Clientside Models for Error Playermodels

[Sodak]

Hey dear devs,

im working like most people with workshop download for my playermodel pointshop stuff..

But i dont want that they download the workshop while joining.. they could to !workshop for the collection.. (long join times for mch playermodels)

Im searching for a function that i can use for clients if they see other Players with Error.mdl get replaced for them with Kleiner.mdl for example so i mean.

if ply dont get the valid mdl.
clientsidemodel = kleiner

so just work for clients so no ply:setmodel stuff..

does someone know which functions and hooks i should use for this..

(i dont need a finished code just hooks that should work and the clientsidemodel funciton maybe some explainations of it..)

thanks a lot

[John NA]

I'm pretty sure setmodel works for the client and the server.

If you're okay with using setmodel (which works for the client) then use these steps:

You need a server and client script
After you get those, use the hook GM/PlayerSpawn to send a precached net message to all connected clients with the ply who joined as an argument
After you send a message to the client, make the client receive it using net.Receive
Next, use Entity/GetModel to get the model of player
Then. check if the model is an error model, if it is then use Entity/SetModel to set the model of player who just spawned

Make sure to precache the kleiner model by using util.PrecacheModel .

[SweptThrone]

i'm pretty sure Entity.GetModel will still return the model that the player can't see, it doesn't replace the model's path when it can't find it.
i think the only solution would be to just either send the models to connecting clients or have less playermodels.

[John NA]

If what SweptThrone said is true, you can try using this

util.IsValidModel

util.PrecacheModel( modelpath )

if !util.IsValidModel(player:GetModel()) then
player:SetModel( modelpath )
end

[Sodak]

I will try your suggestions. hopefully he replace all error models for the client... so it must be that

Player X without Workshop Addons joins see other Playermodels as error
The net message gets to the player .
Player X models that he sees gets replaced as kleiner for him but the other just see their original model