Ragdoll physics

Now Postal 2 wasn't a great game, it didn't have much of an objective, or whatever, hell it doesn't actually deserve to be mentioned anywhere. But I was just playing the game and it was pretty boring as usual, but I noticed the ragdoll physics, they're great even in this simplisticish engine! Ragdoll physics rule period, can you imagine Half-Life 2 yet?

2 words, ragdoll physics......omg........

Now on to some illustrations of ragdoll phyics

http://www13.brinkster.com/belua/ragdoll.jpg

If you yourself have other/better examples, show them :smile:

Yeah, they have ragdoll phyics in Max Payne 2, UT2k4 and a lot of other games coming out. It's fun in Max Payne 2 when you turn god mode on and unlimited ammo and just keep nading the hell outta an old ladie.

just go to the havok site. they have a flash game with a skeleton displaying ragdoll.

http://www.havok.com/products/Fallguy.avi
Well I did manage to find this.

Currently loading
http://oldsite.havok.com/xtra/demos/demo-ragdoll2.html

Yeh found a bunch of more stuff at the Havok site, great stuff. It's all pretty amazing how far everything has progressed in the last years or so.

Simplistic Engine? Postal 2 is built of the Unreal Engine man, theres nothing "Simplistic" about it...

Bad choice of words.......my apologies for that...
I didn't mean to bust down on the Unreal engine, I was trying to bust down on the game itself.

/me beats Bruce for ignorance :biggrin:

No worries :smile: . Sure, Postal 2 DID get repeditive after awhile, but I liked the Level Design (To an extent of course). It was fun for a while, but then I got bored.

Althought Share the Pain was pretty fun (Online :biggrin: )

yeah the karma stuff in Unreal engine is pretty simple... nice for dead bodies and vehicles (especially exploding vehicles) but not on the level of the Havoc2 stuff.

of course, Havoc is compatible with almost any game engine, so... whether your game is Unreal or HL2 Source engine or whatever you can license it for use.

Rag doll physics are cool and all, but for them to be realistic they need boundrys. All the examples I've seen of Rag doll physics there are no tendon restrictions, meaning their arms flail around and they flop unrealistically. I think if they added proper movement restriction, and had some better handling for friction with other objects, it would be good enough to call realistic for me.

However, Rag doll physics are cool and fun to watch.

I love them too. Long gone are the days when rigor morits set in a little too early and corpses were suspended over stairs.

It's very satisfying to see someone take a bullet to the stomach and watch them hit the wall and fall onto the ground in a heap.