!!!Read This Before Posting "IT DOESN'T WORK"!!!
If it doesn't work and you get errors pointing to "autorun/server/duplicator.lua"
You have an outdated version of wire installed, delete it and get the latest version.
Or your GarrysMod/lua folder has been messed with by another addon doing things wrong, delete your GarrysMod/lua folder.
Or you're using a pirated version of GMod10.


DO NOT redistribute this on Garrysmod.org!
People keep doing it with old versions and they're fucking shit up.


Report bugs in this thread or here and include all console errors and the saved file that had the problem.


DO NOT PM me asking for help, that's what this thread is for.
DO NOT PM me saying it "doesn't work", thread isn't even for that.
I will ignore you if you don't bother to get the error from the console


Latest Version:
You can always get the latest version from the Wire SVN.
-- You can download this from the WireSVN build dump HERE! and you must :cow: DELETE OLD VERSION FIRST :cow:
Installation:
DELETE OLD VERSION FIRST, Put it in to your garrysmod\addons folder. Restart Gmod.
DELETE OLD VERSION FIRST, failure to do so will result in bad things and being laughed at later when you admit your inability to read and fallow 4 word instructions.


New Features List:

• Much faster (twice as fast as the stock duplicator at most things)
• Ability to copy many things (hold shift to add to clipboard)
• Tested to save over the max-safe-number-of-entities-you-can-have-before-gmod-crashes
• Pastes will never explode again
• Full support for saving parenting
• Fancy progress bar used on everything
• Paste height adjustment option
• Paste frozen option
• Paste without constraints (and frozen)
• Paste at original world location (will only work properly on the same map again, but there nothing stopping using it on other maps)
• Admin ConCommands for changing several things
  • AdvDupe_SetTimedPasteVars
  • AdvDupe_UseTaskSwitchingPaste
  • AdvDupe_DebugWeldsByDrawingThem -- draws lines where welds get pasted (may not work in current version)
• Supports loading Contraption Saver files (mostly. no idea on new versions)
• Link to Contraption Saver folder (acts like public folder)
• Supports saving/loading cameras
• Error checking on uploads (only warns with a file was received missing 1 or more pieces)
• Everything long function call is broken up across many frames, no more long pauses or server time outs (expect copying, which is so fast, it doesn't matter, you'd have to copy over 3000 entities to have a problem but gmod would crashed before you had that many ents)
• Too many to list all at one time

This also includes my updated version of my Beam Library for Life Support, so LS beams should work a lot better when you have this installed.

Weight stool is not included any more, get Spoco's own updated one here:



Old Features List:

• Save/load contraptions to file
• Support anything supported by GarryMod's built in duplicator
• Ability to save on a server and download files to local machine
• Ability to upload local files to server for load
• A folder browsing and management system in menu to organize files
• Wire support (that's where it all started from)
• A wired paster SEnt (it's like a prop spawner, but for contraptions)

Still todo:

• Use file.FindT instead of file.Find (for current version)
• Use Zlib dll module for file transfers (soon)
• Version 2

Known Bugs: (don't complain about these)

• Cannot delete files sometimes (gives red "Unable to remove" error. Files in use and cannot be removed by system. This cannot be fixed.)
• Files with "copy of" in the name won't show up (file.Find limitation?).
• Filenames are saved in all lowercase (seemed like gmod update 22 caused this. fix unlikely)
• Shit is all fucked up if you have an old version of wire installed.

FAQ

Q: Where are saves saved?
A: \garrysmod\data\adv_duplicator

Q: Nothing happens when I hit save
A: Something crap addon you installed fucked up gmod and now you need to remove all your addons or even reinstall gmod.

Q: "Doesn't work, how I fix?"
A: [No error, no info, ignored]

Q: SVN dump? But I don't want to install wire too :(
A: Just extract AdvDupe folder from the RAR, dork.

:4chan:

Very nice, I hope this works better than the other script, it never worked for me.

Impressive, just tell me one thing, will this work better than the Copygun?

