Rag dolls?

[kunzadar]

Do we know if there are plans to implement rag dolls in the game. I can't think of very many things more satisfying than blasting my enemies corpses over the base walls with a tank. Also the idea of sniping a jet packing light assault, and watching his body crash into the ground is just amazing.

[Coreldan]

Problem becomes from rezzing. Cos the corpse pretty much has to be in the same place for everyone for ressing to be possible, that sorta means ragdoll needs to be somewhat handled by server.

It MIGHT strain it too much.

[Zekeen]

Originally Posted by kunzadar

Do we know if there are plans to implement rag dolls in the game. I can't think of very many things more satisfying than blasting my enemies corpses over the base walls with a tank. Also the idea of sniping a jet packing light assault, and watching his body crash into the ground is just amazing.

I think there is. We have vehicles break apart and useable as cover once they are destroyed, player probably rag doll when shot. Take a look at the videos and find out for yourself, there is a ton out there, it might already be in.

[Kaw]

Originally Posted by Zekeen

I think there is. We have vehicles break apart and useable as cover once they are destroyed, player probably rag doll when shot. Take a look at the videos and find out for yourself, there is a ton out there, it might already be in.

In the GDC videos from March, it wasn't in yet. I think I remember people just falling over in a death animation after being shot by tanks. That being said, it may be on the to do list.

[CommandoCarl]

if they got the death animations, i am personally okay with that. i dont want the whole ragdoll physics. thats just 1 more thing that the engine has to do and i dont want that to take away from the gameplay.

[Kaw]

Originally Posted by CommandoCarl

if they got the death animations, i am personally okay with that. i dont want the whole ragdoll physics. thats just 1 more thing that the engine has to do and i dont want that to take away from the gameplay.

It was kind of odd how the player collapsed after eating an explosion, but I agree. The server will probably have enough to worry about without the ragdoll physics of a thousand players.

[Atheosim]

Originally Posted by Kaw

It was kind of odd how the player collapsed after eating an explosion, but I agree. The server will probably have enough to worry about without the ragdoll physics of a thousand players.

Yeah, ragdolls are pretty dang low on my list of priorities. I'd rather see weapon holstering or any number of other things.

[headcrab13]

Ragdolls are already in and this has been confirmed by the devs. You can see it in a few of the released videos.

[Timey]

Old news, dem ragdolls. Absolutely no need for them imo if not having them cuts down the lag.. It would be nice to have them, sure.

[headcrab13]

Just found a good example of the ragdoll, check out 1:39 in RedKnights' video. The player shoots an NC HA in the face and his upper torso is thrown backward by the impact:

http://www.planetside-universe.com/s...ad.php?t=41616

[Atheosim]

Originally Posted by headcrab13

Just found a good example of the ragdoll, check out 1:39 in RedKnights' video. The player shoots an NC HA in the face and his upper torso is thrown backward by the impact:

http://www.planetside-universe.com/s...ad.php?t=41616

That looked like a cut-and-dry death animation to me.

[Kaw]

Originally Posted by headcrab13

Just found a good example of the ragdoll, check out 1:39 in RedKnights' video. The player shoots an NC HA in the face and his upper torso is thrown backward by the impact:

http://www.planetside-universe.com/s...ad.php?t=41616

I think that was a death animation rather than a ragdoll. From what I have seen, every infantry death uses more or less that animation.

Edit: The view isn't good enough to tell for sure, but I think the LA at 3:20 uses the same death animation but employs ragdoll physics afterwards as it is falling. From what I could see, I thought that animation looked more fluid than I would expect from a ragdoll free mid-air animation. Could just be the camerawork playing tricks on me though. As far as I'm aware there isn't a way to decently animate falling bodies without a ragdoll system. Either way, the more extravagant flying corpses that the OP is asking about don't appear to be in game.

[Purple]

i wonder if ragdolls will allow us to shoot allies into cover so they can be rezed

[Ieyasu]

Originally Posted by CommandoCarl

if they got the death animations, i am personally okay with that. i dont want the whole ragdoll physics. thats just 1 more thing that the engine has to do and i dont want that to take away from the gameplay.

they said previously that they would take speed over pretty all day so Im sure if it is creating a performance problem they wont use it.

[headcrab13]

No need to guess about it, Hamma's played the game and he already said there's ragdoll:

Originally Posted by Hamma

There are ragdoll physics in the game.

From this thread:

http://www.planetside-universe.com/s...ad.php?t=36791