ragdoll armatures

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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Is there a way in blender to set the armatures to react with the physics engine to give a character ragdoll physics so that i can make him turn into a ragdoll when confronted with a collision or something?

Comments and advise  are welcome please post some type of instruction im a bit slow =)
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You could make an armature for each bone and then just put constraints on them for the joints.

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which constraints should I add?

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using the 2.43 builds, there is a “rigid body” constraint- just use that. However, as far as i know, you cna’t have them effect indifidual bones- it must be an entire object, thus all the ragdolls made out of many cubes. The suggestion to break the armature into seperate objects won’t work, because a mesh can only have one parent.

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ok thanks i’ll try that and if i have any problems will just make a new thread.

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dont bother … im pretty sure ive tried almost any possible way of doing this

  • that idea wouldnt work because if you were planning on animating the bones then that requieres extreme coordination… and then theres always the single parent only problem
    -then again a single parent might be good for keeping order and avoiding loops…(dont mind my rambling)
    -anyway if you do find some way of simulating this then be sure to share with the community! :slight_smile: