Ragdoll 2023.04.01

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Locomotion 2.0 is out! :partying_face:

We’ve got a ton of new features, alongside the next iteration of Locomotion, capable of walking along paths and taking existing animation as input.

Ragdoll 2023.04.01

Enjoy this portfolio of work made with Ragdoll too. :blush:

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A gift that never stops giving. I hope the freelance license does not disappear and I can renew my subscription in September

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@Andrei_da_02 very sorry, you posted just as I was in the process of updating the forum, and and your wonderfully encouraging last post got lost! :sweat:

In other news, notice the chat icon up-top. :slight_smile:

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Ragdoll 2023.04.02

Minor patch release. Use of multiple fields with the same solver now more predictable.

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Ragdoll 2023.04.03

Minor patch release, addressing viewport performance issues on some graphics cards. Notice the FPS here, from 50 to 200!

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Ragdoll 2023.04.04

Minor patch release once more, addressing two bugs.

  • Changing the frame range whilst simulating broke the simulation, requiring going back to the start frame
  • Entering Live Mode with Cache = Static broke the cache

https://learn.ragdolldynamics.com/download

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Ragdoll 2023.04.05

Bugfix release.

  • Editing limits via the Manipulator with Symmetry would throw errors in the Script Editor. Sometimes the edits would not be applied, or they could reset the limits for some unseen reason.

Download

https://learn.ragdolldynamics.com/download

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Ragdoll 2023.04.06

Bugfix release.

  • Character is kept tense during Live Mode, resulting in a loss of precision when posing.

Here’s what you should expect.

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Ragdoll 2023.04.07

Bugfix release.

  • Protect from cyclic Reparent hierarchies, e.g. parenting a parent to its child.
  • Fix bug when importing NURBS meshes
  • Restore ordered selection with the Manipulator

Download

https://learn.ragdolldynamics.com/download

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Ragdoll 2023.04.08

Bugfix release.

  • Fix Create Missing Transform when importing into a namespace
  • Fix Stiffness for animated Animated → Simulated Markers
  • Fix negative magnitude on fields
  • Fix Ragdoll UI to show the latest version installed

The stiffness bug was expecially tricky and may affect your work (in a positive way). It could happen when animating from Animated to Simulated, where the first frame of your simulation was Animated. In this specific case, the Stiffness attributes would not be read on your character during that first frame, changing the result a tiny bit. Then on the next playthrough, it would read them properly again. Making the results you see vary when you looped your animation, depending on whether you restarted playback from a Animated or Simulated state. Subtle!

Fields should also have been supporting negative Magnitude values but did not, this release fixed that too.

Download

https://learn.ragdolldynamics.com/download

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Ragdoll 2023.04.09

Bugfix release.

  • Fix use on controls with custom rotate pivot
  • Add a “Match Transform” option to Record simulation
  • Fix pins in Interactive Mode

There was a subtle case of rotate pivots not working as expected, resulting in this:

This has now been fixed!

The new “match” option is for one of our customers that have implemented their own Maya transform nodes, and as such wasn’t able to use the vanilla Record Simulation option. This newly added option is slower but doesn’t require use of native transform nodes to work.

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The final fix addresses the issue with Pin Constraints in Interactive Mode here:

Download

https://learn.ragdolldynamics.com/download

Enjoy!

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