
Milkshape is there to basically do the hardwork for you and help you through all your problems. Without Milkshape, you will have a very rough time if you are a beginner. Sure, you can go ahead and port models without it, but you would be asking for trouble if you are just starting it. This is another important thing if you are wanting to update any models you have created.Īnother important tool is called 'Milkshape'. It decompiles any 'MDL' format model down to all of its animations, reference files, and generic bodygroups it may include down to what is the 'SMD' format. The next is MDLDecompiler which is basically self-explanatory by the name of it. Whether the model you are uploading is an entity, a standard model, or a ragdolls, this is what does it all. It is what you would use to compile the models all together into garrysmod and other sets of features for it. This is the most imporant tool out of all the features. The next one you have is the 'GUIStudio'. You can use this if you ever have a workshop folder on workshop that you want to extract and update which has all the contents. This tool is practically a basic when you want to extract any of your GMA files that is the newly compressed file for the Garrysmod Workshop. The first one we are going to look at is the first one called 'GMADExtractor' So turn on your favorite music, and sit back and get ready to look at each and every one of them.

However, for it to update you need “kill” yourself in-game by doing the “kill” command in your Garry’s Mod console.Now that you have the tool pack, we are now going to go through them all, what they do exactly, and how to use them. Click on a character model to select that character, then press “Q” to close the main “GMod” menu.ĥ.Now you have changed your player model. Click the “Model” entry under the “Player” header of the options menu to open the character selection menu. Click the “Options” tab in the upper-right corner of the main “GMod” menu to open the options menu. Meeseeks found hereģ.Subscribe & add it to your steam collection and restart your server (No server? Start your GMod server hosting at Iceline Hosting now)Ĥ.When in-game, press the “Q” key while playing “GMod” to open the main “GMod” menu. For example, in this tutorial I will be using Mr. You can look up pretty much anything, there are tons of custom models that were made to be compatible with Garry’s Mod.ġ.Navigate to the Garry’s Mod Steam workshop found hereĢ.Find a player model that you would like to download.


To download player models, make sure that you go onto the steam workshop. How to Download and Use Your Player Models: To get your very own player models, you can download them from the steam workshop and add them to your GMod server just like other Garry’s Mod addons. In Garry’s Mod, you can choose from many different types of player models. A player model is a character that you play as in Garry’s Mod.
