Setting player model

[scoie]

I have tried and tried to set a special player model for only super admins, i have tried different methods but i have gotten multiple timer errors and other unrelated errors in my code...is there a way i can make the player take a custom model depending on there rank?

Lua snippit please with the code needed to set say a basic non custom player model for a super admin on spawn all the time :)

Thanks a lot its had me stumped for a while

[King Flawless]

[lua]
for _,ply in pairs(player.GetAll())
if ply:SteamID() == SteamIDhere then
ply:SetModel(Modelpathhere)
break
end
end
[/lua]

[jimbodude]

I use the following on my server, works fine:

[lua]
local playerinformation = {
["xxx1"] = {model = "models/player/psycho/cherry_2.mdl", r = 255, g = 255, b = 255, a = 255 },
["xxx2"] = {model = "models/slow_alien.mdl", r = 57, g = 255, b = 0, a = 255 },
["xxx3"] = {model = "models/player/hczombie.mdl", r = 255, g = 255, b = 255, a = 255 },
}

hook.Add( "PlayerLoadout", "Spawnage", function( p )
local playerinfo = playerinformation[p:SteamID()]
if p:IsValid() then
if playerinfo then
p:SetModel(playerinfo.model)
if playerinfo.r then
p:SetColor(playerinfo.r, playerinfo.g, playerinfo.b, playerinfo.a)
end
end
end
end)
[/lua]

[Freze]

PlayerSpawn instead of PlayerLoadout could work?

[jimbodude]

[QUOTE=Freze;28802632]PlayerSpawn instead of PlayerLoadout could work?[/QUOTE]
Yeah probably, just used Loadout to ensure it's run after any playerspawn setmodel things.

[scoie]

Thanks guys, very useful indeed!

[scoie]

Is there an edit or an extension to that code to also include groups? Like guest and admin groups? (default)

[King Flawless]

This isn't the request section

[cis.joshb]

For the default Admin, Super Admin and non-admin groups, you could use this:
[lua]
--Place this into init.lua if you are editing/making the gamemode, otherwise somewhere in your addon
function GroupModels(ply)

if ply:IsAdmin() == false then
ply:SetModel("models/player/group01/male_01.mdl")

elseif ply:IsAdmin() == true and ply:IsSuperAdmin() == false then
ply:SetModel("models/player/police.mdl")

elseif ply:IsSuperAdmin() == true then
ply:SetModel("models/player/combine_super_soldier.mdl")

end

//return true --Uncomment in if you are putting into an addon, not making/editing the gamemode

end

hook.Add("PlayerLoadout", "GroupModels", GroupModels)
[/lua]
If you are using custom groups then you would need to make your own
[lua]
function Player.IsWhateverGroup(ply) --Whatever the group is (Not sure about the name of this function. To facepunch: if you use Player. at the start of a function, is that how you are able to do ply:Function?
[/lua]
function. You would create a table of the group members and then use
[lua]
table.HasValue(WhateverGroupTable, ply:SteamID)
[/lua]
to check if he is in the table. Then you would return true if he is, and false if he isn't.
Then in the model function you would do
[lua]
if ply:IsWhateverGroup() == true then
ply:SetModel("models/player/combine_soldier.mdl")
[/lua]
I am a noob too, so get this code checked, and I have a question written in the comments.

[Drew P. Richard]

You don't need to do == true, and instead of == false just use negation (!ply:IsAdmin()).

[cis.joshb]

And can I name the function Player.IsModerator(ply) and later use it as ply:IsModerator(), or should I name it IsModerator(ply) and use it the same way?

[Drew P. Richard]

function _R.Player:IsModerator()

You have to access the meta table.

[cis.joshb]

What do you mean?
The code I think is right:
[lua]
ModTable = {MyID, MyFriendsID, AnotherMod'sID}

function Player.IsModerator(ply)
if table.HasValue(ModTable, ply:SteamID()) then
return true
else
return false
end
end
[/lua]

[editline]26th March 2011[/editline]

Later it will be used as
[lua]
function ModeratorModels(ply)
if ply:IsModerator() then
ply:SetModel("models/player/combine_soldier.mdl")
end
end
[/lua]
is this right?

[DreBly]

To add to what Drew told you, just do
[lua]
function _R.Player:IsModerator()
return table.HasValue(ModTable, self:SteamID())
end
[/lua]

then you can do ply:IsModerator()

[Drew P. Richard]

[lua]
local function GroupModels(ply)
if ply:IsSuperAdmin() then
ply:SetModel("models/player/combine_super_soldier.mdl")
elseif ply:IsAdmin() then
ply:SetModel("models/player/police.mdl")
else
ply:SetModel("models/player/group01/male_01.mdl")
end
end
hook.Add("PlayerLoadout","GroupModels",GroupModels)
[/lua]

Here's the code you wrote above structured better, checking it in a different order makes it more efficient.

[cis.joshb]

So if you check ply:IsAdmin() after ply:IsSuperAdmin(), it wont set Super Admin's model twice? Because ply:IsAdmin() applies to S-Admins and normal Admins.

[Drew P. Richard]

It won't go any further if they are a super admin.