Enemy ragdoll-effect after death

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v4.5.1

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Hi!

I’m working on a 2D-game where I want my enemies to become “ragdolls” after death, but I can’t seem to make them stay “ragdoll”.

My current plan was to replace enemy CharacterBody2D with a RigidBody2D after death. This works, but the RigidBody2D is only “ragdoll” for maybe the first ~.5 seconds after introduced to the level, and afterwards it becomes as solid as the ground underneath it. While I expected that I should be able to push the corpse around with my player?

This is my “corpse” tree structure (it is just 1 simple CapsuleShape):
EnemyCorpse (RigidBody2D)
├── AnimatedSprite2D
│── AnimationPlayer
└── CollisionShape2D

  • The corpse Collision Layer/Mask corresponds with what the player can detect and interact with.
  • I have turned off all optional “Deactivation” on my RigidBody (Sleeping, Can Sleep, Lock Rotation, Freeze)
  • I have tweaked and lowered various physics-settings, but since the corpse detects collision with the player just the first moment, I suspect it is something else I am missing.

Can you help?
Let me know if you need more information, like code etc!

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Could you delete the skeleton or parts of the skeleton to make them rag doll?

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Hello Brutal!
I’m not sure I follow. I could try to expain better; this is just one, simple shape, with currently no joints attached to it. I just want the player to be able to push the corpse around, and also prevent that it gets in the way (without removing it).
I also forgot to mention that the corpse only detects player interraction for about ~.5 seconds, so I suspect I’m doing something very basic wrong in some settings somewhere.

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Okay, the ragdoll-effect now works!
I think I had some timing issues, I was trying to call a lot of physics to the “corpse” while it was being loaded into the level. Using “call_deferred” seems to have solved the issue, probably by waiting until other processes were complete.
(So instead of apply_torque_impulse(..) → call_deferred(“apply_torque_impulse”,…))

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Sorry for my confusing answer I must not have understood the question.

I’ll have to give this a shot in my project too! Thanks for posting the solution!

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