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Garry’s Mod, or GMod, gives players a physics-driven sandbox world to experiment in, allowing them to pose and direct characters, vehicles and other in-game entities. In such an open world, it could quickly get tiring playing with the same characters repeatedly. Thankfully, GMod has extensive mod support, with a large number of additional add-ons freely available for installation. Install and enable a new NPC in GMod to open up new possibilities in your game sessions.

Launch Garry’s Mod and click “Addons” in the main menu.

Click “NPCs” to bring up the available NPC mods.

Hover the mouse cursor over the NPC you want to install and click the “Install” button.

Click “Subscribed” to bring up a list of currently installed mods.

Hover your mouse over the NPC that you installed and click the “Enable” button.

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The Addons For Dummies guide covers basic information for installing addons in Gmod 10 and links to articles for specific types of Addons.

  • 2Downloading addons
  • 3Cleaning your copy of Garry's mod
  • 4How to Install addons
  • 5Wiremod
  • 9Advanced Dupes

Your Garry's Mod base folder

To be able to add any addons, you need to know where your Gmod base folder is.

  • For users of 32bit Windows it's located at: C:Program FilesSteamSteamApps{STEAM_USERNAME}garrysmod
  • For users of 64bit Windows it's located at: C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamApps{STEAM_USERNAME}garrysmod

Within this folder are a number of sub-folders in which you can save different types of addons. Do not however mess about with the folders too much, or you may have to 'clean' gmod.

Downloading addons

All you have to do to get the access to download an addon is to use the 'Sign in with Steam' button, and verify that you have Garry's Mod.


Using Internet Explorer 7+

  1. Find an addon you like from GarrysMod.org.
  2. Once you find one that you like, click on the 'Download File' button to begin the download.
  3. A dialog box will appear asking 'Do you want to open or save this file?' and displays the {ADDON_NAME}.zip folder (in which your addon is sent). Click Save.
  4. Another dialog box will open asking where you would like to save the file. It doesn't really matter where the file is saved, so long as you can find it again later. For Xp, the Desktop is a safe bet. For Vista / 7 the default Downloads folder will be fine. Select you folder then click Save.
  5. Wait for the download to complete.

Using Mozilla Firefox 3.6

  1. On the menu bar click, click Tools > Options. In the General tab under Downloads the 'Save files to' option should be selected. The folder displayed next to it is where all of your downloads are saved. The default folder should be fine, but you can change it if necessary. Remember the selected folder, as you'll need to be able to find your downloaded addons there later.
  2. Find an addon you like from GarrysMod.org.
  3. Once you find one that you like, click on the Download File button to begin the download.
  4. A dialog box will appear asking 'What should Firefox do with this file?' and displays the {ADDON_NAME}.zip folder (in which your addon is sent). Select Save File, then click OK.
  5. A new dialog box will appear showing the progress of your download. Wait for the download to complete.

Cleaning your copy of Garry's mod

Sometimes when you download too many addons, or a faulty one, it is necessary to 'clean' your copy of Gmod. There are 3 tiers of cleaning:

1. Vet the folder

  1. Enter your Garry's Mod base folder, then enter the 'garrysmod' folder inside.
  2. Delete all of the folders inside except:
  • models
  • materials
  • particles
  • screenshots
  • sound
  • shaders
  • Don't delete the 'addons' folder, if you wish to keep your addons. The same goes for your gamemodes ('gamemodes' folder), custom key-bindings ('cfgcongig.cfg' file), tool presets('settingspresets' folder), addon data ('data' folder) and spawn icons ('spawnicons' folder).

2. Reset to factory settings

  1. Delete your Garry's Mod base folder (by deleting the 'garrysmod' folder in 'C:Program Files or Program Files (x86)SteamSteamApps{STEAM_USERNAME})
  2. Enter Steam and play Garry's Mod. The Garry's Mod folders will be replaced with a fresh new set.

3. Re-download & Reinstall

Not recommended unless something is severely wrong with your garrysmod install, or it did not download correctly
How To Install Gmod Mods


  1. Enter Steam and right click on Garry's Mod in the games list.
  2. Click Delete local content... In the dialog box that appears click OK.
  3. Delete your Garry's Mod base folder (by deleting the 'garrysmod' folder in 'C:Program Files or Program Files (x86)SteamSteamApps{STEAM_USERNAME})
  4. Enter Steam and re-download Garry's Mod.

How to Install addons

This section will explain how to install various things, as well as what to do if an addon doesn't have an info.txt.

Gmod Mods

To install an addon:

  1. Extract it from the .zip/.rar it comes in(how-to covered below)
  2. Drag the folder that contains the info.txt to the 'addons' folder. If you don't have an addons folder, create it.

Situations where one doesn't simply drag the folder inside the .zip to 'addons':

  • tacoa.zip
    • addons
      • AddonName
        • info.txt
        • other .files and folders

Put 'AddonName' into 'addons'.

  • tacoa.zip
    • info.txt
    • other .files and folders

Create a folder in 'addons' with the same name as the .zip; in this case 'tacoa'. Put the info.txt and other .files and folders inside 'tacoa'.

(If the info.txt were located like: '..tacoa.zipwinburritoinfo.txt'; you would extract the burrito folder to your 'addons' so it created '..garrysmodgarrysmodaddonsburritoinfo.txt'.If the info.txt were located such as '..tacoa.zipaddonsburritoinfo.txt', you would extract all the folders in taco.zip to your 'garrysmodgarrysmod' folder, so it created 'garrysmodgarrysmodaddonsburritoinfo.txt' and whatever else.)

If an addon does not contain an info.txt:Unless specified otherwise you can generally create one:

None of it is really relevant as to what it's set to, just copy and paste that into a text file called 'info.txt'.The placement of the files in the addon can be confusing at times, if not laid out well.It generally goes along these lines:

  • garrysmodgarrysmodaddons
    • AddonName
      • info.txt
      • lua AND/OR
      • models AND/OR
      • materials AND/OR
      • sounds AND/OR
      • data

Popular Addons

Wiremod

Name:Wiremod
Author:Erkle, Wire Team
Forum:http://www.wiremod.com/forum/
Original Release Date:Date
Last Update:February 2010
Working Project:Yes
Description:The mod allows the user to spawn gates, sensors, inputs and outputs and wire them together so a working computer-like contraption can be made in Garry's Mod.
Download:http://www.wiremod.com/forum/wiremod-general-chat/6349-super-easy-wire-download.html'right'>SVN Download:https://svn.wiremod.com/svnroot/wiremod/trunk/
Gmod Wiki Page:Wiremod


Other SVN Addons

Installing Skins

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Installing Gamemodes

Generally game modes have a folder structure similar to:

  • tacog.zip
    • GamemodeName
      • gamemode
      • entities
      • content

Installing Maps

See the Installing Maps page.

Advanced Dupes

SVN Installation

  1. Download a suitable SVN client. TortoiseSVN is the one this tutorial is written for.
  2. Find your 'garrysmod' folder (usually C:Program FilesSteamSteamApps[steam_username]garrysmodgarrysmodaddons).
  3. Right-Click on the 'addons' folder and select 'SVN Checkout'.
  4. Type the SVN address (example: https://svn.wiremod.com/svn/wiremod) into the first text box and type the full address of your addons folder into the second (see step 2). Username is 'anonsvn' and password is also 'anonsvn'.
  5. When it is done downloading, you can delete the .svn file in your 'addons' folder.
  6. Every so often, right-click on your 'addons' folder and select 'SVN update' to check for updates to your SVNs.

Alternatively, SVN Tutorial: http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=688324

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