Introduction
A few people who've been in #luahelp have already seen these screen shots, and I believe now is about time to release something to you, the general Lua community.

Over the last 2 or 3 days, I've been getting back in to Lua development (took a bit of a break if you didn't know). My project was to create a simple admin mod - The reason, if you've played on my Dedicated Server (soon to be back again I promise), it needed an admin mod. I'd tried ServerSecure (now re-released as SAT) by Conna, and I think it was too complicated for what was needed. So I switched to ULX - nice and simple, however I believe it's been broken by one of the recent Gmod updates (not sure on that, it's just what I've heard around the forums).

So I though bollocks to them, I'll make my own

I wanted a nice and simple interface, with an easy way to promote/demote players, give temporary admin rights, quick and easy kick/ban mechanism - without all the extra stuff that seem to come with most admin mods.

So here it is...

ASSmod
A Simple Server mod (thanks to Anmizu for the name idea )

Screenshots




Thanks to...

• Anmizu for the name
• Garry for Derma
• GiGabyte for helping test
• Ortzinator for helping test
• Anyone who said "cool" when I showed them a screenshot ;)

Progress
(bolded items are essentially done, items with ?? are ideas only)

• Ban
• Kick
• Change Team
• Admin chat
• Logging
• ?? Web Admin
• Notices
• Rcon
• Reward
  • Temp Admin
  • ?? Add Points
  • God/Buddah mode
  • Add Health
  • Weapons
  • Allow Noclip
  • Increased Prop Limits etc
• Punishment
  • Slap
  • Hurt/Take health
  • Kill
  • ?? Remove Points
  • Freeze
  • Disallow Noclip
  • Restrictions
    • Props etc
    • Weapons
    • ?? Movement
• Plugins
  • Load and Save of admin list
  • Logging
• Simple Interface
  • Quick Menu
  • VGUI dialogs

Hopefully, first release will be in a couple of days (I go away on holiday next week, so I'd like to release before then).

Questions? Comments?

I think it looks great, although I myself am one who prefers all the "extra shit" :)

Looks cool, can't wait. Also, nice name

Looks good, since I just started learning VGUI I've wanted to start on an admin mod of my own. Yours looks very nice, I love the menus!

Looks nice but you should make the context menus a little less square/bland. :)

Yeah it could do with, for example a shoe icon next to "Kick", cell bars next to "Ban", the friendly icon from the scoreboard next to each player and maybe make the corners rounded and the boxes semi-transparent?

ASSmod, sounded like that "GARY MODE" thing :D
Anyways, I like the right click menu style where you can select what you want to do, but I don't know, maybe if you change the colour of the menus to grey so that it fits in more with the spawn menu...My two cents.

The menus use Derma, so you can skin it however you like :)
The icon thing is a good idea however :)

Webadmin would be a brilliant idea!

Here's a kill plugin I just wrote:

local PLUGIN = {}

PLUGIN.Name = "Kill"
PLUGIN.Author = "Andy Vincent"
PLUGIN.Date = "10th August 2007"
PLUGIN.Filename = PLUGIN_FILENAME
PLUGIN.ClientSide = true
PLUGIN.ServerSide = true

if (SERVER) then

	ASS_NewLogLevel("ASS_ACL_KILL", "Kill")

	function PLUGIN.KillPlayer( PLAYER, CMD, ARGS )

		if (PLAYER:IsTempAdmin()) then

			local TO_KILL = ASS_FindPlayer(args[1])

			if (!TO_KILL) then

				ASS_MessagePlayer(PLAYER, "Player not found!\n")
				return

			end

			if (TO_KILL != PLAYER) then
				if (TO_KILL:IsBetterOrSame(PLAYER)) then

					// disallow!
					ASS_MessagePlayer(PLAYER, "Access denied! \"" .. TO_KILL:Nick() .. "\" has same or better access then you.")
					return
				end
			end

			if (ASS_RunPluginFunction( "AllowPlayerKill", true, PLAYER, TO_KILL )) then

				TO_KILL:Kill()

				ASS_LogAction( PLAYER, ASS_ACL_KILL, "killed " .. ASS_FullNick(TO_KILL) )
					
			end

		end

	end
	concommand.Add("ASS_KillPlayer", PLUGIN.KillPlayer)

end

if (CLIENT) then

	function PLUGIN.KillPlayer(MENUITEM, PLAYER)

		LocalPlayer():ConCommand( "ASS_KillPlayer " .. PLAYER:UniqueID() .. "\n" )
		return true

	end

	function PLUGIN.AddMenu(DMENU)			
	
		DMENU:AddOption( "Kill >", ASS_PlayerMenu, {"IncludeLocalPlayer"}, PLUGIN.KillPlayer  )

	end

end

ASS_RegisterPlugin(PLUGIN)

What do you mean by webadmin? Administrating your server from a web-based control panel using these functions?

