Developping Ragdolls

Post by **federico** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:15 pm

Some screenshots of a future demo, showing improved ragdolls. This is PhysicsScript. It has to converted to RF code.

Post by **federico** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:16 pm

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Post by **AndyCR** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:37 pm

WOW, awesome! I remember one of the tokomak demos, it had guys very similar to that, and it had them falling down stairs, and one somehow got caught so he looked like a normal person really sad sitting on the stairs holding his head in his hands... lol! Great work! Go Nout and Federico!

Post by **federico** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:13 pm

I translated the PhysicsScript to RF Code and i have simplified the existing Ragdoll Entity. It requires more work but in this way you can easily put four or more ragdoll entity without write all that code . Although, physicsScript can power up your game much more than the Entity System.

animatrix · Post by **animatrix** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:15 am

Incredible as always,,,,

shadow · Post by **shadow** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:42 pm

Very cool.
Be nice to see this in RF.
Great work.

Post by **federico** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:08 pm

I've finished a demo that show the application of a new modifid version of the Ragdoll entity. Some bug must be fixed, but it works. The demo is composed by seven test.

For Developpers:
The only lack is on the six demo. I set up a ragdoll that mirrors the bone position/rotation of virgil but it works only when virgil doesn't rotate. In facts I've fixed some bugs in the GetBoneXYZ and I created a GEtBoneRotation but there are some problems getting the correct angles. The GetBoneRotation function in ActorMAnager call for the Get_EulerAngle Genesis function but the result is quite odd. There are wrong inversions of angles (the correct order is zyx). Probably I'm not so competent to fix it so I ask Nout QoD and Wxb1 to look at this. If this is fixed, attaching a ragdoll to a pawn matching bone rotation and position is a joke! Then we can find a way to make the actor bones follow the Physics joint rotation and position.

Post by **federico** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:09 pm

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Post by **AndyCR** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:19 pm

my first reaction was, out loud, "noooo....." i cant believe im seeing this in rf... GREAT job!

Nout · Post by **Nout** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:45 pm

Frederico,

For the rotation, do not use the Genesis version, as this only is set up to work correcty for 0 to 180 degrees, but not -180 to + 180 degrees

Instead use the RF version of it, eg:

CCD->ActorManager()->Position(PhActor[rgNr], Pos);
CCD->ModelManager()->GetEulerAngles(&M, &Angles); //the default Genesis function is NOK!
CCD->ActorManager()->Rotate(PhActor[rgNr], Angles);

This postions + rotates the actor

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:31 pm

WoW!

I'm glad your good at scripting rf because I'm horrible

Spyrewolf · Post by **Spyrewolf** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:25 pm

WOW!

this is great your really putting together some great demo's as of late, this one is no exception, BRILLIANT!

so are you developing this as an entity?, or is this a script that you have written

either way ragdolls in RF! SUHWEET!!!!!

nice work dude, can't wait for a demo!