NSafezone | The gmod Optimized Safezone addon - scripts

Description of NSafezone | The gmod Optimized Safezone addon

1. 📒 Description of "NSafezone: Advanced Safezone Management for GMod"
2. 💡 Why choose NSafezone for your server?
3. ⚙️ NSafezone Menu: Centralized management, no entities to place
4. 🧰 Integrated SWEP Tool: Create and edit Safezones in-game
5. 👁️ HUD & Protection: Visual immersion and user feedback
6. 📜 Safezone Configuration and Behavior
7. 🔐 Permissions, Restrictions, and Role-Based Management
8. 🛡️ Gmod Spawn Protection includes
9. ⚡ Performance and Client/Server Architecture
10. 🚀 Complementarity with the OSGMod Addon Range

📒 Description of "NSafezone: Advanced Safezone Management for GMod"

NSafezone is an advanced Safezone management system for Garry's Mod, designed to meet modern multiplayer server demands in 2025. Built from scratch leveraging prior expertise, NSafezone offers a modular, ultra-optimized solution entirely free of physical entities to place in-game. Thanks to an intelligent client/server architecture, it ensures minimal performance footprint while providing a high level of customization.

The tool allows the creation of spherical or cubic protection zones, configurable by various criteria (job, category, level, role, etc.) without relying on any specific gamemode. Compatible with DarkRP, Sandbox, and many more, NSafezone also integrates seamlessly into the OSGMod ecosystem. Each zone can trigger player protection, display custom HUD elements (logo, text, color), block certain actions (shooting, sprinting, weapon switching), or force equipment on entry such as selecting the hands from the inventory system to enforce weapon holstering.

Administration is centralized via an ergonomic menu, enabling fine configuration of all parameters: access permissions, role groups, audio effects, activation delays, behavioral restrictions, etc. For direct in-game handling, an intuitive SWEP is integrated, allowing creation, editing, or deletion of zones without map reload.

Designed for high-load environments, NSafezone relies on no global hook, no permanent loop, and performs no continuous network sync. All effects are triggered locally. At only 58kb (compared to 192kb for my old Safezone version (2015)), the addon combines lightness, efficiency, and robustness, easily supporting up to 128 simultaneous players.

💡 Why choose NSafezone for your server?

✅ Zero entities to place on the map
✅ Spherical or cubic zones (P1 & P2)
✅ Automatic protection on spawn (configurable)
✅ HUD display: logo, text, visual/audio feedback
✅ Integrated tool for fast in-game editing
✅ Job, group, and level-based control
✅ DarkRP, NJob, Sandbox, Helix support
✅ No dependency on specific gamemodes
✅ Ultra-light: no global hook, no intensive loop
✅ Designed for massive multiplayer (128+ players)

⚙️ NSafezone Menu: Centralized management, no entities to place

From an ergonomic menu, configure:
Centralization and creation of role, rank, job, and category groups assignable to zones.
Audio effects triggered upon entering a zone.
HUD parameters (logo, position, color, duration, etc.) displayed when protection is active.
Specific behaviors (shooting restriction, weapon switch ban, auto switch to tools such as hands upon entry).
The required permission level or group to benefit from protection.
The menu allows full configuration, ideal for multi-map servers or team collaboration.

🧰 Integrated SWEP Tool: Create and edit Safezones in-game

Use the integrated Tool to manage Safezones directly on the map:

- Reload key: open SWEP menu.
- Left click: place spherical zone.
- Right click: define second point to create cubic zone.
- Left click: move P1.
- Right click: move P2.
- Left click: delete targeted zone.
- Right click: delete last placed zone.

This ergonomics allows fast management without relaunching the map or opening Hammer++.

👁️ HUD & Protection: Visual immersion and user feedback

When a player enters a secure zone:
- The zone name can appear on screen (custom duration).
- A "safezone" logo appears on screen.
- Its appearance is customizable (size, color).
- Optional messages are sent in chat.
- A notification may appear on the HUD.

Additionally, an entry sound reinforces intuitive and immersive feedback.

📜 Safezone Configuration and Behavior

The NSafezone system can be configured with:
- Activation and deactivation delays.
- Shooting and weapon-switch restrictions.
- Damage blocking.
- NPC attack blocking.
- Auto-equipped weapon on entry.
- One-time use per session (e.g., one-time zone entry per player).
- Auto-deletion after a set time: you can place a zone and define its lifetime, useful for events.

Configuration is intuitive and every setting can be enabled or left blank.

🔐 Permissions, Restrictions, and Role-Based Management

Each zone can be:
- Limited to a job, category, or group.
- Reserved for a specific player level.
- Open to everyone.
- Compatible with NJob or DarkRP (if installed, otherwise [nojob]).

Perfect for VIP zones, faction areas, protected respawn zones, or RP-secured areas.

🛡️ Gmod Spawn Protection includes

Instead of placing safezones at spawn locations, or installing additional scripts just to get spawn protection, NSafezone already includes spawn protection, the duration of which you can define. When the player spawns, they get their protection automatically and a notification telling them how long they have until their spawn protection runs out.

⚡ Performance and Client/Server Architecture

Addon size:
- Client (Lua): 44kb
- Server (Lua): 14kb
- Workshop (Material): 4kb

NSafezone is performance-oriented:
- No global hook.
- No continuous loop.
- No physical entities to place.
- Manage all zones via in-game tool or NSafezone menu.
- No permanent server-client sync.

Effects are triggered locally with near-zero server cost. Even with 128 concurrent players, the system remains stable and smooth.

🚀 Complementarity with the OSGMod Addon Range

NSafezone naturally integrates with:
1- 🎵 NSoundScape Creator: Advanced, Optimized GMod Soundscape Addon

WIKI & F.A.Q

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☰ 1. Installation of NSafezone | The gmod Optimized Safezone addon

☰ 2. Where can I find resources and materials in norda_safezone2?

