[Dragokas]

Originally Posted by Shadowysn I wanted to attempt spawning survivor ragdolls without removing the original death model. So far, I got the ragdoll death to an extent.

I'm not compeletely sure what do you try to accomplish ... "convert" client sided ragdoll to server-sided?

In L4D1 (not sure about L4d2) ragdoll entity is valid for a very small amount of time: "player_death" with EventHookMode_Pre and no more valid on Post-event.

A trick is to kill it right there and create your own by reproducing original preperties, something like this:

PHP Code:

#pragma semicolon 1
#pragma newdecls required

#include <sourcemod>
#include <sdktools>
#tryinclude <LMCCore>

public void OnPluginStart()
{
    HookEvent("player_death", player_death, EventHookMode_Pre);
}

public Action player_death(Event event, const char [] name, bool dontBroadcast)
{
    static char Tank_Model[PLATFORM_MAX_PATH];
    int client = GetClientOfUserId(event.GetInt("userid"));    
    
    //required checks
    //if (client && IsClientInGame(client) && IsInfected(client, ZOMBIECLASS_TANK))
    {
        // note: tank_killed event is too late here to retrieve ragdoll entity!
        int ragdoll = GetEntPropEnt(client, Prop_Send, "m_hRagdoll"); // CCSRagdoll
        if (ragdoll && IsValidEntity(ragdoll)) {
            AcceptEntityInput(ragdoll, "Kill");
        }
        
        int r,g,b,a;
        float vOrigin[3];
        char sColor[16];
        GetClientAbsOrigin(client, vOrigin);
        GetEntityRenderColor(client, r,g,b,a);
        Format(sColor, sizeof(sColor), "%i %i %i", r, g, b);
        
        /*
        int iOverlayModel = -1;
        
        #if defined _LMCCore_included
            if( bLMC_Available )
                iOverlayModel = LMC_GetClientOverlayModel(client);    
        #endif
        */
        
        //GetEntPropString(iOverlayModel < 1 ? client : iOverlayModel, Prop_Data, "m_ModelName", Tank_Model, sizeof(Tank_Model));
        GetEntPropString(client, Prop_Data, "m_ModelName", Tank_Model, sizeof(Tank_Model));
        
        CreateTankRagdoll(vOrigin, Tank_Model, sColor);
    }
}

void CreateTankRagdoll(float pos[3], char[] sModel, char[] sColor)
{
    static int body;
    body = CreateEntityByName("prop_ragdoll");
    if (body != -1) {
        DispatchKeyValue(body, "model", sModel);
        DispatchKeyValue(body, "RenderColor", sColor);
        DispatchKeyValue(body, "spawnflags", "4");
        DispatchSpawn(body);
        TeleportEntity(body, pos, NULL_VECTOR, NULL_VECTOR);
        SetEntityKillTimer(body, 60.0);
    }
}

stock void SetEntityKillTimer(int ent, float time)
{
    char sRemove[64];
    Format(sRemove, sizeof(sRemove), "OnUser1 !self:Kill::%f:1", time);
    SetVariantString(sRemove);
    AcceptEntityInput(ent, "AddOutput");
    AcceptEntityInput(ent, "FireUser1");
} 


Apply original velocity and direction is the only required to add to finish what you want.
This sample was for my tank plugin.