Ragdolls - Creation, Transitioning to, and Optimization

Learn the creation workflow for Ragdolls in Unity, how to toggle between an Animator and Ragdoll, and think through some optimization ideas when you have a large number of potential ragdolls in your game!

Ragdolls are a hugely popular mechanic in games that add, usually a funny mechanic into your game. What they always do though, is allow you to have models go limp and flop around procedurally!

While the tool we look at for auto-attaching Colliders, Rigidbodies, and CharacterJoints to the Transform "bones" of our 3d model, you can manually add these and have any model go into a Ragdoll by following the same process we followed to set up the hands and feet!

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📚 Resources

🟠 Unity Ragdoll Documentation: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/wizard-RagdollWizard.html (pretty short)

🟠 Zombie Asset to import: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/zombie-30232?aid=1101l9QvC

🟠 Physic Material Documentation: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-PhysicMaterial.html

🟠 Active Ragdoll Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-kFL2iQ3os

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