☰ 3. How do I open the NSafezone management menu to work with it?

☰ 4. How do I place safezones on gmod?

There are two methods:
- Method 1: From the safezone management menu, you can place a point (where you aim by clicking on the button: "Add Safezone Zone"
- Method 2: With the includes tool. Jump to the SWEP Tool section.

☰ 5. Can safezone points be placed off-map?

Yes. With SWEP you can place a point where you are aiming or use the option to place a point where you are.

☰ 6. How do I place a spherical or cubic safezone on the map?

When you are going to place an area with the SWEP and the left click there will be only one point, place the 2nd point with the right click so that the area becomes cubic.

☰ 7. How do I programme the automatic deletion of a Safezone? For an event, for example.

From the Safezone management menu, find the Start Safezone self deletion line. The default setting is 0 (OFF).

☰ 8. How do I create groups of jobs / or roles that can benefit from the protective effects of Safezones?

From the assignable groups management menu, create a group using the ‘Add new group’ button, select it and click on ‘Add a Role ...’. All you have to do is choose the roles / Job categories / Jobs from the drop-down list.

☰ 9. How do I assign a group to a safezone?

From the Safezone management menu, assign the job group you have created to the safezone of your choice.

☰ 10. What is the purpose of Spawn Protection in the GMod: NSafezone addon?

The aim is to make a player who has just spawned in-game invincible. You can set the duration and the player will be properly informed on the HUD.

☰ 11. How do I use the Swep tool when I'm not using sandbox mode?

Place safety zones, modify the zones selected in the Reload menu instead of looking for them in the list in the management menu. Options for activating and deactivating the tool in the top right-hand corner.

The Reload menu also lets you choose the tool's modes: Create / Edit / Delete zones.

In create mode, left-click places zones, and right-click places the second point of a selected zone.
In edit mode, left-click moves point P1 of a selected security zone and right-click moves point P2.
In delete mode, selected zones can be deleted by left-clicking or right-clicking to delete the last zone selected without having to aim.

☰ 12. How do I reset the settings to factory defaults?

In the NSafezone management menu at the top right is the blue reset button, click on it and you will be able to reset 3 things:
- Settings
- Job groups/roles/job categories
- Safezones

☰ 13. How do I activate the protection notification in chat?

In the HUD protection notification management menu:

☰ 14. I have a problem with the HUD overlapping with the notification. Can this be customised?

Yes, enter "HUD" in the wiki filter and all questions relating to the system HUD will be displayed.

☰ 15. How can I customise the HUD display (position, size, colours)?

In the HUD Options menu: The last 4 lines allow you to move the position of the protection message and also to adjust the size of the logo and its colour:

☰ 16. How do I remove "Safe Zone" logo from the HUD when protection is activated?

In the HUD protection notification management menu: Set to OFF: Show Safezone logo on the HUD...

☰ 17. How do I disable the protection notification on the HUD?

In the HUD protection notification management menu: First line OFF: Display on HUD...

☰ 18. How do I activate Spawn Protection on Gmod with the NSafezone addon?

From the Server options menu, find the line: Spawn Protection and set it to ON.

☰ 19. How do I temporarily disable the NSafezone system without uninstalling it?

From the Server options menu, set the first line to OFF Enable Safezone system.

☰ 20. How can I make sure that everyone can see Safezone boundary zones?

From the Server options menu, check that ESP Zones is ON. (You don't have to activate it to work on your zones, the tool includes an option in its reload menu which allows you to activate it only for you)

☰ 21. How do I launch an audio track when a player enters a safety zone?

In the Server options menu, find the Sound effect line and set the path to the audio file. Empty = OFF.

☰ 22. How can I change the delay before protection effects are activated when the player is in the safety zone?

In the Server Options menu, find the delay before the protection of the safety zone and set the value of your choice. 5 seconds is the default value for a player entering a safety zone to be protected.

☰ 23. How can I change the delay before protection effects are removed when a player leaves a safety zone?

In the Server Options menu, find the protection deactivation delay. The default value for a player leaving a safety zone is 5 seconds.

☰ 24. How can I reduce the display time of the protection notification on the HUD?

From the Server options menu, on the duration line, the default value for the notification display time is 6 seconds.

☰ 25. How do I activate/deactivate ignored damage when a player enters a safety zone?

From the Server options menu, on the Ignore Damage line, set it to OFF if you wish to activate damage. On ON, players in the safezone will not receive any damage.

☰ 26. How do I block weapon changes when a player enters a safezone?

From the Server options menu, on the Block Weapons switching line, set it to ON to activate it. Players protected by a safezone won't be able to switch weapons or open the weapon selection menu. Nor switch with the “Q” key.

☰ 27. How can I block attacks from players in a safe zone?

From the Server options menu, set the Disable attacks line to ON, protected players will not be able to use the primary and secondary attacks on their weapons.

☰ 28. How do I block the sprint when a player enters a safe zone?

From the Server options menu, on the Block the sprint line, players with active protection will not be able to sprint if it is ON. The default setting is OFF.

☰ 29. How can I prevent NPCs from targeting and attacking players in a safe zone?

From the Server options menu, set the Prevent NPCs from targeting line to ON. NPCs will no longer target you.

☰ 30. How do you get players to automatically holster their weapons when they enter a security zone?

From the Server options menu, on the Automatically equip a default weapon line, you can switch the weapon in hand to another of your choice, the SWEP hand if you have one.

☰ 31. How can I ensure that a security zone can only be used once per game session?

From the Server options menu, on the line A safezone can only be used one per session, set it to OFF. Players will only be able to receive protection once. If they leave, the zone disappears but is not deleted from the server DB.