HL2RP Getting Clothing to Match Playermodels

Hey, so I have a question that is probably dumb and really easy, but I just can't wrap my head around what it is I'm doing wrong, so here goes.

As you may be aware, the resistance uniform from base hl2rp somehow manages to pick the rebel outfit that matches your playermodel's head (at least for vanilla models and most tnb packs, etc.) despite its' function only consisting of

Code:

-- Called when a replacement is needed for a player.
function ITEM:GetReplacement(player)
    if (string.lower( player:GetModel() ) == "models/humans/group01/jasona.mdl") then
        return "models/humans/group03/male_02.mdl";
    end;
end;

So, as I'm creating a custom clothing item, I have the exact same function, and I set the ITEM.group equal to the group that is listed in the model path for the model I'm trying to set the clothing item to, but then when I test my custom clothing item it just turns me into an error.

For reference, I set the ITEM.group to "group011"
And this is the model path:

Code:

 models/thespireroleplay/humans/group011/male_09.mdl 

Also, sorry for always being an idiot who can't figure sh*t out but this one just has me stumped. Thanks in advance to anybody who can help!

 

Code:

--[[
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   without permission of its author ([email protected]ail.com).

   Clockwork was created by Conna Wiles (also known as kurozael.)
   http://cloudsixteen.com/license/clockwork.html
--]]

local Clockwork = Clockwork;

local ITEM = Clockwork.item:New(nil, true);
ITEM.name = "TSR Clothes Base";
ITEM.model = "models/props_c17/suitcase_passenger_physics.mdl";
ITEM.weight = 2;
ITEM.useText = "Wear";
ITEM.category = "Clothing";
ITEM.description = "A suitcase full of clothes.";

-- A function to get the model name.
function ITEM:GetModelName(player, group)
   local modelName = nil;
   
   if (!player) then
     player = Clockwork.Client;
   end;
   
   if (group) then
     modelName = string.gsub(string.lower(Clockwork.player:GetDefaultModel(player)), "^.-/.-/", "");
   else
     modelName = string.gsub(string.lower(Clockwork.player:GetDefaultModel(player)), "^.-/.-/.-/", "");
   end;
   
   if (!string.find(modelName, "male") and !string.find(modelName, "female")) then
     if (group) then
       group = "group05/";
     else
       group = "";
     end;
     
     if (SERVER) then
       if (player:GetGender() == GENDER_FEMALE) then
         return group.."female_04.mdl";
       else
         return group.."male_05.mdl";
       end;
     elseif (player:GetGender() == GENDER_FEMALE) then
       return group.."female_04.mdl";
     else
       return group.."male_05.mdl";
     end;
   else
     return modelName;
   end;
end;

-- Called when the item's client side model is needed.
function ITEM:GetClientSideModel()
   local replacement = nil;
   
   if (self.GetReplacement) then
     replacement = self:GetReplacement(Clockwork.Client);
   end;
   
   if (type(replacement) == "string") then
     return replacement;
   elseif (self("replacement")) then
     return self("replacement");
   elseif (self("group")) then
     return "models/thespireroleplay/humans/"..self("group").."/"..self:GetModelName();
   end;
end;

-- Called when a player changes clothes.
function ITEM:OnChangeClothes(player, bIsWearing)
   if (bIsWearing) then
     local replacement = nil;
     
     if (self.GetReplacement) then
       replacement = self:GetReplacement(player);
     end;
     
     if (type(replacement) == "string") then
       player:SetModel(replacement);
     elseif (self("replacement")) then
       player:SetModel(self("replacement"));
     elseif (self("group")) then
       player:SetModel("models/thespireroleplay/humans/"..self("group").."/"..self:GetModelName(player));
     end;
   else
     Clockwork.player:SetDefaultModel(player);
     Clockwork.player:SetDefaultSkin(player);
   end;
   
   if (self.OnChangedClothes) then
     self:OnChangedClothes(player, bIsWearing);
   end;
end;

-- Called to get whether a player has the item equipped.
function ITEM:HasPlayerEquipped(player, bIsValidWeapon)
   if (CLIENT) then
     return Clockwork.player:IsWearingItem(self);
   else
     return player:IsWearingItem(self);
   end;
end;

-- Called when a player has unequipped the item.
function ITEM:OnPlayerUnequipped(player, extraData)
   player:RemoveClothes();
end;

-- Called when a player drops the item.
function ITEM:OnDrop(player, position)
   if (player:IsWearingItem(self)) then
     Clockwork.player:Notify(player, "You cannot drop this while you are wearing it!");
     return false;
   end;
end;

-- Called when a player uses the item.
function ITEM:OnUse(player, itemEntity)
   if (self("whitelist") and !table.HasValue(self("whitelist"), player:GetFaction())) then
     Clockwork.player:Notify(player, "Your faction cannot wear this clothing!");
     return false;
   end;
   
   if (player:Alive() and !player:IsRagdolled()) then
     if (!self.CanPlayerWear or self:CanPlayerWear(player, itemEntity) != false) then
       player:SetClothesData(self);
       return true;
     end;
   else
     Clockwork.player:Notify(player, "You cannot do this action at the moment!");
   end;

   return false;
end;

if (CLIENT) then
   function ITEM:GetClientSideInfo()
     if (!self:IsInstance()) then return; end;
     
     if (Clockwork.player:IsWearingItem(self)) then
       return "Is Wearing: Yes";
     else
       return "Is Wearing: No";
     end;
   end;
end;

Clockwork.item:Register(ITEM);

Use this item base instead. Replace "clothes_base" in your item(s) with "tsr_clothes_base" and it should work fine.

 

I'm assuming if I do so I name the file accordingly?

Edit: The answer is yes.

Second Edit: Alright so, I tried using this code, it worked with the base hl2 models (yay!) but unfortunately I guess I was unclear. I was attempting to use models from the same pack as the ones I'm switching to, which have the same model path...

models/thespireroleplay/humans/group004/male_06.mdl

And, upon hovering over the error model it creates in my inventory, I can see that it is attempting to load, with the example of the clothing model with group 011...

models/thespireroleplay/humans/group011/group004/male_06.mdl

So, how would one make it ignore that group004 from the character's base model to get the clothing to work? (The solution would ideally apply to group### not just group004 as there are many group model options I intend to have as the base.

I will, however, experiment, google, etc. and keep working at it until I get a response though, so I might post my solution here for sharing purposes but if not then I'm still struggling.

By the way, thank you Viz, while it didn't do exactly what I wanted the clothes base you whipped up made a whole lot of the junk in the item bases make sense to me that I didn't understand at all before, so thank you.

Third Edit: I'm not sure why it works, but I found a fix. In the section where it has two lines of code that look like this:

Code:

if (group) then
     modelName = string.gsub(string.lower(Clockwork.player:GetDefaultModel(player)), "^.-/.-/", "");
   else
     modelName = string.gsub(string.lower(Clockwork.player:GetDefaultModel(player)), "^.-/.-/.-/", "");
   end;

I changed it to look like this:

Code:

if (group) then
     modelName = string.gsub(string.lower(Clockwork.player:GetDefaultModel(player)), "^.-/.-/", "");
   else
     modelName = string.gsub(string.lower(Clockwork.player:GetDefaultModel(player)), "^.-/.-/.-/.-/", "");
   end;

Now the Spire Roleplay models I was using are working, which is what I needed, so yay.

Perhaps somebody more knowledgeable than me can tell you why that worked, but I think it has to do with the number of sections of folders within which the model is stored. So, by having an additional .-/ there it caused it to delve one level deeper, thus removing the group from the model names in order to make it work.