Garry's Mod

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Content Type: Addon
Addon Type: Map, Tool
Addon Tags: Build
Tags: admin, misc
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14 Oct, 2014 @ 8:47am
15 Oct, 2014 @ 8:30am
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PH - Prop Placing Tool

Description
In order to add more props to your Prop Hunt maps

Info:
This SWEP will allow you to place new props on ANY map for Prop Hunt and then save the prop positions to a text document so that you can add new props. Its a similar concept to the TTT Weapon Placer except with props instead of weapons, I recommend you use the Sandbox gamemode to place the spawns. You have to put the .txt file in your maps/ folder otherwise this will not work!

Use:
1. Go into your prop-lacking map in the Sandbox gamemode
2. Give yourself a Prop Adder from the Q menu or spawn it in with 'give weapon_propadder' in console
3. Spawn your props and move them around, they will be saved in the exact positions they were in when the save button is hit.
4. Hit your Reload key to save when ready
5. Follow the folder path given and grab the .txt file and move it into your maps folder.
6. Now your props will spawn!

Commands:
* Mouse 1 - Spawn prop with chosen or default model
* Mouse 2 - Copy model of the prop you are looking at
* Reload - Save prop data to the txt document located at data/propadder/ph_mapname_props.txt"
* 'padd_spawn' - Console command to manually spawn props from the txt document (if existing)
* 'padd_cleanup' - Console - removes all spawned (tool or txt) props
* 'padd_setmodel "models/props_junk/wood_crate001a.mdl"' Sets the chosen model to the model path you want, this example sets it to the default crate.

Directories:
Where the saved .txt file appears - garrysmod/data/propadder/ph_mapname_props.txt
Where the text file should go - garrysmod/maps/ph_mapname_props.txt

Github - https://github.com/Exho1/PH_PropPlacerTool
Facepunch - http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1431009&p=46232064

Need bad props to be removed from your map? Try my Entity Remover[facepunch.com]!
24 Comments
DrakeHurley 27 Nov, 2018 @ 3:11pm 
@๖ۣۜĆǿǿł™ The .txt Will be created at

<Main Drive>Program Files (x86)>Steam>Steamapps>Common>GarrysMod>garrysmod>data>(It'll tell you what the name of the file is in game so look for it in there)

Place the new .txt file in
<Main Drive>Program Files (x86)>Steam>Steamapps>Common>GarrysMod>garrysmod>Maps

(There's no Specific folder inside the maps folder that you need to place it in, Just throw the .txt in the maps folder itself)

Also an easier way to get into the Files of Gmod is to go to library>Gmod>Right Click Gmod> Properties> Local Files> Browse Local Files

Then it'll open the Gmod folder

Also Thank you Exho! This helped so much! Been looking into adding more props to some maps my friends and i have been wanting to record on!
𝓂𝒾𝒢𝒽𝑜𝓈𝓉𝓂𝒾 20 Oct, 2018 @ 12:14am 
what folder?
Light Verse 4 Aug, 2017 @ 12:33pm 
It doesn't save... help?
Exho  [author] 30 Jul, 2017 @ 8:44pm 
Yes
Mulltea 30 Jul, 2017 @ 3:26pm 
can the map you want to place props on be a ttt_ map?
Exho  [author] 21 Feb, 2017 @ 5:18pm 
Don't be a buttfuck
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birb brain 14 Sep, 2016 @ 1:13pm 
So either I'm doing something wrong or I'm doing something wrong. I have used the TTT weapon placer with no issues but for this... I can't get the props to spawn on my server after I have placed them down. I can get them there with no problem in sandbox and will reappear in sandbox. But if I single player it on prop hunt there is nothing there and when I port it over to my server, it still isn't there. Help?
It´s Kitten 9 Jul, 2015 @ 5:40am 
How can i make, hold props on the wall, for example health stations. It always lays on the ground when i restart my map ;-;
Gilamex the Bunnicorn 30 Jun, 2015 @ 3:01pm 
I looked it up on the workshop and got nothing but the car company and mods for cars and stuff. I don't download cars so I have no idea what it is. I looked through all my mod pages and none of them said GMC or could be abbreviated as GMC. Its weird. :fsad: