mrluckygamer / gmod-motd

Message of the Day (MOTD) Support for Garry's Mod Servers

MOTD Support for Garry's Mod

This add-on enables a custom "message of the day" to be displayed to users upon connecting to the server. The MOTD should be an HTML or text file placed in cfg/motd.txt up to one megabyte in size. Files over one megabyte are not guaranteed to be rendered correctly by the client. This supports resolutions down to 640x480 so expect it to work even if you're running GMod on your toaster.

If you're handy with Lua, this add-on calls a custom client-side hook CloseMOTD when the user clicks "Let's Play" and closes the MOTD panel; you can take advantage of this to signal to the server to (e.g.) enlist the user to a team or display some other information after joining the game.

Using MOTD

Download this add-on from the Steam Workshop and write a MOTD (or copy one of the thousand examples out there) and place it in cfg/motd.txt. You should only really use this if you run a server; there are no dependencies for this add-on and it is entirely self-contained, no need to write a website or host a webpage just to display your MOTD.

Contributing / Source Code

All development of this add-on is done on the Github page for this project so all issues / feature requests should be submitted there by creating a new issue. Pull requests are respected and are actually very helpful in developing / maintaining this project.