Hi guys!

I'm currently working on ragdolls. Used Helghast's old contribution as a base. I already converted it previously into physX, but wanted to improve it a bit. So far I got everything working the way I wanted to, but well.. there is a problem. Helghats's ragdolls can blend to animation. It uses 'vec_to_bone' and 'ang_to_bone' to get pos/angle of the bone and blends each ragdoll part entity to it's own bone pos/ang. And here where the problem comes from, cause all hinge limits will 'remember' position/angle they spawn at. It will be 'center' pos/ang to the hinge. This will result in pretty weird ragdoll, f.e. if player was walking zombie like putting his arms infront, ragdoll will keep that position when he will get on the ground.

What I want to do is:

So my question is, how do I get pos/angle of a specific frame (f.e. default pose) without using 'ent_animate'.

Edit: the only way I can think of, is saving those pos/angle right when entity get's created.. but I wanted to know, maybe there is more elegant way to solve this. Manual doesn't answer.

Best regards!

I guess I will just save all needed pos/angles at the start. Thx.

Sounds like the best option you have.
Alternatively, you could file_load the MDL and look up bone matrices and frames in the buffer but that... is a nightmare compared to any other option.

Thank you, Superku