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Ishtvan

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Ishtvan

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When I look at the skeleton, we don't seem to have any joints higher up towards the head than Spine2, which is about at the small of the back. Is that correct?

 

This leads to slightly funny AI ragdoll behavior, because instead of the head rotating around the neck, everything above Spine2 rotates about Spine2, and you end up with AI sort of bending their chests out when you grab them by the head, instead of pivoting the head around the neck.

 

This is not a major issue, and it's probably too late to change anything skeleton-wise now, but I'm just curious if it's true that we don't have any neck-joints higher than Spine2? What joint do AI use to turn their heads?

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We have a neck and head joint as well. It's just that the head is attached to Spine2. The neck and head joints control the actual movement of the head during animations, but they might not have any control over movement in ragdoll state, since the head isn't technically attached to them. I'm pretty sure the "headcontrol" and "neckcontrol" spawnargs are already set on the ragdolls (might be worth a look though) but they just don't do anything in ragdoll state.

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