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MarcCCTxMarcCCTx Posts: 943
edited December 2025 in The Commons

Is there some way to apply a rag doll effect to a character? Like dropped over clutter on the ground, or thrown against a wall, or hit by a car? Something like dforce for creatures, especially clothed figures.

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  • MarcCCTxMarcCCTx Posts: 943

    This is what the Victoria AI said...

    For draping a character's body over objects, you can add a dForce static modifier directly to the figure itself.
    Here's the approach:
    Set up the character:
    Apply a dForce static surface modifier to your figure
    In the surfaces tab, turn off "visible in simulation" for skin and nails
    This lets the body interact with objects while keeping skin invisible during simulation
    Positioning technique:
    Start with your figure in a different pose than the final draped position
    Use the final lying/draped pose as your starting pose and run simulation just to make the body settle naturally around objects
    This creates more realistic draping than going from standing to lying
    Fine-tune the drape:
    Turn off "Start Bones From Memorized Pose" in simulation settings to skip the T-pose step
    Adjust gravity settings (try 0.5-1.5) to control how heavily the body settles
    Lower gravity creates softer, more natural draping
    This technique works well for creating realistic poses of figures collapsed over furniture, debris, or other objects.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,657

    A Static dForece Modifier dosn't chnage shape - hence the name. You would want to aply a Static dForce Modifier only if you wanted to adjust settings, mainly friction, that control how the surface interacts with dynamic modifiers (all objects that are included as collision targets have an implicit Static dForce Modifier with default values, so thjere is no need to do anything with those). That sounds more like a somewhat garbled version of getting surrounding objects (e.g. soft furnishings) to react to the figure.

  • MarcCCTxMarcCCTx Posts: 943

    This isn't working. No matter the setting he isn't falling down on the crate.

     

  • wolf359wolf359 Posts: 3,936
    edited December 2025

    If you buy a used copy of Poser 12 ( or higher) there is a free ragdoll simulation plugin

    for it via a FREE third party python script

    https://bitbucket.org/PhysicalcSoftware/poserphysics/src/master/

     

    I  used it to create these  ragdoll animations that I retargeted to G9 with another FREE script from Renderosity

     

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  • mrpenguin76mrpenguin76 Posts: 67

    @wolf359 Would you be able to share the name of the retargeting script from Rendo? Tried to find it myself with no luck.

  • DustRiderDustRider Posts: 2,902

    You could also try Cascadeur, the free/base version should have ragedoll physics (I don't have the free version to test).

  • wolf359wolf359 Posts: 3,936

    mrpenguin76 said:

    @wolf359 Would you be able to share the name of the retargeting script from Rendo? Tried to find it myself with no luck.
     

    Get it here

    https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/93511/genesis-1238-pose-converter-for-genesis-9

  • mrpenguin76mrpenguin76 Posts: 67

    Thanks Wolf359! I glossed right over that one ;)

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