Ragdoll that sometimes needs animation..

[nickavv]

Hey all. My character is a ragdoll most of the time, but when he fires his attack, I need to play an animation. The animation is built into his mesh, and he has a skinned mesh renderer, but when I tell it to play, it won’t. He just keeps on being a ragdoll. Is there some setting I can change to his Skinned Mesh Renderer to turn off the ragdollery temporarily, or what? Thanks!

[anon_65074038]

Take a look at this section in the documentation: Rigidbody

Specifically there is an area describing the use of the isKinematic flag with animation. It says there:

For some situations, mainly creating ragdoll effects, it is neccessary to switch control of the object between animations and physics. For this purpose Rigidbodies can be marked isKinematic. While the Rigidbody is marked isKinematic, it will not be affected by collisions, forces, or any other part of physX. This means that you will have to control the object by manipulating the Transform component directly.

I hope that helps.