Help with Bones and skeletons

[Zlo]

Hi there,
can someone put some light how to make bones and skeleton animation at runtime;
i found something about bones and skeletons but i didnt found anything how to attach bone to node (or spatial) at runtime;

mybe example of 2 boxes and bone connecting them ;

[yan]

[SOLVED]How to skinning a model with pure Java code?

Hi, all. I’m learn jMonkeyEngine 3.0 source code. I have some problems learning skeleton animation. So far I have done these work: (1) Create a Node with three Geometry(using Box mesh) (2) Create a Skeleton with three Bones (3) Create an Animation with three BoneTracks, each track bind to one Bone (4) Create an AnimControl and bind it to the Node mentioned in (1) The skeleton and AnimControl works fine but Geometry just can’t move with bones. [image] Now I need to do the last step: (5…

[sgold]

The short answer is: you associate bones with a node using a Skeleton and a SkeletonControl. And usually you need an AnimControl as well, to associate animations with the node.