FastDL / Icon issue

[Willdy]

Hey guys, in March, we created some custom weapons for our server, and since then we have been under the impression they have been working the way they should. About a week ago, someone reported an issue with the icons not appearing and upon checking this, we found the icons do infact, not work.

I have the icons locally, and can see them, so the issue has to be on the fastdl.

sv_minupdaterate 30
net_maxfilesize 64
sv_pure                     0
sv_allowupload               0
sv_allowdownload 1
sv_downloadurl "http://www.xxxxxx.xxxx"

Path on the fastdl: /garrysmod/materials/vgui/ttt/icon name

if SERVER then
  AddCSLuaFile( "shared.lua" )
  resource.AddFile("materials/vgui/ttt/icon_ninjah_ak47.vmt")
end

A snippet from the top of our code

Anyone has any ideas why they don't work? :O

[BipolarDiZ]

You have to make sure the client is dling them. In your lua/autorun/server make a lua files called something like clientdownloads.lua and use this wiki for help on making the add resource files http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Resource.AddFile.

Overall, your issue is that clients don't have the icons.

[bigbadboo]

You need to also add the VTF file to the resource downloads.
resource.AddFile("materials/vgui/ttt/icon_ninjah_ak47.vtf") ??

[phoenixf129]

No.

Adding the vmt automatically adds the vtf. Same for mdl and its dependencies.

[Jonzky]

I assume FastDL is working fine if there is no issue with the cache/maps.

Check for any issues with the file itself, also look for any capitalizations in the name of the vtf/vmt and check if clients who join have any of them downloaded in the garrysmod folders.

[dark_st3alth]

Solved your problem.

The slashes in the lua code are the wrong way around.

Lua requires the "Unix/Linux" style slash, the backwards slash "\".

So a simple change will fix that no dl problem.

Have a nice day. :)