Cross Chat - for those who have multiple servers

How it works: when initialized, Cross Chat will create a server and the clients, that will connect to the servers specified in the config. If clients will successfully connect the server, when a player talks, joins, or leaves the server, it sends the data to the server, which will print out in the chat for everyone what the player did.

This add-on was tested on Debian and Windows 10.

If you are hosting a Garry's Mod server using a hosting service, this addon might not work, because some services:

• have a firewall on their server, that cannot be modified
• don't provide access to the files of the game server (folder garrysmod), so you can't install the required binaries.

Thanks to

• Cynthia for giving us servers for testing
• Jonni for giving us servers for testing
• Tenrys for helping to create a GModStore addon page
• danielga for making LuaSocket.

Features (why us)

• Cross server chat!
• No need to download anything: LuaSocket, which is required, is bundled with the addon archive!
• !ctalk, !ckick ULX commands*
• Easy to install: just drag and drop into the `addons` folder!
• Customizable messages/formatting!
• No external hosting required: CrossChat has it's server and client in the code!
• No DRM!
• We do not host anything. If the addon gets unsupported, it will still work for limited time, until binary or code gets outdated.
• Some free alternatives to CrossChat are not easy to find or not supported.
• etc.

*- !ctalk: send message across the servers (based off CSC, can be enabled in the config), !ckick - kicks the player across the specified server (default rank - admin).

1. Extract the addon into the garrysmod/addons folder.
2. Copy files from bundle folder and paste it into garrysmod/lua/bin folder (if it doesn't exist, create one).
3. Edit the config (lua/crosschat/config.lua) to your liking (servers and serverid options are required).
4. Extra: if you have a firewall or you are hosting the server at home, open the port. (Port is written in the config)
5. Perfect! You are ready to go.

Have some sort of issue with our addon? Don't worry! You can write a ticket and we will try to respond ASAP¹.

¹ - I'm not sure about this part