These are the required items, you will need them to be able to customize your Halo 4 Spartans.

Easy Bodygroups:
http://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104604943

Easy Bonemerge:
http://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=170917418

Optional (items):

Sub-Material Tool:
http://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=405793043

Make sure you have these subscribed and downloaded into Garry's Mod.

- Make sure your Playermodel is one of the Halo 4 Spartans, go into the bodygroup tab, and disable everything by setting it's value to 4, the techsuit is fine, that's why it doesn't have a bodygroup setting:

- Spawn a ragdoll of the spartan playermodel, that's this, everything with the suffix _pm:

Everything after the PM I'm hovering over is a PM, the ones above are NPCs and the female spartans if you have them.

- Next, give him the base color you want, use the Color tool located in the Render tab on the right side of the Spawn menu:

- Finally, use Easy Bonemerge to merge the colored PM to yourself. To do that, if you don't know how, you Right Click the ragdoll, press E and Right Click to select yourself, then Left Click to bonemerge it:

- Done:

Now, let's say you followed the steps above, and they worked, but now you want to move on and customize your Spartan, by giving them different armor pieces and colors?

- Set up your PM in the PM list like before:

Now, for customizing;

Say, you want the shoulders and arms from this one:

But the helmet from this:

Or the torso from this:

And the leg armor from this:

- Spawn them all (you'll know from the helmets which ones I'm talking about):

- Use Easy Bodygroups and disable all the parts you don't want on each ragdoll:

- Now Color what you want to be the base color first on what ever parts you want to be, I'll go blue for the helmet, and torso. Then give what ever remaining parts the secondary color of your choice, I'll go red for the shoulders, arms, and legs:

- Now bonemerge them all one by one to yourself, and you're done:

The techsuits are overlapping, that's because you cannot disable the techsuits. They were able to be disabled before, but I took out that feature because people were complaining that one could run around invisible on servers, and I'm unsure if that's against any rules (I mean to have a permanent invisible PM), but I don't want to take any chances.

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Since all the spartan pms have bodygroups, play around with what armor pieces you like, mix and match what pieces you like. If you want a shoulder armor from one model, for the left arm, and a different armor for the right arm from a different model, you'd have to spawn them both obviously, and disable the right shoulder armor from the left shoulder model, and vice versa.

The principle still applies, even if you don't want a multi-colored pm because of that one issue, you could just use one color, but still customize what armor pieces you want, that's why I made them non-colorable via the playermodel tab.

Example using what we've learned above:

Spawn models, edit bodygroups to liking:


Color:


Use Easy Bonemerge



End Results



If you want to know what Sub-Material tool is for, have a look at it on it's workshop page. It's included in this guide because it can be used to "color" the Spartan's visor. I won't cover how to use it, but hopefully this picture can give an idea:

Hopefully this guide is more understandable compared to the previous guide, and has finally helped you customize the Halo 4 PM Spartans. If not, then;