Popular Abbreviations From The Gmod Community

This guide will help you understand what some of the most common abbreviations that are used in Garry's Mod stand for. Learn about GMAs VTFs, BSPs, FNAF, and more!

Introduction

Ever been on a server in Gmod or in the forums and someone says to go check out X. You have no idea what X stands for, and you don't wanna look to dumb by asking them what it means? Or you are just looking for a good list? Well then, you have come to the right place! Scroll down to the Index to begin!

Index

These are some of the most common abbreviations for Garry's Mod.

• AFK
  
• PAC3
  
• PAC (I'll explain this with PAC3)
  
• FNAF (Read: Cancer)
  
• ERP
  
• DDOS
  
• ♥♥♥
  
• TF2 (If you don't know already)
  
• GMA
  
• VTF
  
• MDL (Described under VTF)
  
• VMF
  
• BSP
  
• CS:S
  
• PM
  
• TTT
  
• PPM
  
• ACF

AFK

This ones super simple and used a lot outside of Gmod, just in case somebody doesn't know what this means, it means Away From Keyboard. The person using this has decided to leave his PC for a while and do something productive.

Most times you will see it used like this

"Going AFK"
"BRB AFK"
"Don't shoot going AFK"

PAC3/PAC

You most likely will first see this on a server, unless you looked for the addon in which case you can skip this one. PAC stands for Player Appearance Customizer (The 3 is version 3). This is an addon where player customization can be taken to the extremes! Talking about PAC3 could be in it's own guide.

You can find the addon here.

This is an example of what you can do-and it barely scratches the surface!

FNAF

First, I'm gonna need you to find the funniest youtube video you can find, now play it while you read so that I may not lose you.

FNAF, known as Five Nights At Freddies, is a """""survival""""" horror game that has taken over the dupes (and some addons) of gmod. I believe that as I write this there are currently five games in the series (no pun intended.)

This gets a lot of hate to people who say they like FNAF. The game itself isn't too bad,[fivescarynights.com] (except you can't move in the first 3, and the horror is all jumpscares) what makes this game hated is the community I'm not gonna say anything here to prevent flamewars, but there have been some "interesting" aspects of the community.



























NO I do NOT own FNAF

ERP

You will most likely see this in the server rules list, or in a discussion shaming someone for it (don't blame 'em). You see, ERP stands for erotic roleplay Yes this is a thing in Gmod, mainly on RP/sandbox servers. I'd say google it to find out more but do so at your own risk, you have been warned.

DDOS

This doesn't actually relate to the game itself, people will threaten and sometimes actually be able to DDOS you. DDOS stands for Direct Denial of Service, and it's a tad more complicated to do than half of the 5 y/o kids saying that they know how. DDOSing someone happens when the attacker is either able to slow down or completely cut off your internet service (so no, they cannot do this to most dishwashers or microwaves, these guys are probably meming). If you want to read more about DDOS, you can visit this link.

♥♥♥

Usually people will say this to you;
"♥♥♥ ****"
"You should just ♥♥♥"
when they say ♥♥♥, for those who don't know, it stands for Kill YourSelf. People saying this to you are usually very salty or just meming again. Heck, I'll bet I get some ♥♥♥'s in the comments of this guide. This represents taking your own life through any method. Some of the best methods are outlined in this video:

TF2

This is simply an abbreviation for the popular first person class-based shooter, Team Fortress 2. This is one of my favorite games to play, and if you haven't seen it yet, check it out!

GMA

GMA is usually seen in the forums and in your file browser, GMA is actually a file extension for Garry's Mod Addons. You mainly won't see these files if you use the workshop as Steam handles everything for you, usually you may need to mess with one for troubleshooting.

You can find these (assuming you didn't change the steam install directory) in
C:\Program Files x86\Steam\steamapps\common\Garry's Mod\garrysmod\addons

If you need to grab a model file or a vtf from an addon, you can use Gmad[gamebanana.com] a free tool that can easily extract gma's into the stuff you need.

VTF (And MDL)

Like GMA, these abbreviations are file extensions, however these are used in all source games.

.MDL files are MoDeL files, simple as that.
.VTF files are Valve Texture Format files (basically textures) for models in source games. .vtf's can actually be made from normal image formats (resolution permitting). You can download VTFEdit here[nemesis.thewavelength.net].

You can click here[gamebanana.com] to learn how to use VTFEdit, and although the tutorial is for Counter Strike, they are both Source games and the same method will work.

VMF

VMF's are like VTF's except these are Valve Material Files. These files are present when they need to tell a game how to handle the texture when special procedures are needed, or so I believe. I'm not 100 percent sure what these do as VTFs seem to work fine most of the time by themselves. If anyone can clarify this part please do so.

BSP (and a quick look at NAV)

BSP is yet another file format you may encounter. This is the structure of the BSP file format used by the Source engine. The format is similar but not identical to the BSP file formats of the Half-Life 1 engine (GoldSrc), which is in turn based on the Quake, Quake II and QuakeWorld file formats, plus that of the later Quake III Arena. Because of this, Max McGuire's article, Quake 2 BSP File Format is also of invaluable help in understanding the overall structure of the format and the parts of it that have remained the same or similar to its predecessors.

This document is an extension of notes made by Rof during the writing of his Half-Life 2 BSP file decompiler, VMEX. It therefore focuses on those parts of the format necessary to perform map decompilation (conversion of the BSP file back into a VMF file which can be loaded by the Hammer map editor).

