I am new to Away3D.  I have created a DAE model in Blender and loaded it in Away3D.  The model has 3 meshes and one animation - the animation affects all 3 meshes.  When I parse the DAE, the DAEParser separates the animation into 3 animation nodes giving each mesh its own animation.  I gave each mesh its own SkeletonAnimator as I couldn’t figure a way of sharing the animator between all 3 meshes.

1st Problem:

When I play the animations, naturally they don’t synch, for example the coat runs faster than the body etc:

How can we synchronise these animations so that they start and end at the same time?

2nd Problem:

Also how do I break the animation up into clips e.g. Walk 0-1 secs, Run 1-2 secs etc?

The animators seem only able to play() each animation from the beginning root “node_0” for BODY, “node_1” for HAT etc. right the way through to the end, and looping by default.

I have checked the node names for each animationSet, and each animationSet seems to have been given just one single node which is named with an underscore and a number reflecting the order they were loaded - I did not give them these names in Blender.

returns:

node_0
node_1
node_2

What I really want is either to add more nodes to the AnimationSets OR to add more AnimationSets to the Animation.

Is there an easier solution?

Thanks for looking.

Solution to Problem 1:

I fixed the synch problem, literally 5 mins after I posted!

A lack of understanding on my part.

Here is the code:

The reason I can’t add the animation nodes to all animationSets at the parsing stage is that each animation node is parsed AFTER each animation set, so I had to wait until all 3 animation sets were parsed before adding the later animations gleaned towards the end of the parse procedure.

I hope this makes sense to somebody!

Solution to Problem 2

Sorted, I can now divide up the parsed animation into clips. 

Using an[0] as the full animation as before:

Hope this helps someone!