Play model animation like scrubbing a timeline?

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is it possible play/rev/stop skeletal animations by using the mouse axis?

e.g. lets say I animate “aim_forward_to_Up” “aim_forward” “aim_forward_to_down” in single file, would it be possible to tie animation playback or blending to y-axis mouse movement, so if I move the mouse up aim up starts playing, if I stop moving the mouse the animation pauses at that point and I move the mouse in reverse the animation “rolls back”

Trying to figure out third-person aiming for my game…model setup and whatnot

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Yes, but which system are you using? The new or old one?

There are implementations for both in my swing devkit. It binds to a slider. You just need to bind it to your up/down motion.

https://github.com/jayfella/jme-swing-devkit/tree/master/src/main/java/com/jayfella/importer/properties/component/control

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the old, but I will be moving over when I get a few other things figured out. will check it out

just to be clear though, I want the control animation playback on a model LIKE or SIMILAR to scrubbing a timeline for y-axis aiming for a third-person shooter not make an actual timeline.

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You want to be able to set the time of the animation based on the distance of an axis from a position. That’s what the code I referenced does.

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cool thanks just wanted to be sure I was clear