Potentially, yeah.
Kick / ban users, promote/demote users etc.
It's not something I'm aiming to include in the first release.

Andy, I think (If it already isn't included) that you should make it so people with knowledge of lua and create their own plugins, and that you can add remove kick/ban reasons and admin privelages.

But yeah, looks great.

If the web admin was made in Javascript and made compatible with the most common Symbian versions you could kick players from your own server using your cellphone while having a nice meal on the other side of this tiny ball we live on.

I just might download this because of that feature (because I want it for my own personal admin mod duh).

Custom reasons are possible (you select "custom" from the menu). Admin privelages are kinda fixed (since I wanted this to be fairly simple).

Owner > Super Admin > Admin > Temp Admin > Respected > Guest.

People with Lua knowledge can write their own plugins (see a couple of posts above), which can be serverside, shared, or just clientside.

I'm hoping this will be suitable for gamemode servers - I've always felt a bit detached from ULX, and being able to temporarily put someone in a position to kick/ban players who are damaging the gameplay would be nice. (In some gamemodes, like Parasite, players can still do a variety of hateful actions that are impossible to detect by a script.)

This looks a lot better than the other admin mods. Congratulations, you have failed to fail.

I can't believe it. 4 days ago I started working on an addon: "Another Server Script" that was to be used to control servers, exactly like yours.

:(

Looking nice, I've stuck with Robbis1's OLD admin script for it's simplicity, but it looks like I could finally upgrade

This mod sucks ASS

I do actually like this quite alot! Planned release date?

If not tonight or tomorrow, then somewhen around/after the 20th.

Looks good, simple, easy to use etc. I think the web control is a good idea, there could be a stats page and a control page, presuming you would be using mysql. That would certainly give this mod a big edge over others.

Are you really going to use VGUI or make ASSGUI... you know, draw it with rounded boxes?

The name of this mod is repeatingly hilarious

Hinting towards SAT?

Wait what? No, haha I just wanted to say ASSGUI.

One thing I've always hated about the other admin mods is they all expect the gamemode you're playing in to derive from sandbox. Will this be compatible with non-sandbox gamemodes?

I can't see any reason why it won't work with other gamemodes.

Edit:

Obviously it might have things for the sandbox gamemode (such as increasing prop limits etc).

The title mislead me :(

Can't wait for this. It will finally be nice to have a good administration mod installed on some servers.

I think I'll use this on my server :P
Good Job!

PS : Though the name is still kinda ...weird I guess..

Make it detect sandbox derivision then, so such otpions only appear when they are relevant.

Make the plugins "require" specific gamemodes... all gamemodes by default unless otherwise specified.

Make this work with any gamemode and it'll automatically win.

Hey Look At That ASS

Seriously, I know the name might be fun and all, but it's not going to make it sound good and serious in the long run... "I use ASSMod, the best and most reliable admin mod ever!" ... "Or not."

ULX has not been broken in the update.

ASSmod :excited::4chan:
How incomparably funny!
Anyways, nice mod.

but some things like ulx rcon or ulx luarun are broken :S

nice tough i will give it a try :D

I admit I clicked this wanting something else

This is better though, looks ace! :D

Don't worry, I'll post some hairy man-ass soon :)
(That's what you wanted, right?)

I keep lol'ing at the name! Name It something else!! LOL'ing!


Funny or lua king?

Ugh, too many smileys, pal.

It'd be cool if gamemode makers could create their own little administration module thingies for this.

Menus allowing them to modify certain variables that they specify.

Something like this pseudocode:

ASSMOD.AddModuleThingy(gamemode_name,var_to_add_to_menu,description_of_var)

That way this admin mod could work perfectly with not only sandbox, but any gamemode out there.

Hmm - looking good - I like the plugin system.

Was gonna add things like File Name etc to SAT plugins.

That would be cool, making it more flexible would be shweet. :excited:

Obviously you didn't try SAT, you tried ServerSecure.

