Animation improvements

[Popov72]

• Implement a layered animation system, "a la" Unity
• Skeleton Retargeting (different skeleton shape and identical bone hierarchy)
• Skeleton Retargeting (different skeleton shape and different bone hierarchy)
• Doc on regargeting
• Baked vertex animations: Optimize performances in a "Not using scale" mode (send only translation+quaternion to the shader, not a whole mat4x4). See:
  • https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/baked-animation-performance/32023
  • https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/skeletal-mesh-performance/40522

[afrokick]

Related post about Blending for VAT https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/enable-animations-blending-for-vat/49117/3

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[ertugrulcetin]

Is this Implement a layered animation system, "a la" Unity still in the pipeline? @Popov72

[Popov72]

Yes it is :)
We still have a number of things to do, but everything's going well.

[ertugrulcetin]

Once it's done, I guess we will have some something similar like this? https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/animation/anim-layer-masking/

[Popov72]

Yes, it should be pretty close to what you can find in Unity's mecanim system (layers (additive or not), state machines, different types of blend trees, etc).

[ertugrulcetin]

Thank you for the info!