[ODE] Ragdoll characters with ODE

[Henri Hakl]

How you described it is exactly how I did it (more or less)

I used rectangular prisms for all body parts, and hinge-joints for
elbow/knees and ball-socket joints for everything else.

One addition, though, is that all joints ALSO get an amotor (angular motor)
joint. This is allows all joints to be controlled, and have constraints
placed on them in a uniform manner. Works fine. :) My articulated system has
around 44 or so degrees of freedom, and the animations look remarkable
life-like. Pretty good all-in-all.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Grimes" <striiideerr@hotmail.com>
To: <ode@q12.org>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 9:19 PM
Subject: [ODE] Ragdoll characters with ODE


> I was wondering if anyone could either tell me or show me a link that
talks
> about how to setup a model, say a model using bones and all that like doom
3
> does for example, using ODE to make this model have ragdoll like physics,
as
> seen in doom 3 and HL 2. I was thinking that maybe what you have to do is
> for each limb and torso of the model (assuming it's a person or something
> similar) assign a cyllinder which ODE knows about and assign a sphere
where
> the head is and connect all of these together with joints. Is this how
this
> is done or is there a better way? Thanks.
>
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