Mix Animations with Ragdoll

anon_83017716 · April 1, 2009, 4:22pm

Is it possible to mix animations with a ragdoll:
having a character that is animated but once hit it turns fully or to a certain percentage in a ragdoll.

Can you give me a hint on how to do that?
Or some references where I can find more info?

Thanks.

maxwelldoggums · April 6, 2009, 1:54pm

I believe it is… But I’ve only experimented with animating ragdolls programatically. I would just try setting all of the joints to have a rigidbody and a collider like any other ragdoll, but then I would (in your script) set the rigidbodiy’s “Is Kinematic” property to true. this would ( I think ) set the animation to play on only the kinematic joints, and the ragdoll effect would only be on the non-Kinematic joints.

jonas-echterhoff_1 · April 6, 2009, 2:11pm

Yes, you can mix animations and ragdolls.

AnimationState.AddMixingTransform() is useful for this. It lets you enable animation states for each transform in the objects hierachy.

anon_83017716 · April 6, 2009, 3:19pm

Thanks!

Tinus · April 6, 2009, 7:14pm

It’s definitely possible, Jetpack Brontosaurus seems to use this technique.

maxwelldoggums · April 7, 2009, 1:44pm

I thought Jetpack Brontosaurus was all procedural…