Using Scene methods on loaded .glb assets

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I’d like to be able to do things like get the animation by name for my various loaded assets. I know that the Scene class includes .getAnimationGroupByName, but when I load my assets like so:

SceneLoader.ImportMeshAsync("", BASE_FILE_PATH, path, this.scene);

I don’t get a scene but a ISceneLoaderAsyncResult so I can’t use the method. Is there another way to load the assets so they are considered to be a Scene and therefore have access to Scene’s methods? Or is it wrong to load each .glb as a Scene since there should only be one Scene? If so, is there another way to use all the helpful Scene methods that would be useful on loaded .glb assets?

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or you can access all of these and much more after you load your model via the scene object:

   scene.meshes
   scene.animatables
   scene.animationGroups
   scene.materials
   scene.textures
   ..etc
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If I load two character models into the scene and then I want to get the animation called Idle for character A, how could I do that? Since there are two assets loaded, each with an animation called Idle, how can scene.getAnimationGroupByName know which one I want? That is why I was wondering if there was some way to get an animation group by name for a particular loaded asset. Currently I wrote my own function to do so but I was wondering if there was a built in way to access all the helper methods that a Scene has but for a particular loaded asset.

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Here is the example of loading 2 same character models and finding their own animation groups - Babylon.js Playground

If you want more helper methods (like dispose) it is better to use Asset Container.

Here is scene.getMeshByName source code:

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