I think you're confused.

SAT is not ServerSecure with a changed name.

This is looking great though Andy :D

SAT is nice, too bad it doesn't work with DarkRP.

So I'm guessing that this will be coming out after the 20th, considering you haven't released it yet?

How does this work? Do you click the items or use the keyboard? It looks like you should use the keyboard.

Yeah! It is a small update with a new name!

If you took one look at SAT Termy, rather than guessing - you'd realise it's completely different.

You have to set it to allow DarkRP in the config :)

Ah well I wish someone would have told me that, because whenever I would try to use it, none of the starting sweps would work, and you couldn't do things like pick up weapons you bought. Oh well, too late now. I couldn't really find any good documentation on it either, maybe that was just me.

And that brings up another reason why this kind of admin mod is awesome: No configuration!

Yes the ratings are completely new and the thread has a completely new layout.

*Loud Sirens* Warning! Warning! Derailing in progress!

Edit
How do I force downloads while using something like this?


Edit #2
Conna where do I change the config? Is it in the general.ini?

Change:

To:

Please don't derail Andy's thread - this is looking quite nice Andy, good luck.

Yay, I'm cool. I got to test this a while ago on AndyV's server.

Heh. You said ASS!

Was this inspired by the forum's quick admin button?

I like how you have put in some default kick/ban reasons (as shown here). Saves a bit of effort, sometimes you just want someone out quickly without fuss :)

Sexy

Whens release :D

He says after the 20th.Read the damn thread before asking!

Sorry for the delay everyone, I've been on holiday. Release should be within the next week hopefully.

You use the mouse, if you've ever played Unreal Tournament, and used the voice menu, it's similar to that.

Edit:

Kinda, but I've always felt that a menu based system would work best for quickly administating the server.

Release ? :(

I agree, I would really like to take a look at this. Sounds pretty cool.

How about custom commands?

Something like this

"cheats" "sv_cheats"

CapsAdmin: !cheats 1
sv_cheats changed to 1

I thought this WIP thread would be different. Let's hope it will :(

Don't join the group of people who promise and promise and never releases D:

Very sexy. Hoping for a release soon!

If you want to beta test it, it's running on my dedicated server (the first 2 players in the server get temporary admin for 60 minutes).

Join!

If you find any bugs or problems, drop me a PM, or comment in this thread :)

I believe this is 99% ready for the first release. I need to compile a DLL so that console commands like "sv_cheats" don't get blocked (is there a cvar that changes that behaviour?).

Edit:

Could be a good idea, although I'm thinking of adding a "Most Recent" sub menu to the rcon menu item.

:( Shame i don't have steam where i am at the moment i would come but can't :(

I fooled around with it for a bit ( I added the "I love bacon" message ), and I like the look, but I have a couple of questions:
1. Does it handle Bot players correctly? My admin menu didn't handle them correctly because I stored player data in a table, then used the STEAMID as the key. Bots always return "BOT" for the STEAMID, which caused them all to be effected by commands, so I had to do some goofy shit to get them to work.
2. Would stuff like GOD and NOTARGET reapply to a player when they respawn?

It should handle bots pretty much the similar way to normal players since this is all based on the players UniqueID until the settings are stored - in which case the steam id or ip address is used (depending on sv_lan).

God only applys whilst the player is in the server (if they disconenct and reconnect it has to be reapplied). Noclip privaliges are stored so if you deny someone noclip and then change level, they will still not be allowed to noclip.

If you're running a listen server (or single player), you automatically get "owner" level. For a dedicated server, a file is needed to be changed (although I'm thinking of adding a training mode or something similar for dedicated servers).

Well,The thing we all want to know..
When is the release?
I am in need for an simple but yet effective admin mod..This is perfect ;)
Good job!

Excuse me.

Thank you!

Please don't include points or smart points or anything like that though

So,It's september..When is the release :( ?

I agree, it sounds good. release it! :)

If you had the mighty ability to look at dates you would notice that the 20th mentioned was on August.


The mod looks just great. With serversecure(and many other admin mods) gmod had the tendency to loop sounds a while at the beginning and sometimes crash. This mod seems perfect for me because I don't host servers very often but when I do, I want kicking and banning done swiftly.

Personally, I don't have any hurry with this. I just hope that it won't be going to stay as an unreleased WIP.

I did, and I ignored them. What you goin' to do now?