Sounds awesome, i'll be sure to give them a watch! I have worked with powered joints before, my favorite prototype being this one www.artstation.com/artwork/klBP46 (Main examples at bottom of page) that gave my ragdolls a sense of muscle tension and resistance, but I had problems when developing the joint systems, and procedural animations and overall movement managers at the same time. That's why for this specific game, i'm starting off with a simple minimal physics approach. This model will have basic active ragdoll drivers, and its different limbs will blend between having no physics, just IK driven movement, to collide-able phys driven movement again when needed. This let's me work out the complex walking system, animation and combat managers without fighting the physics on the edge cases. Once this game is done, the hope is to have a stable foundation, to then start incorporating the more complex ragdoll drivers from my other prototypes, as modular pieces (I really miss the joint tension system from the link above, and would love it at least on the arms for blocking and pushing actions) on top of a proven to work, 3rd person action game character. Sorry for the wall of text, rarely get to talk about the behind the scenes, so it's nice to be able to talk about plans and the old prototypes.

My own code. About 3 years ago I couldn't find much on working with Ragdolls, so I just started messing around making different systems and learnt from there - Previous models can be seen on videos on this channel - This current game, is an attempt to combine a bunch of the things I've learnt, into a single stable humanoid model, that I can keep building on game to game going onward.

All games I've done so far have been done in the Unity3d Engine. Though once I finish this game and have the design of this system ironed out, I'm hopping to start experimenting in Godot, see how it holds up.

No idea myself, since I have no idea how to use machine learning, but as someone working with designing procedural animation stuff, honestly, you don't need to go as crazy as I have with it to start getting some really good results by just mixing a little bit of code with your animation.

replace it with SphereHandleCap

Yeah, server sync is one of the new areas i'll need to look into, been a while. My plan is, drawing and placing spells is all pretty much local at the moment, and when you draw a valid circle, that goes through a spell manager. Hope is that after I finish getting the playable bit of the design working I only really need to go to one spell spawning script, and make sure the server tells all local instances to *Place Circle 5 Here*

Thanks!! Also holy heck that Holospace system does look crazy. I mean dark shader witchcraft to be sure, but awesome. Still that bit about 2D and 3D content is kind of my hope with things like this system. After I went to one or two VRChat events and the main instances were full, so I had to go to the 2nd or 3rd instances, where the performance could only then be watched on a 2D screen, I thought there had to be a way to stream performers into multiple worlds. Right now i'm still cleaning it this up, and slowly adding more motion tracking to the puppet, but even at this stage I'd say it's ready to do a fair bit more with a just a little work. And, since the puppet is a world object itself, I can also see a lot of ways this could have some neat player to recording interactions, but that's something for future development.

@@BirdmaskStudio Absolutely! I attended a VR convention and all the panels were streamed via 2D video projected onto a flat plane on the stage - I really wished that they were 3D, as the stereo vision is one of the strengths of the VR platform. I found that in the most recent VKet there were a few stalls that seemed to play back motion-capture using avatars, but I feel like these were stored as animation rather than video, so much more difficult to broadcast than a video-based method like yours. Your idea of being able to interact with the avatar sounds fun as well, I'm not sure what I'd use that for yet, but that's part of the fun of new technologies ^^