play with the rotation fixup lines in the head's $definebones. they're the last three numbers in the line

lol

remove this first of all:
$bodygroup "spot"
{
studio "spot_reference.smd"
blank
}

Originally posted by Hika:

Originally posted by scudgel:

try setting inertia to 10 or so

I deleted the neck, collar, tongue, hair, and skirt bones, redid the physics constraits and set the intertia to 10. It's pretty stable now but still slightly twitchy if you move it wrong. I think I'm on the right track.

might want to also look at $jointcollide, which allows you to list what bones should collide with what other bones

example usage:

allowing only main body parts to collide amongst themselves means minor bones (such as skirt bones) might stop spazzing as they won't constantly try to collide with each other

Originally posted by Hika:

Originally posted by scudgel:

what's your ragdoll's inertia at? are there any unnecessary bones in your ragdoll model (i.e neck, shoulders)

The inertia for all the bones is set to 2. The ragdoll has 1 neck bone and a left and right collarbone, but I've assigned all of those to parts of my collision model. The only bones that I haven't assigned to anything are the skirt, hair, eyes and tongue.

I will say that this is my first time doing this, and my first time ever touching blender, so I'm a little lost.

try setting inertia to 10 or so

what's your ragdoll's inertia at? are there any unnecessary bones in your ragdoll model (i.e neck, shoulders)

optimize your model

upload an archive containing your SMDs and QC

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$origin

Install Blender and get the Blender Source Tools[steamreview.org] to import and animate your model in Blender — you can look up a Blender animation tutorial for the rest. You don't have to use Blender but it's probably the easiest thing to use for what you want to do.