Hi all,
I’m here to share a ragdoll script I ended up with after improving a rudimentary ragdoll script. A user suggested I post the improved ragdoll script as a community resource because I ended up with something very useful, as apparently keeping hats on dead players while having persisting bodies is a tricky problem to solve.
It is a result of this post:
Ragdoll On Death Isn’t Working - Help and Feedback / Scripting Support - DevForum | Roblox
and the baseline code was written by StarJ3M
-Advantages over other typical ragdoll scripts:
Is compatible with both R6 and R15, though primarily with R15.
Makes use of network ownership to eliminate stuttering when the player transitions from alive to dead, even in high latency environments.
Keeps hats and clothing attached to the character.
Dead bodies persist after the player respawns.
-Limitations
Due to the way joints are made, R6 ragdolls tend to not have the best joints for them, and may look funny at times. If you care about this and/or your game uses primarily R6, you might want to find a script tailored to R6.
I also did not manually set Twist limits on most body parts, therefore they can twist to funny angles.
Heres the script. It can go anywhere scripts run, i.e. Workspace or ServerScriptService:
If you want bodies to despawn after a while, you can uncomment out line 7 and change the number to how long you want bodies to persist
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Char)
Char:WaitForChild("Humanoid").BreakJointsOnDeath = false
Char.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
local m = Instance.new("Model")
m.Parent = game.Workspace
--game:GetService("Debris"):AddItem(m,60)
local g = Char:GetChildren()
Char.HumanoidRootPart.CanCollide = false
for _, v in pairs(Char:GetDescendants()) do
if v.Parent == Char then
v.Parent = m
end
if v:IsA("BasePart") then
v:SetNetworkOwner(Player)
end
if v:IsA("Motor6D") then
local Att0, Att1 = Instance.new("Attachment"), Instance.new("Attachment")
Att0.CFrame = v.C0
Att1.CFrame = v.C1
Att0.Parent = v.Part0
Att1.Parent = v.Part1
local BSC = Instance.new("BallSocketConstraint")
BSC.Attachment0 = Att0
BSC.Attachment1 = Att1
BSC.Parent = v.Part0
if v.Part1.Name == "Head" then
BSC.LimitsEnabled = true
BSC.TwistLimitsEnabled = true
end
v.Enabled = false
end
if v.Name == "AccessoryWeld" then
local WC = Instance.new("WeldConstraint")
WC.Part0 = v.Part0
WC.Part1 = v.Part1
WC.Parent = v.Parent
v.Enabled = false
end
if v.Name == "Head" and v:IsA("BasePart") then
v.CanCollide = true
end
end
end)
end)
end)
Edit: Improved organization and fixed wrap targets being added in
