Ragdoll Characters

Does anyone know how to create physics based ragdoll characters? Not characters that just completely Ragdoll, I dont know what the word is, but with a similar movement style to games like Gang Beasts (which was built in unity). If anyone knows how to do this, or knows any tutorials, the help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Have you seen the IK controls that are available in Mecanim?

 

No I havent, how do you use them?

 

Hey, I did a little experimenting but still couldnt find anything. If anyone knows the solution Im looking for, please held

Thanks guys

 

Oh, also this game seems to do it

http://www.kongregate.com/games/filthsu/kuja

 

Bump?

 

Check out AnimFollow and FinalIK Unity Assets

 

I brought Final IK about half an hour ago for this exact reason, but I have no idea how to make it work in this ragdolly kind of way

 

Yeh Ive been playing round with it for the last couple of hours, nothing like what I wanted produced. Unless Im doing this wrong

 

Alright so I've been working on this for the last 8 hours and I've gotten nowhere, so Im getting pretty desperate at this point. Even if someone is selling it as an asset, I'd be willing to buy it, just anyway to actually do this

 

have you googled it at all?? lool

theres a bunch of videos about it

http://xenosmashgames.com/mecanim-ragdoll-unity-3d/

i dunno whats up with part 2 and 3 missing, but the scripts on the bottom of page are useful im guessing?

 

I think you've been a little confused with my question, sorry if it wasnt clear. Basically, I dont want my character to go from animated with keyframes to ragdoll, I want to have the entire character controlled by a ragdoll.
Its a little hard to explain, but heres a video of it in action, go to about 0.14 and see how the characters move

 

ooh.. i guess make a ragdoll.. and then code the movement of bones, restrict them from moving past a certain rotation/ position, and if enemy is interacting with you, unlock rot/pos

the arms move based on input right?

animate the walking (walking here, the legs looks like fixed animation) , but when the enemy grabs you disable the animation and let the legs be ragdoll..

not totally sure, speculating how i might do it..

 

the devs told me they basically used some different forces on the bones, but that didnt work for me first time, although my character mesh is rather unusual so the physics might be off on it. Im trying again with a new, more realistic mesh, and then I'll work from there

 

That was it! I just needed to make a character who was a bit more real, and now it works much better

 

I think there's a general interest in this type of approach, but maybe not much first hand knowledge of how to go about it. If you have anything you've learned about what to do and what not to do regarding a "ragdoll controller" it would be great if you could share it.

Thanks!

 

Actually mate your right, I was so upset/frustrated last night that there were no tutorials, now I'd be no better if I didnt make one myself when I learnt how. I'll try to get it all together to do a quick tutorial tonight, and I'll post it on this thread when its done. Hope it helps anyone thats coming this way

 

Here you go friends, hope this held

 

i wasnt really interested in this, but now you got me interested .. thanks alot for the video!
sharing knowledge is a real nice thing! , thanks

video audio a bit quiet, but i just cranked up my equalizer settings, and its fine
lol the red character looks like poultry hehe

 

Yeh audio was a bit of a problem, but I couldnt be bothered to record a 15 minute video all over again, and I knew if people were interested they'd just find their own way to increase it (as you did).

Yeh he does look like a chicken, funnily enough I never noticed that movement until now. I think that kind of adds to it though