Is it possible to load skeletons only (and not mesh)?

[Knight]

I have two .babylon files. One with meshes and skeletons, but no animation. The other one has skeletons and animation, but no meshes. Turns out BABYLON.SceneLoader.ImportMesh doesn't load the skeletons at all, because there's no mesh in the file. Is there any way to import .babylon file with just skeletons and animation?

[Dad72]

You must use createAnimationRange and copyAnimationRange

BABYLON.SceneLoader.ImportMesh("", "http://www.babylon.actifgames.com/anim/", "walk.babylon", scene, function (newMeshesFactice, particleSystems, skeletonsWalk) {

		var meshFactice = newMeshesFactice[0]; // Character lowpoly factice avec anim walk
		BipWalk = skeletonsWalk[0];// skeleton for anim walk		
		BipWalk.createAnimationRange("walk", 0, 40);	
					
		if (BipWalk) {

			meshFactice.position.x = 100;
			meshFactice.dispose();// delete mesh lowpoly factice				
			
			// Import character hightpoly
			BABYLON.SceneLoader.ImportMesh("", "http://www.babylon.actifgames.com/anim/", "man.babylon", scene, function (newMeshesPerso, particleSystems, skeletonsPerso) {

				skeletonsPerso[0].copyAnimationRange(BipWalk, "walk", true);
	  			skeletonsPerso[0].beginAnimation("walk", true, 1.0);
				
			});
		}		
    });	

I did this a while ago. The first importMesh, load the mesh with the animation and I put the movie in createanimationRange
Then the second importMesh, load mesh with Skeleton without animation and I'll get the animation with copyAnimationRange

This loads the animation on the fly

PG exemple: http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#GA8XI#12

Post here : http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/20768-loading-animations-on-the-fly/?do=findComment&comment=119347