Ragdoll system for Warcraft - is it possible?

[TheWhiteWolf]

Well, the title says it all.
Your opinion?

EDIT: Ragdoll system is all body parts acting independently, but are still connected to each other.

 

[Xonok]

Well, the title says it all.
Your opinion?

The title could be interpreted in many ways, so no.


If you mean that units would combine animations(like moving while attacking), then afaik it's only possible by making them as separate animations.

 

[TheWhiteWolf]

I know there is a GUI action for making head or chest of a unit face another unit.
I guess, by using JASS, you could also make other bones do that..

 

[Xonok]

I know there is a GUI action for making head or chest of a unit face another unit.
I guess, by using JASS, you could also make other bones do that..

You're right, although this is incredibly hard to use for animations.

native SetUnitLookAt takes unit whichUnit, string whichBone, unit lookAtTarget, real offsetX, real offsetY, real offsetZ returns nothing

 

[Orcnet]

Ain't quite sure about Ragdolls but I guess blizzard already did it? http://www.wowwiki.com/Worm_War

 

[TheWhiteWolf]

 

[rulerofiron99]

Each body part would need to be a different unit with a different model.

It's possible and fairly easy to point any given body part in any direction/pitch.

The problem is calculating the "ragdollness" of each body part interaction; it's possible but won't be very efficient. You could maybe have 5-10 ragdoll units running smoothly.

 

[Wazzz]

i don't know if this is off topic enough to be in off-topic

 

[TheWhiteWolf]

i don't know if this is off topic enough to be in off-topic

Yeah, but I wasn't sure where else to put this

 

[GhostWolf]

Ragdoll physics are not about having skeletal animation, but rather about removing control over the skeleton and letting physics do the rest.

A WC3-like example would be elemental models that "break" to different parts upon dying. Of course, that's a static animation, the idea is to make that work with physics (and allow things to stay attached if required through constraints).

It isn't too hard to do, but I am not sure if WC3 is a realistic target, seeing what a slowpoke it is.
And by "it" I mean collision detection/response and constraints (degrees of freedom, rotation constraints, distance constraints, etc.).