All Tutorials

[marcus]

Hi all,

Here’s a listing of all currently available tutorials. Safe to say that if you’ve taken the time to run through these, you’ll be a Ragdoll connoisseur!

Early Masterclass

An early series when “Markers” were just introduced. Most of it is still relevant today, the main exception being some of the attribute names having changed.

Source: https://learn.ragdolldynamics.com/tutorials/videos

• Markers 101
• Markers 101 - Key Concepts
• Markers 101 - Local and World
• Overlapping Motion I
• Overlapping Motion II
• Full Ragdoll I
• Full Ragdoll II
• Full Ragdoll III
• IK I
• IK II
• IK III
• Practical Example I
• Replace Reference Workflow

Written Tutorials

The go-to whenever someone is about to embark on the Learning-Ragdoll journey. These are kept up-to-date alongside updates to the software.

Source: https://learn.ragdolldynamics.com/tutorials

• Manikin
• Full Ragdoll
• Inverse Kinematics
• Mocap Chap
• Rookie Wasp
• Self Walking
• Bouncing Ball

Tips and Tricks

Shorter, project-based examples of how to achieve specific things in specific situations. These are located right here on the forum, under the Tips and Tricks category!

Source: https://forums2.ragdolldynamics.com/c/tips-and-tricks

• When stiffness stops having an effect
• Perpetual Walk Cycle
• Organise Markers in Object Sets
• Automatically Resolve Intersections
• Heart Beat with Translate Motion
• Managing Self-Collisions
• Detailed Collision Meshes
• Recording with From Start vs. From Retargeting
• Closed Loop
• More Bounce
• Assigning and Environment
• Characters in a Car
• Pose Stiffness and Damping on a Car Door
• Working with Locked Channels

Release Notes

The release notes contain a wealth of information - everything ever added gets their first pass of documentation here - so if you haven’t dug through them already, I invite you now!

Source: https://learn.ragdolldynamics.com/news

To name just a few:

• Slice Geometry
• Retargeting Demo
• Soft Joints

Livestreams

On occasion, me and Jason heads to YouTube to showcase new things or to dive a little deeper into details that can make or break an animation performance.

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RagdollDynamics/videos

• Livestream I - Intro
• Livestream II - Dragon Setup
• Livestream III - Hands and Fingers

Documentation

The perhaps most obvious candidate for help is the main documentation - easy to miss!

Source: https://learn.ragdolldynamics.com/documentation/

• Marker
• Group
• Solver
• Manipulator
• Constraints
• Fields
• Import Physics
• Record Simulation
• Snap to Simulation
• Retargeting
• Level Of Detail
• Cache
• Link
• Utilities

Next

These were the ones I was able to dig up.

• If you know more, please post here.
• If you want more, suggest a topic here.

Enjoy!

[marcus]

A few more gems hidden throughout this forum.

• Flying carpet and self-balance
• Pin Constraint and self-balance
• Animated Air Density
• Animated Drag Field
• Free mocap clips for Manikin
• Making a Door
• Organising Markers in Groups
• Attach Constraint Demo (official docs here)
• Bulk Editing Marker Attributes via the Attribute Spreadsheet

[marcus]

Pinning this to the top for visibility, and here’s a few more, now including Blender!

• Pickup with Motion Capture in Bleneder
• Slap’n’Sass with Blender
• Slap’n’Sass II with Blender
• Advanced Character Setup with Blender
• Hair Simulation in Maya
• Car Simulation
• Fleshy Ragdolls
• Human Clump
• Attach Constraint Basics

Also don’t forget the release notes for each version, we put a lot of energy in examples and documentation for each newly added feature.

• 2023.04.01
• 2023.10.03 / Maya
• 2024.02.29 / Blender
• 2024.02.29
• 2024.03.07 / Blender
• 2024.04.09 / Blender

If you find any more, made by e.g. external parties, feel free to post here. But keep questions and help to the Help section and individual threads please.