Death Screams and Player Models

[Gaw]

Hello,

I'm currently the main 'coder' for a Trouble in Terrorist Town server, and while my lua skills are lacking, I would still like to do what I can for the server. I'm not an idiot, although I'm not fluent in lua I can still deduce things fairly easily, however I need a bit of help with a few things:

1. How do you setup custom player models? I wouldn't mind a system where I'm able to enter a list of names and those people would have a different player model. Barney for admins, Alyx for clan members and the default model for everyone else for example. I've seen quite a few other servers have this feature so I'm (wrongly?) assuming this is a fairly easy thing to do?

2. How do you setup custom death screams (that play when someone has just died). We have a few inside jokes that would actually make for excellent death screams, but I don't know how to set it up.

I'd really appreciate your help on this, thanks.

[Tommynator]

1) There is table on shared.lua (called ttt_playermodels) with all the models, it does a random thing when a new round starts and changes GAMEMODE.playermodel
You can do that :

local function playerModels()
    local alyx_model = Model("path_to_alyxs_model.mdl")
    local barney_model = Model("path_to_barneys_model")
    for k,v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
        if v:IsAdmin() then 
            v:SetModel(barney_model)
        elseif v:IsUserGroup("clanmembers") then
            v:SetModel(alyx_model)
        end
    end
end
hook.Add("TTTPrepareRound", "TTTPrepareRoundModels", playerModels) 

But then it will ruin the disguiser, so you should also think about changing the playermodel after disguising.
Edit SetDisguise function on weaponry.lua :

local function SetDisguise(ply, cmd, args)
   if not ValidEntity(ply) or not ply:IsActiveTraitor() then return end

   if ply:HasEquipmentItem(EQUIP_DISGUISE) then
      local state = #args == 1 and tobool(args[1])

      ply:SetNWBool("disguised", state)
	  if v:IsAdmin() or ply:IsUserGroup("communitymembers") then
	     if state then
	        ply:SetModel(GAMEMODE.playermodel)
	     else
	        if ply:IsAdmin() then ply:SetModel(Model("blablah")) end
			elseif ply:IsUserGroup("communitymembers") then ply:SetModel(Model("blablah")) end
		 end
	  end
      LANG.Msg(ply, state and "disg_turned_on" or "disg_turned_off")
   end
end

2) See player.lua, there is a table called deathsounds

[Gaw]

That sort of makes sense to me, but I'm not sure exactly how and where I define who is a part of clanmembers, and likewise for IsAdmin (which I assume automatically detects if you're an admin somehow?)

[Tommynator]

It depends, if you're using ULX then you should create a new group called clanmembers.
If you're using Evolve, use ply:EV_IsRank()

[Gaw]

Aha, I understand - thank you very much!

I realise I am being a huge inconvenience right now, but I'm not sure if I want to go ahead with the player model idea anymore. As someone else has pointed out to me, if someone sees someone of x player model kill someone through say a grate (like in Lost Temple), it's going to narrow down the list of killers by an incredible amount.

However, if it was something more subtle like a hat, I think it may work. Problem is, now I need the code to add a hat based on whether someone IsAdmin or if they're in clanmembers. Again, if you could help me out on this I'd really appreciate it.

[Anonymous]

Hats are not subtle. Infact I would notice a hat more. Also

if ply:IsUserGroup( "" ) then -- If player is of usergroup x

[Gaw]

Hats are not subtle. Infact I would notice a hat more. Also

if ply:IsUserGroup( "" ) then -- If player is of usergroup x

A player model is absolutely completely different, a hat is just a small addition to the users head - it's quite clear that the hat would be less noticeable compared to the different player model.

[Tommynator]

Well sorry I never tried adding hats to my game. Maybe taking some codes from hats stores (like this one http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=124632) would help

[Anonymous]

Model Changes/Hat changes provoke RDM

"OMG GUY WHO HAZ A PURPLE SKIN IS TRAITOR"

(Two Guys have Purple skin)

"GOT ONE!"

PurpleSkinnedGuy1 is dead -- Innocent.

PurpleSkinnedGuy2 is dead -- Traitor.

PurpleHattedGuy1 is dead. and so forth.

You get the idea.

[sniperduck]

Model Changes/Hat changes provoke RDM

"OMG GUY WHO HAZ A PURPLE SKIN IS TRAITOR"

(Two Guys have Purple skin)

"GOT ONE!"

PurpleSkinnedGuy1 is dead -- Innocent.

PurpleSkinnedGuy2 is dead -- Traitor.

PurpleHattedGuy1 is dead. and so forth.

You get the idea.

While I do agree, its his server, his choice.

[Apozen]

I think he would already know the scenarios before asking, no need to write it all out next time.

[Gaw]

The hat idea has been investigated, but will sadly not work as any hats used will need to have a bone, and there's very little interesting hats that have one. I'm going to go with the player model idea, but make sure everyone is informed of the change, with an option to opt out if you so wish.

In addition, your scenario makes very little sense; because someone has a 'purple skin', they're going to get rdmed? No. It's not as if there's a traitor weapon that changes your player model hue, there would be little point in it. And if you're implying I'm going to be using crazy player models like Barney the Dinosaur, you'd be wrong, it'd be more like restricting the default player models selected, and then assigning them to a group.

[Anonymous]

^^

[sniperduck]

Hats use the bone form the player like ValveBiped.Bip01_Head1. You would create and ent witht he prop you want as a hat attached to that bone with certain cords(angleing and placement) and other things.

Example hat ent code:

if (CLIENT) then
	item.name = "Afro"
	item.model = Model("models/dav0r/hoverball.mdl") // our model
	
	local scale = Vector(1.6, 1.6, 1.6) 
	
	item.LayoutEntity = function(player, entity)
		local position, angles = vector_zero, angle_zero
		local bone = player:LookupBone("ValveBiped.Bip01_Head1") // our bone
		
		entity:SetModelScale(scale)
		
		if (entity:GetMaterial() != "models/weapons/v_stunbaton/w_shaft01a") then
			entity:SetMaterial("models/weapons/v_stunbaton/w_shaft01a")
		end
		
		if (bone != -1) then
			position, angles = player:GetBonePosition(bone)  
	
			position = position -(angles:Right() *5) +(angles:Forward() *8)
			
			angles:RotateAroundAxis(angles:Right(), 90)
		end
		
		return entity, position, angles
	end
	
	item.LayoutModel = function(panel, entity)
		if (entity:GetMaterial() != "models/weapons/v_stunbaton/w_shaft01a") then
			entity:SetMaterial("models/weapons/v_stunbaton/w_shaft01a")
		end
	end
end

[Tommynator]

Nice nice