FAQ - IcyStarFrost/Lambda-Players GitHub Wiki

Why am I crashing with Lambdas?

There could be numerous of reasons why you are crashing. Here are the known reasons for crashes:

  • You have too many addons running. Try cutting down on your addon count
  • You are playing a map that's too complex and large. I.E gm_fork. Try to play in smaller and less complicated maps like gm_construct. Pathfinding is expensive
  • You have Serverside ragdolls turned on in Utilities. Turn it off.
    • While unconfirmed, it's speculated that x86-64 branch will crash when a NPC/NextBot is killed, and if their ragdoll is Serverside. It won't crash if it's clientside ragdolls.
  • Likely more reasons that are not mentioned

Can you fix the crashing?

Unfortunately no. We would need access to gmod's source code to be able to fix crashes

My Lambdas won't show up in a custom killfeed I have.

Turn on Call OnNPCKilled Hook in Lambda Server Settings.

Their names won't show in the custom killfeed. It just shows "Lambda Players"

The addon author needs to make support for Lambda Players in order for their names to be properly shown on the killfeed.

Will Lambdas support other gamemodes?

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Reason being these are nextbots. They can't and won't ever because they simply aren't actual players.

How do I add names, profile pictures, ect to lambdas?

Please visit this page https://github.com/IcyStarFrost/Lambda-Players/wiki/Adding-Custom-Content

Will Lambdas support SWEPs I have installed?

Lambdas used to be able to use SWEPs but that feature was long been removed. Reason the feature was removed because it was unstable and relied on the unreliable fake isplayer feature. Nextbots are not meant to be faked as players in code. That should be reserved for actual fake client bots. I.e bots created by the console command bot

Lambda Player aren't moving around, or doing anything, why?

You may have a module or addon that is causing issues for the Lambdas. Try to disable your addons except for Lambda Players and see if they start working. If they continue to not do anything, please turn on Debug in debugging options and take a screenshot of the information that hovers above the broken lambda and post a issue here on GitHub

Why are my Lambdas walking straight into walls and aren't pathfinding?

You're most likely playing on a map that doesn't have a navmesh. To create a navmesh, do nav_generate. If you get and error with "No walkable seed found", do nav_mark_walkable, then nav_generate.

Why do Lambda Sprays randomly turn into missing textures? And why does it print Material SPRAYPATH has bad reference count 0 when being bound in console?

.PNG and .JPG sprays tend to have this issue while .VTF sprays do not have this issue. We can't tell you why this happens but there is a fix for this.

First you need to navigate to your gmod's cfg folder. You can find it at: DRIVE:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\cfg

If you don't know how to find it you can also click Browse Local Files in steam like this

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Once done you will get here

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Next, you need to go into the garrysmod folder. After that, go into the cfg folder. Once you are in the cfg folder find the file named autoexec.cfg. When you find the file open it. You can open it in notepad or whatever text editing software you have. All you have to do now is put mat_queue_mode 2 in the file and save. It should look something like this:

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That's it! Now restart gmod if you have it open and your sprays should no longer turn into missing textures randomly. If it persists, consider going to the 64 bit branch of gmod. You can simply do that by changing the beta to this

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What's a Text Type?

A text type is essentially a type of list of text lines that are used in a specific context. For example, text type deathbyplayer is a list of text lines used when a Lambda Players is killed by other lambdas or real players

What's a Voice Type?

Pretty much the same thing as Text Types except these a voice lines. Voice types are a type of list of voice lines that are used in a specific situations. For example, voice type witness is used when a Lambda Player sees something die

How do I get my Lambdas to post images in chat?

This requires a addon that replaces the chat and allows the embedding of images. Download the Custom Chat addon https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2799307109

After that, simply just input image links into whatever text type of your choice in the Text Panel