is used by certain game modes (DarkRP being the most common one) to provide missing information for props and physics information needed by the game for it to work correctly. Without this additional content,...
Before adding a workshop collection to your server, you will need to firstly create a collection on the Steam website. Start the Steam Launcher, and click on the game you want to create a collection for. When the game page loads, click on the "browse the workshop" link in the Workshop section of the game's page. This will take you to the game's...
While most games require 3rd party software to mod your server, several games are utilizing the Steam Workshop. While the main purpose of the Steam Workshop is to host a catalog of mods it also provides the capability to create lists of mods that you manually select. These lists can be configured to your server, which configures your server to download and use...
This guide will show how to setup your Garry's Mod server so that players who join will automatically start downloading the same Steam Workhop addons that you have added to your Workshop Collection on the server. 1. Go to the Lua/Autorun Folder on your Gmod Server: Open the garrysmod Folder, Then open the lua folder, Then open the autorun...
What is ULX? ULX is an admin mod for Garry's Mod that allows you to have greater control over who is playing on your Garry's Mod server. ULX offers server admins an AMXX-style support, allowing multiple admins with different access levels on the same server. It features commands from basic kick, ban, and slay to fancier commands such as blind, freeze, voting, and...
RCON is great for remote server management. It allows remote connections to your server with unlimited access, protected by a password. To change your RCON password, simply set rconpassword "mysupersecurepassword" in your server.cfg file. If you wish to disable RCON, set the password to a blank string, like rcon_password "". > Be sure that your RCON password is very secure. Any weak passwords...
