Setting a players RagDoll position

[Pegpro]

Hi all, I'm trying to set the players ragdoll so that is spawns crouched, I've tried a variety of different methods and none of them work quite right.

I'm using the following code to hook the player death

function PlayerDied( pl, weapon, killer )
    -- Code here
end
hook.Add( "PlayerDeath", "PlayerDeath", PlayerDied )

I'm then trying to set the sequence of the player before/after they die, however the player entity seems to ignore this and the radgoll spawns at standing height.

local sequence = pl:LookupSequence("crouchidlehide")

pl:SetPlaybackRate( 1.0 )
pl:SetSequence(sequence)
pl:ResetSequence( sequence )
pl:SetCycle( 1 )

sequence = pl:GetSequence()
pl:SetColor(Color(255,255,255,255))
pl:CreateRagdoll()

So I tried setting the ragdoll to a sequence, which is also ignored:

pl:CreateRagdoll()
local ent = pl:GetRagdollEntity()

sequence = ent:LookupSequence("crouchidlehide")
ent:SetPlaybackRate( 1.0 )
ent:SetSequence(sequence)
ent:ResetSequence( sequence )
ent:SetCycle( 1 )

I tried a different tact, spawning a prop_physics and trying to call BecomeRagdollOnClient(), but nothing happens the prop just despawned

--local ent = ents.Create("npc_zombie") -- This creates our zombie entity
pl:DrawViewModel( false )
pl:StripWeapons()

local doll = ents.Create( "prop_physics" )

doll:SetModel( "models/Humans/Group01/Male_05.mdl" )
doll:SetPos( pl:GetPos() )
doll:SetAngles( pl:GetAngles() )
doll:SetCollisionGroup( COLLISION_GROUP_WEAPON )
doll:Spawn()

sequence = doll:LookupSequence("crouchidlehide")
doll:SetPlaybackRate( 1.0 )
doll:SetSequence(sequence)
doll:ResetSequence( sequence )
doll:SetCycle( 1 )

doll:BecomeRagdollOnClient()

We also tried spawning and npc, getting them to crouch, but couldn't call kill() on the npc and a few other permutations of spawning props/ragdolls/npc's

Does anyone know if it is possible to set the sequence/position of a ragdoll to look like it is crouched? How do you do it?

[Mossman1223]

local doll = ents.Create( "prop_physics" )

Try making that a prop_ragdoll instead.

[Pegpro]

Same issue! It's like entity set sequence doesn't work for these models?