Garry’s mod is a lot of fun, but not particularly intuitive, hopefully the following tips help…
Handy tutorials
Handy addons for filming
- Machinima hands (go invisible on set)
- TF2 hats for player model + Fix
- Moving camera stool (a dynamic camera dolly)
- Greenscreen Materials
- Greenscreen maps
- Play scene tool (play a Source SDK editor .vcd scene on any NPC)
Useful console commands
Fly around maps and through obstacles
noclip
Turn on cheats to do some of the following commands
cheats 1
Hide the Physics Gun beam
physgun_drawbeams 0
1 will turn it back on again
Hide HUD, health status and crosshairs
cl_drawhud 0
1 will turn it back on again
Clear decals (burns, blasts, blood spatters)
r_decals 0
(this is the wrong command)
Connect to a friend’s multiplayer server
connect xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:27015
Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the host’s IP address.
The host must remember to update their router to forward port 27015 to their PC’s internal IP address.





