[Mr. Zero]

Restore Ragdolls

About:

Requsted plugin by Sev. Upon death Survivors will no longer turn into a static death model, but rather use a ragdoll as it was in L4D1. This of course renders defibs completely useless so I recommend you either replace them with medkits or turn defib spawning off.

This does not use the net-budget heavy prop_ragdoll entity, but rather trick the game into thinking the Survivor is falling from a ledge as Survivors falling from a ledge does not produce a static death model.

To remove defibs:
Put director_convert_pills_to_defib_health 0.0 convar in your server.cfg. That should eliminate most dynamicly created defibs. The static placed defibs will require to be stripped out, using Stripper. You can put the following into your global stripper file:

filter:
{
	"classname" "weapon_defibrillator_spawn"
}

{
	"classname" "weapon_defibrillator"
}

modify:
{
	match:
	{	
		"classname" "weapon_item_spawn"
		"item12" "1"
	}
	replace:
	{
		"item12" "0"
	}
}

Description:

Restores ragdolls of Survivors, upon death, instead of static death model.

Known Problems / Things to Notice:

• This plugin require L4DStocks to compile.

Cvars:

No cvars are implemented in this plugin.

Changelog:

Version 1.3.0 (2014-01-10)
~ Changed method of restoring ragdolls to something cleaner

Version 1.2 (2013-04-26)
~ Fixed some stuff

Version 1.1 (2012-10-21)
~ Fixed Witch kill not applying ragdoll.

Version 1.0 (2012-10-21)
Initial release

[explosivetaco]

Ahh Kool. Maybe When i open a l4d server. ill use it. MAYBE!

[Sev]

Many many props deserved.

[explosivetaco]

Good Job!

[noctua]

ragdolls can create horrible lags in mp-games

[Sev]

Haven't noticed any lags.

They are client side ragdolls not the expensive server side ones.

At least in Coop with 4 + players

Then again I haven't used them yet in a vs game, maybe down the road if I care about VS again.

[noctua]

dont tested this plugin, but i added some ragdolls on a rope and prop_dynamic with animations, both creates lags (+50-80ms) if many zombie spawning. same with ragdolls stuck in map geometry

[SyluxLockjaw100]

Thank you so much for this! Now my 12 player survival server is better with this!

Good job on the plugin!

[Mr. Zero]

Originally Posted by noctua ragdolls can create horrible lags in mp-games

Originally Posted by noctua dont tested this plugin, but i added some ragdolls on a rope and prop_dynamic with animations, both creates lags (+50-80ms) if many zombie spawning. same with ragdolls stuck in map geometry

That is what I'm talking about in the original post. This plugin does not create any entities or use prop_dynamic. Instead it "tricks" the game into thinking the survivor is falling from a ledge upon death.

Survivors that fall from a ledge does not produce a death model but a client sided ragdoll. Therefore there is no noticeable lag on the client nor server.

[noctua]

thanks for the explanation