# Graph Editor Animations **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** editor\ **Created:** [July 31, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/graph-editor-animations/13038 "2020-07-31T22:49:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tbunker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/tbunker/32/9192_2.png) [@tbunker](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/tbunker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/graph-editor-animations/13038/1 "2020-07-31T22:49:47Z")
I have imported a glb with animation into a scene and am looking to set up a visual scripting graph to play it after a trigger. After adding a Start Animation node, I wasn’t sure what to plug in to the “node” input. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/uploads/babylonjs/original/2X/c/c7698b0e6947c656c6c003d0363fba9c2bdebe91.png) At the moment, I have a mesh output with my glb’s root node connected into that input but that doesn’t appear to be the way to do it. What should I be connecting to that instead? The [docs](https://doc.babylonjs.com/resources/using_grapheditor#list-of-all-available-nodes) say to see node’s properties. What does this mean? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/uploads/babylonjs/original/2X/1/1697925476202e7ebe1c738453f8363022e2555b.png) Thanks in advanced. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Evgeni\_Popov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/evgeni_popov/32/4432_2.png) [@Evgeni\_Popov](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Evgeni_Popov)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/graph-editor-animations/13038/2 "2020-08-01T11:34:04Z")
I guess this one is for @julien-moreau. ---
**Author:** ![julien-moreau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/julien-moreau/32/12070_2.png) [@julien-moreau](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/julien-moreau)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/graph-editor-animations/13038/3 "2020-08-03T09:55:08Z")
Hey @tbunker! Unfortunately, all the documentation you can find here [Using the Graph Editor - Babylon.js Documentation](https://doc.babylonjs.com/resources/using_grapheditor) is outdated as the Graph Editor of V4 has been remaed from scratch as well. I still have to wirte documentation for this part! Also, take care because this is a beta it this will maybe require breaking changes on some nodes until we get the final version of the Visual Script Editor. In Babylon.JS, each node can have a list of animations. The “Start Animation” node will just start the animation of the given node (here “ **root** ”). As you are using GLTF, I don’t think the “ **root** ” node has any animation but some of its children will have. I would love to get feedbacks from you about the Visual Script Editor especially on what nodes are missing and useful ---
**Author:** ![tbunker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/tbunker/32/9192_2.png) [@tbunker](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/tbunker)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/graph-editor-animations/13038/4 "2020-08-03T17:10:14Z")
Hi @julien-moreau, I’ll work on compiling that list of missing and useful nodes for you and should have something for you soon. 🙂 As far as connecting the animation goes, I’m connecting a Mesh node into a Get Property node to try and get joint or animation data from that mesh. I opened the mesh in the integrated sandbox and saw the animation groups for the object. “All Animations\_channel0” looked to be connected to the joint I want to animate (Door\_L\_JNT). ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/uploads/babylonjs/original/2X/1/1068a8c1f077e3fdbf76f3d97ea5a14d8916f68f.png) But I don’t think I’m connecting/naming stuff properly. I’m referencing this document for the object path: [https://doc.babylonjs.com/how\_to/animatedcharacter#import-the-model-and-play-animation](https://doc.babylonjs.com/how_to/animatedcharacter#import-the-model-and-play-animation) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/uploads/babylonjs/original/2X/1/1a3a4c9be75cf0ea89a526da7d4d608598fbd00a.png) Is this how I use these nodes or is there a different way to get the animation groups? ---
**Author:** ![julien-moreau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/julien-moreau/32/12070_2.png) [@julien-moreau](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/julien-moreau)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/graph-editor-animations/13038/5 "2020-08-03T19:11:48Z")
Hey @tbunker Unfotunately accessing properties is limited to simple paths (like a.b.c) where complex paths like “a.b[0].c[2]” is not possible. Today you can’t play animation groups using the Editor. The Editor doesn’t have notion of animation groups at the moment and I’m implementing it right now. What I have noticed is that if you already loaded scenes with animation groups, the animation groups haven’t been saved and you’ll have to re-import your objects in scene to get animation groups working ☹ As a beta version, this was in my todolist and was not yet available ☹ You’ll soon be able to do something like that: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/uploads/babylonjs/original/2X/4/4ce6ca534b8475ee0b9258239c2581a84e25db78.png) ---
**Author:** ![tbunker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/tbunker/32/9192_2.png) [@tbunker](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/tbunker)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/graph-editor-animations/13038/6 "2020-08-03T19:29:27Z")
Thank you for the info! I look forward to the upcoming features. 🙂