Any experienced gmod developers?

Any lua developers here? I'd like to maybe collab with someone or get hands on teaching if and when I needed it.
My gmod server has lifetime hosting on it, so it's very much so a long term thing for me to do.

Just curious is all :monkey:

I have tinkered around with it for a while, currently working on a Dark RP with a twist, and by a twist I mean removing most Dark RP modules and components and using it as a framework for something else. Might be good but we won't know until I am done =)

My advice would be to utilize the gmod wiki, even the older maurits.tv wiki for some information, and as a last resort try out the facepunch forums, but don't go there asking for free code, they don't like that.

I am by no means an expert but could help with small things here and there, just not on my PC a whole lot to answer tons of questions.

30-12-2017, 02:01 AM

ISINAS Wrote: Any lua developers here? I'd like to maybe collab with someone or get hands on teaching if and when I needed it.
My gmod server has lifetime hosting on it, so it's very much so a long term thing for me to do.

Just curious is all :monkey:

Depends on what you're looking for. To make content attempting to further yourself and your knowledge in Lua, or to make money? Also: I wouldn't say you can just learn Lua. I mean, you can learn the syntax and how to efficiently and properly use elements of Lua (specifically GLua, which is definitely different)

After you get the hold of the basics of the syntax, etc., and if you can learn something this way, look around on the Wiki for examples. Take a free addon apart and see how another developer does something. If you're trying to do Derma, design is quite an amazing thing.

And finally, the biggest tip: you have some data that is in the shared realm (for both client and server), run checks on client before sending to server, but also run checks on the data sent toserver. Never solely trust the client in those terms, as that leads to an insecure and exploitable addon.