



Using Adv Dupe 2 is not as hard as you should think. As you will also notice here, is that Adv Dupe 2 can open Adv Dupe 1 files. Now that you've succesfully installed it, you will be seeing this new tool in your tool menu:Īs you can see, I already have a bunch of trash laying around. Make sure the highlighted link is correct! ()Ĭlick "OK" again, and you're done! You have succesfully installed Adv Dupe 2. Now you click "SVN Checkout" (highlighted in the picture above) and this should appear: You should now be seeing this: (click to enlarge) You installed it? Good! Now, navigate to this:Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\addonsĬreate a new folder called "AdvDupe2" (since there is also a 1 which you might want to have at some point too.) and right click that folder. Install it as any other software and continue here once you're done. Very useful for larger addons such as Wiremod, but that's a completely different story. SVN allows you to update addons without having to redownload the entire addon (unlike the Steam Workshop). But it works flawlessly still and it's sad that it's not used as much as it should be. Now, you may not know what SVN is because it's not used as much with the introduction of the Steam Workshop. This process is intended to allow one to decode a dupe, manually make changes to it (say, change a model to another similar model, then reload the changed file into with the normal AD2 stool.Ignore this section if you wish to use GitHub.įirstly, you should check this out [but you can skip it if you want to. True/False cannot be passed unless a new name is also passed. This file can then be copied into GarrysMod\garrysmod\data\advdupe2\ and loaded with the Advanced Duplicator 2 tool.Īd2t_encode has two additional optional arguments, a new name for the dupe and whether to save the new dupe into the advdupe2 folder or not, with default values of the same name as the passed file and false. txt file in the same directory in which they were exported.

txt files in GarrysMod\garrysmod\data\ad2t Encode (Read raw text from decoded file and re-encode to AD2 format)Īd2t_encode "": Reads the decoded dupe configuration and dupe info files generated by ad2t_decode and reencodes and writes them into one. Console commands to view, decode, and reencode (after changing) Advanced Duplicator 2 save files.īased on upstream work of Advanced Duplicator 2 at Īd2t_print "": Prints the decoded dupe's table to console for viewing/debugging Decode (Write raw text to file)Īd2t_decode "": Decodes the given dupe file and saves the decoded dupe configuration and dupe info tables as JSON-formatted tables in.
