Checking if a mdl is a playermodel without spawning it.

[Lapin]

Hello, i'm trying to determine if a .mdl (i only have the path) is a playermodel without spawning/caching it.

Here is what i tried :

reading the file with file.Read and checking with string.find if there is the bones : "valvebiped.bip01_head1", "valvebiped.bip01_spine" and \0eyes\0 in it but HL2 models have the same bones so it's not enough.

As far as i know, the simplest way would be to check the sequence, but i need to check if ~5000 models are playermodels so it would make the server crash because of the precache limit.

I may need to use a binary module to get the sequence list of the model without spawning it, since tools to build models can show the list of the animations, i tried to find the source code but i didn't find any.

Any help would be appreciated.

[MysteryPancake]

Just use [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/player_manager/AllValidModels]player_manager.AllValidModels[/url]

local modelpath = 'models/player/kleiner.mdl' -- change this to whatever

if table.HasValue( player_manager.AllValidModels, modelpath ) then
-- it's a playermodel
end

[editline]19th September 2016[/editline]

Of course, that only works if the playermodel is registered as a playermodel (which it is if you can select it to use as a playermodel). If it isn't then just check the model path to see if it includes models/player

[Lapin]

i guess it will do the job, thanks.

I will still keep the slow system if people forget to register playermodels with lua.

[MysteryPancake]

If it comes up in the playermodel selection menu then it is registered though, which is what makes it a playermodel by definition

[Lapin]

Nice to know i wasted two days of work :v: