Nadmin

Nadmin is an administration mod for the Steam game Garry's Mod. I have two inspirations for making this. One is from Evolve, it was a neat administration mod. I wanted to make my own with a few unique features, like including many mods in one. My other inspiration is that I love to develop things that way I know I can. I like to provide content that the Garry's Mod community will bennefit from, and I think this will help with managing servers. The name Nadmin comes from Nub's administration mod. I wanted to call it Nadmod (Nub's administration mod), but that name is already taken by the Prop Protection addon Nadmod, so I changed it.

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Current additions that haven't been released

The following changes will be released in 3.8 once I finish the tab_ranks.lua refactor.

Previously (date isn't logged)

• Added rank access. Before, everything was based purely off immunity. Now, it first checks access, then immunity. Any owner rank will always be better than superadmin, etc.
• Owners can change all ranks immunities. Before, owners couldn't set it above 100 or their own rank.
• On the scoreboard, avatar icon backgrounds are now the player's rank color. When you click on the name, their rank text is also colored.
• Made a new VGUI system.
• Began refactoring all of the UI to use the new UI system. For whatever reason, I made some weird VGUI library instead of using traditional methods.

March 2022

• Optimized the "Circular" HUD option. The number of faces on all circles was ridiculously high, now it shouldn't impact performance too much.
• Removed a few UI color presets because they didn't look very good.
• Made some optimizations to the new VGUI system. Converted the NadminCheckBox to be based off of DCheckBox instead of DButton.
• Shifted access variables in variables.lua to be 0-5 instead of -1-4.
• Work into tab_ranks.lua refactor. I'll finish it eventually :^)

July 2022

I took a long break and also moved half way across the US. Finally started getting back into programming, however am postponing working on the tab_ranks.lua refactor.

• New votegag command.
• New votemute command.

January 2023

Progress has been real slow and I'm lazy.

• Optimized nadmin/default_ranks.lua. Instead of always loading the default ranks into memory, it will just cut straight to existing ranks.
• Files that had under 10 or 20 lines of code were combined. There were multiple files that were super short, inflating the file count.
• Removed 3 commands: Discord, Addons, Donation Received. Also removed a test command that never gets registered.
• Optimized the Administrate command.
• Refactored the Announce command.

July 2023

• Fixed client settings HUD options not saving correctly. Disabling the custom HUD would still show it upon rejoining.
• Fixed the MOTD not saving properly.

February 2024

• Made the scoreboard easier on the eyes, made the blue areas gray.
• Made a display rank command. Work still needs to be done to make sure all commands support it.
• Yet again restarting a tab_ranks refactor 💀

April 2024

• Cut prop protection module since it was pretty much a copy and paste of NADMOD prop protection. Never should have been implemented in the first place.
• Cut profiles tab (for now) because it doesn't do anything at the moment and won't be worked on for a while.
• Cut the leveling and HUD modules because they added no value. If they come back, they will need to actually integrate with using Nadmin like the scoreboard.
• Fixed a possible exploit with the imitate command. Before you could make someone run a command from any other mod. Now it just makes it look they spoke in chat, how it was originally supposed to work.
• Moved network strings to their appropriate files and deleted the file that contained some but not all network strings.

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Installation

Check the releases section on the right. If you download this repository as is, you'll sort of get a beta, but anything in the process of being refactored will be broken and there will be more untested stuff.

To give yourself elevated access to the server and to manage this mod, run "nadmin rank \[your_name_or_steamid] owner" on the server console. This will give you full access to the server.

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Addon Created by NubTheFatMan

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To Do

Here are some notable things I want to at some point, implement.

Commands:

• Force Spawn Point: There is a command for someone to set their spawn point, but admins can't change or remove it. This would allow for that.
• Force Remove Spawn Point: Read above.

Profiles

This feature was cut for now. I started on a profiles tab a long time ago and I eventually want to make it functional. Meant for server management, the profiles tool allows admins to search through all players who have ever played the server and manage information about them. They could view warning history (when implemented), change rank, set a forced name when they join again, or even just add notes about them that other staff management can see. Banning would be a thing too if the admin has permission.

Functionality

These are things I want Nadmin to be able to do.

• Default Permissions: This is more backend functionality. A developer who's adding on to Nadmin can set the default access level of a permission. They would then be able to be overridden by rank managers.
• Warnings: A warning system where players can be warned for misbehaving, and having a record for infractions. These can be used to automatically ban based on recent infractions.
• Nadmin Config: I want to make a section in the Server Settings tab that allows you to change some of Nadmin's behavior:
  • Manage command argument restrictions.
  • Restrict commands that can be ran through the rcon command. Although this would fall under command argument restrictions.
  • Manage prefixs that get Nadmin's attention.
• In addition to warnings, I want to add a general logging system. This would allow admins to go back in time and view what a player has done.

Core

• When it comes to functions in the back end, I want to change things up. Mostly for how I manage the player metatable. I define functions such as <Player>:GetRank(). To avoid possible conflicts, I want to change it to either <Player>:NadminRank() or nadmin.getPlayerRank(ply).

Known Bugs

There are some bugs that I haven't gotten around to fixing.

• Scoreboard:
  • When changing the player sort, it only updates the order of players once. If any of the values it's sorting by changes, it would appear out of order.
  • The Set Rank command throws an error.
• MOTD:
  • Saving doesn't work.