Simple Votekick

An addon for Garry's Mod

This is an addon for Garry's Mod that allows players to call a vote to kick a player from the server.

Chat commands

• !votekick - Open the player selection menu.
• !yes - Vote 'Yes' on an active vote.
• !no - Vote 'No' on an active vote.

Conditions to pass a vote

• Enough players participated in the voting.
• More people agreed to vote off the player than those who didn't.

Configuration

• Voting menu
• Q menu > Options > DyaMetR > Simple Votekick System
• Settings menu
• Q menu > Utilities > DyaMetR > Simple Votekick System

Server settings

• sv_votekick - Enables the addon. Disabling it during a vote will cancel it.
• sv_votekick_immuneadmins - Doesn't allow players to vote admins off.
• sv_votekick_bantime - How long is a player banned when voted off.
• sv_votekick_votetime - How long does a voting last for.
• sv_votekick_cooldown - How long has a player need to wait before calling another vote.
• sv_votekick_minvotes - Minimum percentage of players that need to partake in the voting for it to be valid.
• sv_votekick_minplayers - Minimum amount of players required for a vote to be called.

Aborting a vote

As an administrator, you may want to prematurely end a vote because, to do this you can either go to the settings menu and press Abort current vote or write votekick_abort in the console.

Developer documentation

If you want to customize the look and sounds of this addon, either to release it as a mod or for your own server, you can use the following hooks:

VotekickHUDPaint

Called when the UI should draw. Return true to hide the default HUD.

Parameters

• the voting information table

VotekickBeginSound

Called when the vote starts to play the given sound. Return true to mute it.

VotekickVoteSound

Called when a player votes.

Parameters

• was it a positive vote
• is it an increment

VotekickSuccessSound

Called when a vote is successful to play the given sound. Return true to mute it.

VotekickFailSound

Called when a vote fails to play the given sound. Return true to mute it.

VotekickAbortSound

Called when a vote is aborted to play the given sound. Return true to mute it.

Have fun!