CRagdollProp

Code classes:

• CRagdollProp
• CBaseAnimating (models)
• CBaseEntity (all ents)

CRagdollProp is a code class in all Source games.

Warning: This entity creates server-side ragdolls, which can create a lot of network traffic. Use them carefully in multiplayer games.

Classnames:

• prop_ragdoll - An entity capable of physically simulating jointed objects, such as a body. Unlike ragdolls created by players or NPCs dying, these have full collision.
• physics_prop_ragdoll (Not in FGD) - Older classname. No reason to use it.

Bug: Setting Model Scale to anything other than 1 will cause the game to crash upon loading the map.

Note: Will not go through portals. They may rarely be tricked into going partway though, and then disappear.

Flags

• 4: Debris - Don't collide with the player or other debris.

• 4096: Use LRU Retirement (Not in FGD) - To do: Uncertain. Probably refers to the Least Recently Used algorithm? No effect seen.

• 8192: Allow Dissolve - Allows the ragdoll to be dissolved by prop_combine_balls. env_entity_dissolver and trigger_physics_trap are always allowed to dissolve. Fizzlers are never allowed.

• 16384: Motion Disabled - Ragdoll starts with motion disabled.

• 32768: Allow stretch - To do: Description.

• 65536: Start Asleep - Don't move until a force acts on the ragdoll.

Keyvalues

Override Animation (angleOverride) <string>

Makes each joint on the ragdoll spawn in a particular position. This is automatically filled in by hammer_update_entity. Don't edit manually except for clearing it out.

Start Disabled (StartDisabled) <boolean>

Makes the model start invisible (but still solid).

Minimum DX Level (mindxlevel) to Maximum DX Level (maxdxlevel) <choices> (only available in games before Left 4 Dead)

Very outdated settings. Their functionality seems to no longer be fully intact. Nearly all players will be at the highest setting anyway because DirectX 8 has been obsolete since 2002. This is still in the FGD for Alien Swarm, but it doesn't use it.

Minimum CPU Level (mincpulevel) to Maximum CPU Level (maxcpulevel) <choices> (available in all games since )

A user with the "effect detail" setting not in this specific range will not see this object.

• 0: Default
• 1: Low
• 2: Medium
• 3: High

Minimum GPU Level (mingpulevel) to Maximum GPU Level (maxgpulevel) <choices> (available in all games since )

A user with the "shader detail" setting not in this specific range will not see this object. Settings are named differently in different games.

• 0: Default
• 1: Very low or Low
• 2: Low or Medium
• 3: Medium or High
• 4: High or Very High

Inputs

StartRagdollBoogie

Makes the ragdoll shake as if it was shocked. Does not take a parameter, unlike what the FGD says.

EnableMotion

Allows the ragdoll to move.

DisableMotion

Prevents the ragdoll from moving.

Enable

Makes the ragdoll visible.

Disable

Makes the ragdoll invisible.

FadeAndRemove <float>

Fades the ragdoll out over the specified number of seconds, then removes it.