EDIT: Plus, your download is down man.

I know, garrysmod.org sucks. I'll reupload it tomorrow.


Edit:

Looks like everything that disappeared last night has been undeleted. That was strange.

You are God (but not the type that watches people)

If I PM you my email could you send it?

Yeah, better fix that download, i can't wait to get my hands on this!

Might be worth your time to re-upload the file. ;)

Very good!
Very useful!

Lua king!

:excited: Nice ! :excited:

Thank :)

Will the SVN version of wire keep getting the latest advanced duplicator? (in separate addon yup)

I cannot live without your tool, though yesterday i had a bug where i spawned a simple wire bot and it fell apart and was un-undoable.

But then i updated again and it got fixed

Yay lets try it now :excited:

Nice! This will be very helpful when making a fort, but while in the middle of making it, you have to leave.

Thanks!

:D that's cool. One question, i tried on the Gmod Central build server to add some missiles to my plane (When they spawn from the spawning sent, they should automatically fly using the thruster paired to the constant value of 200.) But they spawn and the thruster says it's thrusting, but it isn't. Any ideas?

I may be missing something here, but I can't spawn anything. Please include instructions. Don't call me a minge for this post, I am just confused.

That's the way Garry made the thrusters work, not to be active on duplication. I've modified the wired thrusters in wire mod to pasted in the same state they were when copied.



Basic instructions:

To save:
Make something.
Right click it with the advanced duplicator (just like the regular one)
In it's control panel, hit save
Put a file name in the dialog box and hit save

To load:
Select the file in the list box in the control panel and hit open
You should have a ghost on the thing you saved
Left click to place a copy (also just like the standard duplicator)

Edit:


Right now this version and the SVN are the same.

Add support for the parenting STOOL.
Please.

The parenting stool needs to add support for the duplicator, not the other way round.

Finally. I hope this one's better than the old one. :excited:

Sounds better than the Advanced Copy gun, but does it give that annoying as hell Overflow error, and do clients actually have to download the files when they join?

No and No. The files are sent in pieces (I think), which stops the overflow error.
Clients can download the files if they want, or just spawn it.

Absolute win.

When you want to load a local file on the server, you have to upload it to the server first. When the upload is finished, it will tell you. Same thing for downloading.

Yes but will I be able to press the "SVN Update" button for the next couple of months or whatever to get the latest version of Advanced Duplicator? I really love SVN, it's very easy to update. I think every single huge project should use this.

Yes.

Awesome.

Very nice! I hope it works for me.:D

Oh, yes! Lua King, for you. I was looking for this the other day, because one of my friends had it and I just fell in love with it. I was saving things left and right, since I've been making a couple of spaceships that took a while to build.

On the last version, before this, where do your saves save to? I can't find them anywhere yet when I load gmod there they are...

Nevermind... found it.

You my friend, are God.

Hah. As if the copygun works.

In other words, yes. Never use the copygun again. This thing kicks total ass ;)

This just crashed my dedicated server.

I was building a simple floating platform using wire mod which follows around NPCs to test the Advanced Copy Gun. I saved it to a file called "hunter.txt" and tried to spawn a 2nd one.

The wire_thrusters fell off.

I was just about to post the error in the console and the thrusters.txt when I noticed the "download to local" button which I pressed out of curiosity.

BAM - server dead, server console gone.

Hopefully this is better than the advanced copygun I downloaded earlier. It just glitched and all of my files got deleted.

My guess would be Wire mod... maybe?

This is actually part of wire mod...so no ;)

That doesn't mean it can't cause a problem...

Does this have support for Life support mod?

This has been needed for SO LONG and you filled that hole with your nice, long, beefy Advanced Duplicator. PLEASE keep updating this, the entire community would be in your debt!

Hmmm, I cannot seem to duplicate or save anything, in fact the right-click button isn't even available. Am I doing something wrong?

Same. :(

I need help. This thing has completely nuked both duplicators. Please fix this small bug, or provide some help.

