Creating a humanoid ragdoll with the ragdoll wizard

In this recipe, we will turn our character into a ragdoll and learn how to enable the ragdoll and disable it. We will use Unity's built-in Ragdoll Wizard, which is useful for creating humanoid ragdolls:

A character with the ragdoll effect applied

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need an animated character. We can use the one we were using before (for instance, the one from the Chapter 4, Character Movement). You can also go to the Chapter 09 Physics and animations\Recipe 04 Creating a humanoid ragdoll with ragdoll wizard directory. You can find the Example.unity scene there. If you play the game and press the space bar, the character will turn into a ragdoll. You can press the space bar again to turn the ragdoll off.

How to do it...

To create a humanoid ragdoll, follow these steps:

1. Place your character in the scene.
2. Go to Game Object | 3d Object | Ragdoll to open the Create Ragdoll window.
3. Drag and drop the bones from your character rig to the...