navmeshagent position issue

[jazzj2]

i've got a gameobject with a navmeshagent component

the ragdoll and animated characters are parented to it

when the ragdoll enters a full ragdoll state, it usually ends up going further away from the original position of the navmeshagent

i want the navmeshagent to always be close to the ragdoll

so i did this in LateUpdate()

        if (state == CharState.ragdoll)

        {

            Vector3 temp = Ragdoll.position;

            pos.position = temp;

            Ragdoll.position =temp;

        }

the navmeshagent is teleported to the ragdoll's position, while the ragdoll doesn't move

however, the ragdoll doesn't seem to stay where it was before the navmeshagent teleported

and in the next frame, the navmeshagent moves to the now moved ragdoll, and so the whole thing slowly moves away from where it's supposed to be, instead of stopping after all the physic forces slowly die out.

i tried different things, turned off the navmeshagent, lerped rather than directly porting, i always get poor results

[jazzj2]

for the record, i'm using unity 5.3.0

[jazzj2]

and with further testing, i can more or less get around this, but the main issue now is that when the ragdoll ends and the get up animations start, the humanoid ragdoll animator starts the body from where it was when it entered the ragdoll, not where it currently is

is there any way i can set where the animated body is supposed to start from?

right now, i'm already setting it's localPosition to Vector3.zero, but clearly that's not enough

    protected virtual void LateUpdate()

    {

        //unrelated

        anim.SetFloat("movX", InputX, 0.1f, Time.deltaTime);

        anim.SetFloat("movY", InputY, 0.1f, Time.deltaTime);

        //for the record, Ragdoll is actually the hips/pelvis

        Animated.localPosition = Vector3.zero;

        Animated.localRotation = Quaternion.identity;

        if (state == CharState.ragdoll)

        {

            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.R))

            {

                Vector3 temp = Ragdoll.position;

                pos.position = temp;

                Ragdoll.position = temp;

                Quaternion rot = Ragdoll.rotation;

                pos.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation((Head.position - Ragdoll.position) * (anim.GetBool("Name Hash") ? -1 : 1));

                Ragdoll.rotation = rot;

                anim.SetBool("Full Hierarchy Ragdoll", false);

            }

            nav.enabled = false;

        }

        else

        {

            nav.enabled = true;

        }

    }

[jazzj2]

and i forgot to post the example

[Developer Support]

It's hard to say exactly without seeing a project, but from your original post it sounds like your hierarchy looks like this:

• NavMeshAgent
• Ragdoll
• RagdollAnimator

Is this correct? If so, you should instead put the NavMeshAgent on the same GameObject as the RagdollAnimator. You should also probably set NavMeshAgent.enabled = false in a callback you register with RagdollAnimator.OnEnterFullHierarchyRagdoll, and respectively set NavMeshAgent.enabled = true in a callback you register with RagdollAnimator.OnExitFullHierarchyRagdoll. Both of these can be done via the inspector or via code. Beyond that, I don't know the NavMeshAgent APIs very well, so it is possible you may have to call Stop when it enters full hierarchy ragdoll, and/or Resume or Warp or similar when it exits.

[jazzj2]

alright, that fixes my issue

i've got another problem though, unrelated to that

limbs bend incorrectly

this is the character trying to punch with the left arm, but the elbow/forearm seems to bend way past it's limit

i used to think this is an issue with setting up the ragdoll outside of the t-pose, but that's definitely not the case this time

[jazzj2]

and another thing

now that the navmeshagent is on the Animated character, when he moves, the ragdoll stutters behind

if i do (in LateUpdate)

            ragdoll.position = animated.position;

            ragdoll.rotation = animated.rotation;

things work smoothly while animating, but if i go into a full body ragdoll, and then come out of it, i get the earlier issue with getting up from a full hierarchy ragdoll state

i tried adding some conditions to the ragdoll positions, but simply having it there and not having it in some states, ensures that the character is gonna teleport at some point in time

in the best case scenario, i'm doing

if (state != CharState.ragdoll && state != CharState.gettingup)

        {

            ragdoll.position = animated.position;

            ragdoll.rotation = animated.rotation;

        }

in which case i can only see the character teleporting back and forth for a frame or two right after he finishes getting up

[Developer Support]

Hi again! I'm at GDC this week so may be a bit slow to respond. Any chance you can zip up a project and send to bu...@candlelightinteractive.com with scenes I can open up and see both a) the arm bending issue and b) the stuttering issue?