Setting up a server

Setting up a server

This is going to take you step by step on how to install Lambda on your server.

1. Get the gamemode files. Theres a couple of ways of obtaining the gamemode files. You can either download it from the Steam Workshop, Github (.zip), or by cloning the repository.

2. Navigate to the Garry's Mod directory on your PC and drop the "Lambda" folder in the gamemodes folder. If you used the Steam Workshop to download the gamemode, it will do that for you.

If you want to set up a local / P2P server then follow step 3. For setting up a dedicated server, skip to step 4.

3. Start up Garry's Mod and in the main menu, change the current gamemode in the bottom right corner to Lambda, then click on "Start New Game", look for the Half-Life 2 map category and select "d1_trainstation_01" (the campaign starts on this map). Before clicking Start Game, you can edit the server and gamemode settings on the right side.

4. If you don't have SRCDS setup yet then I suggest you go here and read the wiki article on setting up srcds. After you have done that you can start the server by simply creating a batch script in the directory where srcds.exe is located with the following script. You can edit this script to suit your needs.

srcds.exe -console -game garrysmod +map d1_trainstation_01 +maxplayers 10 +gamemode Lambda

This startup script will work on Windows only, if you're on Linux then read more about it here.