Enable ragdoll?

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Hi there.

I haave a cube ragdoll that works awesome, and an exact copy of him, but rigged instead of ragdoll. So I want to know, is there a way to make it so that when the rigged guy runs out of health it will change to the ragdoll one?

Thanks.

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Yeah, I know how.

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Well then could you please tell me?

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I tried this, but I failed. What I did was actually had a ragdoll parented to an armature. I also wrote a script that disabled (suspended) dynamics until the object was hit by a ray. It was all jumpy though and the animations didn’t work correctly. Best of luck, though!

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Well, I did some experimenting with this, and I made the guy fall when you hit the V key. However, as soon as you make the armature he is parented to a dynamic object (or even parent the armature to a dynamic object) the ragdoll doesn’t fall. But it does have a fairly smooth transition otherwise (unless he is running, then he falls forward more). Here is the blend

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Activate ragdoll.blend (65 KB)

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yeah, i need to figure out how to do this too… but when its hit by something like a bullet…

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If you think about it. The way I’ve set it up (parenting each body part to a separate bone) might work even better because it allows you to make each bone become ragdoll separately. you just replace the keyboard sensor with a collision one. So lets say your guy gets hit in the arm with a bullet, you tell the arm to sense the bullet, and link that to the controller that activates the ragdoll. and if you create a property when this happens, and you set all the lower extremitys to sense for this property, this would then make the lower part of the arm dangle to.

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Ok thanks for that example I might have gotten another idea from that.

If only you could change one object to another object.

Edit:
Nope. My experimentation resulted in nothing.

Edit 2:
Well Joe, your idea might actually work. I have to go soon, but will goof around a bit more when I get back. If anyone else has any ideas fell free to post.

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An idea you say, well, don’t got one hehe:o but thank you very very much for that its just what i was looking for:evilgrin:

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An idea you say, well, don’t got one hehe:o but thank you very very much for that its just what i was looking for:evilgrin:

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Oh yea I was looking how to do this! Thank you Joe_Stevens!

And by the way:

Blafen your an idiot

Edited - my thoughts a blafen were way harsher before…didn’t want to be too mean.