For performance and stability reasons, I don’t want my physics control component to be enabled all the time. So, after a timer, I disable it (all controls to kinematic). Bug it looks pretty ugly as this is a brutal transition.
I am looking for a way to lerp all controls from simulated to kinematic. With physical animation, you could use a blend physics weight node to do just that.
you can handle 3 bodies: one is the physical body, the second is the non physical body, both of them are not visible, and 3rd a cometic body that is the one you see. this one has not physics, you just lerp it from physics transform to non physics transform.
or just two bodies (physical and cosmetic) and a scene component linked to the ant (the non physic body is just the one linked to the ant where you want to look like is holding it) in this case you lerp transform from physical to scene component
also when you finished transition from simulated to no simulated, you can turn set simulated OFF to the physical one for optimize
I’m curious to know the hierarchy and which nodes to use to lerp the animation transform: on every bone? Or on physics controls?
Also, we will have twice bodies that run animation, and tick code to sync transforms, will it not be performance heavy ?
In addition, I found another error is when switching to kinematic, it breaks the current animation.
edit: first problem I encounter is that the meshes are using the same animBP but are not synchronized (because I have some random idle playing).
I misunderstood your problem…I thought your problem where picking up physical bodies but your issue is related to animated skeletal to ragdoll nmode to animated again, right?
Migrating to 5.3 fixed the animation-stopping bug. But the blend weight lerping is still not working: I got no bone movement and then suddenly it got back to not simulated place.
