Unity - How to shoot limbs off an enemy

Zaphire

So we are looking at implementing a feature where you can shoot the arms, legs and head off of an enemy but we want to find out what different techniques we can use to implement it.

If anyone has some theory on how to do it or some personal experience on doing it using Unity and Blender please let us know :)

Pomb

In the past I've done this by scaling the appendage skinned bone down to zero and then showing a damaged mesh for that part that would be skinned to the parent. It's a simple and easy to author method.
And then there's valve... http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2010/gdc2010_vlachos_l4d2wounds.pdf

raithza

I use a heavily modified and optimised version of this script in GORN
http://www.idlecreations.com/loz/chopScript.cs

POMB's method sounds easier depending on what you need to do. in GORN I had specific requirements e.g. the dismembered limb still needs to be interactable and each limb must be able to be cut multiple times.

Zaphire

Thanks for the info! Will have a look at it.