Irrlicht and PhysX Ragdoll Demo (finally)

stoneyjonez · Post by **stoneyjonez** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:45 am

OK, here's the deal: I had been looking EVERYWHERE online to find out how to make a skinned mesh ragdoll. All I could find was how to make a ragdoll out of separate meshes. So I eventually figured it out, and here it is! I couldn't find this ANYWHERE online, especially not with Irrlicht, so I hope it will be helpful to some people. I wasn't sure if I should put this in this category or in Code Snippets, so if I'm wrong please move it or do whatever must be done.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5SH2893A

Please excuse the crappy model. It's just a dummy I use to test things.
Also, sorry for the lack of documentation/commenting, I will update in the future.

Note: some of the joints may still need to be tweaked a little, so just mess around with the parameters till you like it!

Hope this helps some people....

EDIT: Updated... new URL

Lil Margin · Post by **Lil Margin** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:02 pm

how about making a tutorial for newcomers like me

twilight17 · Post by **twilight17** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:22 pm

You have:

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	NxVec3 normalgrav(0, -9.8f, 0);	// normal earth gravity
	NxVec3 lowgrav(0, -1.0f, 0);		// low gravity (used in this demo)
	NxVec3 nograv(0, 0, 0);			// no gravity at all

	NxSceneDesc scd;
	scd.gravity = nograv;

shouldn't it be:

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	NxVec3 normalgrav(0, -9.8f, 0);	// normal earth gravity
	NxVec3 lowgrav(0, -1.0f, 0);		// low gravity (used in this demo)
	NxVec3 nograv(0, 0, 0);			// no gravity at all

	NxSceneDesc scd;
	scd.gravity = lowgrav;

stoneyjonez · Post by **stoneyjonez** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:55 pm

No I wanted to keep it at 0 gravity for the demo. I figured it's just one var to change. Otherwise it drops to the floor right away, and you can't shoot him into the wall; It's not perfect, but it's 100x more than I found from googling.

FuzzYspo0N · Post by **FuzzYspo0N** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:34 pm

very cool stoneyjonez. A great first post. thanks!