Copying existing ragdoll positions onto a new ragdoll?

[Ylsid]

Hi guys,

so for a while I've been trying to work out how to create client ragdolls with the same bone positions as another ragdoll, however I am really rather unsure how to do this given every one of my attempts has failed.
I have a list of modifiable bones as follows:
[lua]local skeleton = {
"ValveBiped.Bip01_Pelvis",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_Spine",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_Spine1",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_Spine2",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_Spine4",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Clavicle",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_R_UpperArm",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Forearm",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Hand",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_L_Clavicle",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_L_UpperArm",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_L_Forearm",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_L_Hand",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Thigh",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Calf",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Foot",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_L_Thigh",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_L_Calf",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_L_Foot",
"ValveBiped.Bip01_Head1"
}[/lua]

and I then store the positions of these bones in a table so I can use this table to set the bone positions of another ragdoll later, similar to this:

[lua]

local bones = {}

for i, bone in pairs(skeleton) do
local boneTable = {}
local boneIndex = plr:LookupBone(bone)
boneTable.index = boneIndex
boneTable.pos = plr:GetManipulateBonePosition(boneIndex)
boneTable.ang = plr:GetManipulateBoneAngles(boneIndex)
table.insert(bones,boneTable)
end
[/lua]

SetBonePosition unfortunately seems extremely buggy and I have been unable to get it to work at all, giving me all this "bone unwritable" rubbish.
This simply makes the skeleton T pose, presumably because the bones have not been "manipulated" but this function is the only way I am able to reliably change the bone positions.

Is there some function I've missed that will let me get the actual bone positions for use with ManipulateBonePositions/Angles?

[Acecool]

Take a look at TTT, corpse.lua on the Create segment. It shows how to copy exact bones from the player to entity to give the appearance of player falling over.