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OpenDE can be used to simulate the limbs of an anamorphic biped. It is often referred to as a rag-doll.

The rag-doll topic has come up a few times on the mailing list. Some insights that can be gained from these postings are:

* Use capsules for your limbs, instead of boxes. They are less likely to cause awkward collisions.
* Auto-disabling should probably be done as a group (island) not per individual limb.
* Rotational inertia may help stability

Pointers on the list are:

* [http://www.magix.ucla.edu/dance/ Ari Shapiro's Dance]
* [http://monsterden.net/software/ragdoll-pyode-tutorial Full rag-doll tutorial from Monstrous Software]
* [http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/~streeter/#MedievalPlayground Tyler Streeter's Medieval Playground]

Streeter's code sports a nice self-contained class, ODEHuman.cpp, that performs pretty well. Its main drawback: the shoulder has only one degree of freedom, which is unnatural.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhUb4RA1TuE ODE with Irrlicht example of rag-doll video on YouTube by sgt_pinky]

For a good example on how to do ragdolls in ODE, take a look at Bram Stolk's [http://www.stolk.org/crashtest/ crashtest] code.

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imported>Russ: Created page with "OpenDE can be used to simulate the limbs of an anamorphic biped. It is often referred to as a rag-doll. The rag-doll topic has come up a few times on the mailing list. Some i..."