How To Add Addons To Garry's Mod (Easy Step By Step Guide)

How To Add Addons To Garry's Mod
You'll spend more time in the workshop than in Gmod


What’s up guys, today's article is going to be a tutorial on how to add add-ons to Gmod. There is not much philosophy, it’s VERY EASY and all it requires is a steam account and Garry’s Mod installed. Let’s start with the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqTlzDMN2Zk 

And now here’s a step by step guide for downloading add-ons to Gmod:

Step 1: Go to Steam>Steam Library

Check your games library and click on Garry's Mod!

Step 2: Access the Workshop for Garry’s mod:

Click on the tab with the Workshop text

Step 3: Accessing the workshop and using the search box:

After clicking “Workshop”, click on the search box and type the name of the add-on that you want to download(for example, WAC Aircraft).

Step 4: Finding the add-on and downloading it:

After you found the add-on, click Subscribe and wait for it to download. You can check whether it downloaded the add-on by clicking “DOWNLOADS” in the bottom middle of Steam.

Step 5: Launching Garry’s mod/starting new game:

After you have downloaded the add-on, click on the “Start New Game” tab!

Step 6: Picking a map:

Pick a map that you want to play on, I suggest picking a map that has a large skybox so that you don’t crash into an invisible wall every 5 seconds!

Step 7: Finding the add-on in single-player

After you have loaded the map, hold Q and navigate to Entities>WAC Aircraft. You should have a list of aircraft to pick from!

The location of the add-on will depend on the content of the add-on(NPC add-ons will go to the NPC tab, vehicle add-ons to the Vehicle tab, etc).

Step 8: Using the downloaded add-on

This is me flying a heli on an awesome map called gm_fork!

Step 9: You know what to do now :)

Thanks for reading this short tutorial on how to install add-ons, Steam Workshop is a very comfortable tool to have, it allows you to download add-ons without doing it manually and it only takes seconds. Try it now!

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