If you can get me those files, that would really help.



There is no way my tool could have broken the built in duplicator (unless your using a very old version on a previous version of gmod). It uses the duplicator module as-is thanks to some useful changes by Garry.
If it's not working you make have installed it wrong or not did not restart gmod afterwards or don't have the gmod update.
If it's not doing anything then there should be an error in the console and you'll need to post that.

I'm confused on how to move files in to new folders in game.

Many known bugs?

For some reason when I try to rename an already saved file it doesn't change after you click on "OK". When you click it, the box disappears and the file isn't renamed. Is this a bug or is it just me?

Certain constraints are only saved half the time, can't seem to find a pattern to it tet but basically the sipler something is the better it is saved.

This is a known bug. I haven't figure out why it is yet because the ConCommand can be put in the console and it works just fine.

Get me the file of something that did that. I've not had any problems with things with over 800 ents and 2000 constraints (only with the spawn error warning of possible overflow). Try using the debug saving option.

Yeah Ill try to get those uploaded. More specifically, I am having problems with saving nocollides and Advanced ballsockets. Sometimes random welds will disappear too, not sure what that's about. Motors work occasionally. Generally it just seems like too many constraints confuses it.

Try it again with debug save option enabled.

Life Support support...?

Doesn't seem to like certain special characters like apostrophes('). Hyphens(-) on the other hand work fine. If you're having trouble loading, try removing any special characters from the file name and uploading again. It might be a good idea to come up with a list of non-alphanumeric characters that can be used.

Yes, it works fine with Life Support. The only thing that doesn't work is the linking ropes, it only copies the rope. Thankfully you can just remove the rope with the linking tool and just relink them, so no worries about spammed ropes.

It does save life supports but not the links that the link tool makes. You can still see the connections but they aren't technically there. You need to re-link everything over again. And so you don't get double the visible links make the link width 0(type in box to get it to 0).

Heh, beat me to it, instead of making the rope width 0 just right click the prop and remove the old rope with the linker.

Ok, here is the error I got in the server console when loading my contraption:

LS: includes/modules/duplicator.lua:328: attempt to index field 'Entity' (a nil value)

It spawns but the wire_thrusters fall off as I said.

When I press "Download to local" the server crashes and the last message in my client console is "getting file data, piece: 114 of 116" and then "Server connection timed out". I can't tell the last server message because it crashed :D

The save file "hunter.txt" is located in a subfolder called "Wire Mod Contraptions".

"hunter.txt":
http://************com/files/23091351/hunter.txt.html

EDIT: it's on r-a-p-i-d-s-h-a-r-e

By the way, its definitely not my fault that it didn't work. I never ever touched the built in duplicator module, it's in the same state as it was when it was downloaded by HLDSUpdateTool.exe.
I even tried on a fresh server installation - same problem.

So, this is kinda like the one that hunts made... but this actually works! Got my download when I get home tonight! :D

Working great for me...

Just tried, and I didn't see any difference in my loaded contraption from the first one. nocollides seem to be a huge problem as NONE of those were saved. It seems like something's going wrong in the save process rather than loading, but what do I know. I'll send you the debug files as soon as I get a chance. When this thing works though, it works well, so hopefully you can come up with a fix!

Ok, something is just wrong with my regular duplicator.

I think the Stacker has something to do with it.

Then mine is broken.

Does this render the highly anticipated 'VMF Suite' obsolete?

Not really. VMF suite kinda serves more purposes than this.

This could be fixed in life support.

No, I used the Gmod 9 version all the time and I've seen the new one, I can assure you it is much more awesome.

However, for now, this thing is the best out there. The copy gun was totally ridiculous and the only problems I've had with this is a crash when uploading and missing ballsockets on one of my saves. Other than those minor issues, it works perfectly and the creator certainly deserves an e-cookie.

Damnit, it the Keepupright constraint. This is going to be a little hacky to workaround or poke Garry with a stick to fix it, he's stores it differently that the others.

I get the exact same error!

