GMod Fast Downloads? SORRY I POSTED IN WRONG SPOT

[usarmy]

Hi,

I just noticed I posted in the wrong spot sorry!

I have googled and googled and can't find anything and you guys here are always so much help so I thought I would give ya'll a try on this. Does Gmod and Fast downloads work with the mods? I

was tryin to setup my phoenix model pack and vehicle pack up on my webserver and I can't get it working. I got maps to fast DL but I cant get the packs to. I made a folder in my webserver

named addons and put the phoenix folder in there, and then put the phoenix pack in my addons folder in my server. Then try to connect and nothing. Then I tried making individual folders for each

pack on the webserver and it didn't work either so is this not possible? Sorry if I am confusing some of you. Also this is now a 8 man Slot Dedicated Server. So I am using smart ftp for all my uploads.

Thanks,
usarmy

[JamminR]

Addons is a 'virtual' Gmod folder.
Any "addon/<pack>" would not be used in your path of your web host.

So, if you had on your actual GMod server
/addons/somepack/models/custom1.xxx
/addons/somepack/models/custom2.xxx

on your actual download server, besides /maps/yourcustommap.bz2 (USE COMPRESSION!!! Research using bz2 compression) that you already have working, you would need;
/models/custom1.xxx
/models/custom2.xxx


http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=how+to+use+sv_downloadurl

Even with compressing every file on your fast download server, I don't recommend hosting large mod packs.
There is no way to make it one individual file for sv_downloadurl that would decompress into all models once it got to the clients machine through Gmod/Source.
(If someone can correct me on that, please feel free.)

[usarmy]

well thats kinda a bummer, but makes sense. I was tryin to do the phoenix pack and it is like 50mb. And the vehicle pack and thats like 322mb.

[MrPresident]

dont worry about hosting those files on yours server. Everyone pretty much has got those packs installed already anyways. If they do not, you would simply need to instruct them to do so. =) Maybe put a message in your MOTD or in your adverts stating that if they see errors what packs it might be for them to download.

[JamminR]

Yeah. I'd guestimate that 95% of Gmod players have Phx model pack.
Not so much for the vehicle pack. Most of the servers I play on don't have the vehicles anyway.
I do have GMOW, but not the others.