# Garry's Mod March 2022 Patch

- Product: Garry's Mod (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/garry-s-mod)
- Vendor: Facepunch Studios
- Date: 2022-03-10
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4000/view/5982474860895813382
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/garry-s-mod/releases/2022-03-10-march-2022-patch

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- **fixed** — Disallowed physics creation/destruction functions from being called on jeeps/airboats to prevent crashes
- **changed** — Allowed physgunning persistent props when persistence is disabled
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue with halo library not resetting color of pp/copy, which in some cases makes usage of halo library fill the whole screen with a color
- **fixed** — Fixed Lua errors when trying to activate non Toggle Camera or Dynamite from a tool Button that was loaded from a save in multiplayer
- **changed** — Improved save loading so it sets player ownership of spawned entities to a player in more cases
- **fixed** — Fixed vgui_slideshow_display crashing the game without materials to display
- **fixed** — Fixed a crash when trying to play bad ADPCM .wav files
- **fixed** — Fixed file.AsyncRead returning garbage when the target file has no data
- **added** — Added NextBot.GetLastKnownArea and NextBot.ClearLastKnownArea
- **changed** — Put motionsensor.GetColourMaterial behind a clientside permission
- **fixed** — Fixed DIconLayout counting border size 2 times when laying out icons
- **added** — Flash the game window when loading screen disappears to let the player know the loading is finished
- **fixed** — Fixed hook.Add giving a less than useful error when given a nil to second argument
- **fixed** — Failing to save jpeg screenshots/posters actually says that it failed in console
- **fixed** — Fixed a regression with string.Comma where it wouldn't format huge numbers properly
- **fixed** — Fixed func_healthcharger and func_recharge not updating its texture index
- **added** — Added OnHalfEmpty, OnEmpty and OnFull outputs to func_healthcharger, to match func_recharge
- **fixed** — Fixed Half Life 1 sentry ragdolls not cleaning up on map cleanup, fixed their collisions and inability to hit the player at certain player angles
- **fixed** — Fixed a crash in the DSP system
- **fixed** — Fixed a crash with NPC:SetNPCClass

Hey everyone,

We are releasing another small patch today.

The entire change log is as follows:

- Disallowed physics creation/destruction functions from being called on jeeps/airboats to prevent crashes

- Allowed physgunning persistent props when persistence is disabled

- Fixed an issue with halo library not resetting color of pp/copy, which in some cases makes usage of halo library fill the whole screen with a color

- Fixed Lua errors when trying to activate non Toggle Camera or Dynamite from a tool Button that was loaded from a save in multiplayer

- Improved save loading so it sets player ownership of spawned entities to a player in more cases

- Fixed vgui_slideshow_display crashing the game without materials to display

- Fixed a crash when trying to play bad ADPCM .wav files

- Fixed file.AsyncRead returning garbage when the target file has no data

- Added NextBot.GetLastKnownArea and NextBot.ClearLastKnownArea

- Put motionsensor.GetColourMaterial behind a clientside permission

- Fixed DIconLayout counting border size 2 times when laying out icons (Community Contribution)

- Flash the game window when loading screen disappears to let the player know the loading is finished

- Fixed hook.Add giving a less than useful error when given a nil to second argument

- Failing to save jpeg screenshots/posters actually says that it failed in console

- Fixed a regression with string.Comma where it wouldn't format huge numbers properly

- Fixed func_healthcharger and func_recharge not updating its texture index

- Added OnHalfEmpty, OnEmpty and OnFull outputs to func_healthcharger, to match func_recharge

- Fixed Half Life 1 sentry ragdolls not cleaning up on map cleanup. Also fixed their collisions and inability to hit the player at certain player angles

- Fixed a crash in the DSP system

- Fixed a crash with NPC:SetNPCClass

- TTT: Fix ammo ents blocking +use near other entites (Community contribution)

- Fixed a typo in hook.Remove error (Community Contribution)

- Fixed security issues

As usual servers are recommended to update at earliest convenience, especially if they were affected by one or more issues mentioned above.