The simple fix would be Garry changing Keepupright to use "Ent1" and "Bone1" instead of "Ent" and "Bone".

My hack fix overrides constraint.GetTable and duplicator.CreateConstraintFromTable, which Garry will kill me for.

No console errors. But It won't load anything with Life Support mod on it. It did earlier... now, bleh.

Hey guys, I got an error for you. This shows up in my console whenever i try to load something as well as use the normal duplicator.
LS: autorun/server/duplicator.lua:1234: attempt to index local 'ent' (a nil value)

Old version of wires is my guess, remove or replace with

When i try to load the constraption already saved (the one that come with this), it only create 1 prop. Nothing else. Even though i see the whole transparent preview of it. It just spawn 1 prop.
I can't seems to be able to select more than 1 prop at a time to copy Duplicate it.
And when i press reload, it create an invisible whatever thingy.
Is that normal?

I can load contraptions, but when trying to spawn them I get this:
LS: autorun/server/AdvDupe.lua:241: attempt to call global 'LocalToWorld' (a nil value)

Try this: spawn two things, weld them together, copy and paste with both duplicators, then try saving/loading it with the adv. duplicator and tell me what happens. Also look in the console and check for errors.

When i press reload with the Stool Duplicator.
The console get spawmmed with :
When trying to load a constraption, from the moment i take the Stool to when i spawn it:
Welding the prop together to duplicate them worked.
But could you make it so i (we?) don't need to weld them in order to duplicate many prop??
Because i like using ECS to make forts/cars/ships/etc.. and Welding all those props together would just take forever.

The Gmod9 "VMFSuite" is called VMFCopyGun, done by me to add saving ability to the Gmod9 VMFLoader. The GMod10 "VMFLoader" will be able to save natively and is called VMF Suite.

Yeah this is a beta alright. I tried copying my 6x6 Armadillo http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/s....php?p=4977484 and if I tried to use it as just a duplicator it dupped just the props with NO constraints at all. No welds ropes or axis were copied. So all I had was a pile of props. Then I saved and tried loading the save and I got about 1/3 the prop and still no constraints copied. Then I did the larger debug save and got the same result. Anything you want me to send you? The debug save?

Looks like you don't have wire installed, paster requires that. In the next version I will make a non-wire paster. And all those errors are Garry's duplicator not being able to find the model, which you don't have. You tried to load my demo file, it has wired stuff in it.

Garry's duplicator will bomb if you don't have the model it's looking for.

Advanced duplicator works like the regular duplicator, it tells that entities are connected via constraints (ie. welds). I cannot change that behavior.

If you need to weld a ton-o-shit together, get the Smart Welder STool.

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LEFT Stock Duplicator, Right Adv Duplicator (no save this is a strait Dup)









Loading from save: left debug, right standard (only 9 props, relevant?)








Overview of the horror!

I highly recommend that you periodically duplicate and test save your contraptions to make sure they will properly reduplicate. I've been doing it with contraptions that I had trouble saving at first and my success rate for having a working save is much higher. Just as you should periodically save images and papers you're working on in case of a crash, you should periodically duplicate, save, and load things you work on with this.

If it's not working with the stock duplicator or adv. duplicator (straint dupe, no saving), then it's a problem with garry's duplicator. Look in the console for errors, there should be some. Send me both saves and the save game and I try to figure it out. And what's in that thing?

OK. The console came up with only 1 error when I tried to load or duplicate. It said it was the Sound Emitter. I removed that and it copied 95% perfect. Now the only problem is the winch[s] to raise the howitzer will not work and the Malawar cannons do not fire and I got a console error when activating a magnet in the base of the rotating turret, oh and the RT camera isn't active.

Tab2020 private message me your email and I will send you the 3 saves (1 working the other 2 with the sound emitter that don't load correctly) and the game save with the working armadillo and the full console from a load of the working dup in a fresh load of flatgrass.

Oh, Is this baby clientside? If it is we can all load our contraptions into multiplayer games without a need the server to have it.