Garry's Mod

Garry's Mod

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Content Type: Addon
Addon Type: Tool
Addon Tags: Build, Roleplay
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8 Jul, 2019 @ 3:19pm
11 Jul, 2019 @ 4:56pm
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Prop Description

Description
Prop Description is an addon that gives the player the ability to add a description to any prop or entity by just using the tool gun. The description can be used as a note or a indication to other players, also useful for roleplays and maybe for building.



How to use:
  1. Hold Q.
  2. Select Prop Description in the Tool Menu.
  3. Write the description text.
  4. Left Click to add a description, Right Click to remove a description.
  5. Open Context Menu to see the author of the description.

Features:
  • Prop Description Tool gun.
  • Display author.
  • Vertical Position.
  • Multiline.
  • Center of Screen mode.
  • Lite version mode.
  • Highly customizable: color, transparency, size, align, distance, etc...

Configuration:
You can configure, change and customize a few variables from the config file if you want to get a bit deeper. Both CenterOfScreen and Lite version mode can be activated in the config file.
*/prop_description/lua/autorun/propdescription_config.lua

Support:
  • Comments: ✘
  • Steam: ✔
  • Discord: ✔ JUST A SNIPER ツ#7463
Let me know if there is any issue or incompatibility, contact me and I'll fix the problem and update the addon as fast as possible.
21 Comments
GroovyBruce 11 Feb, 2022 @ 12:12pm 
I know this is a long shot, but if you made this compatible with save games (I mainly use HL2 save methods over gm_save), I would be eternally grateful. If you catch my drift :Dosh:
nervius. 30 Jan, 2021 @ 12:11pm 
The text is not loaded after saving, alas.
Arwale 22 Apr, 2020 @ 10:28am 
Great Addon Thank you for release <3
JUST A SNIPER ツ  [author] 20 Mar, 2020 @ 7:44pm 
When the Prop Description was made, it was thought as a server tool. If you want to change the settings you would have to go in the addon files and open the file "[*]/prop_description/lua/autorun/propdescription_config.lua", in that file you would have all the easy configurations that you can make.

But, in case you are not known with server management. You would need to extract the addon (.gma file) using gmad. There are a lot of tutorials how to extract addons.
After that you can put those files in a folder with your addons and change the configurations as you want (Last image of the addon in the workshop).

But... if this is not something you 100% need or you have no patience, I wouldn't spend much time. Or maybe you want to explore and give it a try, its up to you. All my other addons have and will always have an easier configuration, but this addon was made to be like this.
Astral_King 20 Mar, 2020 @ 3:40pm 
How do you do multiline? How do you change the setting beyond line height.
Fella 7 Mar, 2020 @ 6:09pm 
Please can you figure out how to do it? I'll love you for ever.
JUST A SNIPER ツ  [author] 7 Mar, 2020 @ 5:22am 
That was something I tried to do a while ago, but there was no documentation about it and I eventually stopped developing addons to gmod. Sorry.
Fella 7 Mar, 2020 @ 12:40am 
Is there a way to set this up to work with the perma prop tool? This would be absolutely perfect for my roleplay server.
JUST A SNIPER ツ  [author] 20 Feb, 2020 @ 9:49am 
You have to change it in the config file.
Go to your addons folder and: prop_description > lua > autorun > propdescription_config.lua
Open the file and change the line 26 to: PropDescription.validClasses = {"prop_*", "npc_*"}

That means you can use it on any entity that starts with the name "prop_" and "npc_". I could update the addon to make it so you could change the settings ingame, but this addon is an old version.
Rocket Man 19 Feb, 2020 @ 3:27pm 
Can you make one for NPCs too please?