Well for starters, it's not because I can't stand working with other people ... okay, so maybe it is, but the OTHER reason is because ragdolls offer a much, MUCH wider variety of entertainment with their customizable movements as long as you know what you're doing. Yeah, I know, there's also faceposer, but you're still using pre-set animations most of the time. My point is, by using actors who run around using preset playermodel animations, bobbing their heads and spewing their god awful voice acting, I believe it takes a very large portion of the entertainment value away. Plus manipulating ragdolls has a strange charm to it, especially for the actual Gmod players. Not only will the humor be there, the Gmod players will sit and wonder in amazement how you pulled it off too. I still have many, many people believing that Billy Mays VS Vince was done with multiple ragdoll animators in a server, when the four extra people in the credits actually helped with finding me audio, maps and giving me a new productions logo. The posing and editing was done by me alone.
But still, a tool like this would be very practical, especially for Stop Motion Helper. It could work like this; You spawn a ragdoll, pose it and then use the tool to copy that pose (right-click) and then save the copied pose like Advanced Duplicator. Then you can load the pose again and apply them to the ragdoll (or other ragdolls with same. Stand Pose tool As the name suggests, this will lock any ragdoll into its standing 'default' pose, which you can then work on from there. A very useful tool to have. Easy Bodygroup Tool Easy Bonemerge Tool Makes some of Gmod's more obnoxious applications easier. Collision Resizer (Prop Resizer) Ragdoll Resizer. Using GMod you can pose ragdolls. I've read that you need svcheats set to 1 or you can't change model. Player settings are options you can change and information you can put in to personalize your experience in Garry's Mod. Is there a way to save poses in gmod? Posted by u/deleted 4 years ago. Is there a way to save poses in gmod? Can you save a ragdoll's pose and use it for another model or another time? Save hide report. This thread is archived. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Garrysmod video of how to pose ragdolls. Feb 22 2008 Other Tutorial 4 comments. Quite often, people want to use Garry's Mod to either make pictures containing ragdolls or make comics using the characters from Source games.
Gmod How To Pose Ragdolls For Beginners
Another problem I have with use of actors is the fact that they simply cannot control themselves. Swear to God, every actor I've ever known act like they're at the computer eating a heaping bowl of Captain Crunch with a mountain of sugar and ground up Ritalin pills. I went into a server once to help a member of the 'Shadow Of Death Clan' film a Gmod movie he was doing, but 8 / 10 players just ran around deathmatching each other until the director just gave up and started making a building look like it was exploding instead.
All right, so let's say you've finally found some good actors. Well besides the first argument I've made against the use of actors, there's also the problem of finding a server ... ah yes ... a server. You have to manage the shit out of it, put up all the mods on it and hope all your actors have the same mods that it does, actors LOVE shouting over each other, you could be amped to film a certain scene but not all your actors could be online and of course, they always try to butt in on your script or say they're not getting enough scenes. If I ever actually did need actors, I have two of my best friends on that job and they're all I could ever need. As for using actors beyond them, I can pretty much say for sure that if I used those in all my movies, not only would they not even be half as funny, but I'd have pulled all my hair out and called it quits after GIB3 with how much a pain in the ass it is to work with general actors as a director.