Anyone else experiencing this? (Garry's Mod)

[BoltsFromAbove]

Ever since today's update, my HLSS hasn't been able to work. My name would pop up, but there would be no sound. On the console, it says "Disabled because it ' s super annoying". Is there any way to bypass this? Thanks in advance.

[Soma]

Looks like they decided to block it game-wide.. instead of allowing server admins to make that choice for themselves (like TF2 does now with sv_allow_voice_from_file)... unbelievable.

Since you can still voice communicate, it's possible to set up a virtual audio cable that StevenFX mentions here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3557. Though I've never played with this, so I couldn't say for sure how to set it up... but I'd imagine it's not that difficult.

I really hope they revert this change and at least allow the server admins to make this decision using "sv_allow_voice_from_file". My friend and I used to play music in Garry's mod, and enjoyed the ability to do so. He'd play a song, then I'd play a song. It's fun to have while you're building stuff. Then we would just talk normally on Ventrilo (which has better voice quality than in game anyway).

Funny how they don't even include it in the release notes... sneaky bastards. I don't see a way around this besides what was mentioned above with the virtual audio cable, sorry .



edit: main page and tutorial updated accordingly.

[doggy892]

Just letting everyone be aware that garrys mod 10 (the one you pay for) has now ANY music playing program from a file,
will not play normally you get the error "Disabled this is really annoying" or something along that lines also its beyond my belief why people cant just cant go
into the player list and hit mute

Oh yeah and |FACEPUNCH Thread| http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=778558

Garry said this,
How about instead of muting every person that uses it -- we just stop using HLSS.

Voicecom is for communicating to each other with you voice, not playing your annoying shit to the whole server.

[doggy892]

I think he just did it by the commands that they use so Bind del "tgglewav" if you could change it or something?

[Soma]

He blocked out the voice_inputfromfile cvar. Doesn't matter how you phrase the bind, it still wont work.

Garry is a douchebag.

[Soma]

Update: I got an email from someone saying that there is a simple way to bypass this. Just use "toggle voice_inputfromfile 1" instead of "voice_inputfromfile 1".

So all you need to change for Garry's Mod is your autoexec.cfg file, and everything else should be normal:

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alias hlss-START "toggle voice_inputfromfile 1; voice_loopback 1; +voicerecord; alias ToggleWAV hlss-STOP"
alias hlss-STOP "toggle voice_inputfromfile 0; voice_loopback 0; -voicerecord; alias ToggleWAV hlss-START"
alias ToggleWAV "hlss-START"
voice_fadeouttime 0
echo "The HLSS script has loaded correctly"
echo "Tap DELETE once after selecting your sound to play it"
echo "Tap DELETE again to stop playing it"
echo "If you need help please visit us at HLSS.US"

Though he will probably patch this method very soon too.

[BoltsFromAbove]

There was just an update some minutes ago, and that method doesn't work anymore.

[doggy892]

Supposidly puting toggle voice_inputfromfile works in console?

[Soma]

There was just an update some minutes ago, and that method doesn't work anymore.

Just tested, and confirmed not working anymore. HLSS is pretty much done for in this game.

The only thing you can try is complaining on the facepunch studio forums, or contacting Garry directly.

[wtbalife]

Hi First time poster here.

Just wanted to let anyone that was interested know that theres a big debate on the subject Going on on the Facepunch Forums About this topic http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=778558

The efforts to reason with Garry have been to no avail, sadly. He is being quite a sarcastic Jackass on the subject and many of us agree that he pretty much did it for his own biased reasons, hence the reason it was not in the update notes.

We are continuing to try to get him to reason with us and at least make a cvar like in tf2 where server owners have the option, but he has pretty much said that will never happen.

[BoltsFromAbove]

Yeah, I've been checking up on that topic a lot. Unfortunately, I think it's a waste of time. Garry really comes off as an egomaniac and will never give in.

[wtbalife]

Hey all, Good news! we got an update from Garry on his blog and he might just be changing it!

Taken from http://www.garry.tv/?p=1039

HLSS

I disabled HLSS too, something that I forgot to put on the changelog. My reason for doing this was simple, voicecom is for voicecom, not for spamming hilarious comedy quotes over and over again. And I know people are going to say “just mute them”, but that isn’t any kind of solution to the problem, people don’t want to have to mute 3 people every time they join a server.

I accept that some servers like having people play music on them and maybe I’ll add a serverside convar for those guys. I’m told that there is already a CVar for it in TF2, but apparently GMod isn’t using that engine. I don’t know what engine we’re using, or why we’re not using the TF2 engine.

[Soma]

Great news

[wtbalife]

Great news

yeah, considering he isn't being sarcastic

He has a tendancy to lie a lot, But at least there is a chance