Multiple Ragdoll references

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Hi there, I´m trying to find a solution for the problem that I have but I don´t really know what wold be the best approach.

I´m using ragdoll to make a small bush to collide with a sphere.

The problem is, there´s a way I can set up a Maya file with one bush and ragdoll and reference multiple times into a scene so all of them react to the sphere?

Now, if I reference 4 or 5 bushes, all of them have a little bit of jiggle because of the capsules collisions but only the firs one reacts with the sphere.

I imagine this is because every of the reference brings to the scene it´s own solver, so, is there a way to do this? I don´t want to copy one by one the bush and set it up every time with Ragdoll

Thanks a lot for your time.

Eduardo

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Hey ! There’s a way to link your solvers so one solver to rule them all Link - Learn Ragdoll

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That works perfect!!!

Thanks a lot Jason

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Ragdoll Menu / edit / merge solvers (you have couple of options there)

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That’s it, that will non-destructively connect solvers that you can later unlink which seems a good fit for your usecase.

There’s also a way to permanently merge two or more solvers into one, with this one here.

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But can I merge solvers if the bushes that I have set up with rag doll are referenced??

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Yep! Technically, merging means to move the connections from one solver to another. So by the time two solvers have been merged, the markers from both solvers will be connected to only 1 solver. And that’s possible even on a referenced scene. The old solver just can’t be deleted, but you could just hide it and forget about it.