Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
#gamedev #bevy #rustlang
Creating a physics based character controller with procedural animations has been a long time desire of mine ever since I first got into game development. Up until now, I haven't had the knowledge or experience to replicate softbody physics or ragdoll physics without external help. Today, I'll be stitching together an active ragdoll character controller with the Bevy game engine and the Rust programming language completely from scratch without an external physics engine. I'll be doing this with the power of spring joints and shape matching as well as bevy's elegant entity component system which makes the process much simpler than other approaches. This ragdoll controller can be used in my future games as I made the character able to be customized inside of the tiled tilemap editor and the individual spring joints also able to be moved. Just a disclaimer though that the current iteration of this project does still have a few flaws which need to be ironed out and the approach can also be changed to be more robust which is why I won't be releasing the source code for this project yet. If I get the chance to work on this project again in the future I'll be sure to polish it up to release quality on my github.
Coding Active Ragdolls with Bevy & Rust
Join my Discord!
discord.gg/cRba8sDqAy
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Demo Scene Setup
1:10 - Tilemap Collider/Greedy "Meshing"
2:30 - Ragdoll in Tiled
3:17 - Point Mass Collision Detection
4:16 - Spring Joints
5:21 - Spring Constraints/Shape Matching
7:03 - Fixed Update vs Frame Update
7:11 - Player Movement Controller
8:40 - Spring Joint Sprite Renderer
9:03 - Grappling Gun & More Ragdoll Joints
Music Used
Adventure Board - Toby Fox
Link: youtube.com/watch?v=9PpyIF7ad6E
Marshmellow - Lukrembo
Link : youtu.be/y7KYdqVND4o
Biscuit - Lukrembo
Link : youtu.be/EtZ2m2Zm3vY
Better Days - LAKEY INSPIRED
Link : youtube.com/watch?v=RXLzvo6kvVQ
#gamedev #bevy #rustlang
Creating a physics based character controller with procedural animations has been a long time desire of mine ever since I first got into game development. Up until now, I haven't had the knowledge or experience to replicate softbody physics or ragdoll physics without external help. Today, I'll be stitching together an active ragdoll character controller with the Bevy game engine and the Rust programming language completely from scratch without an external physics engine. I'll be doing this with the power of spring joints and shape matching as well as bevy's elegant entity component system which makes the process much simpler than other approaches. This ragdoll controller can be used in my future games as I made the character able to be customized inside of the tiled tilemap editor and the individual spring joints also able to be moved. Just a disclaimer though that the current iteration of this project does still have a few flaws which need to be ironed out and the approach can also be changed to be more robust which is why I won't be releasing the source code for this project yet. If I get the chance to work on this project again in the future I'll be sure to polish it up to release quality on my github.
Coding Active Ragdolls with Bevy & Rust
Join my Discord!
discord.gg/cRba8sDqAy
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Demo Scene Setup
1:10 - Tilemap Collider/Greedy "Meshing"
2:30 - Ragdoll in Tiled
3:17 - Point Mass Collision Detection
4:16 - Spring Joints
5:21 - Spring Constraints/Shape Matching
7:03 - Fixed Update vs Frame Update
7:11 - Player Movement Controller
8:40 - Spring Joint Sprite Renderer
9:03 - Grappling Gun & More Ragdoll Joints
Music Used
Adventure Board - Toby Fox
Link: youtube.com/watch?v=9PpyIF7ad6E
Marshmellow - Lukrembo
Link : youtu.be/y7KYdqVND4o
Biscuit - Lukrembo
Link : youtu.be/EtZ2m2Zm3vY
Better Days - LAKEY INSPIRED
Link : youtube.com/watch?v=RXLzvo6kvVQ
