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hi joseba, 

you can use removeChild and addChild methods or parent property, for example:

myNewHair.parent = myHead;
myOldHair.parent = null;

ok, thanks! That works, but the new hair now doesnt follow the biped animation that were in the model. Any idea why?

thanks

hi joseba, you should parent the hair to the head, if the head is animated, the hair should be following to the head.

Hi,

Still stuck with this issue. And it is critical for the application im developing. Please help me. Im using the following code:

            private function completeEvent(e:Event):void
            {
                var nuevoPelo : Mesh3D = Mesh3D(pelo.getChildByName("PELO"));
                var viejoPelo : Mesh3D = Mesh3D(biped.getChildByName("PELO"));
                nuevoPelo.animation = viejoPelo.animation;
                biped.removeChild(viejoPelo);
                biped.addChild(nuevoPelo);
               
               
                Pivot3DUtils.replaceAnimations( biped, anim1 );
                scene.camera.animationEnabled = false;
                anim1.dispose();
                biped.play();
                Pivot3DUtils.traceInfo(scene);
            }

Complete source code with the f3d files are here:
http://www.refr3sh.es/temp/animation.zip

Please tell me what can i do for the new mesh follow the animation.

Thank you!!!

hi Joseba, 

first at all...looks great ;)

it's s little confusing, but the basic problem is with your animation file.

if you look at the ROCK_CHICO.f3d, you´ll see that the pivot "PELO" its apear in blue (because it is animated), but really does not have any movement.

so, when you replace the animacion with the "PELO" animation the result is nothing.

the second problem is that you don´t have a reference pivot to attach the hair because you head (or "CABEZA") it's also skinned...so...

i did a quick fix, but it is not the best solution.
if took the bone reference of the head ( "Bip001 Head" ) and parent the new hair to that.
i needed to rotate and translate a bit because the axis of the hair and the bone are different.

here is the result:

ok thank you! that will do the trick.

But this will be a long living application, so i prefer to do the things the right way. I dont mind to rework the model or the animations. Please can you tell me how is the way to go?

I need a model that the user can customize (i.e. replace the "hair" mesh) and the user can choose from different animations so the animations must be in different files. What is the procedure to achieve this? If you can point me to the right way so i can tell to the 3D guy you will save my life!

Thanks a lot for your help

mmm BTW seeing your MAX presentation its a bit hard to understand why we speak english if our natural language is spanish xDD

So if you want we can continue this conversation in the spanish forum (what i missed at first).

oh!, I know, I need to improve my terrible english jeje...but this way we can also help to other users ;)

i found another easy way using setGlobalParent() method :P
so, you don´t need to worry for the position and rotation.

Great!!

Muchas gracias ;)

Sorry for coming with this again, but i still have a problem. The Pivot3DUtils.setGlobalParent trick works nice the first time, but when the model is animating it doesn't put the mesh in the right place. I think because "Bip001 Head" has moved from its original position. Any idea of how to workaround this?

Thanks