What is the replacement for AnimChannel in new 3.3 animation system?

[yaRnMcDonuts]

I’m working on learning the new animation system so I can replace the old one entirely in my game, but so far I’ve noticed there is no direct replacement for having multiple AnimChannels.

In this old thread where nehon talked about the animation system while it was in development, I also noticed that he mentions something about playing different animations on separate sets of bones at the same time as not being necessary, I am not sure why he said this because it does seem necessary from my experience, and now I worry the new animation system cannot support this

https://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/t/monkanim-v2

@nehon

The main idea behind the channels is that they are defined for a set of bones in the skeleton and will only affect those bones. The problem is that the need to use a subset of bone is pretty rare, or at least not the usual case, and the channels are not very intuitive to use.

I need to be able to play a walking animation on the lower half of the body while the upper half of the body plays a separate swinging or flinching animation. Is there some other way to do this with the new animation system?

[Ali_RS]

AnimChannel replacement in 3.3

I am trying to find the replacement for AnimChannel in 3.3. Could someone point me in the right direction.

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