Get NPC's ragdoll after death

[Feihc]

Does anyone know how to get the ragdoll entity after you kill an NPC?
Goremod does something similar when you shoot an NPC's head off or something like that, but I can't for the life of me figure it out.
There is the "BecomeRagdoll" input for NPC's, but if I do anything to the NPC beforehand the change doesn't carry to the ragdoll.

Thoughts?

[CrashLemon]

Put all ragdolls in a table, if a ragdoll is created and its not in the table, associate it with the last killed npc or whatever and then put the ragdoll in the table.

Not very explanatory but I think you'll get it.

[Feihc]

Trying that, and it works, but how do you propose I tell if the death associated with this ragdoll was from the weapon I am using that I want this effect to be done with

[CrashLemon]

Make a queue table or a single variable that holds this info (from the last killed npc) and fetch it when associating the ragdoll with the death.

[Whiterabbit]

Hook CreateClientsideRagdoll on the client.

[lua] local function npckilled(npc,ragdoll)
print("A Clientside ragdoll is being made by the engine, test if we should override it")
print("npc=",npc,"ragdoll=",ragdoll)
end
hook.Add("CreateClientsideRagdoll", "Superzombie wants your ragdolls", npckilled)[/lua]

The only problem I've had with this is when exploding npcs, if you get gibs or crawling zombies, it may not work 100%.

EDIT: Syntax highlighting seems stuffed up on my Lua...

[Feihc]

[QUOTE=wh1t3rabbit;40807883]Hook CreateClientsideRagdoll on the client.

[lua] local function npckilled(npc,ragdoll)
print("A Clientside ragdoll is being made by the engine, test if we should override it")
print("npc=",npc,"ragdoll=",ragdoll)
end
hook.Add("CreateClientsideRagdoll", "Superzombie wants your ragdolls", npckilled)[/lua]

The only problem I've had with this is when exploding npcs, if you get gibs or crawling zombies, it may not work 100%.

EDIT: Syntax highlighting seems stuffed up on my Lua...[/QUOTE]

Awesome, that works a lot better for what I need. Now my question is, how do I modify the head size on the ClientRagdoll entity?

[Feihc]

Shameless bump, anyone know?

[_Kilburn]

[QUOTE=Feihc;40818894]Shameless bump, anyone know?[/QUOTE]

Someone asked this a few days ago.

[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1272086[/url]

[Feihc]

[QUOTE=_Kilburn;40825785]Someone asked this a few days ago.

[URL]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1272086[/URL][/QUOTE]

That's what I've been trying, but it doesn't seem to work on the clientside ragdolls.
If you have ai_serverragdolls enabled then the ragdolls get created as actual prop_ragdoll entities, and it works fine there,
but if you don't, and they're clientside, then they are C_ClientRagdoll entities and the scaling just makes the entity disappear