{"id":1260353,"date":"2026-03-03T03:50:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tciycRRLNxMjvnFEeC2HMP"},"modified":"2026-03-03T03:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:50:05","slug":"at-long-last-and-with-gracious-permission-from-valve-garrys-mod-now-contains-most-of-counter-strike-source-and-half-life-2-episodic-content-even-if-you-dont-own-those-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/at-long-last-and-with-gracious-permission-from-valve-garrys-mod-now-contains-most-of-counter-strike-source-and-half-life-2-episodic-content-even-if-you-dont-own-those-games\/","title":{"rendered":"At long last and &#8216;with gracious permission from Valve,&#8217; Garry&#8217;s Mod now contains &#8216;most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content&#8217; even if you don&#8217;t own those games"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>So long, pink checkerboards that represent missing textures! Adi\u00f3s, pitch-black skies that signify an absent skybox! Don&#8217;t let the door hit you on the way out, enormous 3D model that says ERROR where a car should be!<\/p>\n<p>Those have been common sights for users of Garry&#8217;s Mod for, oh, let&#8217;s see\u2026 20 years or so? And one of the biggest culprits for those missing textures and models is that players didn&#8217;t own the games that those assets were pulled from: Half-Life 2&#8217;s episodic entries and Counter-Strike: Source. You could join a community map that used assets from those games, but if you didn&#8217;t own them, you would get an eyeful of pink and black or that big ol&#8217; ERROR sign.<\/p>\n<p>Hurrah, then, because the latest update for Garry&#8217;s Mod solves that problem in a way that doesn&#8217;t require players buying and installing extra Valve games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest user-facing change in this update brings most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content to Garry&#8217;s Mod by default, with gracious permission from Valve,&#8221; wrote Rubat, programmer for Facepunch Studios, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gmod.facepunch.com\/news\/july-2025-update\">on the official Garry&#8217;s Mod site<\/a>. &#8220;This means that you no longer need to own those games and have them installed to play on community maps that expect you to have this content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which isn&#8217;t to say some players won&#8217;t occasionally still encounter a big old pink and black chessboard where a mailbox or clock should be. It all depends on what map you&#8217;re joining and the assets it contains. It also doesn&#8217;t mean you get the CS:S and HL2 Episodes maps files themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This won&#8217;t eliminate all instances of missing content (missing textures and ERROR models), but it will address a majority of instances of this issue,&#8221; said Rubat. &#8220;Please do note that maps from those games are not included, so you&#8217;ll still need to install those games to use their maps, and neither are voice over files and music, due to licensing issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1358px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:53.90%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"JvonJPBQJt8GvedYcirvFA\" name=\"gm2\" alt=\"A map showing missing textures besides one showing all textures\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/at-long-last-and-with-gracious-permission-from-valve-garrys-mod-now-contains-most-of-counter-strike-source-and-half-life-2-episodic-content-even-if-you-dont-own-those-games.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1358\" height=\"732\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Facepunch Studios)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have to admit, it&#8217;s a little hard for me to imagine owning Garry&#8217;s Mod but not owning all the CS or HL2 games in 2025, but then again, I&#8217;m quite an oldie: I was playing Valve games before Garry and his Mod even came along. But I expect there&#8217;s a whole buncha kids who got into Garry&#8217;s Mod via videos like Skibidi Toilet, without first<em> <\/em>experiencing the crowbar-slingin&#8217; adventures of Gordon Freeman or the eternal efforts of terrorists trying to blow up a few crates in a completely deserted Middle-eastern courtyard.<\/p>\n<p>As someone in the Garry&#8217;s Mod subreddit put it: &#8220;Big day for the 12 year olds in my workshop comments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/at-long-last-and-with-gracious-permission-from-valve-garrys-mod-now-contains-most-of-counter-strike-source-and-half-life-2-episodic-content-even-if-you-dont-own-those-games\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So long, pink checkerboards that represent missing textures! Adi\u00f3s, pitch-black skies that signify an absent skybox! Don&#8217;t let the door hit you on the way out, enormous 3D model that says ERROR where a car should be! Those have been common sights for users of Garry&#8217;s Mod for, oh, let&#8217;s see\u2026 20 years or so? And one of the biggest culprits for those missing textures and models is that players didn&#8217;t own the games that those assets were pulled from: Half-Life 2&#8217;s episodic entries and Counter-Strike: Source. You could join a community map that used assets from those games, but if you didn&#8217;t own them, you would get an eyeful of pink and black or that big ol&#8217; ERROR sign. 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