If you manage to develop this far where you have a nice community, a well built discord server, and a functioning team of developers putting together a server in Gmod, it's time for the addons, So, I guess in terms of trust and safety, just make sure you have a backup plan in case everything goes wrong, be like Batman, trust no one, but work with them. It didn't work at all lol.Įven if you trust someone to assume positions of "Co-Owner", or "Head Staff" or whatever other position you might have, always have a backup plan, during these phases of development for my server, I kinda overtrusted some people because I didn't know what I was doing, and they had a better understanding of things, so I just kinda gave them more permission than it was safe to, There are some ways you can bypass this, namely, hiring developers who are experienced in LUA Coding, as well as buying a server host instead of going around trying to do it yourself, not only will it have more quality, it stays up 24/7, of course, having to be restarted every now and then,ĭon't be a dumb dumb like myself and learn the thing scrathing surface of LUA Coding, and attempt to make a patchwork of templates and codes I found online to make a server, endgame.
#How to make addons in gmod how to
I didn't know how to start my own dedicated server, or how to set up DarkRP base on my Gmod, it was.
#How to make addons in gmod code
All I knew was that it worked on LUA Coding, and that I had no idea how to code in LUA,
With all that set, and the people being invited, I thought it was time for me to begin to learn, how was it that everything worked on discord servers.
On a side note, setting up permissions for different channels and categories works a lot better this way too, I personally now a days prefer to go with option B, I like to separate certain permission across 5 levels of Discord Server Clearence Levels, the highest of which is a "Full Access" role, and the lowest of which is a "Guest Entry Access", anything in between, doesn't need their permissions set up, so long as everyone has an assigned Clearance Role, so just have fun smashing 1000 different coloured roles with funny names and whatever else you might find interesting, I began by making a discord server, a community discord server, and began setting it up, granted it seemed easy at the time, I wouldįace many problems such as people talking in "Announcement channels" and whatnot, because I was still quite new with permissionsĪnd roles, so here is a tip, if you wanna make a good community discord server, I highly recommend either:Ī.) Learning how to set up a discord in it's entirelyī.) Having both aesthetic roles, and functional roles,Ĭ.) Finding someone who is experienced on setting up discord servers, and having them do it for you, To bring back the "Golden Age" of that server, try to recreate what me and some friends thought was the best of the best that serverĮver was, but, of course, as I would soon find out, I had no idea what I was doing lol, Regardless of that fact, I decided I was going to make a new server, on the same theme, same everything, except in era, I wanted Now looking back, it might have been that I simply had some difficulty letting go of the past, and embracing change, new things, Trusting people too much, rushing myself ahead of possibilites, hyping a community for stuff I couldn't give right away,īack around 2019, I decided that the RP server I was playing in, was no longer fun, and that it had lost what made it special, Hopefully my mistakes will help someone do a better job in the future, and succesfully start a good RP server,įair enough, my mistakes could be considered somewhat "rookie mistakes", and to an extent, they were, Thought I'd get in here and share my failed experience trying to make a Gmod server,