This is the final update on the current state of GMod Tower: Reunion, which was previously discussed here (Reunion):
The GMod Tower: Reunion server is now online and available to play!
As has been established in our previous posts, GMod Tower is being presented as it was before 2015, featuring Lobby 1. There will be no additional maps, bug fixes, or other developments on GMod Tower besides adjustments that will allow the game to run properly as it was. Tower Unite is our focus and all of our development efforts will be spent there.
There are a few remaining minor issues with GMod Tower that we know about. We spent time and effort trying to resolve these issues, but we ultimately couldnât afford to spend more time on it (as we already put in a full month and half of paid development time on it, and we need to work on Tower Unite). These minor issues are:
Blocking system does not work properly and was ultimately disabled
Source Karts: Kart color does not work
Minigolf: HIO rocket doesnât launch the ball
NPC eyes are always closed
Pool tubes have a visual issue when entering them
Theater idlescreen doesnât loop properly
Now playing message doesnât work for theater due to theater media player changes
Overall, there were 104 bugs (several major issues) and 4 major refactors (such as redoing the networking engine) that had to be done to get it all working properly. A lot of time and care was put into ensuring each feature worked as it was in Lobby 1.
We know GMod Tower means a lot to people for all sorts of reasons, and to celebrate such a big time in PixelTailâs history we thought itâd be a good time to bring GMod Tower back. It took longer than expected but now itâs full steam ahead with Tower Unite!
Keep in mind that not all devs spent time on GMod Tower - a few people worked on GMod Tower while some devs and our artists continued to work on things like the Arcade.
Linux Users
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After some more testing, I canât get gamemodes to work properly, most of the time it crashes, and too many CTDâs in general. Instead use Proton. Set Garrysmod to run in Proton 4.11, and opt into the [dev] build, this works flawlessly so far. I think the native Linux client is too unstable.
Some Linux information
I donât really know where I could put this to help those who might need it(or the developers to help fix it), however to run this on Linux(native client) thereâs a step that needs to be done;
The Linux version of Garrysmod doesnât import mods that have capitals, the main folder wonât be imported, so renaming the addon to âgmtâ or something will import it.
However the mod also contains other files and some with capitals, and so youâll end up with a few missing textures etc. To fix that what I did was convert ALL files/folders to lowercase(which I assume is how theyâre named in the Lua code). On Windows thereâs no conflict between capitalisation but there is for Linux file systems, this seems to be the cause because afterwards the last few textures loaded.
To convert all the files to lowercase you can execute a command using ârenameâ (sudo apt-get install rename)
In your terminal navigate to the addons folder then run; find gmt -depth | xargs -n 1 rename -v 's/(.*)\/([^\/]*)/$1\/\L$2/' {} \;
(âgmtâ being the renamed âGMTReunionâ folder)
This will convert all files/folders in the âgmtâ directory and subdirectories to lowercase.
So far the majority of things are working, since changing to lowercase Iâve had no more missing textures, although Iâm still testing it.
I still do get random crashes to desktop though, and still investigating that.
Iâm getting the error when connecting that âgmt_build0s2b.bspâ is missing, however itâs with the other maps within the folder that was extracted. Has anyone else had this issue? Sorry if Iâm being a dunce, Iâm not that savvy with this sort of stuff. edit - Seem to have got it working, thought not sure exactly what I did, just started messing about with the files. edit numero dos - I have missing textures in the lobby, can anyone tell me where I need to get these? Iâve got all the games on the list and have them installed, as well as the folder.
I had the âmissing_mapâ problem, that just means it canât see the reunion folder in addons (So it can be caused by a lot of things).
Iâm no expert, but the things youâre missing seem to be stuff included in the Reunion/workshop addons?
So, Iâd say: Make sure youâre subscribed to the workshop collection, make sure you have the full reunion addon (As a folder) in your addons folder, and click the game controller icon on the GMod title/pause screen to check off all the game content.
Personally, what fixed the âmissing_mapâ problem for me (Which I know you already fixed, but maybe thisâll help), was getting rid of an excess folder. By that I mean: my file path for the reunion addon was: garrysmod/addons/GMT Reunion/GMT Reunion/[content folders], so I changed it to: garrysmods/addons/GMT Reunion/[content folders].
Iâm still lost at the missing textures, Iâve got all the addons, Iâve got all the games, Iâve checked all the boxes, Iâve downloaded the folder and have moved the files about and cleared them and re-downloaded them and started the game over and over and I havenât had these textures show up, including the skybox, so it has to be something to do with the folder, but I canât figure out what. When I figured out that one of the things being affected was the skybox, I did a fresh download of everything, restarted everything and then went in again, only to find that the textures were still missing. This is driving me slightly insane.
Issues with the addons folder are tough, because theyâre different for everyone. Mine was with a duplicate folder, somebody else in the Discord was using the wrong addons folder on a different drive, it could be anything.
Though the fact that the game is running is interesting, for some reason parts of the folder arenât getting read. Sorry I couldnât be of help, it would be useful if there was sort of âdebugâ log that would say exactly what textures werenât being accessed properly, but Iâm not a GMod nerd, so my advice ends here. Good luck!
