Implementing bodygroups into NPC code?

[Danp1970]

Hello guys, I need a small tidbit of help with spawning an NPC with a set of body groups.

I recently learned about the nifty Skin function in NPC coding that allows you to spawn an npc with a skin.

I've made 2 NPCs so far, one with a skin, and one without. I have intentions of making 2 more NPCS with the same model (one with a skin and one without), but both varients use body groups. The closest thing I've found to adding body groups is SetBodyGroup and SetBodyGroups but I don't know how to implement it. Can anyone give me a hand?

Here's the coding so far:
local Category = "FEAR 3 Enemy Forces"

local NPC = {     Name = "ATC Replica Soldier",
                Class = "npc_combine_s",
                Model = "models/fear3/npc_combine_s/replica1.mdl",
                Weapons = { "weapon_smg1", "weapon_ar2" },
                Health = "100",
                Squadname = "fear3_s",
                Numgrenades = "6",
                Category = Category    }

list.Set( "NPC", "npc_atc_replica", NPC )

local NPC = {     Name = "ATC Replica Shotgun Soldier",
                Class = "npc_combine_s",
                Model = "models/fear3/npc_combine_s/replica1.mdl",
                Skin = 1,
                Weapons = { "weapon_shotgun" },
                Health = "100",
                Squadname = "fear3_s",
                Numgrenades = "6",
                Category = Category    }

list.Set( "NPC", "npc_atc_replica_shotgunner", NPC )

[Zenolisk]

You could add a OnEntityCreated() hook and check for the NPC like this

hook.Add("OnEntityCreated", "fear2bg", function()
    if (SERVER) then
        timer.Simple(0.1, function() --Just to be safe
            if ent:IsNPC() and ent:GetClass() == "npc_combine_s" then
                ent:SetBodygroup(0, 0)
            end
        end)
    end
end)

However this also means that all Combine soldiers get their bodygroup set, you might want to check their name or something instead of Class.

[Rubat]

I will look into adding bodygroup support to the "NPC" list for a future update.

[Danp1970]

Awesome, thanks for considering adding a form of bodygroups to NPCS. Hopefully implementation won't be too crazy or troublesome.

[Rubat]

The format will be as follows:

AddNPC( {
Name = "Zombie",
Class = "npc_zombie",
Category = Category,
KeyValues = {
SquadName = "zombies" },
BodyGroups = {
[ 1 ] = 0,
[ 2 ] = 2,
}
} )

Don't mind the formatting, the forum code tags fucks it up.

[Danp1970]

So will 1 and 2 be based on the amount of body groups, or the actual name of said bodygroup?

[Rubat]

1 and 2 are the IDs, 0 and 2 are the values to Entity/SetBodygroup