[nightrider]

Originally Posted by Lob (UK Spot on. I rebuilt my CSS Servers yesterday and thats exactly how i did it and everything is working perfect including fast download. Simple way guys is to just build a new Server with Steamcmd. Then Simply transfer all of your custom stuff across from your other Server such as addons/materials/models/sound/maps and then update any plugins that need it such as MM and SM etc. Dont worry about the new download and custom folders etc. Just make it the same as it used to be. Create new folders for addons/materials/models/sound and put your custom maps straight into the map folder that is already there. It all works just fine in the same format as it used to be. Clients connecting will download your custom files and the files will go into their new download folders. - Lob (UK)

Exactly what I did on Tuesday night and everything worked flawlessly.

[Mr. Man]

Originally Posted by Wazman From the looks of the custom folder, it's a place to put your own skins and stuff, I don't believe sourcemod will be involved with that folder.

That sounds pretty self-defeating for something that's supposed to be server-sided.

Originally Posted by nightrider Exactly what I did on Tuesday night and everything worked flawlessly.

This is what I was expecting. Changing the file folder structure would have proven to be extremely disastrous.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Mr. Man That sounds pretty self-defeating for something that's supposed to be server-sided.

It was meant to be client side, but it was also enabled on the server side. Having said that, it's SUPPOSED to work on the server side, as long as you create a subdirectory under it. i.e. custom/blah/sound/mysoundfile.mp3

[Mr. Man]

Originally Posted by Powerlord It was meant to be client side, but it was also enabled on the server side. Having said that, it's SUPPOSED to work on the server side, as long as you create a subdirectory under it. i.e. custom/blah/sound/mysoundfile.mp3

Odd... The only advantages I see having this new file sorting method is organization for clients when they download custom contents from servers.

[Dr. McKay]

Originally Posted by Mr. Man Odd... The only advantages I see having this new file sorting method is organization for clients when they download custom contents from servers.

A lot of clients use custom HUDs and skins and stuff. It's easier for them to drag and drop mysuperawsomeskinpack.vpk into /custom (and delete it later if they tire of it) than it is to extract a zip (or more often, a rar), and drag and drop a folder tree. Then trying to delete it is even more annoying.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Mr. Man Odd... The only advantages I see having this new file sorting method is organization for clients when they download custom contents from servers.

Except that the fast download server doesn't care about the custom/blah/ part and never actually sees it.

Really, it's just to make it easier to organize content from plugins. Like if I had Goomba Stomp installed, I could put its sound files in custom/goomba/sound/ . Or better yet, put them in there, then use vpk.exe to create a goomba.vpk from custom/goomba and drop goomba.vpk in the custom/ folder.

[Mr. Man]

Originally Posted by Dr. McKay A lot of clients use custom HUDs and skins and stuff. It's easier for them to drag and drop mysuperawsomeskinpack.vpk into /custom (and delete it later if they tire of it) than it is to extract a zip (or more often, a rar), and drag and drop a folder tree. Then trying to delete it is even more annoying.

I forgot it was a two-way street. A good system would be for custom content to be moved to /custom/ and leave it at that for the exact same reasons you stated above AND for servers that have lots of content like FF2.

[Wazman]

Credit to Scipizoa For Teaching me her solution.
Hey guys, my friend showed me how she got sourcemod working on her steamcmd tf2 server, just use the latest snapshot of Metamod (it's 1.10)
I forgot if it was already edited, but, edit the metamod.vdf file to look like this

PHP Code:

"Plugin"
{
    "file"    "addons/metamod/bin/server"
} 


The version of sourcemod I use is the 1.5 latest snapshot. Click here for duh snapshots
Then just upload the files the traditional way.
Make the addons folder in the tf/ directory. upload sourcemod and metamod and everything should be working.

EDIT: I heard metamod snapshots aren't available to download right now. I uploaded the latest snap shot I have bellow, but it's linux, sorry windows and mac people :c

[xDeRpYx]

Originally Posted by Powerlord Except that the fast download server doesn't care about the custom/blah/ part and never actually sees it. Really, it's just to make it easier to organize content from plugins. Like if I had Goomba Stomp installed, I could put its sound files in custom/goomba/sound/ . Or better yet, put them in there, then use vpk.exe to create a goomba.vpk from custom/goomba and drop goomba.vpk in the custom/ folder.

So this means you can pack a whole crap ton of custom content in one .vpk
Like for most cases, when it comes to Saxton Hale or FF2 people can make a SaxtonHale.vpk or FF2.vpk, and simply place it in the custom folder.
But how does one go about making them download this, or will it just do it automatically. OR you have to set it in fastdl.

[Scipizoa]

but as someone pointed out vpk's aren't supported by fastdl