FastDL

[Digital Spit]

Someone was talking to me about ULX having a way to fast download...is this true?

[JamminR]

FastDL as in hosting? No.
Gmod now allows you to host your server's lua cache folder on your fastdl site, so there is no need to offer ULX specifically as a separate DL.

ULX _does_ have some abilities to push special files that may not normally be included as part of an addon.
(Megiddo/Stick, do we still allow files on a per map or gamemode basis, if using <mapname.txt> or <gamemode.txt>??

Have a look at your /addons/ulx/data/ulx/downloads.txt file. (As it states many times, don't edit that file, copy it to your own server's gmod/data/ulx/

[Digital Spit]

I've never edited that file, the only reason I ask is because I'm trying to add playermodels to my server that require people to download them, I have a webhost, but I'm not sure how to upload them and the gmod wiki doesn't help me at all. I just don't understand because of the way it's written

[JamminR]

Not sure what you don't understand, the wiki, or downloads.txt?
Copy downloads.txt from the ulx addons directory mentioned above to your server gmod/data/ulx/ folder.
Then only edit the new file just copied.

If you have special files, whether they are in addon package or not, the server sees them as gmod root/<whatever>/<whatever_files>, not gmod root/addons/<whatever>/<whatever_files>

If you wanted to share an entire folder, you'd copy that folder to your server host as always (perhaps including an addons/<blah>/special_folder, but, to your fastDL (and our downloads.txt), it would never include the "addons", it would simply be <fasdl>/<blah>/special_folder and in downloads.txt, <blah>/special_folder

If you you wanted to share a particular file within <blah> (Blah being sounds, materials, models, other common gmod file folders), you'd still upload the file to your server as always (even if in addon format), then upload the file to your FastDL host /blah/special_folder/whatfile.blah folder, and the in downloads.txt, you'd place blah/special_folder/whatfile.blah