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jafezynoob 19 Sep, 2022 @ 5:46pm
Customizable Nextbot Tool: My thoughts on this tool.
The Customizable Nextbot Tool is the greatest tool I have ever used, although this isn't as practical as the other tools that come with GMod and their community mod's tools, I have to say that I'm impressed with how easy and effective it is.

Now, with all the good things that have come from the pack like how you can use Discord & Imgur links for MP3s & Discord, & how you can adjust the settings for Nextbot like speed & size, I have to talk about the elephant in the room, now I'm fully aware that this mod is getting better & better all the time, I just wanna say my opinions on this mod and I feel like it's very limited with how you can present your Nextbots.

The format you can bring in is very limited, I mean Discord, Imgur, & other sources are fine but these are the ONLY options you have available. Now that's fine for the other countries but in my region; Imgur is banned there for many reasons I don't want to go into, luckily I have Discord to use but what IF you don't have Discord? Sorry but this won't do, & the other alternatives for Imgur & Discord won't do, as far as I know.

Now, I'm aware that you can use VPN to bypass the WiFi but I'm not gonna use a VPN to get an image for my nextbot. My suggestion for this problem is to maybe have a file explorer option where you can just get the image inside file explorer and bring it in there OR just drag & drop the image into it.

Speaking of options, I would see a feature where other formats can be used as well like FLAC, WAV, GIF, & others but you may be asking yourself "Why would I need those when I have PNGs & JPGs?" well, there are a lot of people here who generally one thing or another; some like PNGs over JPEGs, MP3s over FLAC, or vice versa plus some features can be better than others like how FLAC can have higher quality audio than MP3s OR how GIFs can make images move. What I'm saying is that you should expand your options for other things because they might help out a ton.

As mentioned before; this mod also has settings you can adjust like image sizes and speed but I find them a bit lacking; the speed is a bit too slow & although image size is a welcoming feature it's also another feature you're not gonna use more often. Here's a feature that you might use a lot but it's not in here; audio settings, that's very important because the default audio setting for the Nextbot is too soft and I wanna adjust it to fit my liking. My suggestions would be to supersize the options for my Nextbot, like; what if I want to make my nextbot run faster than my sprint speed? What if I want to make my Nextbot ear-bleedingly loud? What if I want to make my Nextbot bigger than Gm_Bigcity's City structures? And many more, features like these could enlighten our imaginations and improve what we have now.

I know this doesn't sound practical but what if you can drag an already made Nextbots into the tool and edit them how you would like them to be? Wouldn't that be cool?)

In conclusion, the Customizable Nextbot Tool is a great alternative option for those who want to edit Nextbots in the easiest way ever but it's lacking features that I would like to see added in later updates, it would be a missed opportunity to add these updates.

EDIT: I forgot to mention a suggested feature where you can add more sounds like make it say/make a different sounds when killing you OR spawning in, y'know?
Last edited by jafezynoob; 19 Sep, 2022 @ 6:05pm
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Radon  [developer] 21 Sep, 2022 @ 2:06am 
Besides imgur and discord there are hundreds of other ways to upload audio and pictures to nextbot. Any link in nextbot must point to a FILE and nothing more. The Discord and Imgur examples were shown because they are the easiest for the average user to use. You can upload your pictures and sounds to, for example, dropbox, or services like 0x0.st. It doesn't matter. Purely technically for sounds you can even provide a link to the radio

As for the adjustable volume of sounds - it's not the first time I've heard about it, and sooner or later I'll implement it. The problem is that I'm busy and I can't spend all my time on this addon
Radon  [developer] 21 Sep, 2022 @ 2:08am 
The supported sound formats are not determined by me, but by Garry's Mod - internally it uses https://wiki.facepunch.com/gmod/sound.PlayURL, whose limitations and bugs I can't affect
Radon  [developer] 21 Sep, 2022 @ 2:10am 
As for maximum speed, make sure you change the customizable_nextbot_max_speed cvar. This is partly my fault, because I left the maximum value equal to the default
jafezynoob 21 Sep, 2022 @ 2:17am 
Originally posted by Radon:
Besides imgur and discord there are hundreds of other ways to upload audio and pictures to nextbot. Any link in nextbot must point to a FILE and nothing more. The Discord and Imgur examples were shown because they are the easiest for the average user to use. You can upload your pictures and sounds to, for example, dropbox, or services like 0x0.st. It doesn't matter. Purely technically for sounds you can even provide a link to the radio

As for the adjustable volume of sounds - it's not the first time I've heard about it, and sooner or later I'll implement it. The problem is that I'm busy and I can't spend all my time on this addon

Wow, thanks for replying to my first-ever deep review, Radon, it's alright to be busy with things, I'm also busy with my educational & solo works, I hope your things get resolved soon, I would love to see this opportunity flourish. I've been using some alternatives from the websites that I suggested as alternatives to Imgur, turns out I wasn't properly doing it right but when I did got it right, I was amazed and how good it was, is there anything I can do to help with this mod? Maybe suggest ideas or smth.
Radon  [developer] 21 Sep, 2022 @ 2:37am 
Thank you for such a detailed discussion and desire to help me. I made a special topic for discussion of new ideas - you can leave it there
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