Character Dead but still moving

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Hello dear Unreal Engine Community,

i’m just getting started with animations and motion matching (totally a noob) and have a problem regarding my animations when the character is dying.

Here is a short video of me explaing things in further detail.

Video on youtube

If you need further details don’t bother to ask

Edit: i want the Character to ragdoll freely without animations

Thanks in advance
-Beni

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I haven’t played around with ragdoll, but to stop movement on death you can disable or destroy the character movement component, also changing collision channel responses, I had an issue early in where the NPCs were pushing the body around

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Hey there @AgentNeoslav! Welcome to the community! Since GASP is relatively new and there’s not many resources I’m not aware if it’s different than regular resources. I agree with Rofl, you’re going to need to disable the movement either via the node or if they can get up set a bool and branch prior. I’d take a look at the ragdoll implementation from this project (available on github) if you need a replication friendly method:

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Are you having the same problem as I did? :laughing:

Try disabling the Capsule Collider of the character when ragdolling.
Also make sure you disable the movement via blueprint or C++ code.
Something else can be happening. Many reasons can cause that problem.

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I’ll look into that when my internet has some reasonable speed, thanks :slight_smile:

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Not exactly the same problem :confused: setting the collision anywhere (capsule, meshes, …) to no collision doesn’t solve the problem unfortunaly. I assume it has something to do with the motion matching/ animation blueprint, because using the rewind debugger and also looking into the ABP at runtime gives animations which i’d like to disable, BUT HOW? Thanks anyway for your answer :slight_smile:

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Movement is disabled and collision also doesn’t seem to be the problem :confused: thanks for your answer anyway :slight_smile:

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I’m a fool! I had static mesh components attached to the skeleton that caused collision to trigger. This also happens when there is no static mesh in the static mesh component

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