Ultimate Workshop Downloader

Send Workshop addons from your server to your players automatically.

How to use

** Dedicated servers **: add UWD to the server's collection and start the server. Done.

** Listen servers (p2p, in-game multiplayer) **: the host player need to subscribe to UWD and start the server. Done.

Players never need to subscribe to UWD.

Click here If you need legacy addons support (extracted addons).

Use our panel if you want to check the addon selection or enable/disable some manually:

downloader_menu

Features

• Automatic;

• Extremely fast;

• Intelligent addon selection;

• Secure;

• For listen (p2p) and dedicated servers;

• Supports legacy addons (extracted addons);

• Has an easy yet powerful panel;

• Validates pointshop models;

• Actually works (super impressive).

Limitations

• Sometimes GMod or Workshop can be buggy - contact Facepunch or Steam;

• Some addons have errors and don't fully load by themselves - contact their creators;

• UWD doesn't send resources from other games like CSS - players must mount these contents;

• Addons with improper tags can rarely confuse UWD;

Map contents need to be manually selected through our panel (this is the worst limitation);

• UWD can't hotload addons - server owners must ensure they have all the needed addons.

How it works?

When playing on a server, this script makes people automatically download a selection of your mounted addons from Workshop (using resource.AddWorkshop and resource.AddFile). It checks for the current gamemode, the current map, addons with important resources (such as mdl, vtf, vcd, wav, mp3, ogg, vmt, vtf, png and ttf) and even validates your pointshop models!

This process will make players see the server contents correctly, so most ERRORs ( missing models ) and black and purple textures ( missing textures ) will be "fixed"! We say "most errors" and not "all errors" because of the limitations listed on the previous section.

Other than that UWD supports legacy addons and counts with a cache system that makes the loading process very fast! We mean, once resources are scanned there'll only be new verifications after updates or when new addons are added.

That's it! This is probably one of the best "It Just Works" we'll get in its field and we hope you enjoy our work.

F.A.Q

Does this work with Addon Share

It works, but UWD kind of replaces Addon Share. This is also true for many other options such as: Workshop Download Script (WSDL), Automatic Workshop Download and P2P Hero. But feel free to choose what you prefer and don't forget that modders are doing it all for free.

is this safe?

Yes. Our addon just selects the correct addons and then deletes itself from the memory.

Many other questions, like...

Do those workshop files get deleted from their computers after they disconnect/exit the game?

Where are the mods downloaded to?

how to remove addons that this addon downloaded [...]?

Check our extended F.A.Q. for answers.

Thank you

If you have any questions or ideas, just comment.

The code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/ceifa/gmod-workshop-downloader