Would like to know specifically what it's for and if someone could give a short/brief example of it's use so I can understand it a bit better. Thanks!

It's for setting the force on the limb of an entity when in rag doll mode (i.e. when a character is dead).

You would use it to imitate the force of a bullet, for example, hitting a particular body part.

limb is the limb id to apply the force, x, y. z is the direction of the force (i.e. a vector) and v presumably is the force to apply.

I would search the ai scripts to see where (if at all) it is used.

Thanks AmenMoses for your quick response. What you said brings to my mind another question and that is, can you force an entity to ragdoll without killing them? Like if you want them to collapse and appear either dead, unconscious for a time. I've searched the forums, but all I can find is people trying to by-pass the death of the entity, which Lee gives the example of applying 1000 points to them, then when they reach a level similar 1000 - their original health they can fake death. I can see how this would work if the entity has an animation that makes them appear dead, but nobody shows or explains a way to get the entity to ragdoll without killing them, which then puts them on a short clock to destruction. Any insights into this would be greatly appreciated. I've been reading gameguru scripts and trying stuff out, but still very newbie about it. Thanks again, AmenMoses, you've been very helpful!

Backup your module_combatshoot file, sit on C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Game Guru\Files\scriptbank\ai

Replace it with file attached below.

It works pressing E key, so soldier does ragdoll anim, and pressing E key again, he does the idle anim, and kill me. LOL
Backup too this file since you can lose it via the next update, and/or steam file check.



It can help you as start point, if I've got your point right.

That's not ragdoll though...

as far as I'm aware, no you can't make a character ragdoll without killing it because you need the animations to stop being called and that only happens when you trigger the engine to do so via telling it the character is dead.

Fake ragdoll test1 video.

Thanks 3com, but smallg understood what I was asking. I understand how to trigger animations, was just wondering how to use ragdoll instead since it's a more realistic and less work for the animator. It's a shame that death is hardcoded. Needs to have a hook that we can use to control what happens to the entity on death instead of having the system automatically destroyed it, especially since I think we cannot load entities from scripts on the fly during runtime. Thanks smallg for explaining things better and thanks again 3com for trying to help!

if you don't want the engine to remove the entity you need to keep calling the preexit(e) function

however i don't think it's possible to make an entity get back up once it is dead, best you could do is spawn a new one in the same place and make it play some "get up" animation - but of course it won't line up the limbs to the old characters ragdoll and there's not enough commands in place for limbs yet to fake it ... still enough to look good if you used a few variations of the animation but if you're going to do that then you might as well just make some death animations and you end up with 3coms solution

@ DarinM1967
Ok now I've got your point right, sorry.
Dead entity is full destroyed for sake of the perfomance, thougt.
About create entitity a fly in game mode, I suggested that before, it's a good idea.

@ smallg
Your right mate about ragdool,, it's the end, unless the dead man is called Lazarus.

I was missed that quote about SetPreExitValue command, miss many things that year I was away
Thanks for the tip.

Thanks again smallg. The only problem I have with your solution of just spawning up new entity to replace the dead one, is if I understand correctly about loading entities, is that you can't load them from scripts on the fly during runtime and can only use the entities you've already placed on your area/level in the editor. Is that right or can I load/create new entity from the computers folders/files?

You're right that you can't create new entities from scripts but you can spawn the same character again (I think, been a long time since I tried it but you should be able to still, it just might cause a few issues - at least last time I tried it it was broken).