Active Ragdolls; What Are They And How They Work

Lorcan here, despite the wobbly feet of the torque ragdoll, I think I can say it was worth taking the time away from development to finally do this video. I've been sitting on all this footage of ragdoll experiments, driving family members crazy going on about Torque and force driven such and such, that's it's good to finally use it for something.

Anyway, back to developing 'Days With Dino', hopefully I can get that developed over the next two months, thinking it would be good to make another video about what I learn making a basic open world with ragdolls when that's done.

If this video helps anyone make any active ragdolls, be sure to comment a link below, it would be great to see, especially if anyone can make a cleaner Torque system. Really hoping I can find a excuse to spend the time researching that further.

Anyway, Lorcan out, good developing!

0:00 Start
0:20 Intro
1:03 What Are Active Ragdolls
2:13 When To Use Active Ragdolls
4:17 How Do Active Ragdolls Work
4:53 How They Work - Force Driven
6:53 How They Work - Torque Driven
8:35 Last Words

[sorchamcgarry-hunt]

Helpful and clear - just downloaded Gaggle Brains and Vampire Heist - really enjoyed them too

[JayTheDevGuy]

This is incredibly helpful and beautifully illustrated. Thank you so much!

[WilkoGRACZ]

Love your work! This is pure prototyping leading to an awesome game title later ! Just WOW :D Thanks for sharing!

[Misteurpro]

I personaly had the best experience with torque based character they are smooth for me and way easier to use

[ACatWithACrown]

This gonna blow tf up. The world needs this video!

[qcmclyj]

I made a rudimentary one in Godot 2D, no animations, just a ragdoll that tries to stay upright and acts like a kinda mediocre platformer controller

[davidhunt]

Really clear - well presented and explained.

[dans.]

Good info, thanks. Please consider > 720p and a better mic for future videos ;-)

[darkcognitive]

Thanks for this man, explains a lot and answers a load of questions I have about active rag dolls.

[tyridge]

Would it be a good approach to have both torque driven and force driven? And lower the weight of the torque driven forces when knocked around

[snow-jq]

Hello, do you know how to make an active ragdoll climb in a similar way to the human fall flat, if you know, could you make a video about it, as I'm having a lot of difficulty implementing this in my game

[flashstudio]

very helpful! thx~ btw, is there any articles about self-balance method u can share?

[WiseSageBum]

Are there any good resources to learn how to implement torque driven ragdolls?

[meltpack]

I've messed around with torque drivens, and one thing I found annoying is that while it does copy the controller, the controller's animations aren't physically Accurate and the ragdoll falls eventually, especially under the weight of all the body parts. I'm not too sure how they are kept upright once that's done.

[legome]

can you make a tutorial on how you make them??