Animation is Disfigured Trouble

Troubleshooting import-assets
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I am having a problem with importing animated blender models (which are thus converted to .j3o, or any animated model) into the engine. I can successfully import the model, but when I call the animation, it looks disfigured and strange. I have spent around a week trying to solve this problem, but to no success.
This is what I did to add the model:

  1. I created the model in sketchup, then exported it in .obj format to blender.
  2. From there, I animated the model, and added a root bone. At this stage, the animation played out fine.
  3. I then exported the model to a .xml file.
  4. I added the model to the game. Remember, the animation still plays, but there are joints and the model is disfigured.

I am 99.9% confident that I added the model to the game properly. Instead, I must of done something incorrect in blender.
I really hope that the solution is something relatively simple. Also, if anyone wants to figure out what is wrong with the model, here is the .blend file… http://www.4shared.com/file/chRALJ3Qce/anthro.html. For reference, the animation is called “Tailwag”.
Cheers ahead of time, for any input that will help me solve this problem. I guarantee that my low level of experience with blender is to blame.

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Have you applied trasformations with CTRL+A in blender?

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I believe so. Here is a gif of the basic animation in blender.

Thanks for the quick reply.
Any other ideas?

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I also found that my problem is similar to the one posted in this thread. http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/forum/topic/another-animation-problem/
However, I was not able to find a working solution for my model in the thread.

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In the model you have provided in the link there isn’t any root bone ( that must be placed at POS(0,0,0) ) and you haven’t applied the transformations neither to the armature nor to the model.
This should be useful -> https://wiki.jmonkeyengine.org/legacy/doku.php/jme3:external:blender#animations

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