Heart joint name?

[Fidcal]

Which is the correct joint name to use to bind a dagger in the heart of a ragdoll. I've tried two or three spine joints, and neck but they are not right. If the player moves the ragdoll the dagger goes out of line. Must be one of these presumably...

 

Neck

 

Spine, Spine1, Spine2, Spine_Dummy, joint8 (Spine2) joint9 (Spine2), leftpad (Spine2), rightpad (Spine2)

 

LeftShoulder

[angua]

There is a cvar for showing their names, could be

 

af_showjointnames 1

 

or something similar, so you can choose the one that comes closest to what you need.

[Springheel]

Try spine1. It controls the area shown in red:

 

 

(assuming the model uses the citywatch skeleton, that is)

[Fidcal]

Thanks. It turns out to be Spine2 which seems to be centre upper chest. This is the houseguard I think. The dagger is rock solid now when I frob the ragdoll. I think Spine 1 was just under but I'm not certain.

 

And the cvar to show joint names is r_showskel 1. Think I'll add that to the wiki.

 

To get the AI to fall precisely where I wanted I set the dagger to hide 0 then triggered it to hide 1 about 10 seconds after map start. Now I need to skin the AI with a bloody tunic. I should've strangled him instead.

[Springheel]

Yes, spine2 is the region higher than above. That seemed a little higher than the heart, but probably either one would work.

[Tels]

Thanks. It turns out to be Spine2 which seems to be centre upper chest. This is the houseguard I think. The dagger is rock solid now when I frob the ragdoll. I think Spine 1 was just under but I'm not certain.

 

And the cvar to show joint names is r_showskel 1. Think I'll add that to the wiki.

 

To get the AI to fall precisely where I wanted I set the dagger to hide 0 then triggered it to hide 1 about 10 seconds after map start. Now I need to skin the AI with a bloody tunic. I should've strangled him instead.

 

Can you add blood decals to his tunic?

[Fidcal]

Yes, this is Plan B. As soon as I looked at the skin I could see it was mirrored so any tweaking would at best have to go centre chest and probably be horrible.

 

So back to my plan A which is a decal. I have just done first placement test to line it up with a plain white cloth texture. Both dagger and decal have to be hide 0 at triggered to appear a few seconds after map start. Tests with the dagger and the AI didn't fall back properly into that chair. There is a bindtoRagdoll but dunno what it does - did not bind for me. Damn, this is not even the right AI, it will be a townsman when I've done I think. Actually, taking this screenie gives me a fun idea for a note pinned to his chest : 'Let this be a lesson to you!"

 

[rebb]

Hah, thats great.

Might be cool to have Zombies attacking the Player with the occasional weapon sticking out of them .

[jdude]

I do believe this man was fed up with studying for his final exams