Godot 4.x Versions broken due to Animation and Skeleton Core Changes

[smix8]

Both Godot 4.x versions are broken due to recent core changes made in Godot 4.x.

Animation data changed:

• Animation Transform Tracks are removed
• Replaced by new, dedicated Tracktypes for bone origin, basis and scale
• and more ...

Skeleton changed:

• Changed the bone rest calculation completely.
• Skeleton bone positions are now imported in bone space
• Bones are no longer relative to bone rest.
• and more ...

Also a more official proposal for animation retargeting in Godot now exists by a core dev that superseded my proposal. This means addon development for the Godot 4.x is discontinued since there will be an official implementation.

[ghost]

Interesting that a core dev has gotten their change in, do you have any links to the PR or branch? I'm curious to see what it looks like... Have you tried it out yet?

[smix8]

@WiredDreamcaster
The first "official" implementation attempt was abandoned due to differences on details and is now back to the proposal stage.
I dont have a link rightnow but it was posted 7-10 days ago on the official godot-proposal repo.

[ghost]

Hello @smix8, I haven't been able to find it just yet, was it under the discussions section? Do you remember any keywords that could help me search? So far not hitting anything for 'animation', 're/target', 'skeleton', or 'armature'. I didn't think it would be difficult to find. I will look further throughout the week.

[smix8]

It was named "Implement Retarget feature in the importer"

[hardmode1337]

@smix8 can I tease you to help me work on adding retargeting to my own engine?

[smix8]

@hardmode1337 Thanks for teasing me but I have to decline. I just don't have enough time, my backlog is already exploding ;)

[hardmode1337]

@hardmode1337 Thanks for teasing me but I have to decline. I just don't have enough time, my backlog is already exploding ;)

That's fine my friend.