Hi all, I'm pleased to announce that I just commited the ragdoll plugin to CS. It took me more time than expected to implement it as I decided to first rewrite the Bullet plugin and to develop some visual debug tools.
The ragdoll plugin is based on the animesh. It uses what I called the 'bodymesh", ie the physical description of the animesh skeleton. This bodymesh can be used for other controllers than the ragdoll one, eg for inverse kinematic. To see the ragdoll plugin in action, you have to launch 'phystut -phys_engine=bullet' then press 'r', it will spawn a frankie's ragdoll. You need to have bullet (2.75 recommended) installed on your machine in order for it to work. This limitation to Bullet is due to the fact that the frankie ragdoll I made uses cylinders and that the ODE plugin seems to have some problems with that, otherwise it should work with both systems. In the future however, I intend to add support for kinematic bodies, ie bodies that are controlled by the animation system but do interact with the physical simulation. Bullet do support natively kinematic bodies but this is not the case with ODE. The ragdoll effect has currently to be used on the whole skeleton of the animesh. In order to make it work only on subparts of an animesh (eg to animate hairs or clothes), we will need kinematic objects, so this won't be possible with ODE. Another limitation is that I have not yet implemented the loader for the bodymesh and the ragdoll, so this has to be made currently from code. A problem you may see is that the frankie's ragdoll is not that stable and may flicker. This is due to the fact that the physical model has to be well chosen in order to be stable. And right now the frankie's model I made is not tweaked at all. This would be more simple to do once the loaders are written. I also guess that Frankie is not so well suited to a ragdoll animation because he has a big body with thin limbs. About the changes on the Bullet plugin, it seems that now the Bullet plugin works better than the ODE one. It still has some limitations but it works pretty well. Regards, Christian -- Christian Van Brussel, Research assistant Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory School of Engineering Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be Batiment Stévin, Place du Levant, 2 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium christian.vanbrus...@uclouvain.be +32 10 47 85 55 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Crystal-main mailing list Crystal-main@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main Unsubscribe: mailto:crystal-main-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
