Is it possible for a character entity to recover from ragdoll?

I would like to have it so when my characters die. They can respawn later. Is this possible? Or does this require me to run a death animation and then hide the entity and move it? Is it not possible to have an entity get hurt to the point it ragdolls and then disappears and reappears elsewhere with recovered health?

If you don't mean for it to physically get back up can you not Spawn it again?

It would be so handy if someone could develop a Respawn(e) command to hand it lol

Though i feel once an entity dies and ragdolls when reaching its exit function there is no way to recover internally to teleport it back to the respawn location with full health.

" If you don't mean for it to physically get back up can you not Spawn it again?"

By saying this Smallg does it mean you can get the NPC to get back up after ragdoll? And carry on as normal or not.?

you can't make it smoothly animate to stand up no, the ragdoll is not an animation and so you would need to move all the limbs manually to recover from ragdoll as the limbs would always be in a different location each death (vs an animation which is predetermined and could be reversed easily)... you could in theory make an animation to stand up from lying on the floor and before you started it move all the limbs to the animations starting position - but while there are some limb commands available i don't think there's enough to achieve it.
it would be much easier to do this with some predetermined death animations.


as i said, you can use the Spawn(e) command to magically make the entity alive again as if nothing happened - i.e. standing and ready to go.

this is what i see happening in Fallout and Skyrim where enemies are unconscious after being stunned and then they get up. There is usually a big flinch in the animations that forces them into a get up animation after ragdolling.



When using Spawn(e) does this return the entity to its int function? or does it return it to the very first line in the lua script?

Looks like Im no alone on this issue :/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/266310/discussions/0/610573751157196882/

If it helps any here are my re-writes of smallg's original respawning scripts.

They are specifically written for slaur3n's cowboy game but you might be able to compare them to the way you are doing it to see what is different because I tested these today and they worked.