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Content Type: Addon
Addon Type: Tool
Addon Tags: Build
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5 Jul @ 9:39am
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Description
As of 02/Jul/2025, gmod natively includes the content from Counter-Strike: Source and HL2's episodes, so packing it in your map is now unnecessary. If you did that, you should remove it. Too lazy? This will help.
The video is a tutorial.

This thing will scan your addons and report any files that are also present in the base game or mounted games (and save the report to disk, in data/redundancies.txt). You'll have to use the console commands listed below. Some files may be stored inside the BSP file and can only be detected by playing the map in-game and using the right command. Because gmod doesn't let addons delete files for safety reasons, you'll have to delete them yourself. Also, if you modified the mounted games, results will be inaccurate.

NOTE: This addon only checks if files have the same path and name. I tried to add the ability to check if the files are different, but the jank defeated me.

People's storage devices don't have infinite capacity, and loading times to get into servers are already infamously long.

Console commands:
Command
Description
redundants_CheckAddonAgainstGame
Usage: "redundants_CheckAddonAgainstGame addonname gamename". Checks if the addon has files from the game.
redundants_CheckMapAgainstGame
Usage: "redundants_CheckMapAgainstGame gamename". Checks if the map you're playing on right now has files from the specified game.
redundants_GetAddons
Gives you the names of all enabled addons, for use in the aforementioned commands.
redundants_GetGames
Gives you the names of all mounted games, for the same reason.
Popular Discussions View All (3)
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16 Jul @ 6:00am
[Feature Request] Save result to text file in 'data'
WillowTree
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7 Aug @ 4:14pm
Feature request: addon against addon command
metaliriosuave
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20 Nov @ 10:06am
feature request: a way to scan all addons
sleepybean
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Sir. Tryptamine 17 Dec @ 8:23pm 
Awesome, thanks bro
Hidden  [author] 15 Dec @ 7:52am 
It can, yes
Sir. Tryptamine 14 Dec @ 10:54pm 
This does tell you conflicting addons right?
дабстеп мытищи 20 Nov @ 10:05am 
Why?
Hidden  [author] 20 Nov @ 3:38am 
Your game would crash.
дабстеп мытищи 19 Nov @ 8:44pm 
please make a simple command to check every installed addon

i tried to manage that by creating an external script that takes output of GetAddons and makes a console command that runs CheckAddon for every entry

but gmod is not even able to paste so much text (24 kb) (i got a few hundreds of addons)
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