Ragdoll Physics - More realistic ragdoll death physics and corpse collision

Overview

Removes the idle animation when NPC is dead and adds ragdoll physics and collision to dead bodies when air or land and alters applied physics to match 9. 81 m/s² more closely.

The mod changes two essential NPC properties:

Death animation, by default the game adds an animation to the NPC when dead. Which in turn will send most NPC (models) far away into the sky. By removing the animation and replacing these with ragdoll physics NPCs are no longer "flying away". There is still some NPCs which behave weird but its much better now. Any NPC has a skeleton, NIF, model attached which hold the weight and physics data. As long as these have not been altered we have to fight with the default, vanilla physics. Which are great but not perfectly balanced or overhauled.

Corpse collision, corpse collision by default is off. Player char cannot push or walk over bodies, player char will skip bodies, like there are no bodies. Now, this mod applies collision to dead bodies just like to any other object.

In short this mod overrides records of the following object classes:

- Collision Layer,

- Game Setting and

- Idle Animation.

Altered Object Classes

Collision Layer

L_CHARCONTROLLER - A character controller

- Added: L_BIPED

L_DEADBIP - We need this to differentiate between keyframed + dynamic Bipeds

- Added: L_CHARCONTROLLER

Game Setting

The following settings are part of the plugin, for transparency they are listed here, but also part of the uploaded images:

fDeathForceDamageMax=2. 5000

fDeathForceDamageMin=0. 5000

fDeathForceForceMax=2. 5000

fDeathForceForceMin=0. 5000

fDeathForceRangedDamageMax=2. 5000

fDeathForceRangedDamageMin=0. 5000

fDeathForceRangedForceMax=2. 5000

fDeathForceRangedForceMin=0. 5000

fDeathForceSpellImpactMult=0. 5000

fExplosionForceMultAngular=0. 5000

fExplosionForceMultLinear=0. 5000

fZKeyMaxForce=500. 0000

fZKeyMaxForceWeightHigh=5000. 0000

Idle Animation

Any death animation was swapped, e.g. Animation Event "DeathAnim" is now "Ragdoll". This will force the game to use ragdoll physics and the game settings above properly.

Death animation swapped: