[TTT] Telling client about their ragdoll?

[serfma]

[del]Whenever a player dies, I would like to network their ragdoll to them. Currently, a client does not know which ragdoll is theirs until someone searches the body. I've attempted to send ply.server_ragdoll:EntIndex() as an unsigned 16-bit int, and then get the entity by printing Entity( uint ) on the client in net.Receive(), however it returns a null entity. I've printed the uint to verify the int and then attempted to print `Entity( uint )` outside of the net.Receive() and it printed the ragdoll succesfully. I'm totally out of ideas and checked out how ttt does it, attempted to replicate it, but I'm obviously missing something.

What lead me to it:

[I]cl_search.lua[/I]

local function StoreSearchResult(search)
   if search.owner then
      -- if existing result was not ours, it was detective's, and should not
      -- be overwritten
      local ply = search.owner
      if (not ply.search_result) or ply.search_result.show then

         ply.search_result = search

         -- this is useful for targetid
         local rag = Entity(search.eidx)
         if IsValid(rag) then
            rag.search_result = search
         end
      end
   end
end

local rag = Entity(search.eidx)

search.eidx is the ragdolls entity index sent to the client from the server.

In [I]player.lua[/I], ply.server_ragdoll is set to the created ragdoll:

   -- Create ragdoll and hook up marking effects
   local rag = CORPSE.Create(ply, attacker, dmginfo)
   ply.server_ragdoll = rag -- nil if clientside

Any ideas?[/del]

Solved it.

The issue: By time it was being called, the ragdoll wasn't actually existing client-side. >.>