This is an extremely difficult task if you want to do it during
physical simulation. You would need to write a controller (look at
TestController) that would sufficiently control the two skeletons so
that they can balance, kick, and stop a soccer ball.

If you just wanted to do this kinematically, you could simply keyframe
the animation (the Keyframe button on the skeleton GUI).

Alternatively, you could:

1) keyframe the soccer animation,

2) press the 'Save Anim' button on the skeleton GUI to save the motion
as a .bvh file

3) Using a PosePDController (or using tutorial 2), press the 'Load
Pose' button and load the .bvh file that you saved as a controller.
Make sure that you check the box marked 'kinematic' at the bottom of
the skeleton UI. This will execute the motion kinematically (exactly
as you keyframed it) but do so in a physically simulated environment,
so any soccer ball (like using: Scripts -> Create Collision Sphere)
that you place in the scene can be 'kicked' by the skeleton and will
have dynamic effects imparted on it.

3a) Similarly, you could select the 'Fix Root' option at the bottom of
the controller UI (instead of selecting 'Kinematic') which will fix
the hip joint exactly as you keyframed it, but track the other body
parts under physical simulation, so that when the skeleton hits the
ball the leg will deflect a bit.

Regards,

Ari Shapiro

--- In dancedev@yahoogroup s.com, "jlastsong" <jlastsong@. ..> wrote:
>
> hi, could anyone give me tips on how to make skeleton model kick a
> ball ( from tutorial 3)? I want to make two characters pass balls to
> each other..
>
> any help is greatly appreciated
>