on posing ragdolls

[KalwinSidpen]

Hy everyone,

 

I encountered a problem, while trying to pose a ragdoll via the "toggle g_dragentity 1" and "bind "j" "bindragdoll" method.

While dragging a body part of an entity in midair and "binding" it with j, works just fine; binding another body part (like an Arm) of the same entity however, will result in an error.

 

 

 

 

maybe I'am missing something vital here ?

 

Thanks for any info,

 

Kalwin

[Ishtvan]

D3's didn't provide a way for the ingame editor to bind one ragdoll body part to another. It's possible in the source code, it involves creating a new ragdoll constraint between two parts of the ragdoll. But I don't believe we modded in a way for the editor to set it. We could do that later if there is a strong demand. I had some code I was experimenting with, but it was too experimental to include in its current state.

 

For now, if you really want, you can create a custom AF file for the ragdoll you want to set up in this way. I.e., copy the existing AF file for that character, then add in additional constraints. You'll have to add the new constraints between body parts you want to bind together. You can find information on AF constraints in Section 4 here: http://www.iddevnet.com/doom3/afs.php

 

For example, you would add this to the AF file to stick one hand to another. I found a "spring" constraint works pretty well. This way it will pull in to the length of slack you want, meaning even if the AF starts out in a T pose (which it does in this case), the constraint will still pull the hands together once the AF spawns. If you tried to do a "bind" constraint, it would just snap in place at whatever position they were currently at (which wouldn't work well when spawning in the T pose).

 

spring "test" {
body1 "lloarm"
body2 "rloarm"
anchor1 joint( "Lhand" )
anchor2 joint( "Rhand" )
friction 0.01
stretch 50
compress 0
damping 0
restLength 2
minLength 0
maxLength 4
}