Character who uses a sword

I want on my game a character who uses a sword. I moviment my character using NxCaracter.

How to make the sword colide with another character?
I use ragdoll?

Please Help me!
Thanks!

One thing you can do is to create an actor representation for the sword, say a box, and update the position of this actor every frame with your character. The position for the sword can be a special bone in your character and you can read this position every frame and update the physics actor position.

A few collision callbacks would need to be set too in order for you to be able to handle the post collision events.

Thats one way to do it.

Another way would be to use a "cone area of damage". Get all the shapes in the area (use a sphere), then have a facing direction, and a spread angle. You can then filter out the objects that are not inside the "cone"

I used the character ragdoll, i want him to carry a viking sword or any kind of sword, I want him to become flexible.