How do I yank a ragdoll out of view (Fix'd, solution inside)

[boj]

Sorry for the thread spam... I was just wondering how I would solve this problem:

What I have is a corpse in a vent and I want it to be pulled round the corner but I have no idea how to do it... I tried everything from parenting it to a door to using a muscle to using balljoints.
Whatever I tried just made the ragdoll sort of jiggle a little.

Does anyone know how to do this?

A picture of the corpse in question:

[marnamai]

parent the ragdoll to a func_tracktrain on a path, by using a phsy_ragdollcontraint

ragdoll contraint settings

entity 1: name of the tracktrain
entity 2: name of the ragdoll

[Dives]

Easier to use a func_movelinear than a tracktrain.

[boj]

hmm... I couldnt get either of those to work... would either of you like me to send you my bsp files to try and fix it?

[marnamai]

I can't do anything with a bsp file, a vmf however that's a different story :p

feel free to pm a link

[boj]

woops, that's what i meant.

[TechieUK]

Couldn't you stick a trigger_push set to only push physics objects on the ragdoll and enable it when you get to the place where you see it? Then just have a trigger_once that kills it or something.

I can't do anything with a bsp file, a vmf however that's a different story :p

feel free to pm a link

Decompile it?

[marnamai]

decompiling is messy

[TechieUK]

True.

[boj]

Ah, Marnamai fixed my problem, here's what he said:

Its pretty much the same setup as you had, however you didn't have any paths for the tracktrain.

I replaced the func_tracktrain with a func_movelinear (its a simpler entity)
Used the phys_ragdollcontraint to contrain the prop_ragdoll to the func_movelinear
I unchecked the debris option on the ragdoll (not sure if required?)
The trigger_once sends an input to the func_movelinear to open and then the func_movelinear sends a break input to the contrains and then with a small delay, kills both the ragdoll and itself.