walks through how to set up and use Animation Pose Snapshot to create more natural looking ragdoll-to-standing animations. Ragdolls are fun, but snapping back to an animation can look really out of place, so Wes has the solution for you. If your game features characters being thrown with physics, then you’ll definitely want to see Wes’ guide to Animation Pose Snapshots.
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Yes, we can finally sober up. I was actually just explaining this pose snapshot to somebody while talking about some of the new 4.16 content. Between this and the new freedom within the bone hierarchy physics animations are going to have some nice roles. We were actually talking about using the system to make something similar to the insanity mechanic in “Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem”.
Mostly blending from physics or to physics if you have pose that you saved. Depending on your game if you have poses you’d like to save and use it for animation blending in/out, that’s the use case.
Followed this tutorial with a small change - instead of setting the root body to kinematic I manually reset the mesh when getting back up since impulse does not apply to kinematic bodies. Everything works fine except the “mesh reset” is seen for one frame. Even the shadow gets rendered for that one frame. Isn’t the mesh pose supposed to be rendered from the anim graph at all times? How do I fix this?
I’ve been following this using 4.18 and have a singular issue that I cannot seem to resolve after hours of trying.
At this point in the tutorial ( Animation Pose Snapshot | Live Training | Unreal Engine - YouTube ) there is a new Body added to Root. It is set to Kinematic physics type and collision is disabled. Then the Constraint is set to Linear Limits of Free on all axis.
This is intended to “pop” the body back to it’s original location and attach it to collision component after the ragdoll. However when I follow this exactly, my character flies away when I enable Set Simulate. This obviously indicates some kind of collision of bodies overlapping (I guess).
There is talk of a manual reset but this little trick is used instead. Does anyone know the correct way to reset the mesh location to solve this issue as it’s really eating up my time trying to solve it.
Thanks.
I tried both. Essentially the physics asset remains mostly unchanged from the default character version, besides the adding of the body and settings regarding collision and the constraint. However there has been changes to PhaT in general which might include something im missing.
I have been playing around trying to get this repositioned manually but it’s never right.
Hi @Doublezer0, sorry to bring up an old post but I’m having the EXACT same problem. Did you ever find a way to solve this? I, too, am trying to understand the ‘correct way’ to reattach the mesh.
Hey I know this is a rather old post by this point, but have you found a fix for this? I’m getting the exact same issue where the mesh can be seen popped back up for that one frame before it quickly goes back down, does the animation and comes up smoothly.
In version 4.25, I don’t see the “bodies” and “constraints” options in the toolbar of the physics asset. How do you create a constraint profile in v.25?
