Hi everyone!
Hot off the heels of our July challenge, this next challenge is hosted by our friends over at Agora, here are the details.
Posting and Submission
We will be available both on this forum, and in the Agora Discord chat; so you’re welcome to post work-in-progress either here or there.
If you do post in there, it would be marvellous if you could also post here so as to gather all great content in one place for future Ragdoller’s to witness!
Final submissions are happening at the Agora Discord chat, stay tuned for a link.
Prizes
Here’s what we’ve got for you this time around!
| Product | Value | Licence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1x |
 Ragdoll Unlimited |
$1,999 | Lifetime |
| 1x |
 Ragdoll Complete |
$799 | Lifetime |
| 1x |
 Ragdoll Personal |
£99 | Lifetime |
Assets
We’ve got 5 assets for you, courtesy of Agora and Jason’s mad Ragdoll rigging skills.
- Manikin - The simplest of the bunch
- Woody
- Spiderman - Requires mGear
- Demon Gargoyle - Requires mGear
- Unit 01 - Requires mGear
Download Links: Agora.community | Assets
Here’s what they look like!
Tutorial
All rigs are setup similarly, here’s how you can use the Woody asset.
Resources
To participate in this challenge, you’ll receive:
| Resource | Details
|:---------|:--------|:--------
| Assets | See above 
| Licence | See below 
| Support | Right here on the forums 
To learn Ragdoll, have a look here for every resource currently available.
Licence
For the duration of this challenge, any and all participants are entitled to a free licence of Ragdoll Unlimited.
To use this licence, here’s what you do.
- Start Maya
- Open your Windows → General Editors → Script Editor
- Run this script:
import os os.environ["RAGDOLL_FLOATING"] = "agora1.ragdolldynamics.com:8011" - Reload the Ragdoll plug-in
Troubleshooting
If the licence isn’t working, for any reason, try this alternative address.
agora2.ragdolldynamics.com:8004
If it still isn’t working, ensure that Maya has Internet access.
import socket
try:
socket.create_connection(("agora1.ragdolldynamics.com", 8011)).close()
print("You've got internet")
except Exception:
print("Maya can't reach the internet")
If you’ve got internet access, but it still isn’t working, ensure the script above got called correctly by having Maya print the URL.
print("The URL is: %s" % os.environ["RAGDOLL_FLOATING"])
Still isn’t working? Let us know by posting to this thread.
Technical Users
The more technical user can put this into their userSetup.py script, to automatically load the licence on Maya startup. The even more technical user can set the RAGDOLL_FLOATING environment variable to this value. In both cases, you will be able to auto-load the plug-in without any further intervention.
That’s it! Agora is posting an announcement later today at which point I’ll update this post too. Stay tuned!
Best,
Marcus
I expect Agora will run submissions through their usual competition cycle, and then announce the winners. I’ll make sure to forward everything to here as well, and do what we did last month.