Assign separate model/skin to skeleton at runtime

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Assign separate model/skin to skeleton at runtime

Cunnah

Hello,

I am trying to see if switching engines is viable for me. One sticking point is that in Unity I can assign a mesh to a skeleton at runtime. This allows me to load weapons and items and add them to the player character and NPC procedurally without having to have those meshes loaded all the time or part of the model.

I assume this is possible to do in Godot but for the life of me I cannot seem to get it to work. The documentation in this area is a bit sparce as well. The furthest I have got is using the skeleton3D and registerSkin method(?)

Megalomaniak

I've definitely seen others do this before, there was definitely some caveat to it but I can't for the life of me recall off the top of my head what it was though. Haven't invested any time in it myself though. If you keep searching for it you likely will find some topics discussing it, some even on this very forum. I can assure you this has come up in here before.

Tomcat

Perhaps this work can suggest something.