Clone skelton of model and set it to another

[sebavan]

This answer is providing a detailed way of doing it with a playground sample:

Copy animationGroup with skeleton

Thanks for the mention Seb, @Dshah_H in this playground, I retarget by cloning the animation group, then for each targetedAnimation, I set the target to be the driving node in the skeleton that I want the animation track to control. In this example, I search by name, since both the source skeleton and the target skeleton had matching hierarchy. However, you can define your own mapping and use that instead, if the skeletons aren’t identical. One thing that isn’t taken into account would being a…

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Loading character with animations to scene and cloning it with animation groups

Yeap, you are correct! I was suspicious of that part as well, but didn’t have time to test it yet Here is the final version, with added animation blending! So what I gather, here is what needs to be done if you wish to clone a fully rigged and animated character “manually”. I also assume there might be some differences if the glb/gltf formats are not used… You need to store the root mesh, the skeleton and the animation groups somewhere. Clone the root mesh using instantiateHi…

Those are quite hard topics but I guess a doc entry would be great @PirateJC, I can not find it back for @Drigax PG