Most of the information in this document comes from the Max McGuire article, from the source code included in the Source SDK (particularly the C header file public/bspfile.h), and from Rof's own experimentation during the writing of VMEX.

A certain familiarity with C/C++, geometry, and Source mapping terms is assumed on the part of the reader. Code (mostly C structures) is given in a fixed width font. Sometimes the structures as shown are modified from their actual definitions in the SDK header files, for reasons of clarity and consistency.
Overview

The BSP file contains the vast majority of the information needed by the Source engine to render and play a map. This includes the geometry of all the polygons in the level; references to the names and orientation of the textures to be drawn on those polygons; the data used to simulate the physical behaviour of the player and other items during the game; the location and properties of all brush-based, model (prop) based, and non-visible (logical) entities in the map; and the BSP tree and visibility table used to locate the player location in the map geometry and to render the visible map as efficiently as possible. Optionally, the map file can also contain any custom textures and models used on the level, embedded inside the map's Pakfile lump (see below).

Information not stored in the BSP file includes the map description text displayed by multiplayer games (such as Counter-Strike: Source or Half-Life 2: Deathmatch) after loading the map (stored in the file mapname.txt) and the AI navigation file used by non-player characters (NPCs) which need to navigate the map (stored in the file mapname.nav). Because of the way the Source engine file system works, these external files may also be embedded in the BSP file's Pakfile lump, though usually they are not.

Official map files are stored in the Steam Game Cache File (GCF) format, and are accessed through the Steam file system by the game engine. They can be extracted from the GCF files using Nemesis' GCFScape for perusal outside of Steam. Newer games that are using the VPK file format usually have their maps stored directly on the file system of the operating system.

The data in the BSP file can be stored in little-endian for PC/Mac or in big-endian for PS3/X360. Byte-swapping is required when loading a little-endian file on a big-endian format platform such as Java and vice versa.

CS:S

CS:S is actually a game! (not another file format :) CS:S stands for Counter Strike: Source, a precursor to CS:GO (Counter Strike, Global Offensive). CS:S shows up in Gmod a lot as a good deal of servers have materials or files from the game, which you must have at least downloaded and mounted into Gmod to see.

To mount a game, go to the main menu (I recommend not being in a game) and click the liitle controller icon. A list of different games you can mount comes up (note: only purchased, downloaded games can be mounted) Click on your desired game to mount it and viola! No more mssing CS:S content (though some servers may use other game's content.)

You can buy CS:S here.

PM

PM Simply stands for PlayerModel, the person you control in the game. You can get addons that add more options to choose from. You can start looking for some here or here

TTT

TTT stands for a gamemode in Garry's mod called Trouble in Terrorist Town. This is a gamemode somewhat similar to murder, however the bad guys can also use guns to win. Some extra mechanics require more cunning to win, or just to stay alive.

The main roles are:
Innocent-Just try to get rid of the Terrorist(s)
Detective-Sided with the innocent, has special tools to heal and find the T(s). Keep him alive.
Terrorist-KILL ALL WHO STAND IN YOUR WAY (except for other Terrorists of course).

You can find some TTT-related addons here

PPM

Servers cotaining this tag are recommended to stay away from, unless you know what you are getting into, as this stands for Pony PlayerModels. Remember that fad a while ago where guys would watch a show called My Little Pony? Well they have come to gmod, prepare to see a lot of cringy OC's (original characters.) To prevent flamewars I will let you find out the rest of this topic for yourself.

You can get the addon here workshop link

Theres a version 2??? here

no offense meant.

ACF

ACF is an addon that stands for Armored Combat Framework. It's a friggin huge (but cool!) mod that redoes a lot of prop damage, and adds tanks, guns, and more! Definitely give it a try! I'd explain more but theres a LOT to talk about this mod. For acf you have to get it vanilla style. you can't get it off the workshop, it's too big. here is the link for a download tutorial and the link for the mod itself below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsovFCIwPv4 Tutorial

https://github.com/nrlulz/ACF/ ZIP download link.

Credits

Thank you for taking the time to read this guide, if you see any errors I made in explaining, feel free to point them out in the comments! And remember, an opinion is an opinion, my ideas about these things might be RADICALLY different than yours, but thats no reason to argue.

Also thanks to the following for suggesting things to me to improve this guide!

[LB]Taco Salad

[dsaS]

https://youtu.be/Cx9yP7U7bjI

[lewatywa pana kolesia]

could you say what is pw?

[Second Reich Enjoyer]

Whats BA

[Heisenburger]

what is LBS?

[bubba's real burgers 1776]

@why yeah i was wrong. i ended up finding out the actual meaning via a certain game with ccp moderation

[Vaillant]

And what’s "Dark RP"?

[Bonni]

OC means Original Character

[bubba's real burgers 1776]

Im pretty sure OC means Own character

[Ulysses]

Correction;
"DDOS stands for Direct Denial of Service"
It actually stands for "Distributed Denial of Service", as the packets are sent from multiple computers to a single address. Doing it from a single machine is just "DoS", meaning "Denial of Service".

[Taco Salad]

For acf you have to get it vannila style. you cant get it off the workshop, too big. here is the link for a download tut and the link its self.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsovFCIwPv4 Tutorial

https://github.com/nrlulz/ACF/ ZIP download link.