Gmod January 2016 Update

An update has been released!

This update fixes a few exploits, regressions introduced by previous update and some specific performance issues.

And thanks to everyone who helped testing the update and reported bugs/problems.

As usual, servers will need to be restarted.
The update will be automatically downloaded when you restart your game.

You can check out the full change log below:

Game Changes

• NEW Added mat_viewportupscale to blocked convar list
• NEW Added PANEL:SetDrawLanguageID(bool), can be used to hide the language selection box in text entries when typing non-US/UK/whatever
• NEW Added loading bar text when waiting for Steam auth
• NEW Added command line option to cause BAssert to dump (Windows only)
• NEW Added bounds checking to render.GetScreenEffectTexture
• NEW Added Awesomium panel hooks: OnDocumentReady, OnChildViewCreated, OnChangeTitle, OnChangeTargetURL
• NEW Added Awesomium panel methods: Refresh, Stop, GoBack, GoForward, GoToHistoryOffset
• NEW Added Awesomium panel hooks: OnBeginLoadingFrame, OnFinishLoadingFrame
• NEW Added interface for concurrent async server content downloads. Currenty used for Workshop content.
• NEW Added extra debug output for BASS.DLL Initialization
• NEW Added test BASS.DLL config to hopefully help with weird “mp3s dont load with error 41″ cases
• FIX Fixed the “steam id 0 fake players inflate server player count” exploit
• FIX Fixed clientside SteamID spoofing
• FIX Fixed not being able to join a LAN server
• FIX Fixed npc_manhack not triggering npc_maker/npc_template_maker’s OnAllSpawnedDead output
• FIX Fixed a server crash caused by combine_mine changes in last update
• FIX Fixed a crash issue with “quit” commands on srcds when having workshop addons installed
• FIX Fixed a crash when entities with invalid physobjs were in the way of a rotating door
• FIX Fixed ai.GetScheduleID and ai.GetTaskID
• FIX Fixed a possible crash issue caused by global NW2Vars
• FIX Fixed buildcubemaps not working properly
• FIX Fixed Awesomium view leak
• FIX Fixed leaked thread in main-menu GMA downloader
• FIX Fixed addon extraction assert/leaked thread handles
• FIX Fixed incorrect line numbers being reported for errors when using C-styled multiline comments
• FIX Fixed Entity.IsRagdoll not working properly on client
• UPD Vehicle.IsValid is renamed to Vehicle.IsValidVehicle
• UPD All Vehicle methods will error “tried to use NULL vehicle” when used on invalid vehicle
• UPD Reduced worhless & confusing srcds console output for workshop
• UPD Switched some spammy serverside console output to DevWarnings
• UPD Replicated Lua ConVars now properly network to clients when they join the server (FCVAR_REPLICATED flag)
• UPD The console will no longer hide behind the main menu if you open it too early
• UPD Improved performance of file.Exists and file.IsDir
• UPD JavaScript errors in the console now show the file path and line number of the bad code
• UPD gui.SetMousePos and input.SetCursorPos no longer works while the game is not focused
• UPD system.HasFocus now also works on Linux and OSX on client
• UPD File library can now write png/jpg files
• UPD util.TableToJSON handles arrays properly
• UPD Proper alpha blending for Awesomium panels
• UPD Entity:GetNW2VarTable now returns the type associated with each value as well
• UPD Scripted NPCs and Nextbots now support the following clientside hooks: Initialize, Think, Draw and DrawTranslucent
• UPD Increased model precache limit to its TF2 4000 limit
• UPD WorkshopDL GetPublishedFileDetails no longer hangs main thread
• UPD Tweaks to server-content workshop downloading
• UPD Improved Addons main menu.. menu – Per tag browsing for friends items, hide dupes/saves from all listings
• UPD Updated language files
• UPD Addon extration is now properly displayed on the workshop downloader
• DEL Removed angle/vector pool debug message

Community Contributions

• NEW Added PANEL.PreDrawModel( ent ) and PANEL.PostDrawModel( ent ) for DModelPanel
• FIX Fixed an issue with notification.AddProgress()
• FIX Fixed excessive balloon force crash
• UPD Cleaned up manifest file and added DoD voices
• UPD Disabled IK for DModelPanel
• UPD Replaced loads of ifs with ternary
• UPD Updated SWEP:ShootEffects comment
• DEL Removеd unused function and unwanted spaces
• DEL Removed unnecessary local

TTT

• FIX Fix typo preventing ttt_weaponswitcher_displayfast from being saved.
• NEW Added ‘wep’ field to all was_pushed tables.

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