Comments on: Creation of a Ragdoll with Flash part 2: Constraints

By: antoan

antoan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:01:33 +0000

I’d really like to see the third part of this tutorial. I’ve always thought making ragdolls in flash is impossible for me, but thanks to your tutorials it seems not as hard as I thought :)

By: nminhtai

nminhtai — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:21:41 +0000

Thanks for great guides!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:15:08 +0000

Do you know when or if you are going to be pasting another tutorial because this one was extremely helpful?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:13:39 +0000

Great stuff. Are there more lessons in this ragdoll series?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:53:35 +0000

make the third bit >:

i want to know how to stop the triangle deforming

By: Tijn

Tijn — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:35:07 +0000

Hi,

Really like the scripts, but I was wondering if they could be converted to act like a train for example. I have build 2 rollercoaster simulations, but want to improve them with some good scripts. I think I need the ragdoll maths to do it, car1 follows the track, but car 2 till 6 f.e. get off track.

Thnx :)

By: rolf

rolf — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:37:13 +0000

Searched your site with google for a while now… but it seems the third article keeps missing. Would love to see it, as your style to write and explain makes it easy to understand and learn.

Thanks so far :)

By: jamie

jamie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:03:33 +0000

Please publish a 3rd part to this tutorial ; ) its great and i would love to see the next steps.

By: Xodus

Xodus — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:00:12 +0000

I would really like the 3rd part…..

By: shp

shp — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:02:28 +0000

you can remove the sin, cos and atan to speed up the processing

function constraint(particle1, particle2, distance) {
dist_x = particle1._x-particle2._x;
dist_y = particle1._y-particle2._y;
actual_distance = Math.sqrt(dist_x*dist_x+dist_y*dist_y);

error = actual_distance-distance;

particle1._x -= (error/2)*dist_x/actual_distance;
particle1._y -= (error/2)*dist_y/actual_distance;

particle2._x += (error/2)*dist_x/actual_distance;
particle2._y += (error/2)*dist_y/actual_distance;
line.moveTo(particle1._x, particle1._y);
line.lineTo(particle2._x, particle2._y);
}