RagdollCon 2025

Hello everyone! We wanted to thank all of you again for coming to the event last week :blush: We had a couple of questions in regards to Jason’s live Maya demo showcasing his workflow for animating a boat on the sea!

ti_dsvi on Instagram asked:
“It’s a bit of a thought process, but do u believe the logic behind your boat floating through the waves could be applied to an aircraft situation flying in the middle of a storm. Having perhaps instead of the ragdolls spheres to wobble the plane, the plane body itself to wobble to a wind turbulence effect while holding itself in place with an empty? (or something). Would it be possible?”

Jason: Could work; You can also just use a pin and have the plane be affected by wind. I did a plane post on the forums a while ago, Squadron.

A bit before the event, we got a question about the process of the workflow using Alembic-cached simulated geometry. Marcus shared his perspective on the process - Ragdoll boat moving according to the water simulation.