News for October 20, 2026

Commit b9fc35 on main fixes a crash with inputs firing from removed triggers, the Hunter NPC's wrong lookup function and lets SetSaveValue set m_hStoredPathTarget; VPC and gmad/gmpublish now build for Linux64.

artemking4 commented on the 2016 AVX2 request that SSE2 can be enabled safely since LuaJIT already requires it.

In #lua-help, A1steaksa asked what causes Render queue too large, flushing! when rendering an IMesh. Rubat explained the multicore rendering queue is too large: over 32 MB of vertices or indices, or over 15 MB of data in the queue. He named mat_report_queue_status for stats. full metal sergeant 228 said he hit it with too many particle systems.

In #next-update, Gonzo Pipi said Lua autorefresh stopped working for him on 64-bit dev (Windows 11 26H2) and asked how to debug it. Rubat said he added a console print for when autorefresh will certainly not work. On Windows there may be debug output, visible by attaching a debugger such as Visual Studio or WinDbg. Autorefresh changed in the previous day's dev update; he isn't having issues himself.

DVIsm6 found LookupAttachment used instead of LookupPoseParameter for the Hunter's stagger_yaw. Fixed (commit b9fc35).

In #next-update, DMatter04 reported that some addons' InitPostEntity hooks added with hook.Add never run, breaking addons such as Custom FOV. homonovus suggested an addon returns a non-nil value from its hook, and Zaurzo posted a lua_run snippet to find it. On 22 Oct DMatter04 found the culprit, lua/autorun/ultrakill_test_soulorbs.lua from "[DrGBase] ULTRAKILL - Enemies - Act II & Act III", using Zaurzo's whereis tip, and Zaurzo suggested asking the author to fix it.

In #developer-talk, Redox shared a project "made in gmod" that ran smoothly with a group of players. TankNut, after looking at it, said "they've decompiled the game and ported it wholesale". A1steaksa said he isn't impressed if it's AI-made, while Redox said it's too polished to be pure slop. TankNut added he is more interested in the original Ace of Spades than "the Jagex abomination".

Battlefieldkille reported a crash when a removed trigger fires StartTouch. robotboy655 fixed it but the input is now discarded (commit b9fc35).