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[feredfn]

Hi ,

What is best way to have 2 models which shares animations , one a ( for example ) human dynamic character and a human NPC without any parts and slots but with exact same animations with the dynamic character.

will the skeleton works just fine?

[feredfn]

I've just found i can use whole animations if i create the npc model and skin it to the skeleton as a part just like all other parts.

[HE-Cooper]

Right. A skeleton doesn't "know" anything about a mesh. It just moves based on an animation that has been authored for it. A mesh is skinned, or weighted to a skeleton, and "knows" nothing about a given animation just that the skeleton it is skinned to tells it to move or twist or deform.

Because of this. Many online games, for performance reasons only have a single biped skeleton for all characters and NPCs.

But that doesn't mean you couldn't have a single mesh work on 20 different skeletons. There traditionally just haven't been any reasons to.