SFMPhys alternative?

[Lonrot]

This addon enables physics in SFM. It hasn't been updated since 2013, and it seems that it no longer works. I haven't found any alternatives.

Are you all animating everything by hand?

[Pte Jack]

All physics is either manually posed and animated or recorded through game mode and passed to other characters either using Doc Ock Rokc and Revzin's puppet tool or by using R234's passing constraints method at present.

https://youtu.be/6W2PamTlSYQ

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=216464518

[raptornx01]

whats wrong with this?

http://steamcommunity.com/app/1840/discussions/0/619569608583967195/

[Pte Jack]

Haven't tried it, does it work? I thought there were aspects that didn't...

[Wilkins Coffee]

Works for me, Pte.

[Lonrot]

Thanks for sharing Pte and raptom!

[MEGAF00T]

You could try animating like Mag Magnet does! It has worked for me and I think it will work for you too! Just go check out her group and look at her videos on twitch. What she does is she holds the model and then presses play. It will move with your mouse until you let go. Hope this helps!

[R234]

Originally posted by Megbfield:

You could try animating like Mag Magnet does! It has worked for me and I think it will work for you too! Just go check out her group and look at her videos on twitch. What she does is she holds the model and then presses play. It will move with your mouse until you let go. Hope this helps!

It's called puppeteering, and the official tutorials cover that, so everyone should know about it.

[Lonrot]

Yup, also got that covered. I love puppeteering, one of the reasons I use SFM.

[raptornx01]

that would be the hardest way to do it well though. you have to have quite a bit of latent and mouse control to get the movement to be fluid and well timed.

[Bop]

I dislike puppeteering for various reasons, most notably the issue of human error. If you want to animate a single ragdoll you may as well just manually do so. It's the most reliable method of getting a desired animation. If you got a bunch of different ragdolls or models bumping around, use the script raptorn posted.

[episoder]

I'm not sure what sort of physics you need. you can still build all kind of scenes in hammer. use prop_physics or overrides. you have puppets or ragdolls in there. you just gotta bake/compile entities only. go ingame sfm and trigger the effect. standard effect shot procedure. with a button for example. and then take all the pieces and get animation sets. does that to some extend. and it's still faster then puppeteering every lil peace of ragdoll.